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Funding  Strategy - Introduction

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Social Actions' Integrated Funding Strategy Development

 

Phases

 

1.0     Questions: What we need to know

1.1     Synthesis: What we believe we know

2.0     Envision: Creating options

2.1     Synthesis: What we believe are options

3.0     Selection Criteria 

3.2     Synthesis: What we have selected (tbd) (See http://bit.ly/SAtransition)

4.0     Creating accountability (tbd)

 

Resources

 

 

 

Introduction

 

From mid-2007 to late-2009, Social Actions flourished on little to no formal processes for organizational decision-making. Our small team "winged it" as best we could, creating and seizing opportunities as they presented themselves. The passion of several core team members and the support of a much larger community of partners was sufficient to give rise to an inspiring initiative.

 

Passion and community support alone cannot deliver the full potential inherent in Social Actions' vision, mission, method, and objectives (see sidebar to the right of this text). Adequate funding is critical to creating the social impact and systemic change we know are possible. Given the nature of our work, however, we face many challenges in developing systems and structures that will consistently deliver the financial resources that Social Actions needs to thrive. 

 

In these pages, we have set out to develop an integrated funding strategy that accounts for the challenges inherent in funding an organization like Social Actions and appreciates the fact that if we engage our community in co-authoring and implementing this strategy, those challenges will quickly dissolve. 

 

We see this as a starting point to ensure that Social Actions continues to flourish and delivers on its mission to help people find and share opportunities to make a difference.  We invite our community to co-create with us. Don't hesitate to edit these pages directly or make use of the comment form at the bottom of these pages.

 

Note: This strategy creation process draws heavily from Nilofer Merchant's The New How: Creating Business Solutions through Collaborative Strategy, which makes a strong case in favor of process centric approaches to developing, improving, and innovating organizational decision-making. We are grateful to Nilofer for sharing her insights in organizational design and leadership.

 


 

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