A business plan is a roadmap. It shows where your organization is now, where you want to go, and how to get there.

While it may be best to write your own business plan from scratch (see the Resource Library article, "Writing a Nonprofit Business Plan"), this MS Word template provides the essentials, along with prompts to add specific details relating to your own organization. Like all templates, it cannot take into account all the variables that affect a specific organization, but it does allow you to edit so that it reflects your organization more effectively.