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EBOOK: Strategic Planning Informational Prospectus
There is a world of difference between having a strategic plan and having a winning strategy. That’s why we developed the 6A Planning Process™ - to help high impact nonprofits create a winning strategy.
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8 Strategic Planning Tools That Organizations Often Use to Facilitate the Strategic Planning Process
When organizations are walking through a multi-month strategic planning process with a nonprofit consultant, there tend to be a variety of tools that get pulled out of the facilitation tool belt. In our work with 1300+ nonprofit organizations, we have found that...
The 10 Best Nonprofit Consultants & How to Choose The One That Is Right For You
In the realm of nonprofit organizations where every dollar donated is a potential lifeline for a cause, the expertise of nonprofit consultants can shine like a guiding star. Their goal is to work behind the scenes using their knowledge and experience to help...
7 Steps to Lead Your Nonprofit Board Through Strategic Planning
In most successful nonprofits, the board requires a refreshed strategic plan every 3-5 years and this can feel like drudgery. But in reality, this is one of the most important ways a CEO or Executive Director can win in their role. For the sake of this article, we...
Ready or Not: Kingdom Innovation for a Brave New World
There was a time when Christians pioneered the future: From business to church, from mathematics to justice reform. Along the way, that redemptive, adaptive movement began to gild in gold the victories of the past, leaving us change averse and frozen-in-time.
But ready or not, the invitation is for kingdom leaders to reclaim their calling to innovate.
Weaving together stories with surprising twists, studies with striking conclusions, and spellbinding cultural analysis, innovation strategist Doug Paul unlocks the five phases of kingdom innovation. Practical, hope-filled, and endlessly readable, Ready or Not reveals that whenever God’s people have leaned into innovation, the world has shifted on its axis.
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EBOOK: HOW SPIRITUALLY MATURE ARE YOU?
In this ebook which many use for staff teams and small groups, people will be able to identify their growth stage, barriers for that stage, the “spiritual gold” they pick up in that stage and calls people to take practical next steps to move forward. Included are discussion questions that make it easy to jump straight into a meaningful conversation about what God is calling people into in their next season of spiritual maturity.
LIVE IN THE LIVING ROOM WORSHIP ALBUM
Recorded from the home of (and led by) Andy and Rachel Graham, this stirring worship album captures a moment in time of worshippers not only being led in worship, but helping set the table for a spiritual pot luck. You’ll get a front row seat for what a decentralized worship environment and training body can look like in the life of a local church, with loads of imromptu teaching moments along the way.
THE JESUS PATTERN: A VIDEO TOOL FOR DOWNLOAD
Jesus had three great loves in his life: his father, his spiritual family and the lost. All of his life was patterned around and given to these loves. In the same way that Jesus did this, we have the opportunity to do the same, with his very Spirit inside of us. This whiteobard video powerfully illustrates the how we can pattern our lives after Jesus and how, when a church does this, it becomes the Gospel made visible.