Strategic Planning Process & Objectives

October 21, 2006

Strategic Planning is essential to the long-term success of any organization. The AOG Board has created a Strategic Planning Committee.

The Strategic Planning process uses the Strategic Plan (2006-2011) as its foundation. It integrates the Strategic Communications Plan developed by Burson-Marsteller in 2004.

The 2006 - 2011 Strategic Plan established ten strategic goals based on the AOG vision and mission contained in the AOG Bylaws.

Vision
The Association of Graduates (AOG) aspires to be the primary organization of United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) graduates and friends dedicated to supporting the Academy and its mission of building leaders of character for the Air Force and the nation, and aspires to provide service and support for graduates and cadets.

Mission
To Pursue our vision and to serve and support the United States of America, the United States Air Force, The Air Force Academy and the graduate community by:

1. Working with the Academy to produce and foster graduates with an enduring commitment to integrity, excellence and service to country.
2. Providing leadership, communication and support to all the Academy's graduates, and promoting camaraderie among them.
3. Promoting the Academy's heritage, our common traditions and the accomplishments of our graduates.

Goals

• Goal # 1: Among graduates, promote continuing interest in and dedication to the mission, ideals, objectives, activities and heritage of the Academy.

• Goal #2: Provide appropriate programs and services to support the membership, all graduates, cadets, and the Academy.

• Goal #3:  Execute a major comprehensive campaign to accomplish the objectives contained in the plan, "Building Leaders of Character for Our Nation".

• Goal #4:  Grow Annual Fund and Sabre Society participation to support programs at the Academy not provided for by appropriated funds and to fund the capability of the AOG to accomplish its mission.

• Goal #5:  Increase national recognition of the value of the Academy, and its graduates.

• Goal #6: Grow membership and facilitate mutually beneficial relationships between, among, and for  graduates, cadets, the Academy, and its supporters.

• Goal #7: Encourage outstanding young people to attend the Academy, excel, and graduate.

• Goal #8: Select, recruit and retain executive staff to accomplish the goals outlined in this plan.
• Goal #9:  Ensure the AOG Board complies with Bylaws adopted on May 4, 2006.
• Goal # 10:  Study the desirability/feasibility and steps needed to form a foundation to accomplish Goals 3 and 4.

The 2006 - 2011 Strategic Plan contains spaces for the committee-developed action plans. It incorporates and includes the Strategic Communications Plan, the Comprehensive Campaign Plan, the Financial Management Plan and the current budget.

The objective of the Strategic Planning Process is to provide a framework for the development of a 3-year financial plan for the operation of the AOG and to provide the membership with a means to see what the AOG objectives are and a way to track progress.