by Meg Davis

After advising other organizations on how to create their own strategic plans, Asia Catalyst sat down in a conference room on Sunday with ten or so of our best friends and engaged in the annual exercise to plan our own work. Every year, we seem to find this a little more difficult, as our projects multiply and become more complex.

Fortunately, we had on hand our new board advisor, John Santoleri, who stopped us and said, “I don’t have a sense of the cost and benefit of each program — how much time each one takes, versus how hard or easy it is to raise funds for that program, versus the impact each program has.” With his help, we created a form to track just that.

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