For Profit Strategic Planning Drives Non Profit Success May 20, 2010

Any organization, regardless of its IRS designation, will flourish if its members are highly aligned towards a well-defined set of compelling goals and if all organization systems and processes are designed to promote steady progress. Often non-profit organizations believe their business challenges make them unique as compared to their for-profit counterparts. While potentially true in some cases, many non-profits could benefit from emulating the best practices of successful for-profits.

What you will learn and take away from this session
* What worked and surprisingly what did not work in building a large non-profit from scratch using for-profit business concepts.
* Simple time-tested tools for getting and keeping people focused on the vision.
* How to adjust well known business functions including quarterly objectives, performance reviews, sales strategy etc. for non-profits to ensure steady progress towards the organization's vision.

About the Speaker:
Sean Gerrity
President, American Prairie Foundation
Sean co-founded Catalyst Consulting an organization development and strategy consultancy in 1985, which grew to 35 team members by the mid 90's. Sean worked with clients at the senior level, that included; Hewlett Packard, Sun Micro Systems, Silicon Graphics, Cisco, Intel, Levi Strauss, The Packard Foundation in Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America.
In 2002 Sean made a deliberate transition and is now using his experience to lead a fast moving and very ambitious non-profit project. Sean is the Co-founder and President of American Prairie Foundation, a land trust based in Bozeman, Montana. APF's mission is to assemble the largest wildlife reserve ever created in the lower 48 states.

APF's success is in large part attributable to the application of readily identifiable and repeatable business practices that can be employed by any non-profit venture.

Official Website: http://www.strategyplus.org/chapters/NorthernCalifornia.php