Boy With a Ball Global’s mission statement clearly states that we work “to better cities around the world by reaching young people and equipping them to be leaders capable of transforming their own communities.” We also know that we accomplish this mission through:
- creating and implementing innovative methodologies,
- founding, equipping and supporting local youth, family and community development organizations,
- weaving international communities of practice and by
- advocating for the dissemination of best practices in youth development.
These things do not change although they are continuously sharpened and clarified.
Every year, at the beginning of each year, our executive staff begins to define a list of objectives for the year that we then submit to our board of directors so that we can perfect this list and then vote it in. At the same time, our staff also proposes a financial budget of what we think it will cost financially to accomplish these objectives. The idea with the objectives is to set out meaningful, attainable goals for each year that clearly set out the best way we can accomplish our overall mission in the twelve months that follow.
These objectives are our challenge, our journey, our dragon and our target for the next twelve months. Our desire is to share them each year with all of you who invest in and care about our work so that you can participate, cheer us on, pray for us and fight beside us!
So…our objectives for 2013 are as follows:
- Continue to strengthen our work within current BWAB sites including expanding our impact including:Travel into two potential new sites including Lebanon to prepare for expansion in 2013.
- Establishing a fourth BWAB local organization
- Increasing the total number of young people attending our programs across all of our local organizations to 1,500 total youth
- To expand the number of volunteer hours given to BWAB across all of our local organizations to 6,000 total hours
- Hire Anna Currie as VP of Program Development to prepare for expansion into new countries.
- Help BWAB Costa Rica strengthen systems including: finance, fundraising and HR.
- Apply for official status for BWAB Nicaragua to be registered in Nicaragua as an official non-profit.
- Apply for 501(c)(3) status for BWAB San Antonio and to reach $50k in funding.
- Establish three income generating business models for Boy With a Ball Global.
- Redesign boywithaball.com website using professional web design service.
- Relocate BWAB Global offices to Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
As always, thank you for your continual interest and support for Boy With a Ball and for the young people we reach and work to equip as leaders. Please look at these objectives as our combined goals for the next year and jump into the conversation either here below, by emailing our calling our office or by checking in on Facebook, Twitter or the new website as it is released. We will keep you posted and up-to-date on how we are doing. This has the makings of an amazing year for Boy With a Ball if we all work together!
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