Please join the Otsego Chamber of Commerce and SCORE for a 1.5 hour session on Strategic Planning for Not-For Profit Businesses. This seminar offered to Not-for-Profits will cover:

• Common Challenges of Not-For-Profit Businesses
• What is Strategic Planning & Why Is It Important?
• Obstacles to Avoid In Strategic Execution
• Practical Approaches and Successful Implementation to Strategic Planning 
• How To Build An Effective Board of Directors
•  Conducting An Annual Implementation Assessment
• Open Session for your Questions & Answers

Instructor, Ellen Feldman, is a retired Global IBM Vice President with more than 30 years of business & technology consulting, strategic planning, leadership of professional services organizations, leading major initiatives to improve organizational effectiveness within IBM and for Fortune 500 companies. Ellen also has extensive experience with not-for-profit organizations as a board member and  President of the Achieve Board of Directors (Broome-Tioga Chapter of NYS ARC) and as a Certified SCORE Mentor, specifically focused on Strategic Planning & Operational Effectiveness for Not-For-Profit Businesses.

The Otsego Chamber of Commerce offers these seminar for $35 per participant, per seminar. Discounts available for registering for all seminars and for sending more than 1 participant from an organization. To register, contact Kelly Zack-Decker at kelly@otsegocc.com or by calling (607) 432-4500 ext. 207.