Perpetual Innovation

Category: Strategic planning

  • Perpetual Innovation™: Club Management Workbook (Pi-C)

    Perpetual Innovation™: Club Management Workbook (Pi-C)

    Wouldn’t it be nice if service clubs had a simple set of tools that they could use for more efficient management – easy to use questionnaires for the board and members that will provide a benchmark and help identify initiatives that will advance the club each year. The new book is Perpetual Innovation™: Club Management Workbook, or Pi-C™ for short. The Pi-C workbook is the latest in the Perpetual Innovation™ series and it builds on the 2022 book on Nonprofit Planning & Impactful Donor Giving to provide tools specific to membership/service organizations, i.e., local clubs.

    Here is the overview on Amazon:
    This Club Management Workbook is a simplified set of tools for service clubs to internally manage their club and improve their impact within the community. This workbook builds on the Perpetual Innovation book for Nonprofit Planning and Impactful Donor Giving, but simplifies for easy utilization for service clubs and fraternal membership orders.
    The workbook starts — and ends — with a Service Club Self-Assessment which would be administered to the board along with a Membership Survey. Based on the results of the assessment, the club could launch initiatives for improvement.
    Clubs usually have fundraisers in which they (re)give money to other charities. A reviewing process for charities and events provides the club with excellent tools to identify the best causes and the best charities to support within those causes.
    The Pi-Club Workbook is customizable and offers suggestions for a club to build planning and standard operating procedures (SOPs). The aim of this workbook is to help clubs build an environment of Perpetual Innovation.
    Hall, E. B. (2023). Perpetual Innovation™: Club management workbook focusing on the most impactful giving. ISBN: 979-8859024810 Amazon.com/dp/B0CGXHB31Y
    Hard copy Color ISBN: 979-8860169227 ASIN: B0CH2H7NPZ Amazon.com/dp/B0CH2H7NPZ
    Also find the book on Nonprofit Planning & Impactful Donor Giving here:
    Hall, E. B. & Hinkelman, R. M. (2022). Perpetual Innovation™: Strategic planning for nonprofits and the art of impactful giving: the gift of giving, the art of caring.
    ISBN: ‎ 979-8842614615 Retrieved from: Amazon.com/dp/B0B7Q1J4G6/

    Cover for Club Management Workbook
    Club Management Workbook Cover Art
  • Scenario Planning within Nonprofits

    Scenario Planning within Nonprofits

    A seminar for nonprofits included discussion of scenario planning as it pertained to the Great CIVID Pandemic. It wasn’t so much scenario planning as we use it here on ScenarioPlans.com, as best, worst, and most-likely case (but more on that later). Imagine the nonprofit, out on thin ice, as the world’s economy went into lockdown. What if all funding froze up, even the promises of commitment? What if we are over-whelmed (under-whelmed) with customer needs? What if we have to cease operations (for an indefinite time)?

    An excellent article with tools is at Bridgespan: Nonprofit Scenario Planning During a Crisis. (Image is from Bridgespan.)

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  • Scenario Planning for Nonprofits During Uncertain Times

    Scenario Planning for Nonprofits During Uncertain Times

    Our sister site www.ScenarioPlans.com talked about the importance of scenario planning for nonprofits: Scenario Planning with Nonprofits. Of course it is great to do scenario planning every few years so the plans (and contingency plans) are already developed, but most organizations don’t do formal scenario planning, at best, they do worst, best and most-likely case analysis once disaster has arrived.

    Look at the ScenarioPlans.com blog on Scenario Planning with Nonprofits.

    Useful tools at Bridgespan: Nonprofit Scenario Planning During a Crisis. (Image is from Bridgespan.) Just knowing what the worst case looks like enabled the executives to have a comfort level on how to move forward. Notice how Bridgespan a table with best case on the left. Maybe cut executive salaries by 15%. In the worst case, layoffs and cut executive salaries by 30%.

    Scenario Planning for Nonprofits should be more than worst, best and most-likely case. But no mater what you call the scenario planning tool, it is very helpful during times of uncertainty.

  • Nonprofit Plan

    Nonprofit Plan

    Nonprofit Plan is about improving the philanthropic ecosystem, trying to make charities more efficient and successful while encouraging donors to become more impactful with their giving (time, talent & treasure).

    This concept and the upcoming blog (www.NonprofitPlan.org) is inspired by a book by Hall & Hinkelman of Strategic Business Planning Company.

    The Gift of Giving, the Art of Caring(tm)

    Hall, E. B. & Hinkelman, R. M. (2022). Perpetual Innovation™: Strategic planning for nonprofits and the art of impactful giving: the gift of giving, the art of caring. ISBN: ‎ 979-8842614615

    Retrieved from: Amazon.com/dp/B0BF8MB13X (Available on Kindle eBook as well.)

  • The EV Hurricane Disaster: a 1-sided scenario, part 2

    The EV Hurricane Disaster: a 1-sided scenario, part 2

    Read  The EV Hurricane Disaster: a 1-sided scenario, Part 1 on ScenarioPlans.com (also DelphiPlan.com). The EV disaster article analyzes a viral email that talks about how horrible it will be when a hurricane is storming into a population center and the electric vehicles are all stuck on the road with no possibility for charging.

    PART 2 of this discussion is from SustainZine: The EV Hurricane Disaster: a 1-sided scenario, part 2. (Repeated here for convenience.)

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