num_pages: 102
description: THE LIFE STAGE MODEL is a powerful tool for understanding — objectively — your organization’s current status and preparing it to move ahead to the future. In this useful guide, organization development consultant Judith Sharken Simon helps you understand where your organization is in its life. You’ll learn about the very real challenges and problems facing your nonprofit at any given stage. Directors, board members, managers, and consultants can use this guide This unique guide includes The Nonprofit Life Stage  Assessment. The Assessment allows you to plot and understand your organization’s “home stage” and gauge your progress in seven arenas of organization development—governance, staff leadership, finance, administrative systems, staffing, products and services, and marketing. Use The Five Life Stages of Nonprofit Organizations  to help you avoid unnecessary struggles and to act on opportunities to boost your organization’s development.
language: English
title: The Five Life Stages of Nonprofit Organizations: Where You Are, Where You're Going, and What to Expect When You Get There
titlecomplete: The Five Life Stages of Nonprofit Organizations: Where You Are, Where You're Going, and What to Expect When You Get There
ratings_count: 24
publisher: Fieldstone Alliance