The Nonprofit Business Plan: A Leader's Guide to Creating a Successful Business Model
Nonprofits often use the terms “strategic planning” and “business planning” interchangeably, but a good business plan goes beyond the traditional strategic plan with its focus on mission and vision, goals and objectives. The Nonprofit Business Plan, created by the nationally recognized nonprofit consultant experts at La Piana Consulting, helps your nonprofit organization understand what a strategic business plan is and why you need one, then provides a practical, proven process for creating a successful, sustainable business model. This groundbreaking resource further explains how your nonprofit can determine whether a potential undertaking is economically viable—a vital tool in today’s economic climate—and how to understand and solve challenges as they arise.
With detailed instructions, worksheets, essential tools, case studies, and a rigorous financial analysis presented clearly and accessibly for executives, board members, and consultants, The Nonprofit Business Plan is also an important resource for non-specialist audiences such as potential funders and investors. This innovative step-by-step guide will provide your team with a solid set of business decisions so that your nonprofit can achieve maximum results for years to come.
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Book details
- Author
- David La Piana, Heather Gowdy, Lester Olmstead-Rose
- Imprint
- Fieldstone Alliance, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 176
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Business & Economics › Organizational Development
- Topics
- nonprofit management · business planning · sustainable business models · organizational development · nonprofit leadership · strategic planning
- ISBN-13
- 9781618580061 (Paperback)9781630264529 (Hardcover)
About the author
DAVID LA PIANA is the founder of La Piana Consulting, a firm specializing in strategy, business planning, mergers, and strategic restructuring for nonprofit organizations, established in 1998. His books include The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution, The Nonprofit Business Plan, and Play to Win.
La Piana holds a Master of Public Administration in nonprofit management from the University of San Francisco and graduate and undergraduate degrees in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. He has also studied at the University of Madrid and has published numerous articles in Stanford Social Innovation Review.
When not writing, La Piana draws on prior roles as CEO of a children’s mental health nonprofit and senior management positions with the YMCA, The International Institute, and East Bay Agency for Children. He also served as a VISTA volunteer organizing migrant farmworkers.
David lives in Alameda, CA.