2021 – 2023 Strategic Plan
The goals of this strategic plan are to define YES’s vision, strategy, direction, and focus to achieve game-changing results for Boston’s young people.
YES’s 2021 – 2023 Strategic Focus
Programmatic Goals
- Outreach more strategically in YES’s primary neighborhoods of service: Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan
- Expand Leadership / Career Curriculum: (1) Deepen college and career strategies with the Leadership Corps program; (2) Become more structured; (3) Impact more Leadership Corps teens members with individualized career plans
- Expand and enhance activity-based p rogramming for Boston’s young people
- Establish partnerships with ski resort conglomerates and partner with ski and track programs
- Strengthen opportunities for youth to engage in repeat programming participation
Administrative Goals
- Relocate to a new YES headquarters
- Increase board contributions to meet YES’s goals
- Increase brand awareness of YES
- Steward volunteer experiences to ensure retention of program volunteers
- Enhance finance functions and vendor partnerships
- Maintain competitive staff compensation / benefit opportunities
Fiscal Goals
- Expand board membership and leverage assistance of board leaders to increase philanthropic revenue
- Relaunch Capital Campaign to raise $4M to fund new YES headquarters and introduce comprehensive appeals to invite donors’ three to five year investment to fund YES programs and operations
- Focus on engaging high net worth individuals and families in attracting increased financial support and establish a legacy of generosity for YES
- Build YES’s corporate partnership program and deepen outreach to institutional supporters for programmatic support
- Commit to building a sustainable funding program, working to attract multi year support as noted above, as well as reserves and an endowment for YES
- Strengthen development infrastructure by capitalizing the expense to add development staff capacity
Read more about the great achievements YES has accomplished in the last three years in our Fiscal Year Achievement reports: