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What is Strategic Planning?

Adapted from Bryson's Strategic Planning in Public and Nonprofit Organizations

• http://www.allianceonline.org/content/index.php?pid=160

Strategic Planning (in nonprofit or for-for profit organizations)

By Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD

• http://www.managementhelp.org/

National Endowment for the Arts PUBLICATIONS

Lessons Learned: Essays

• http://arts.endow.gov/pub/

Advice and Information on Grant Seeking and Proposal Writing Description of Strategic Planning

• http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/grants/fundamentalsl.html

HUD's CONSOLIDATION Plan

An action Guide for Involving Low Income Communities Identifying Needs, Setting Priorities, Monitoring Your Government's Performance

• http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/about/conplan/

Journal of Vocational and Technical Education SWOT Analysis: A management Tool for Initiative New Programs in Vocational Schools

• http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JVTE/v12n1/Balamuralikrishna.html

Strategy Definitions and Meaning

By: Fred Nickols

• http://home.att.net/~nickols/strategy_definition.htm

ACTION Center - Activists' Center for Training In Organizing and Networking

The ACTION Center is an activist organizing center in Philadelphia in which activists work as full-time volunteers on many projects. Read about volunteering or interning on the ACTION Center's website.

• http://www.actionpa.org/

Buffalo Links:

"Off the Beaten Cyberpath"

• http://www.buffaloresearch.com/offbeat.html

Architecture & History Talks & Tours for Buffalo-Niagara Calendar

• www.landmark-niagara.org/sched/sched.html

National Links:

Corporation for National & Community Service

• www.nationalservice.org

The Community Tool Box

• http://ctb.ku.edu/en/