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Templates and frameworks that connect your day-to-day work back to the mission. Project proposals, strategic plan frameworks, theory of change, logic models, and outcomes-to-mission alignment.
Why "strategic" matters. Every non-profit can name its mission. Far fewer can show you, in writing, how this quarter's work advances it. The templates in this category exist to close that gap — not by adding bureaucracy, but by forcing the questions that should be asked before a project gets approved, funded, or staffed.
Each template is downloadable as a blank PDF you can use in your organization. Each one is also fillable in your browser, with a Print option for the version you complete on the page. We don't keep your in-progress work — it stays in your browser until you choose to share an email address.
A discipline-forcing template for any project a board is asked to approve. Captures mission alignment, beneficiaries, anticipated outcomes, timeline, full cost (direct and in-kind), risk categories, and the board's decision — in a single, scannable document. Designed so the proposal can't be approved without answering whether it serves the mission.
A multi-year planning template covering mission, goals, sub-objectives, and role-by-role responsibility assignment. Designed for small-to-mid-sized non-profits where the strategic plan needs to be both ambitious and actually executable by a small team.
Maps inputs to activities to outputs to outcomes to long-term impact. Increasingly required by major funders. The template walks you through each layer with prompts and examples.
The one-page visual most boards and funders expect. A clean grid of inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impact for a single program or initiative.
A short standing checklist used in committee or board meetings to evaluate whether a new project, partnership, or program advances the mission — or quietly drifts away from it.
