Goal

•  AFAC Will Be A Well Governed Organization

Establish a Governance Committee to recruit and nominate board members and handle officer and committee chair selection

•  Revise by-laws to match current operations

•  Clarify committee roles and staff responsibilities

•  AFAC Will Strengthen Its Service to Clients

Establish a Distribution Task Force to analyze distribution needs and assess need for change to operations, including review of warehouse operations and distribution space, times and procedures to optimize efficiency

•  Finalize distribution guidelines which address client situations that may arise, and how to resolve; policies and procedures will be reviewed every 6 months

3.   AFAC Will Provide A Clean, Safe Environment

Establish a Maintenance Task Force to determine needed items in office and warehouse areas and develop maintenance plan and a budget request for those items; the plan will include a list of problems and proposed solutions

Establish a Site Task Force on space issues, to coordinate with other nonprofits, looking for bigger space, after undertaking a long-term needs assessment

•  Consider renting storage space as needed after food drives

4.   AFAC Will Have An Adequate, High Quality Food Supply

Charge the Food Committee with developing a plan for year-round targeted food drives including recommendations on the use of possible savings from the drives

Charge the Food Committee to reassess the client menu every 6 months, with solicitation for client input as appropriate – to include current sourcing, potential new/alternative sourcing of current items, potential new programs and substitutions

•  AFAC will have an adequate food supply on hand at all times

5.   AFAC Will Be A Well Funded Organization

Establish a Fundraising Task Force to review Tickler System and develop stronger   fundraising plan

•  Work toward more donor involvement at AFAC

•  100% board member involvement in fundraising/PR

6.   AFAC Will Be A Well Managed Organization

Charge the Personnel Committee with completing the Staffing Analysis currently being done, with goal of optimizing current and future paid staff positions

•  AFAC will provide staff and volunteers the tools necessary to do their jobs

•  Staff will have clearly defined roles and responsibilities, and staff/board interaction will be optimized for efficiency

•  Board members and others will have clearly defined parameters for staff interaction regarding any requests  

•  Staffing analysis to include review of salary structure

•  Staff will be provided with education opportunities and professional affiliation, as deemed appropriate

Charge the Personnel Committee with revising current personnel policies and procedures to include a system of setting goals for all employees and implementing a system of annual performance reviews based on those goals

Establish a Technology Assessment Task Force to assess the current technology, software, hardware and processes and then develop and implement a plan which ensures that technology is best used to better serve clients, volunteers and donors

7.   AFAC Will Be A Well Known Organization

Establish a Public Relations Task Force to define the goals and targets of AFAC PR efforts

•  Review publications semi-annually and keep publications updated

•  Train volunteers for speaking opportunities

•  Coordinate schedules of newsletter and appeal letters

•  AFAC will seek association with other organizations to optimize publicity

•  AFAC will make public relations a major focus of board responsibility

•  AFAC will have up to date documentation regarding it’s accomplishments

Establish a Website Task Force to develop a plan to keep the website updated, monitor its functioning,   and coordinate relationship with host

8. AFAC Will Strengthen Volunteer Services and Expand Volunteer Opportunities

Charge the Volunteer Committee with developing a plan for managing the volunteer pool more effectively, having more clearly defined volunteer opportunities and seeking new and innovative ways to provide opportunities for volunteering, outside of the traditional roles of today.

•  provide procedures to volunteers for basic tasks

•  keep list of open volunteer tasks

•  recognize volunteers each year

•  hold volunteer orientation sessions each quarter

•  provide opportunities for volunteer input on operations

•  Procedures will be defined to ensure volunteers have adequate tools, documentation and knowledge to do the tasks assigned them