The Sustainability Mindset

Using the Matrix Map to make Strategic Decisions

The Sustainability Mindset: Using the Matrix Map to Make Strategic Decisions Paperback - 2014

 

The Matrix Map—a powerful tool for nonprofit strategic decision-making

Nonprofit sustainability lies at the intersection of exceptional impact and financial viability. The Sustainability Mindset offers nonprofit professionals and board members a step-by-step guide to move your organization towards this intersection. As outlined in the bestselling book Nonprofit Sustainability, "The Matrix Map" is an accessible framework that combines financial and programmatic goals into an integrated strategy. In this next-step resource, the authors detail a rigorous process to develop a meaningful Matrix Map and engage leadership in setting an organization's strategy.

Nonprofits that thrive in today's environment are adaptable with a clear understanding of their impact and business model. This book offers nonprofit boards and staff a framework to do so. Drawing on their in-depth experience, the authors provide an easy-to-follow process complete with tools and templates to help organizations visualize their business model and engage in strategic inquiry. The book provides a variety of illustrative examples to show how the Matrix Map works for all types of organizations. Nonprofit executives and board member are sure to benefit from The Matrix Map analysis.

Offers step-by-step guidance for creating a Matrix-Map, a visual representation of an organization's business model

Helps organizations assess how each of their programs contributes toward their desired impact and their financial bottom-line.

Filled with compelling examples of how The Matrix Map helps nonprofits with strategic decision-making

Written by the coauthors of the groundbreaking book Nonprofit Sustainability

This comprehensive resource will give any nonprofit the framework they need to make decisions for sustainability and the templates and tools to implement it and help leaders address the challenges inherent in balancing mission impact with financial viability.


From the authors of the best selling Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Vitality, authors Jeanne Bell and Steve Zimmerman present a field guide to the matrix map—a powerful tool for nonprofit strategic decision-making.

Nonprofit sustainability lies at the intersection of exceptional impact and financial viability. The Sustainability Mindset offers nonprofit professionals and board members a step-by-step guide to move your organization towards this intersection. The matrix map is an accessible framework that combines financial and programmatic goals into an integrated strategy. In this next-step resource, the authors detail a rigorous process to develop a meaningful matrix map and engage leadership in setting an organization's strategy.


Book Templates

 

Our intent is that you can use this guide to self-administer the matrix map. The following links provide all of the templates that are available in the book, including sample meeting agendas and templates for key moments in the matrix map process.

Download the Workbook (PDF)

View separated templates by chapter


About the Authors

Jeanne Bell, MNA, is the CEO of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, one of the country's leading providers of leadership and organizational development services to nonprofit organizations, based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a national presence.

Steve Zimmerman, CPA, MBA, is the Principal of Spectrum Nonprofit Services, a national nonprofit consulting firm based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Spectrum partners with community -based organizations to achieve maximum impact through nimble and sustainable strategies.


For more information about our work

Learn more about what we do with CompassPoint and Spectrum by visiting our websites at the links below.