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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 out your goals to accomplish your mission and strategies. Remember, goals are generally not effective planning tools unless they are:

  • measurable (they have a number attached to them) and
  • accountable (they have a date attached to them).

       Example:

       "The Housing Assistance Council will fulfill its mission through Community
        Development
:
               by making fifteen SHOP loans by October 31, 2001;
               by making ten Water/Waste Water loans by October 31, 2001;
               and by making three Intermediary Relending Program loans by December 31,                     2001."


Our organization will promote its mission through (Strategy #1)

_________________________________________________________________________________:

  • by ________________________________________________________________________;
  • by ________________________________________________________________________;
  • and by ____________________________________________________________________.

Our organization will promote its mission through (Strategy #2)

_________________________________________________________________________________:

  • by ________________________________________________________________________;
  • by ________________________________________________________________________;
  • and by ____________________________________________________________________.

Our organization will promote its mission through (Strategy #3)

_________________________________________________________________________________:

  • by _______________________________________________________________________;
  • by ________________________________________________________________________;
  • and by ____________________________________________________________________.

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