Plan Component / Method Action Steps Timleine

Develop Vision, Mission, Creating internal staff team Months 1-3

Case for Support to guide planning
process
• Discussing with staff
and community
members why this
strategy is needed, who
will benefit, why your
organization is the best
organization to
undertake it.
• Identifying and talk with
other community leaders
who might share
common or similar
vision/mission.
Develop Goals and • Developing a logic Months 1-3
Objectives model to clarify
sustainability goals,
create specific program
objectives, and identify
measures to track
progress and outcomes.

Research and identify  Identifying priorities Months 1-3

potential stakeholders
such as community
engagement,
strategic
communication,
leadership
development,
governance and
management.
 Soliciting ideas from
other agencies,
schools, and faith
communities who
might share interests
with our strategy.
Initiate relationship  Talking to local Month 4
with potential businesses about
stakeholders how our strategy can
benefit their
interests.
• Scheduling
community/partner
meetings.
• Selecting team of
helpful community
members, agency
representatives, and
business people to act
as advisory committee
and formulating meeting
agenda.
• Preparing
invitations and ask
people who
recommended
individuals for our
committee to invite
them personally.
• Preparing written
materials for
participants outlining
the program’s purpose
and vision keeping in
the view the local
language.
Analyze Program Cost • Clarify financing for Month 4
services and outcomes.
• Map current spending
and analyze funding
gaps.
• With staff and advisory
committee,
• develop finance strategies,
• Evaluating options, and develop
recommendations.

Continue to cultivate Hold meetings. Including Month 5

stakeholders and create shared vision exercise
buy in to get input and expand
vision to more
stakeholders.
 • Inviting press to cover a
meeting, highlight
participants and
outcomes.
Make the Ask • Determine best Months 5-7
strategic partnerships
and key community
leaders to involve.
• Determine appropriate
level of collaborative
commitment to ask for.
• Determine who should
ask for partnership
involvement. Jointly
develop strong “case”
for potential partner’s
involvement. Be
specific about level of
commitment
requested.

Follow-up Formalizing relationship Months 5-7

with MOUs, volunteer
position description, and
formalize advisory
committee roles.

Being a Good Steward • Offering opportunities Months 8 onward

for continued Involvement
in shaping the program
through regular meetings
and dialogue.
• Sharing the credit and
celebrate successes.
• Making sure the
strategy is mutually
beneficial to all
partners.

Create and execute • Identify any products or Month 8-10

fundraising plan services of your
program that are
valued in the
community and could
produce income to
offset project expenses.
• Create a team and
marketing plan to
 develop and
market business.
• Identify budget items
that could be provided
in-kind by partners,
other stakeholders.
• Select methods and
teams for fundraising
and resource
gathering for the year.
• Use more than one
fundraising method
(grant writing, direct
mail, special event,
major donor clubs,
in-kind resource
gathering, phone-a-
thon, personal
solicitation).
• Select team members
from your advisory
committee, board, and
other community
leaders to act as
fundraising
committee.
• Formulate
strategies for
meeting with
prospects
individually.
• Prepare a fundraising
plan with objectives
and timelines.
• Launch and execute
fundraising efforts.

Getting funds and  Estimating the labor Month 10-12 onwards

Implementation required for the
strategy to
implement
 Both and skilled and
Unskilled labor
considered
 Making a feasibility
report
 If not feasible
analyzing costs
again
  Making it feasible for
the company
 Caluculate ROI for
the strategy
 Launch and Execute
Regular checkups and  Inspections and Month 12th and forward
Inspections checkups for quality
assurance
 Define a time
interval for
inspections
 UNdertsand the
importance of
quality of the
strategy and how
we define it
 Measuring the
quality by the
inspection
 Developing a
measurement scale
for quality
 INterfereing when
required
 Checking whether
the ROI is bound to
come or not
 IF not
understanding the
process and
mitigating to make
the feasibility
increase

An action plan is where the documented thoughts and documented ideas hit the road to
convert them into reality. The following sustainability action plan for the strategies
above mentioned in done for the period of 8 months and there onwards, it will carry
forward the thoughts for year 2. The action below talks until the execution part of the
strategy and is estimated to take around 10 months to start.