Discover the Best Invoice Statement Example for NPOs

Invoice statement example for NPOs

my name is George Reiner I'm the chief Whaler of Holwell and welcome to another episode of Holwell TV today mission statements and vision statements there are two different things but oftentimes sometimes many times they are confused so we're just going to quickly dive into them to begin why we're talking about this actually starts with wise I'm in cynic in his book start with why talks about the Golden Circle and in this idea we have the circle in the centre where we start is why why do we do what we do what is the purpose and that's the driving factor all too often we start off with though what we're doing which is the outer circle so it is that the why the how and then you guessed it the what as you can see in the circle with regard to mission statement and vision statement that vision statement and our beliefs happen at the core the core of why we do what we do and so it is a broader more inspirational idea that is at the core that you then build around toward the outside and we'll be framing it in this way as we define how we differ when we write one versus the other the other one the other thought leader I like to look at is Jim Collins so famously written good degree but also a book prior to that called beyond entrepreneurship in which he defines the different layers of vision statements and mission statements and the same idea of having the larger vision something that's going to last for a hundred years a sort of mountain but wrong thing that is your reason for being and then the mission statement something that we are targeting so we're going to layer these out and then we're going to show you some definitions of them to start with and I know words are funny things and we can actually use google.com slash Trends to look at mission statement or vision statement versus these other statements that are commonly used more often than not reusing and overusing mission statement you should begin with the values then the vision and the mission purpose objectives and KPIs lots of ideas here I know jargony however when you're starting with the vision it's the highest piece that's the top part of our pyramid where we're talking more inspiration it's a view of how the world should be as a result of your work very high-minded it can stand as I said it can stand for like a hundred years as Jim Collins puts in his book beyond entrepreneurship it's also important by the way that this is short we're talking like one sentence can you do that right it has to be inspirational and memorable because your team your team is taking this as the core right the core that golden circle that they are working forward into the future so that's the division statement let me give you some examples so for for instance Habitat for Humanity well their statement is a world where everyone has a decent place to live okay that's pretty darn clear I get it high minded visionary another one charity water charity water believes that we can end the water crisis in our lifetime by ensuring that every person on the planet has access to life's most basic need clean drinking water so again it's something very high-minded it's not saying in ten years we're doing X in five years we're doing Y very high and an Internet in that realm another one Teach for America one day all children in this nation will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education and so in their again aspirational these are not quite quotients but high-minded we're setting the tone we're starting with Y and focusing on that idea that's the confusion when we get into mission you have to think more tangibly because we're moving down we're not the highlighted piece this is something that could be in the realm of one-to-one to five years even and it's fine to reset that or refine that as you hit these goals you know it's the fundamental purpose of the organization that's what we're after that defines it defines the activity and the goal done to reach the vision see how we're beginning to move out from the the why data how we're doing what we're doing it's an idea of what's wrong with the world but also how we're going about fixing and in that methodology and doing that again we're looking for certain hood something short short memorable summary all of the goals and what we're trying to do and layers and purpose so sometimes that mission and purpose is there what I would like to focus on here too is potentially a be hag a big huge ambitious goal that you know again it's going to take you some time to do you know zero in terms of number of malaria or reaching ten million in terms of X or Y you know imagine it in military terms and this is what gets that the missions are the smaller parts that win the war but the larger vision may be to keep the country safe so as you're telling your team to go out there in the field it's not keep our country safe it may be more specific hey go take that mountain over there so another example is a four-hole well our vision is to close the nonprofit knowledge gap in data and technology fairly broad now when we refine that to our mission but we set this a few years back and for us it's by 2020 we want to become a recognized industry leader reaching five million nonprofit or learning engagements and so forth that we actually attached a number I really like it when a mission attaches a number or a percentage or a way that you're trying to know the needle and what you're measuring because then that trickles down to the rest of the things that your organization can be working from hopefully that's beginning beginning to give you an idea of how you can frame the mission statement first the vision statement is as two different things and here's some charts so you can see how we're looking at learning gauges and really tracking them over time how we're doing quarter to quarter and there's the chart that you can get an idea of so that's our public service announcement about a mission statement and virtual vision statement it's totally fine if for whatever reason you know on your website you want to call it a mission statement but it's important internally to have those two different things to find that in your term mission statement with usually a number or a bee hag of attach to it versus the high-minded vision that's put out there most people switch them on the website that's fine to keep some internal but they find it for yourself and understand the difference when you're putting it out there whole will has more resources on the measurement of these things that oil / impact where you can find more videos on defining your digital impact and how to get a better idea of closing that gap thank you for joining us if you like what you saw or at least you weren't bothered by what you saw take a look we got some more stuff here you can find our website over here and of course subscribe I shouldn't have to point because you're on YouTube and you know what you should be able to find a subscribe button on YouTube I 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