• To positively impact the lives of Club members with special emphasis on outcomes that help assure success: academic achievement, life aspirations, and juvenile crime reduction.
• To expand existing programs, with emphasis on cultural diversity.

Success Indicators:

• Improve program impact assessments
• Greater Club attendance
• Documented outcomes
• Annual net growth of Club

Critical Strategies:

• Create developmentally and program-rich environments in Clubs
• Increase frequency of participation
• Enhance services to teens and increase the number of teens served
• Measure outcomes of national and local importance
• Increase the number of Clubs

What the movement should do:

• Create a yearly action plan to improve impact assessment scores
• Develop goals and implement strategies to increase frequency of attendance and participation
• Implement a comprehensive plan to attract, serve and retain teens
• Develop a measurement strategy that includes the calculation of key healthy indictors – academic achievement, life aspirations and juvenile crime reduction
• Charter new Boys & Girls Clubs

Build stronger organizations

Five – Year Goal:

• To create a Movement in which every organization continually improves, as evidenced by positive change in key dimensions:
  • SOE Advancements
  • Caliber of Executive Leadership
  • Reserve Ratios
  • Diverse revenue streams

Success Indicators:

• Improved organizational effectiveness
• Highly trained leadership
• Greater financial strength

Critical Strategies:

• Develop and retain strong, diverse executive leadership and staff
• Create diverse and sustainable revenue streams
• Strengthen governance practice and diversity of board members
• Consolidate Movement-wide resources to increase operational efficiency

What the Movement should do:

• Ensure participation of chief professional officers in the Executive Leadership Initiative
• Increase the ethnicity and gender balance of boards, executive leadership and staff
• Diversify resource development efforts with a focus on individual giving, planned giving initiatives and state alliance funding
• Create operational partnerships with other Boys & Girls Clubs to better share resources and lower overall cost

Expand the influence of the Movement beyond our walls

Five Year Goal:

• Expand the influence of the movement, resulting in:
  • Increased civic engagement of Club members
  • Increased brand awareness
  • Recognized leadership in youth development
  • Successful partnerships with community organizations

Success Indicators:

• Increased civic engagement
• Enhanced family support
• Greater influence in every community

Critical Strategies:

• Implement programs that encourage civic engagement
• Promote programs and partnerships to strengthen families and communities
• Increase the Movement’s role as a champion for youth development issues and opportunities

What the movement should do:

• Recognize exemplary service through a national awards program
• Deliver Families P.L.U.S., Keystone and/or Torch Clubs in each and every unit
• Express views through editorials and meetings with editorial boards

Assure greater public trust

Five Year Goal:

• Assure greater public trust to fulfill our core promise to America’s youth and the nation so that:
  • Safety is foremost in all Clubs
  • Boys & Girls Clubs are recognized as trusted and ethical nonprofits
  • Everything reported by Boys & Girls Clubs withstands the highest level of scrutiny

Success Indicators:

• Positive Public perception
• Fewer child safety incidents
• Favorable audit findings

Critical Strategies:

• Continue to focus on all aspects of child safety
• Utilize effective hiring practices
• Implement sound financial management policies and procedures
• Implement membership management systems
• Increase compliance with membership requirements and operating standards

What the Movement should do:

• Adopt and implement the fundamental practices outlined in:
  • Standard Practices for Child Safety
  • Standard Practices for Hiring Practices
  • Standard Practices for Ethics and Financial Oversight
  • Standard Practices for Tracking Membership and Participation Data

Mission:

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens avoiding the intrapment of drug, alcohol and gambling abuse.

Vision:

We envision a future in which the Glenn Hines Boys & Girls Club Movement is a catalyst for an age in which success is within reach of every child, and whole generations of children are inspired to a level of civic engagement no seen since the founding of our nation.

Core Promise:

Our promise to Newburgh’s youth: to provide a safe, positive place and have a significant impact on their lives.

Our promise to the city, county and nation: to uphold high ethical standards in all areas, especially in overseeing our finances, reporting data on membership and community outreach, being good stewards of the donor dollar and representing ourselves to the public.

Adopted by the Board of Directors this 19 day of November, 2007.

Runston T. Lewis

Runston T. Lewis, C.V. O.

Kathy Parisi

Kathy Parisi, Secretary

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