Welcome

Welcome to Business Planning for Public Health Programs. This short, self-paced module will help you understand the basics of business planning and be ready to start your own business planning venture.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this training, you should be better able to:

• Describe the parts of a business plan.
• Explain how business planning can be helpful for a public health agency or non-profit organization.
• Describe the function of business planning.
• Identify when it is appropriate to do a business plan.

Target audience

The primary audience is managers in local health departments.

Resources

The module has additional documents and links to other resources. The resources link on the upper right part of the screen will take you to those resources at any time.

Glossary

In addition to the glossary link in the upper right part of the screen, you can find definitions to terms by clicking on the link. Definitions will appear in the right margin.