Success Story Partners to Employment, Stratford

“We host a 2 day Annual Visioning Retreat for the Board members at “a very nice” location (which we get at not for profit rates). We choose a topic that we want to focus on for the next year and the Board sets goals around the topic (the staff then develop and implement strategies to achieve the goals, which are reported back to the Board). The Board members have a chance to get to know one another better (developing trusting relationships). We have very long term committed Board members with the ability to dream. Our agency was started 12 years ago with a 16,000 budget and now has a $750,000 budget.”

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Food For Thought

Research on financial vibrancy shows that in financially vibrant organizations the understanding of who “everyone” was got much bigger.  Financially vibrant organizations think about planning not just with themselves (i.e., the standard group of inside players), but with a host of other players.  In other words, they are able to think in very broad terms about who their stakeholders are. 

One of the things this means is: if you work with the same stakeholders all the time, you likely have access to the usual pots of resources. It is only when you discover how to find common ground with new partners – i.e., new stakeholders – that you are likely to uncover unusual (and new) sources of revenue.

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