Milestone 3: Plan for Impact
Milestone 3: Plan for Impact - Starts February 2026
Three-month live virtual education program with optional coaching.
What This Milestone is About:
With a shared understanding of your community’s current state, it’s time to plan your next steps. In this milestone, your team will prioritize the issues that matter most, set shared goals, and develop a realistic strategic plan. You’ll define where to focus, how to coordinate across sectors, and how to manage change as a group all while embedding systems thinking in your strategy.
Why This Milestone Matters:
Planning together keeps your work aligned, focused, and achievable. It’s not just about making a to-do list, it’s about setting goals that matter, identifying the roadblocks, and building a plan to get there together. This milestone ensures your team is equipped to manage cross-sector decision-making, navigate bias or conflict, and make lasting change.
What You’ll Advance:
- Prioritized Needs and Opportunities
Identify the most critical issues or opportunities to address, based on data, lived experience, and stakeholder input gathered in earlier milestones. - Shared Community Goals
Convert early aspirations into formal, measurable goals that reflect your team’s priorities and define success in clear terms. - Multi-Year Community Strategic Plan
Shape a multi-year plan that outlines your goals, strategies, key actions, partner roles, and timing. This plan will continue to evolve in later milestones. - Updated Community Scorecard
Align your digital scorecard with your strategic plan by refining your goals, adding new measures, and improving clarity on how progress will be tracked. - Team Coordination Plan
Create or refine a practical plan for how your team will stay aligned, communicate, and maintain momentum during implementation. - Initiative and Resource Alignment Map
Develop a visual map or summary that shows how existing programs, initiatives, and resources support or connect to your strategic goals. - Refreshed Messaging Tools
Update your pitch deck and shared messaging to reflect your refined goals and strategic direction—helping you build clarity and support among partners and stakeholders. - Early-Stage Actions or Pilots (Optional)
Begin testing or implementing limited-scope actions aligned with your prioritized needs to generate quick wins, gather insight, or build momentum for your plan.
