A sustainable nonprofit is one that can weather the storms of uncertainty and provide value for years to come. Leadership, funding, and public sentiment may all shift over time but your nonprofit can be prepared.
To start, it’s important to align your nonprofit’s organizational health, business model, and responses to external factors with its value proposition. We like to visualize the relationship between these four factors like this:
A strong value proposition both supports and is supported by the other three factors, and their respect elements. For example, an organization with a strong value proposition and business model may still falter if it is unclear about its core capabilities or the impacts of legislation and policy
This tool will help you ensure that your nonprofit has aligned all four components. By the end of this exercise, you should have a better understanding of how to support the sustainability of your nonprofit.