# New website to explore likely changes ahead for nonprofit sector

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/06/11/new-website-explore-likely-changes-ahead-nonprofit-sector/
- Published: 2010-06-11T11:21:09+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Management Centre (=mc) has launched scenariosforchange.com, a website where
sector experts contribute their vision (or ‘scenario’) for the not-for-profit sector
in 2020. The content is publicly available, and =mc hope that it will stimulate 
discussion about the opportunities and challenges to come in the next decade.

Scenario planning is “a method for engaging with a raft of possible future dynamics
and it offers a way to systematically identify their implications”. As such, say
=mc, “it is a method that provides leaders with the information they need to equip
their organisations for the future”. Future scenarios can cover topics such as changing
geo-political power, technology, global warming, and the dissipation of national‘
giving’ boundaries.

Kate Gilmore, Principal Management Consultant at The Management Centre, said: “Scenario
planning is a highly effective way of anticipating and adapting to future uncertainty–
whatever lies ahead. It can give leaders the advantage as they work to “future proof”
their organisations for effective defense of their causes”.

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Several scenarios are already live at the site including one from Marc Dubois, Executive
Director of Médecins Sans Frontières UK, who questions whether the ‘Golden Era’ 
of the Western-based global NGO is grinding to a halt. He says of global NGOs that:“
By 2020 we will either have re-birthed ourselves or joined the cassette tape, Vanilla
Ice and the stegosaurus.”

The website offers guidance about how to implement scenario planning and case studies,
including the British Red Cross’s preparations for a UK terrorist attack that were
swiftly put into action at the time of the 7/7 London bombings.

The new website was developed following the success of [Fundraising Scenarios](http://www.fundraisingscenarios.com),

a global research programme designed to identify likely scenarios for fundraising
over the coming decade. It looked at likely income streams, donor stereotypes, new
and emerging markets and technological advances.

www.scenariosforchange.com

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