About this course

Proficiency Area: Learning.

Environmental Context is a nonprofit’s ability to assess its external environment.

In the second lesson toward your silver Merit badge, you'll explore:

  • How SWOT can help us harness community-based evidence.

  • Alternative frameworks that help us understand our external environment, including PEST and DIME.

Course curriculum

    1. Assessing Environmental Context

    1. Using Frameworks to Understand your Nonprofit's Environmental Context

    2. Check your learning

    3. Reflection Exercise: Environmental Context in Your Nonprofit

    1. Your Perspective: Environmental Context

About this course

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  • 5 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

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