New Business
Acumen Toolkit Module
The HCBS Business
Acumen Center has released the second module of their
toolkit: “Disability Network Business Strategies: A Roadmap to
Financial and Programmatic Sustainability for Community-Based
Organizations.” This resource is a “how-to’ guide designed to help
Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) evaluate, plan, develop and implement
strategies to help build and sustain their organizations in various
business climates.
The first module, "Step 1: Prepare. Understand the
Business Environment and Your Place Within It" provides guidance to
CBOs serving people with disabilities on the information, data and people
needed to inform the development of their strategic plan. This module will
help the CBO identify and/or refine their vision and mission; conduct an
environmental scan and strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
(SWOT) analysis; and identify champions. This user-friendly resource
includes a collection of templates that CBOs and their teams can use to
document their findings and ideas.
The second module, "Step 2: Plan. Use Business
Intelligence to Build the Strategic Plan for your Organization" provides
guidance to CBOs serving people with disabilities on how to analyze,
prioritize, and organize the information and data collected in "Step
1: Prepare. Understand the Business Environment and Your Place Within
It." This module will help CBOs integrate the data collected from
their environmental scan and strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and
threats (SWOT) analysis so that they can identify goals, priorities, and
strategies for their organizations. This user-friendly resource includes a
collection of templates that CBOs and their teams can use to identify
strategic priorities and potential strategies, evaluate return on
investment, compare various priorities, develop strategic and operational
plans, and track the communication of those plans.
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Learn more about the HCBS Business
Acumen Center. This effort is led by NASUAD in partnership with
national organizations and funded through a grant from the Administration
for Community Living.
Learn more about ACL's
Business Acumen Initiative to help states
and community-based organizations build networks and respond to
delivery system changes, including technical assistance, building business
capacity for successful contracting with integrated care entities,
and developing pathways to sustainability.
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