See the field clearly, funders, peers, and signals.
You can't plan against a field you haven't looked at. Module 02 builds the scan that tells you where the money, the partners, and the pressure actually are.
Sets up the funder landscape your plan has to navigate.
Externally, there was a national movement to focus obesity prevention strategies on changing policies and environments... The CDC, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, National Convergence Partnership and other organizations released policy and environmental strategy documents in 2008 and 2009. We shifted our focus accordingly. As we endeavored to implement... we recognized that a strain was being placed on available resources... A consultant was hired to conduct a capacity assessment.
What to copy: HEAL named the external shift (national funders moving toward policy + environment work) and the internal strain (capacity stretched) in two short paragraphs. Your Module 02 scan should do the same, what changed outside, what cracked inside, and what you'll do about both.
Read the full HEAL NH plan (PDF) →Decide the geography, issue area, and time horizon you are scanning.
Map active funders, their priorities, and recent grants in your space.
Identify the orgs adjacent to yours, collaborators and competitors.
Surface the policy, demographic, and economic shifts that will reshape demand.
Pull the scan into a one-page brief the board can absorb in five minutes.