Altrusa International, Inc. of Martinsville and Henry County

Strategic Long Range Plan

 

Long-Range Plan

Membership

Goals

  • Increase membership to charter strength
  • Develop and promote ideals of Altrusa
  • Provide opportunities for personal and professional development

Objectives

  • Retain new members
  • Educate members regarding Altrusa goals and objectives
  • Continue commitment of current members
  • Increase satisfaction with benefits of membership

Strategies

  • Expand our age range of membership; seek members of varied backgrounds
  • Develop workshops /meetings to promote ideals of Altrusa and to education members about Altrusa
  • Plan recruitment events
  • Use newsletter to promote Altrusa
  • Relate our activities to the goals and objectives
  • Develop formal mentoring system for new members
  • Telephone calls as meeting reminder and member check-up after missed meetings
  • Provide personal development and leadership training programs for members
  • Continue "icebreaker" exercise at meetings and other opportunities for members to interact

Service

Goals

  • Promote literacy
  • Improve quality of life in our community
  • Provide a variety of service opportunities for members

Objectives

  • Sponsor a project that involves all members each biennium
  • Support community services in Martinsville and Henry County
  • Continue and expand the partnerships with Henry County Schools
  • Develop an international service project

Strategies

  • Assign each committee member to a literacy project
  • Continue projects for "Make A Difference Day"
  • Assist with the book fair at Carver Elementary School and provide financial aid for needy students
  • Collect labels for education
  • Support Books for Babies
  • Sponsor "Phill-Up The Bus" Service Project
  • Support reading efforts at Collinsville Primary School
  • Respond as resources allow to requests for community efforts
  • Continue readers' of the month luncheons at Irisburg Elementary School
  • Continue to support CAFV/SPCA/Salvation Army
  • Continue to support agencies by monetary donations, collection of supplies at meetings, etc.
  • Plan partnership-school luncheon

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Goals

  • Increase name recognition and awareness of Altrusa in the community

Objectives

  • Publicize club activities through local media
  • Develop club's own publicity materials

Strategies

  • Develop club brochure and web page
  • Distribute brochures at events where Altrusa is involved; have member distribute brochures when selling items
  • Publish reports of meetings in newspaper
  • Provide a history of the local club for the newspaper and for the yearbook
  • Secure publicity for club events
  • Place stickers on items the club sells and distributes
  • List meetings in the newspaper calendar of events
  • Provide volunteers for "Cook of the Week"
  • Provide speakers for local civic clubs
  • Participate in community events

Organization

Goals

  • Maintain leadership and financial resources to accomplish all goals and objectives

  • Maintain a sound fiscal policy

Objectives

  • Provide appropriate transitions for club officers and committee chairs

  • Ensure involvement with District Two and International

  • Continue fund raising projects to support club activities

Strategies

  • Strengthen each member's participation in fund raising projects

  • Audit financial records

  • Continue to have District and International information in each newsletter

  • Nominate at least one member for District office

  • Encourage members to attend District Conference

  • Report on District Two Conferences and Area V Workshops