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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 strategies to accomplish your mission.  Strategies are the general methods, activities, or approaches that you use to fulfill your mission. Generally, your strategies will become your main program areas.

          Example:

          The Housing Assistance Council fulfills its mission to improve housing conditions
           for the poorest of the rural poor in the most rural places through:

  •           Community Development (preserving and increasing the stock of low-income rural housing and promoting community development);
  •           Research and Information (providing information and education about rural housing need to the public and proactively analyzing the changing resource needs for housing production in rural areas); and
  •           Technical Assistance and Training (TA/T) (assisting in the creation and expansion of housing development capacity in rural areas and increasing use of low-income rural housing and community development programs by minorities and women).


      Our organization fulfills its mission to

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      through:

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    (Brief description:)

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    (Brief description)
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  • and ______________________________________________.

    (Brief description:)
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