Competition is good for charities and non-profits
I listened to a charity trustee the other day, saying how we shouldn’t talk about charities being competitors. They should be in...
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13 things charities can learn from the general election
A few weeks after the UK general election, now is a good time to reflect on what the charity sector can learn from the campaign. This...
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Is a Balanced Scorecard a useful way for charities to track performance?
What is a balanced scorecard? Balanced Scorecard is a 30 year-old performance measuring concept developed by two US academics – Robert...
Joe Saxton
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Making things better: Creating a framework that improves charity expertise and standards
Making things better: creating a framework that improves expertise and standards. The idea behind this piece is to set out a framework...
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Strategy blog 10. Five challenges and five shortcuts to creating a strategy for your charity
This strategy blog, no 10, looks at some of the practical challenges that come out of making a strategy, and some of the shortcuts, or...
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Strategy 9: More of the common flaws of charity strategies
After strategy blog 6 lots of readers contacted me with other examples of aspects of charity strategy they don’t like. So here are some...
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Strategy blog 8:Campaigning is a logical strategic option to maximise your impact.
Strategy is about choices. Almost no charity can do everything in its mission. Charities simply aren’t large enough to reach every person...
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The Heyheyjoe charity strategy awards
Here are the Heyheyjoe charity strategy awards. I have read a whole bunch of charity strategies (over 100) and this is a collection of my...
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Best strategy head shots – Danny and Jamie
There are a lot of strategies with pictures of their CEOs or Chairs in various poses introducing the strategy, or talking about how...
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Best for goal setting – Thames Valley Air Ambulance
At the heart of any strategy is the setting of goals and how they will be delivered. Too many strategies have a few lofty aspirations...
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Best context setting – Trussell Trust and SAMH
Strategies don’t happen in isolation. They happen in the context of the wider world in which an organisation is working. The external or...
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Best way of talking about values: Cherie Blair Foundation, the Wallich, Thames Valley Air Ambulance
Strategy documents are full of values. In my view they are often one of the most useless sections. There are only so many ways that an...
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Best explanation of involving beneficiaries – Mind and CRUK
The health and disability charities are particularly good at making clear how beneficiaries are in involved in the development of their...
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Best strategy on a page – John Muir and Acevo
Strategies can get to be really long documents, so all credit to those organisations who try and sum things up on a page. Two very...
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Best strategy on a website – Blood Cancer UK
One of the challenges of any strategy is how to present it to staff, volunteers, and stakeholders. Blood Cancer UK has tackled this by...
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Best small charity –Facial Palsy UK
Facial Palsy UK is a tiny charity with an income of under £100k a year. But its strategy is clearly set out in a word document: no...
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Best Medium Charity – Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
The Cherie Blair Foundation is a £2million charity that focus on women entrepreneurs. It is probably the best single strategy I read....
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Best Large Charity – RNLI
The lifeboats is my favourite large charity strategy (RNLI has over £200 million of income), although it is a little on the long side at...
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Strategy blog 6: the common flaws of charity strategies
I have read over 120 charity strategies now and here are some of the most common flaws I have found in them (these are my personal views...
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Strategy blog 5:Interesting nuggets from the strategy survey
Our strategy survey has a whole range of interesting info, and all detail is available in our powerpoint presentation available here. But...
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