The Strategic Dance
This provider developed its vision by engaging board, residents and staff as partners in strategic planning.

Standards for Excellence: An Ethics and Accountability Code for the Nonprofit Sector
The Standards of Excellence Institute produced these standards to help guide the nonprofit sector towards excellence.

Succeeding Through Failure
When “the way we’ve always operated” is no longer producing acceptable results, adaptability and willingness to challenge assumptions become the keys to survival.

Collaboration: What Makes It Work
A review of research literature on factors influencing successful collaboration.

Engage Your Board: Town Hall Meeting
Acheiving strategic success greatly centers on having an engaged board, capable of providing sound governance oversight. Read James Orlikoff's discussion for more details.

Strategic Planning Resources
Written by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD. Information in this topic is about strategic planning in both nonprofit and for-profit organizations.

How to Choose and Manage a Consultant
This two part white paper, authored by Edythe Walters of LW Consulting, will help you understand when you need to hire a consultant and how to handle the RFP and interview process.
Part 1; Part 2

Self-Assessment for Better Governance
A governance model may be a helpful start, but with the diversity of organizations that make up the not-for-profit sector, one size doesn't fit all.

Services for the Aging in America: Four Scenarios for the Next Decade
This report is derived from a strategic scenario planning process involving major stakeholders and is presented in four possible scenarios. The book is an excellent resource for any provider considering a strategic scenario planning process. It contains charts and graphs, outlines key challenge areas and provides an overview of aging services. This valuable resource is listed at $99, but is offered to AAHSA members for $49. You can also read the executive summary on AAHSA's Web site. (AAHSA Bookstore #SP002)

Applying Aging Trends and Demographics to Training
The book helps readers understand America’s changing expectations and growing diversity and offers helpful ways for the reader to utilize the information. This book is a practical primer on how to use primary market data and it provides guidelines to use when working with a consultant. Two case studies give another window into how to effectively use data and understand trends. This valuable resource is listed at $46, but is offered to AAHSA members for $36. (AAHSA Bookstore #QF008)

Quality First as Conversation and Collaboration
Quality First's core principles can be translated into action in any number of ways, depending on the challenges and environments of the organizations that adopt them.

Turnaround: How Taking a Risk for the Right Reasons Pays Off
The situation at this for-profit health care center in Worcester, Mass., couldn't have been much bleaker than it was in 1998.

How We Instilled Mission, Vision and Values Throughout Our Organization
An organization’s guiding principles should be more than just nicely presented words in a frame, hanging in the lobby. But what does it really mean to integrate mission, vision and values into an organization? To answer that question, The Beatitudes Campus of Care, Phoenix, Ariz., embarked on a long and often difficult voyage of discovery.

Scenario Planning
Can we envision the future without a crystal ball?

Excellence in Finance and Strategy
Financial strength and strategic planning are core responsibilities for any governing board. How can it ensure the organization's long-term fiscal health and meet the changing needs of new generations of residents?