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 "id": "nonprofit-program-expansion-planner",
 "type": "skill",
 "name": "Nonprofit program expansion planner",
 "summary": "Plan a nonprofit program expansion. Share your evidence and limits. Get a readiness review, a fixed-versus-flexible table, and a pilot plan.",
 "headline": "Nonprofit program expansion planner",
 "subhead": "Share evidence that your program works, your growth goal, and staff and funding limits. It checks readiness before choosing an expansion route. You get a readiness brief, parts that must stay fixed, possible local changes, and a measured pilot plan.",
 "job": {
  "id": "plan-strategy",
  "name": "Plan your strategy"
 },
 "level": "intermediate",
 "thinking": "high",
 "tested": true,
 "updated": "2026-10-28",
 "first_published": "2026-10-25",
 "inputs": [
  {
   "type": "question",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Question",
   "what": "the problem, decision or piece of work you want help with, and what a good outcome looks like"
  },
  {
   "type": "document",
   "required": false,
   "label": "Document",
   "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes"
  }
 ],
 "outputs": [
  {
   "type": "plan",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Plan",
   "what": "a dated plan: what to do, in what order, with a decision rule for each step"
  }
 ],
 "you_give": [
  "Outcome evidence for your program",
  "How the program is delivered",
  "Staff capacity and financial reserves",
  "Funding set aside for growth (optional)",
  "The new community or group you want to reach"
 ],
 "you_get": [
  "A readiness memo with a go, no-go or not-yet call",
  "A table of what must stay fixed and what can change",
  "A recommended way to expand",
  "A pilot plan for one new site",
  "A plan to check results and fix problems"
 ],
 "use_when": [
  "A board member or funder asks you to open the program in a new city.",
  "You wonder if your program is ready to grow before you commit money.",
  "You need to decide what must stay the same and what can change for a new community.",
  "You are choosing between running new sites yourself and licensing partners."
 ],
 "skip_when": [
  "You need to design a new program from scratch: use a program design step or a person who knows logic models, because this plan assumes a working program.",
  "You need to prove the program works: set up outcome measurement first, then come back with the results.",
  "You want to merge with another group or use a fiscal sponsor: talk to a nonprofit lawyer or advisor, because this plan covers growing your own program only."
 ],
 "output_sample": {
  "input": [
   "Your outcome evidence for the program, ideally from more than one group or site",
   "How the program is delivered, and what staff do",
   "Your staff capacity and financial reserves",
   "Funding set aside for growth (optional)",
   "The new community or group you want to reach"
  ],
  "prerequisites": [
   "An AI that can read your files or pasted text",
   "Real outcome results, not only counts of people served"
  ],
  "output": [
   {
    "name": "Readiness memo",
    "contains": "A go, no-go or not-yet call, rated on evidence, model clarity, capacity, funding runway and local demand."
   },
   {
    "name": "Fidelity matrix",
    "contains": "Each program part marked core or flexible, with the reason, how much it can vary, and how you will check it."
   },
   {
    "name": "Replication model recommendation",
    "contains": "Whether to open sites yourself, license partners, share a toolkit, or move into a public system, and why."
   },
   {
    "name": "Program-in-a-box outline",
    "contains": "The training, staffing rules, operations manual, data tools and checklists a new site needs to start."
   },
   {
    "name": "Growth funding ask",
    "contains": "A funding request for systems, staff and start-up costs, kept apart from the regular program budget."
   },
   {
    "name": "Monitoring and course-correction plan",
    "contains": "How often you check the new site, and what you do if results lag: retrain, adjust, or close."
   }
  ]
 },
 "how_to_use": [
  "Open Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. No code or paid tool is needed.",
  "Paste the skill text, or upload your files if your AI accepts them.",
  "Add your outcome evidence, how the program runs, staff and reserves, growth funding and the new community.",
  "Read the readiness memo first. If it says not yet, fix the gaps before you plan the expansion.",
  "Ask frontline staff to check the fixed-versus-flexible table, since they know what really drives results.",
  "Have your board or a nonprofit advisor review the plan before you commit money or staff."
 ],
 "checks": [],
 "next": [
  {
   "name": "Program keep-or-cut reviewer",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/program-keep-or-cut-reviewer",
   "why": "Plan your strategy"
  },
  {
   "name": "Revenue partnership program planner",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/copilot-gtm-partnership-architecture",
   "why": "Plan your strategy"
  },
  {
   "name": "Nonprofit strategy planner",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-strategy-cycle-planner",
   "why": "Plan your strategy"
  }
 ],
 "source": {
  "by": "Nonprofit Skills",
  "repo": "sector-skills/nonprofit-skills",
  "url": "https://github.com/sector-skills/nonprofit-skills/tree/7d8a2ca9d471fc975d0e9ccd02fcdd66520fd1c8/nonprofit-skills-library/skills/programs-impact/nonprofit-program-scaling",
  "licence": "MIT",
  "original_name": "nonprofit-program-scaling",
  "commit": "7d8a2ca9d471fc975d0e9ccd02fcdd66520fd1c8"
 },
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  {
   "title": "nonprofit-program-scaling skill",
   "by": "Nonprofit Skills",
   "url": "https://github.com/sector-skills/nonprofit-skills/tree/7d8a2ca9d471fc975d0e9ccd02fcdd66520fd1c8/nonprofit-skills-library/skills/programs-impact/nonprofit-program-scaling",
   "used": "Copied under the MIT licence. We gave it a plain name. We added Before you start and After this sections that link to other AI Blocks steps. We refreshed those generated sections from the catalogue inputs and next-step links."
  },
  {
   "title": "Original author",
   "by": "Brendon Connelly",
   "url": "https://brendonconnelly.com",
   "used": "Wrote the skill; Nonprofit Skills shared it in their collection."
  }
 ],
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