Strategic Planning Services

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Services for GPC Members

Tailored to your needs, our services are designed to help you increase the long and short term impact of your philanthropy and articulate the most effective ways to realize your vision.

We will assess the strategic planning needs of your individual or family philanthropy or foundation. Based on the assessment, you can choose from the following options:

  • Work together to create your Strategic Plan
  • Target your planning for specific projects
  • Evaluate your current planning process
  • Design a monitoring and evaluation plan.

What Is Strategic Planning?

Strategic Planning is a tool that determines where you want your philanthropy or foundation to be in the future. The plan helps you answer such questions as:

  • What impact do you want to create?
  • What objectives and action steps will most effectively get you there?
  • Which persons are involved in suggesting ideas and making decisions?
  • How to monitor your progress along the way?
  • How to evaluate whether or not you havea chieved your goals?
  • How to translate family values into philanthropic actions?

Benefits of Strategic Planning

  • Clarifies the impact you hope to achieve
  • Achieves goals more efficiently and effectively
  • Measures results
  • Improves decision-making
  • Promotes strategic thought and action
  • Strengthens organizational responsiveness.

Getting Started

We are happy to discuss our Strategic Planning Services and your needs in more detail. Please consult GPC staff or contact:

Ann Graham
Manager, Strategic Planning
Global Philanthropists Circle
The Synergos Institute
51 Madison Avenue, 21st Floor
New York, NY 10010 USA
Telephone: +1 (646) 963-2165
Fax: +1 (212) 447-8119
agraham@synergos.org

The GPC´s Strategic Planning services are available to GPC members throughthe generosity of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

"When we started our family foundation two years ago, we were overwhelmed with the number of issues to be addressed: fundraising, project selection and management, alliance development.

  


GPC member María Eugenia Garcés and Desmond Tutu plan the Colombian restorative justice initiative in Cali, February 2005.
"While we had a number of great ideas about how to proceed, we did not want to risk starting the organization without a clear direction and plan. The strategic planning sessions with Ann truly helped us to bring focus to our goals, determine the steps necessary to bring those about and establish a long term strategy for the management and sustainability of our foundation. We are very grateful that we did not have to look far beyond the GPC and Synergos for such a valuable service. "
-- María Eugenia Garcés
GPC member since 2003