Developing Your Action Plan

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Developing Your Action Plan
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The Strat Pak
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YOUR ACTION PLAN

• Is a road map to success
• Outlines steps you will take
• Moves strategies from logic model into a
  management plan using day-to-day language
• Enhances collaboration

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ACTION PLANS

• Enable you to IDENTIFY
• Activities (tasks) to be completed
• Assign responsibilitieswho will do what
• Identify target dates for completionwho will do
  what by when
• Identify expected outcome of the activity
• Track progress

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STEPS TO TAKE

• GRAB YOUR LOGIC MODEL!
• Identify programmatic strategies. Your
  programmatic strategies are listed in the
  Strategies Activities section of your LOGIC
  MODEL.
• 2. List one programmatic strategy onto each
  Action Plan Worksheet.

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Logic Model
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Action Plan
Strategy 1 Implement Sons and Daughters of
Tradition curriculum.
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STEPS TO TAKE

• 3. Complete the Activities column of your
  Action Plan.
• You have already listed activities in the
  Strategies Activities section of your LOGIC
  MODEL.
• 4. As you think through each list of activities,
  you may want to list more specific tasks.

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Logic Model
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Action Plan
Strategy 1 Implement Sons and Daughters of
Tradition curriculum.
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STEPS TO TAKE

• 5. Complete the Person Responsible column by
  referring to Partner section of your LOGIC
  MODEL.
• 6. Estimate realistic Target Dates, some of which
  may come from the Performance Objective column
  of your LOGIC MODEL
• 7. Complete the How You Know Youve Achieved
  This column by referring to the Process
  Measure column of your LOGIC MODEL.
• 8. Progress and Comments column is for you to
  keep track of your progress.

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Logic Model
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Action Plan
Strategy 1 Implement Sons and Daughters of
Tradition curriculum.
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STEPS TO TAKE

• 9. Functional strategies
• not listed in your LOGIC MODEL
• Support/enhance programmatic strategies
• Strategic Planning Sustainability and
  Evaluation.
• Others (e.g., partnerships marketing project
  management)

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Action Plan
Sustainability To sustain the program after the
funding period.
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The Legacy Wheel
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Using the Legacy Wheel
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Using the Legacy Wheel
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Self Assessment

• Leadership
• Has leaderships vision clarified what is most
  important to sustain?
• Do you understand the role of a change agent?
• Do you understand how change happens in an
  organization/community?
• Do you know which decision-makers need to be
  involved in the deciding what to sustain

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Frequently asked questions

• When should I begin thinking about
  sustainability?
• I am just beginning my project. How can I
  consider sustainability when I am not sure what
  should be sustained?
• I am too busy running the project to worry about
  sustainability. How can I manage sustainability
  planning demands?
• How can I capitalize on the school and other
  partner resources in sustaining programs?
• How would a coalition be helpful in sustaining
  the initiative? How is evaluation useful to
  sustainability?

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ARE YOU HAVING FUN YET?