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A Nonprofit Capacity Self-Assessment Workbook
For Rural Community-Based Housing Organizations
© Housing Assistance Council, 2000
Permission is granted ONLY to nonprofit
community-based organizations to reproduce and/or adapt this document, and only for their own use.
Write your mission statement. As you write your statement, consider the following questions.
- When was our organization founded? Why was it founded?
- What is our vision of what our organization has to offer our community?
- Is our mission still relevant to the community?
- Who are we serving? In what geographic area? What are we trying to achieve?
- Is our mission do-able? Is it short enough to recite convincingly?
Example:
"The mission of the Housing Assistance Council, incorporated in 1971, is:
To improve housing conditions
for the rural poor, with an emphasis on the poorest of the poor
in the most rural places."
The mission of _______________________________________________________________,
incorporated in _________, is:
To ____________________________________________________________________;
for _______________________________________________________________
in _______________________________________________________________.
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