Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning Solutions from EVALCORP

EVALCORP’s strategic planning solutions are designed to complement our evaluation and needs assessment services.

Strategic planning can be used to restructure existing initiatives or set the stage for impactful new projects. We work closely with your staff to create a winning blueprint for your initiatives. To facilitate the ongoing measurement and monitoring of program efficacy, we integrate an evaluation framework into the proposed strategy.

Our strategic planning solutions deliver exceptional value for government agencies, nonprofits, and foundations while enabling them to better serve their clients.

The core components of our strategic planning solutions include:

Identification and Measurement of Priority Areas

EVALCORP simplifies this component of strategic planning by working with your team to identify priority areas. We then track the performance of those areas using carefully chosen data metrics.

Quantifiable data that demonstrates the impact of your work is essential information to present to decision-makers. This data helps your organization receive new or continued funding for your social assistance efforts, such as mental health, behavioral health, and substance use intervention programs.

We help you identify which key performance indicators (KPIs) provide the most relevant insights into your program and how it positively influences community members’ lives. Our experts carefully select relevant metrics that accurately and consistently measure the efficacy of your organization’s specific initiatives as defined in the strategic plan. This way, we help you and your stakeholders better understand the big picture, empowering you to mobilize investors and decision-makers to support your cause.

By integrating these metrics and evaluation methodologies into your overall strategic planning strategy, we facilitate effective program assessment processes that allow you to better understand how to refine your organizational practices.

Logic Model Development

Creating a logic model is an excellent way to visualize the relationships between your resources, outputs, activities, and the overall impacts of your program. Developing a logic model that accounts for all dependencies, outcomes, and relationships requires a high-level understanding of this framework and relevant expertise.

Our strategic planning experts offer comprehensive logic model development. This service allows you and your team to better understand the symbiotic relationships between your program activities, outcomes, outputs, and resources. By shedding light on these connections, we empower your organization to identify potential growth areas within your current framework.

Incorporating a logic model into your planning and program management strategy not only informs decision-making but also serves to demonstrate the purpose and mission of your initiative. Presenting thorough, well-constructed logic models to investors and grant boards helps you garner additional funding for your organization.

SWOT Analysis

The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis model provides you and your organization with valuable insights about what is going well, what can be improved upon, and what threats could impede your progress.

The SWOT analysis allows you to gather feedback from community members, staff, outside stakeholders, clients, and your leadership team. Continuously improving your program with the SWOT framework will help you sustain current funding levels and solicit additional assets for your initiative.

EVALCORP assists by planning, organizing, and hosting SWOT meetings so you can make use of this effective evaluation tool. Our staff works with your team to discuss the findings of the meeting, vet any potential threats or weaknesses, and support program optimization through extensive data analysis. As part of our strategic planning solutions, we also help your team integrate the insights gleaned from SWOT meetings into your organizational improvement plan.

SOAR Analysis

The strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results (SOAR) assessment framework helps to improve the efficacy of your organization’s community outreach efforts.

While the SWOT framework focuses on proactively identifying and addressing weaknesses and threats, SOAR is an opportunity-centric model. EVALCORP uses SOAR analysis to guide goal-setting efforts, define organizational objectives and aspirations, and measure progress toward those target outcomes.

The SOAR framework is a great post-initiative assessment tool as well as an effective planning tool. EVALCORP strategically implements SOAR and SWOT analysis into your planning processes to guide program activities and pursue established objectives.