Strategic Planning

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We build glidepaths - not road maps. Why? Because a good strategic plan proactively prepares for turns, barriers, and changing wind patterns. Our plans are meant to be tools with a 1,000-foot focus, allowing you to further your sustainability.

What We Offer:

  • AI-enhanced landscape studies and baseline analysis

  • Individualized approach

  • A pretty plan and a conditionally formatted task spreadsheet

  • Post-product support

  • Years of business, nonprofit, and educational planning experience

  • Joy

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Thriving with Thrive

The Client

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The Challenge

The Harris School (THS) provides a specialized therapeutic teaching approach in a supportive environment, empowering children and families with the tools to overcome challenging behaviors. Under new, visionary leadership, sustainability became the top priority. The question was clear: how does a school so unique it draws visitors from across the country ensure its facilities, programming, and fiscal management are built to last - regardless of shifts in the fundraising landscape?

The Solution

Thrive approached this strategic planning engagement with a dual focus: build a feasible, data-informed strategic plan to fuel long-term organizational growth, and create an internal, user-friendly glidepath to keep that plan alive and in motion - not gathering dust on a shelf like so many strategic plans do.

And, do all of this within a tight budget? Of course, Thrive can! The power of AI helped reduce research and analysis time, provide immediate feedback, and support high-quality comparative analysis.

The Result

Today, THS has a polished, print-ready strategic plan that's already resonating with donors and parents alike — generating real excitement about what's next. Behind the scenes, THS leadership uses a conditionally formatted working spreadsheet in weekly meetings to track next steps, adjust the plan as needed, and keep momentum going toward every strategic growth goal.

Best part - it has guided a successful capital campaign!

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Fundraising Events

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Capacity Building

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Leadership Coaching