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Strategy for Nonprofit Organizations

Thank you for your interest in our Strategy for Nonprofit Organizations Program.
This program is not being offered until 2011.
If you would like to be added to the SNO mailing list, please email Brett Cicerone at cicerone_brett@gsb.stanford.edu.

Today, nonprofit professionals are faced with an increasingly competitive environment often coupled with a growing need for services. Leaders face escalating pressure to do more with less: to maximize resources, lower costs, and meet the needs of diverse stakeholders. In this environment, sound strategy is essential to an organization's survival and prosperity.

As a team participating in Strategy for Nonprofit Organizations (SNO), you will learn new frameworks for thinking more strategically about your organization, linking your strategy to your organization and its mission, and identifying the key choices and actions necessary to execute both mission and strategy.

Key Topics and Takeaways

SNO presents frameworks for understanding and evaluating strategy, analyzing the competitive environment, using mission to create social and economic value for important stakeholders, and translating strategy into action through day-to-day decisions about core activities and resource allocation.

Session topics include:

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  • Identifying strategy, including competitive advantage, scope and logic
  • Analyzing the environment, including actors such as competitors, buyers (donors & clients), suppliers (labor), and identifying threats and opportunities
  • Articulating and harnessing the power of a mission
  • Integrating Mission and Strategy
  • Application Exercise: Apply program concepts to participants' own organizations

Center for Social Innovation

The mission of the Center for Social Innovation (CSI) is to foster innovative solutions to social problems by enhancing the leadership, management and organizational capacity of individuals and institutions pursuing social value creation. The center's core activities of research, teaching and community engagement focus on social entrepreneurship, nonprofit leadership and management, philanthropy, corporate social responsibility and public policy.

Program dates, fees, and faculty are subject to change. If a program is cancelled, Stanford will refund the program tuition in full but is not responsible for travel, accommodations or other expenses incurred by the participant.

SU Seal Brett Cicerone
Associate Director, Programs
Office of Executive Education
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Phone: 650.723.0544
Toll Free: 866.542.2205 (US and Canada)
Fax: 650.723.3950
Email: cicerone_brett@gsb.stanford.edu