Nonprofit StratOp Grant Program (2025)
Deadline to Apply (4/19/25)
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StratOp
A Premier Strategic Planning System Facilitated by Licensed StratOp Guide
Paterson StratOp© has been used by hundreds of organizations from large multi-national NGOs to small local nonprofits to move beyond just planning and into action–though, yes!, planning is included too!
For organizations that want more than “just planning.”
What You Get with StratOp:
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- Initial multi-day strategic planning session facilitated by a licensed StratOp Guide
- A suite of tools to help your team integrate your strategy into the day-to-day operations of your organization, turning your plan into action and action into impact.
- Robust strategic plan collaboratively crafted by your leadership team
- Most importantly, clarity, vision, and focus to help your organization breakthrough to the next level of impact and growth.
“StratOp has been nothing short of revolutionary for our team.”
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Michelle Parish
Grants Director, Community Foundation of Abilene
Why Leaders Choose StratOp
More Than an Event –
On top of your initial strategic planning sessions with a licensed StratOp Guide, Paterson StratOp will empower your team to move from planning into action. The StratOp process helps ensure your team has the tools and system to integrate your strategic plan into the day-to-day operations of your organization.
Your StratOp engagement will be a year long strategic planning and operationalization of your plan.
Our clients choose StratOp (c) not only because of it’s profound ability to help their team craft unified strategic plans unique to their organization, but because it then helps them transform that “Plan on a Page” into real world action items that your team starts working on immediately.
StratOp plans don’t get left on the shelf; they get turned into impact.
What to Expect – Your StratOp Experience
Phase I – Crafting Your Plan
Phase I is a multi-day strategic planning event led by a licensed StratOp Guide, where your team is guided from Perspective (Where Are We Now?) through Planning (Where are we headed?) to Action (What’s important now?).
At the end of these sessions, your team will walk away with alignment and focus not only on where you want to go but what you need to do now to get there.
Phase II – Building Momentum
During Phase II, your team will meet with their project teams and put a project plan together for each of your strategic initiatives, bridging the gap from where your are today to the next stage in achieving your strategic plan. Each project plan is then compiled into an organization wide plan that allows you and your team to manage the process from a strategic lens (How Are We Doing?).
Phase II usually takes 4-6 weeks.
Phase III – Manage, Review, Adapt
In Phase III, we move into managing the strategic process, continuing alignment, and ensuring we maintain momentum. Quarterly strategic reviews allow your team to maintain strategic focus and adapt as new realities arise.
During Phase III, your team stacks W.I.N.s (What’s Important Now), consistently moving your organization towards successfully completing your strategic plan.
Grant Program Overview
Purpose
The purpose of the Nonprofit StratOp Program is to level the playing field for nonprofits looking to transform their vision into a powerful, mission fueled strategic plan that accelerates their impact.
Overview
Strategic Planning helps nonprofits more efficiently use their resources to grow their impact for the good of the people and communities they serve.
Every year, we offer the Nonprofit StratOp Program for up to three (3) nonprofits that are looking to grow their impact and would benefit from the clarity and alignment for the path forward that StratOp has provided other nonprofits with local and global reach.
The program will provide a credit through either a price reduction or grant for up to $46,000 for each of the organizations chosen. Please note, the credit will reduce the cost of the 12-month StratOp Engagement to $8,000–a typical Nonprofit StratOp will range in price from $24,000 – $54,000–however, the program does not cover the entire cost. We do this to allow us to serve more communities each year. (The Nonprofit StratOp Program award will cover up to 89% of the cost.)
Program Award Details
Recipients of the award will receive the following:
- 1 Year StratOp Engagement with licensed StratOp Guide, including
- Multi-Day Strategic StratOp Session
- 4 Quarterly Strategic Reviews (as needed)
- StratOp Project Team and Team Leader Trainings
- Continued StratOp integration support for up to 1 year
- Ongoing coaching and strategic support for up to 1 year
- Completed Strategic Dashboard, Action-Initiative-Profiles, and Plan-on-a-Page for your organization.
- Any and all travel expenses for your StratOp Guide
Organizational Requirements
To be considered for the program, organizations must meet the following criteria:
- Must be a nonprofit or mission-driven small business looking to serve the underserved communities.
- Must reside in the state of Colorado
- Must have at least initial leadership team in place
- Must be looking to grow their impact
“Brad did an amazing job! I found his storytelling and real life examples to very engaging and memorable. The benefit to Expunge Colorado is now we have tools to help us sustainably grow. He helped us identify areas where we need to focus and areas where we need to be more intentional and think through which helps with our limited bandwidth and resources.
This strategic facilitation was instrumental to our growth and our plans for the future. Our 2-day session were extremely valuable to where we are and how we grow as an emerging nonprofit.”
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Melanie Rose Rodgers
Executive Director, Expunge Colorado
Questions?
Questions?
What is StratOp?
StratOp is a premier strategic planning system that has helped bring clarity, alignment, and breakthrough to hundreds of organizations for over 50 years.
Each StratOp is facilitated by a licensed StratOp Guide and begins with a multi-day strategic planning session where you and your leadership team are guided through the same strategic planning suite of tools that have empowered so many other organizations. Throughout the course of your StratOp engagement, your team will craft a strategic plan unique to your organization and be equipped with additional tools to turn the strategic plan from a good idea on paper to real world impact in the communities and causes you serve.
Included in StratOp are the operational tools that so many other strategic plans lack and help ensure that your strategic plan becomes more than just a Plan-On-A-Page left on a shelf.
Ready to gain the clarity, alignment, and breakthrough that so many other organizations have experienced? It all starts with a simple conversation.
“I can’t thank you enough for your commitment and generosity towards my church. Everything you did and walked us through last week was a huge blessing. So many good things came out of our StratOp and I think the team has much more unity and alignment than before. It’s got me excited for the future.”
Alex Stadler
Lead Pastor – 1st Street Church
StratOp is Best for Nonprofits & Churches Looking to…
Move from Vision to Action, Action to Impact
Unfocused passion burns through resources far less efficiently. Organizations that use StratOp focus their passion and turn limited resources into maximized impact.
Grow Your Impact
StratOp allows your leadership team to gain the type of clarity and alignment that allows your team to increase your impact without requiring significant increase in resources.
Create Strategic Plan Doc for a Grant or Board.
Whether it’s your board, financing institutions, or you’re looking to be able to secure larger donors, the StratOp Strategic Dashboard and Plan-On-A-Page will provide a robust strategic planning document for you and your team.
Nonprofit Strategic Planning
Transforming passion and vision into the right action for the greatest impact for the greatest good.
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