Strategic Planning Grant Program

Summer 2025 Cycle
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What you'll receive

This grant aims to help you listen to your community and team. You will align your team on what matters most. You will adopt a structured plan to improve your execution. To do this, we will leverage our innovative AI-powered Virtual Interview Surveys™ to interview your stakeholders and summarize key themes and insights. You'll work with a consultant to align your leadership team and board to agree on goals to support the top priorities. Then, use our Goal Management software to keep everyone focused on outcomes and impact.

Awardees of this grant will receive:

• 1-year paid subscription to the stratsimple.com software. ($5,500 value)
  * Up to five strategic planning virtual interview surveys for up to 10,000 invited participants
  * Full analsyis of all interviews to give you context on the perspective of your stakeholder
  * Implementation support via stratsimple.com for the first year of your plan
• Up to 15 hours of free consulting to use in creating your plan. ($3,000 value) This is enough consulting to complete the following tasks:
  * Stakeholder mapping & interview design
  * Coaching you to build a vision deck for your view of the strategic direction for your organization.
  * 8-hour faciliated strategic planning reteat (no travel)
  * System training to get your team up and running on Stratsimple.com
  

Eligibility Requirements

Organizations must apply to be eligible. We review each application carefully and consider our capacity and the specific needs of the applicants. You must meet all minimum requirements to be eligible for our strategic planning grant. Meeting these requirements doesn't guarantee acceptance:

• Your organization must be registered as a 501(c)3 non-profit or educational institution (i.e. public school)
• Be willing to sign an agreement outlining the scope, duration, and responsibilities of the engagement
• Ensure ED/CEO and leadership team can commit to participating in a collaborative effort over a 3 month period
• Allow us to publicize your name and organization in various marketing channels
• Be open to virtual/remote interactions, this program does not include travel or on-location services
• If we do a good job, be a reference for us, our work, and your outcomes using our system

Program Participant Selection

We will offer an introductory screening call to top candidates once we receive applications. From there, we evaluate applicants with both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. We compare each applicant to others in the pool and we do not publish the specific criteria. We keep all evaluations confidential and do not share them outside of our review team. Organizational attributes of particular interest for us include:

• Paid leadership team in place with an engaged and active board
• A track record of organizational success
• Clear and significant potential to create positive change within their communities
• Openness to adoption of innovative approaches to solving problems and achieving their goals
• Organization is large enough to support the work - generally we're looking for 5 or more team members
• A demonstrated financial need for grant support

Prior Recipients:

• Borderland Rainbow Center
• Laurel-Jones County Library System
• Maternal and Family Health Services
  
• Scranton Area Foundation
  
• Books in Homes USA
  
• Waverly Community House
  
• TecBridge