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New Scenario Planning Reports
Provide Human Service Nonprofits |
 Two reports are now available from the
Alliance for Children and Families’ Scenario Planning project. Taken
together, these reports provide the framework for initiating the process
of scenario thinking within nonprofit human service agencies. The first,
Scanning the Horizon: Trends, Developments &
Innovations Impacting the Future of Child and Family Services,
offers a comprehensive review of emerging factors likely to alter how
nonprofits conduct business in the future. The second,
Regional Results: a Briefing Report,
summarizes the five scenario planning meetings held around the country
last year, and introduces the 19 scenarios participants developed. Public sector re-engineering, changing funding streams, privatization, technological advancements, and neuroscience developments have the potential to dramatically alter the way nonprofit providers do business in the future. But human service agencies have yet to systematically contemplate the impact these emerging trends will have on how they plan, organize and deliver their services in the future. The Scenario Planning Project focuses on the application of one tool commonly used in the private sector to address change – scenario planning– as a methodology for human service nonprofits to identify, understand and manage the changes facing their field. Access these reports:
For more information on these reports, or
the Scenario Planning project, contact Patrice Heinz,
pheinz@alliance1.org.
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Alliance for Children and Families: www.alliance1.org |