Identity defines your organization’s strategic focus and direction as well as how you are positioned within your sphere of influence.

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“Working with Conservation Impact challenges everyone involved because they urge their clients to make tough decisions and set clear priorities. But as a result, the organization comes through stronger.”

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Strategic Planning

Strategic planning is about making deliberate choices based on your organization’s context, trends, markets, and capacity. A good strategic plan helps you make decisions, set direction, define focus, and manage work towards outcomes. Our planning process fully engages and reinvigorates board, staff, and volunteers and inspires high performance.

Products

  • Situation analysis defining internal, external, and market trends and conditions
  • Strategic plan outline summarizing deliberate decisions
  • Detailed work plan
  • Recommendations and guidance for successful implementation

Supporting Materials

Strategic Positioning

Strategic positioning is a more sophisticated approach to planning; it is where planning and marketing overlap. Positioning more fully considers your organization’s niche within its sphere of influence and analyzes market gaps and opportunities and the competitive environment. A positioning plan identifies your organization’s strongest position for impact and sustainability.

Products

  • Positioning analysis
  • Positioning (or re-positioning) plan
  • Transition or development action steps
  • Organizational implications and recommendations for successful implementation

Supporting Materials

Business Planning

A business plan defines the core operations, services, markets, and internal structures needed to develop your organization. Based on what you want to accomplish (your strategic focus and goals), a business plan addresses how to organize for success and outlines the most sustainable financial model for your organization.

Products

  • Business plan
  • Transition or development action steps
  • Recommendations and guidance for successful organizational development

Supporting Materials

Conservation Planning

A conservation plan articulates where and how your organization will protect specific natural resources and cultural values and ensure that the sites necessary for conservation success are protected. Conservation Impact’s conservation plans take an ecosystem approach so that the ecological and social connections of target species, natural communities, and cultural values to the landscape are evaluated and maintained for long term sustainability.

Products

  • Decison framework for conservation priority setting
  • Conservation assessment
  • Strategies to abate or mitigate stresses
  • Site plans including action timelines and evaluation criteria
  • Recommendations and guidance for implementation success

Supporting Materials