By Governor-Elect Tom Ganse
By
the time you read this, the proposed Strategic Plan
has been reviewed in two
increments by the District Long Range Planning Committee,
those incremental results have been endorsed by the
District Board, and four of the eight District Regions
have had the opportunity to attend presentations on "VISION: 20/15", to include the Strategic Plan. Between now and mid-April, all remaining Regions
will share in that opportunity. From there, all input
from all sources will be considered before the Board
endorses a final version of the Plan. That final version
will be presented to the House of Delegates for ratification
in Richmond this Summer. Once ratified by the delegates,
the plan belongs to the District membership and the
District Board will be charged with executing it.
Members may view an example of the promotional/educational material covering the Strategic Plan by going online to www.capdistkiwanis.org/Gov%20Elect/GovElect.html and clicking "A Top-level Look at the Proposed Strategic Plan." In short, the Plan is comprised of:
- Mission Statement: "Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time." Amplifying information is provided to describe how local clubs accomplish that mission.
- Core Values: These are the Six Objects of Kiwanis.
- Strategies For Success - the Five Goals that feed our vision. Those five goals are 1) Increase Service Hours, 2) Increase Funds Re-invested in Local Communities, 3) Increase Sponsorship of Service Leadership Program Clubs, 4) Increase Membership, and 5) Modernize Our Operating Environment.
- Metrics, or incremental measurements, were developed to track our progress toward each of these goals.
- Vision Statement: "In the year 2015, 20,000 Capital District Kiwanians will provide 350,000 service hours, invest $4,400,000 to support community needs, and sponsor 860 Service Leadership Program clubs throughout Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia."
Promotion and awareness are critical to succeeding, since this plan ultimately is executed at the most fundamental level by individual Kiwanians working within their individual clubs. The key to success then, is that this plan must become common knowledge and every member must know and understand his or her role in our unified success.
The other two pillars of "VISION: 20/15" are effective training and adequate resources. Separate initiatives are in work to have the complete package in place by October 1, 2008. Your comments are not only welcomed, but strongly encouraged. Now is the time to make your impact on this critical planning tool. Please let us hear from you.
With a Kiwanis servant's
heart,
Tom
Ganse
