In 2022, Girls Inc. of Greater Philadelphia & Southern New Jersey launched a new 5-year strategic plan to strengthen our strong, smart, & bold mission with the following Strategic Imperatives:
- Innovate Programs and Expand Impact: Continue to be the innovative Affiliate that we have become known for by expanding our reach and impact through new innovative programs
- Evolve programs for a more virtual environment
- Implement approach to expand diversity of program participants
- Advance Project Accelerate
- Expand partnerships for college and career opportunities
- Rebuild to pre-pandemic levels (partnerships & girls served)
- Build momentum around advocacy programming
- Optimize our Staff Model to Grow our Organization: In order to reach as many girls as possible with our innovative programming, evaluate our organizational needs and build a strong pipeline, succession plan, training, and other infrastructure to attract and retain talent
- Build a program staffing pipeline
- Evaluate and plan essential roles for growth
- Establish staff succession planning
- Conduct staff professional development planning
- Ensure staff benefits are competitive and support a healthy work/life balance
- Build Resiliency & Sustainability in Funding: Diversify our funding sources, with special emphasis on individual funders, and complete our Capital+ Campaign
- Drive increase in individual funders
- Diversify organization funding sources
- Build the Girls Inc. Best-in-Class Board: To support all of the above, increase diversity and engagement across our Board of Directors and Girls Inc. Associate Advisory Board, with support of necessary infrastructure
- Reinvigorate recruiting and diversify Board experiences and background
- Increase Board engagement
- Establish Board measurement tools, train Board to increase effectiveness
- Establish Board succession plans
- Evolve the Associate Advisory Board for sustained engagement and Board succession