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San Diego Natural History Museum Strategic Planning Project, Stephanie Delong, Maureen Guarcello, Anna Plaster, Jim Stone May 2009

San Diego Natural History Museum Strategic Planning Project, Stephanie Delong, Maureen Guarcello, Anna Plaster, Jim Stone

Strategic Planning

In January 2009, a team of students from the University of San Diego’s (USD) Nonprofit Leadership and Management conducted a pre-planning exercise to help prepare the San Diego Natural History Museum (SDNHM) for its 2012-2022 strategic plan. With an annual attendance last year of more than 600,000 visitors, the Museum is one of the largest cultural institutions in Balboa Park. The consulting team engaged in an extensive discovery process, including a review of the Museum’s current strategic plan1 and preliminary key informant interviews. The results of this discovery process pointed towards a number of themes from which, three key strategic …