Saturday, May 26, 2018

Strategic Plan 2018


                Tabibu Africa, Inc Strategic Plan 2018


Tabibu Africa Inc.’s vision.

What do we stand for?

-          Bringing access to health care to parts that would otherwise go without.

-          Provide education on health and welfare issues.

-          Empowering people to believe in themselves and their abilities. 

What do we wish to accomplish?

-          Build communities that are empowered, healthy, and self-sufficient.

What are our responsibilities as an organization?

-          Be medically responsible within our scopes of practice, while providing quality care within our means and abilities.

-          Be ethically responsible in building and empowering those we serve in order to leave a self-sufficient community behind.

What segment of the population do we wish to cater to and work with?

-          The rural, and under served, areas of Kenya and Eastern Africa with an emphasis on women and children.

How do we wish to be viewed – both in the United States and Kenya?

-          Compassionate, informative, and humble

What type of growth do we want to experience?

-          Mobile clinics with increased emphasis on education and empowerment. A method for helping villages understand health and be self-sufficient.


OUR NEW MISSION STATEMENT: Our mission is to educate and train the under served people of Eastern Africa by empowering them with knowledge and skills to improve overall health and wellness through classes, workshops, and medical clinics while maintaining medically and ethically responsible conduct.


What are our opportunities for growth?

-          Course Development

o   First Aid

o   Health and Wellness

-          Fundraising and Donor Support

o   Social Media

o   E-Newsletter

o   Donor Data Management

Pinpoint threats to the success of your strategic plan.

What are our threats?

-          Time restraints: We are all volunteers too, all with very busy lives



List factors necessary to success.

Financial

What are our financial goals?

-          Generate enough funds to provide and sustain basic first aid kits and supplies, course and education materials and resources.

-          Generate enough funds to provide possibly discounted travel to board members and to compensate in-country director appropriately for time volunteered to the organization.

What do we need to do to accomplish this?

-          Reach $5,000-10,000 a year through fundraising, donor gifts, grants and sponsors.

How can we make this happen?

-          Have quality Donor Data Collection and Management

-          Generate donor loyalty and continued giving

-          Increase fundraising efforts

-          Write for grants and sponsors that fit our goals



Customer Relations

How do we encourage good customer relations?

-          Maintain totally transparent and open communication with our donors, supporters, partners, and those we serve.

What do we need to do to accomplish this?

-          Maintain current methods

How can we make this happen?

-          Maintain current methods



Operational Methods

What are our operational methods/goals?

-          Create and strengthen an organization that maintains our mission

-          Generate effective, sustainable, and repeatable courses and workshops

What do we need to do to accomplish this?

-          Keep our mission in mind with any new projects or requests to ensure organizations ability to maintain quality care and services within our means.

-          Create courses and lesson plans along with resources and references for villages to keep after the classes

How can we make this happen?

-          Ensure all board members are in on discussions and decisions regarding major projects and undertakings

-          Reinstate medical committee to help with classes and references.

Organizational Members

How does our organization maintain members?

-          Ongoing expression of gratitude and frequent and open communication via social media and emails to our donors, loyal supporters, partners, and sponsors.

What do we need to do to accomplish this?

-          Grow social media following

-          Start sending out e-newsletters


How can we make this happen?

-          Learn and utilize social media in a more effective manner

-          Build a marketing strategy/plan

Develop a strategy for accomplishing each success factor.

 Outline for accomplishing financial goals:

-          Establish our own “Annual Day of Giving” to occur in August (our birth month)

o   Sign up for Snowball to allow for text to give and ample donor data management and ease of “Day of Giving” and Virtual Battle of the Bands. 

o   Set the date and set amount to raise goal

§  Maybe Friday August 3rd

§  $5,000 

o   Create social media posts and write blog posts to publish leading up to the event date highlighting the organization- where in the world is Ayo 



-          Write Grants and Sponsor Letters

o   Look into Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant opportunities

o   Write letters to bookstores (chains and local) to see if they would donate to the Community Library Project.

o   Write letter to printing shops to see they would donate their services to printing and binding educational material for courses and reference material.



-          Establish an Annual fundraiser to occur in February 



Outline for accomplishing customer relations goals:

-          Continue to communicate openly on social media (FB, IG)

-          E-newsletter 

o   Quarterly

§  July, October, January, April

Outline for accomplishing operational method goals:

-          Generate course and workshop outlines and reference material


Outline accomplishing customer relations goals:

-          Generate a marketing strategy



Prioritize your strategies according to viability and growth goals.

1.       Quarterly E-Newsletter

a.       Medical, Education, Empowerment Updates

b.       Highlight Organization/Volunteer

c.       President’s Letter

2.       Generate Marketing and Fundraising Strategy

a.       Marketing Strategy

b.       Fundraising and Grant Writing

3.       Annual Day of Giving Fundraiser

4.       Generate course material and lesson plans

a.       Call medical committee to meeting in July

b.       Board Approval of lessons during December Meeting

5.       Annual Fundraiser

6.       Ongoing communication via social media and blog



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