A comprehensive, step-by-step guide to strategic planning. The toolkit helps cultural organizations respond strategically to a rapidly changing environment, and builds the planning skills of volunteer and professional cultural leaders. It identifies the hallmarks of excellence in planning and gives practical advice about planning's many challenges. Five detailed case studies reveal the results of good planning, as do several examples of innovative planning approaches from other sectors and self-evaluation checklists that any cultural organization can use. The toolkit is the third installment in NASAA's how-to series that includes the Performance Measurement Toolkit and Measuring Your Arts Economy.

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