- Clearly defined and actualized mission
- Strong leadership.
- Appropriate management practices.
- Strong, on-going sense of direction
- Talented, energetic, and excited staff and volunteers.
- Strong financial base.
- Sound organizational structure.
- Infrastructure
- Financial systems
- Personnel policies
- Performance management practices
- Systems which facilitate communication
- Systems which transmit accurate information
- Procedures which facilitate getting things done
- Healthy, solid relationships
- Community/clients/constituency
- Funders
- Other community-based agencies serving your primary constituencies
- Institutional
- Supporters
- Legislators, regulators
- Market/opportunity responsive
from Elizabeth Thomas, "Growth: How To Do More
Than Survive It," NACDLF 1995 Training Conference
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