Strategic plans are essential to the long-term health of nonprofit organizations, allowing board members and staff to agree on a common direction for the organization to help guide future activity. This course will introduce you to the principles and methods of strategic planning for nonprofit organizations, and will introduce you to various types of plans and planning terms. You will learn an eight-stage system for strategic planning and critique existing plans and design a planning process for your own nonprofit or a case study organization of your choosing. Maximum: 15 students. Please note: all course work is applied to a case study organization, which may be your own organization or one where you volunteer. Please see www.artsextensionservice.org/index.php/courses/online-certificate/faq for more information. Please see GENRL-ST 397A to take this course for undergraduate credit.