APRIL 2026
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Strategic Planning Over the next six months or more, members will be hearing a lot from GVR about strategic planning. Strategic planning is like a periodic spring-cleaning of an organization. Every rug is lifted and closet opened so stakeholders can make a frank evaluation of where we’ve been, where we are, and where we want to be. GVR’s current five-year strategic plan wraps up this winter. Sometime this spring, members will begin receiving invitations to participate in developing direction for the next five years. Please consider doing so, especially if we don’t tend to hear from you! What strategic planning is:
What it is not:
• Member- and Board-driven.
• A facilities expansion or enhancement plan.
• A process by which stakeholders (members, board, staff, partners) review the GVR vision and mission statements and either renew a commitment to them, or make changes.
• An examination of how the vision and mission statements are reflected in current member experiences and organizational operating methods.
• A process of collecting input from members and other stakeholders, including
information about GVR’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges.
• An organizational assessment for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges.
• From those reflection and information collection steps, deriving explicit goals that will guide the priorities of the Bboard and staff over the next five years.
• Identifying when each goal will be initiated and completed, defining
success, identifying how success will be measured, and describing reporting practices for those engaged in advancing the goal and those charged with monitoring the outcomes.
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Specific expansion and enhancement projects are strategies that may be implemented to advance higher goals.
• A set of staff work plans. Annual work
plans for both board and staff, annual budgets, communications and marketing plans, and a comprehensive, functional organizational structure will still be required. These, among others, are often referred to as “supporting plans.”
• Wholly prescriptive. A good strategic plan
will include a balance of explicit measures and underlying principles that together, facilitate the pursuit of unexpected opportunities that are consistent with the overarching intent of the plan.
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