Part II of VOTF’s Strategic Plan
As we gathered data for the Strategic Plan, we established guiding principles to help us filter through the vast amount of data we received. Our guiding principles became the criteria to determine which suggestions we embraced and in which priority. We kept those suggestions that we felt were:
- Consistent and supportive of VOTF’s Mission, Goals and Identity Statement. All elements selected directly or indirectly support the mission and dovetail with our national goals to further support our identity statement.
- Consistent with the findings of the many SWOT analysis surveys across our membership. Sorting the data was a laborious task, but we grouped like-minded statements that supported one another so that we had clarity and critical mass.
- Consistent with our core values. Our values define our behavior to all and as an organization, we share:
- A deep love for our Church within a Vatican II model,
- A mandate to use our experience and skill to repair the institution with meaningful, responsible reform,
- A need to model respect, collegiality, cooperation, compassion, transparency and accountability in all our interactions.
With data in categories:
- We determined what was possible and reasonably executable given current resources, and
- Which elements would continue to strengthen the organization from the inside out, with a focus on engaging and energizing the cumulative talent of our members and raising needed funds for the initiatives defined.
Finally, the Plan must be easy to understand, articulate and execute. Recognizing how we gathered the data, filtered it and prioritized the issues is important for our members to understand. We discussed issues at length and worked hard to maintain our stated strengths, diminish our weaknesses, anticipate and prepare for known and unknown opportunities as well as prepare for anticipated or unanticipated threats. Our goal is to build a proactive future.
In the next edition of In the Vineyard, we will present the plan to all and invite all to actively and enthusiastically participate.
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