Chapter 2 Starting a NonProfit A practical Guide

Reading Chapter 2 in Starting and Building a Nonprofit, I have seen that I need to build a strategic plan. I have a business plan, but I need to modify it or write the entire strategic plan which is the point of this blog post. This is the plan on how I can structure my non-profit organization. Planned activities of my nonprofit involve setting up a shelter to meet the needs of chronically ill people. It also is part of hotline headquarters. We can rent out meeting space to organizations that need meeting space as a way of bringing in extra income. My dry club idea, Trocadero Transfer, involves a neurodivergent friendly club space where people are not obligated to drink alcohol. This is a fundraising branch for all my nonprofits. I need help with all of the above, I can’t do it all by myself. I keep assuming I can but hell when you take the bus you are asking for help from the driver.

                I need to find other board members first of all, requiring at least an associate degree to be one. My organization isn’t exactly filled with people yet as I have but one member, me. I need to recruit others in San Jose to be a part of my board. My fundraising idea is simple, a martial art based fundraiser to bring in money from rich men who think a 4’10 woman cannot knock them off balance with her Chi. I want to test some assumptions and theories I have about my capabilities in the martial arts I do know, which is 2 years of Tae kwon do, and 6 years of kenpo at United Studios of Self-Defense. One of my nonprofit’s goals is to help people escape their Munchausen by Proxy families or their medically neglectful parents. I want to help others find their way on SSI or off SSI into real money.

                Our families teach us that because we have a disability, we are good for nothing or anybody. Our society goes so far as to teach us the same. My organization needs to grow at this point, I need to ask for volunteers since I can’t pay a salary worth a damn.  A strategic plan involves a mission statement, an outline of goals and objectives, and activities, an assessment of current resources (yeah, none for now), and a strategic analysis. My big picture needs input from other Munchausen by Proxy and medical neglect survivors. I don’t have defined roles for anybody at this stage.

                I think however, I want to establish branches of my nonprofit in San Jose, Santa Cruz, San Diego, and Los Angeles. My group is dedicated to helping people escape toxic situations or avoid toxic parents in general. I can see myself using Zoom to have meetings. I suppose if I was using pg. 43 as an example, I would be an organization providing a shelter, meeting space, and hotline. I would develop a support network for other Munchausen by Proxy survivors. I would create a community for those of us who lack support systems in general. My objective is to help other people trapped financially or at their parent’s home to escape their situations. Goals, encourage people who have survived to make their own source of income and escape their families’ web. Objectives include staffing a hotline where people can vent their frustrations with their narcissist, sociopath, and psychopath. Activities, meetings, escape plans, establishing support networks. I have zilch resources fyi.

                I also have nada in the way of people resources. A SWOT analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are as follows, strengths, I stand alone, also a weakness, as I need to start finding people. I’d pay every volunteer too. Opportunities to recruit people none, because I need to go to city council meetings. Threats, my family coming back and getting in my way. This is a threat we have to put on ignore though. Big nonprofit weakness of mine is thinking I stand on my own two feet. I need to start finding people who can help me. Period. This cannot be put off anymore. So, I have to find ways of volunteering my time at other organizations.