Planning for building projects requires complex, multidimensional analysis. You must balance the needs of patrons, employees and volunteers with the expectations of your donors and board members, and the realities of tight operational and financial constraints. Before launching the project, before commitments are made and dreams designed, taking the time for proper analysis maximizes the probability of success.
Strategic Dimensions has developed a planning process that allows leadership teams to explore facility options in a way that accounts for attendance growth, capacity, phasing and finances in real time. The process quickly reveals which options work, which don’t—and it sometimes brings to light options never before considered. Exploring and evaluating your options as a group yields unified decisions. And unified decisions are the ones that stick.
If you start down a path and aren’t able to finish, you lose momentum. If you get halfway through the process and have to cut costs, you disappoint. If the cost of your new facility exceeds your fundraising capacity, do you take on debt? How will that affect your cash flow?
