The APHA organizational assessment was partially informed with an online life stages survey that queried board members and senior staff on their impressions of APHA performance. This PowerPoint reports on the survey results, APHA life stage and implications for capacity building.

1. A Nonprofit Life Stages Assessment Where You Are, Where You’re Going, and What to Expect When You Get There Prepared for Gordon F. Goodwin Development Solutions Group [email_address]

2. Guided by Judith Sharken Simon’s methodology

5. Reinvention requires knowledge of organizational assets and capacity building challenges to identify and chart a path to sustainability. Understanding organizational life stage helps illuminate the capacity building path, and choices for pursuing it. Transition = Reinvention

13. The Life Stages Model Stage 1 Imagine and Inspire Stage 2 Found and Frame Stage 3 Ground and Grow Stage 4 Produce and Sustain Stage 5 Review and Renew Decline and Dissolve