Setting Your Organization’s Strategic Vision with Brooke Richie-Babbage

Rapid growth entails rapid changes. It also means recalibrating your nonprofit’s vision to fit with the current times.

Brooke Richie-Babbage joins us to share her expertise in creating an efficient and honest strategic plan in five steps, making your donors a part of the outcome, finding your North Star, and setting up a finance engine that can fully fund your vision.

Tune in to The Business Behind Fundraising — Setting Your Organization’s Strategic Vision with Brooke Richie-Babbage. 

What You Will Discover: 

✔️ Organic response to growth can only get you so far. Brooke suggests being intentional by writing a strategic plan, as it allows you to maximize limited resources.

✔️ A “North Star” is the anchor to all your nonprofit’s decisions.  It’s the agreed set of priorities where all opportunities are filled. Organizations that had this have weathered the two-year pandemic well. 

✔️ Do a strategic plan every three years. You can do this without outside help. It should contain:

• A one-pager
• Internal operations plan
• Finance plan
• Your North Star
• Your goals

✔️ Bring major donors into the vision. They want to know how it’ll change the community. 

✔️ Be honest with your budget. How much do you really need? Your vision and budget should tell the same story. Your donors aren’t mind readers. They want to contribute in the best way possible.

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Brooke Richie-Babbage is an organizational design and social impact strategy advisor and consultant, the host of the Nonprofit Mastermind Podcast, and the founder and CEO of Bending Arc, a digital consultancy through which she supports mission-driven leaders across the country in launching and scaling high-impact nonprofits and social enterprises. 

Brooke has spent the past 22 years working as a nonprofit leader, social entrepreneur, and lawyer at social change organizations throughout the country. She has founded and led multiple successful organizations and initiatives, including the Resilience Advocacy Project (RAP), where she served as Executive Director for ten years. Prior to the founding of RAP, Brooke worked as an attorney and policy director at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, as a health policy advocate at the Children’s Defense Fund- NY, a history and law professor at Tufts University and Brooklyn Law School, and a welfare policy consultant for the Center for Law and Social Policy.

She has been a featured speaker and visiting lecturer at numerous law schools, including Harvard, Columbia, NYU, and Fordham, on social entrepreneurship and nonprofit leadership. She served as Chair of the Social Welfare Committee of the NYC Bar Association and as an appointed member of both the Governor’s statewide Child Care Policy Working Group and Mayor Bloomberg’s Adolescent Fatherhood Advisory Council. She has also served as a board member and officer for several non-profit organizations. 

Brooke received both her JD and MPP from Harvard and her BA from Yale. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons

Website: www.brookerichiebabbage.com 

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/bjrichiebabbage/

Instagram: @bjrichiebabbage 

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