Strategic planning is integral to the success of any long-term fund raising campaign, the overture that precedes and predicts the efforts to follow. At Holmes, Radford & Avalon our strategic planning services help nonprofit organizations define their visions and articulate their goals. Drawing upon the participation of board members, staff, volunteers and community leaders, HRA helps organizations develop comprehensive road maps that will lead to meaningful results.

We facilitate a specific planning approach by analyzing a client’s organizational structure. Next, we explore environmental factors that could affect future direction, and encourage the development of an effective leadership structure. Creating a vision for the future and a set of related points to be addressed beyond the immediate benefit of such a strategic foundation, these factors form the basis for a dynamic strategic plan that can serve an organization well into the future.

As John Schaar of the University of California observed, "The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created, first in mind, next in will, then in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but a place we are creating. The paths are not to be discovered, but made, and the activity of making the future changes both the maker and the destination."

That process can make the vision become a reality.