Micro Map (NP)

Service Description

Your Mission Alignment Assessment did its job: your board now knows where the real gap is. What it hasn't done is tell you what to do about it before the next board meeting — and a known gap with no named next move tends to sit there, discussed but unaddressed, until it quietly becomes next quarter's problem too. The First Sequence exists to close that window fast, turning a diagnosed gap into an actual, sequenced first move your board can act on right now. This is a single, focused planning session, not a full strategic-planning engagement — and it's built that way on purpose. In it, we do light priority mapping against your assessment findings, build an initial sequence of what happens first, second, and third, and set basic milestones so "we're working on it" has something concrete behind it. You leave with a one-page initial roadmap, written for leadership and the board, that names the actual next step rather than a general direction. The session itself runs as a direct working conversation, not a lecture — we sit down with whoever's carrying the priority gap (executive director, program lead, board chair, whoever makes sense) and work the sequence out together in real time, so the roadmap reflects what your organization can actually do, not a generic template pulled off a shelf. That one page is meant to travel: into a board packet, an agenda item, an email to a funder asking what's next, a talking point at your next staff meeting. It's deliberately nonprofit-priced, with the discounted nonprofit rate expected once catalog pricing is finalized, because a fast first move that keeps a diagnosed gap from stalling shouldn't require a large commitment to reach, and shouldn't wait for a bigger budget cycle to happen. What The First Sequence deliberately doesn't do is build your full strategic or fundraising plan — that depth of work lives in the Applied and Holistic Plan tiers, and it's worth doing properly rather than rushing it into a single session. This offering isn't a substitute for that deeper work; it's the fast, credible bridge to it, giving you something real to act on now while you and your board evaluate whether the bigger planning engagement is actually warranted. If your board is stuck between "we know the problem" and "we haven't decided what to do about it," this is how you get unstuck by next week, not next quarter. Book The First Sequence and walk into your next board meeting with an actual next move in hand.