Strategic
Plan
Our
Mission: Provide education, skills, and a sense of
self-esteem to the disabled, handicapped, impaired, elderly
and youth through seagoing educational experiences, wildlife
interaction and research.
Our
Vision: Deliver exceptional education, skills and
instill self-esteem for the disabled, handicapped, impaired,
elderly and youth -- via resources local to major harbors
nationwide – serving 10,000 people annually.
Our
Guiding Values:
•We
embrace an obligation to utilize our knowledge, skills and
resources to execute our mission.
•We
monitor and maintain our service resources with safety and
comfort in mind.
•We
listen to our service recipients and regularly reassess our
services to better meet their needs.
•We
treat our service recipients with dignity and respect.
•We
conduct our professional dealings with honor and integrity.
Defining
needs, problems of our service recipients:
Service
recipients: We provide high-need services to the
disabled (amputees and injured), handicapped (physically-limited
with special needs), impaired (mental and senses), elderly
(needing assistance to participate in outdoor activities)
and youth (at-risk, inner city and those with little or no
on-the-water experiences).
Needs
statement: Our service recipients desperately need
healthy outdoor educational experiences and to participate
in research activities and interact with nature and critters
in order to feel useful and empowered and to build self-esteem.
Problem
statement: Few opportunities exist for disabled,
handicapped, impaired elderly and at-risk youth to participate
in seagoing educational experiences, wildlife interaction,
skill-building and research activities.
Goals:
•Provide
at-sea education, skills and self-esteem building opportunities
to a growing number of needy people.
•Involve
the disabled, handicapped, impaired, elderly and youth in
useful research projects.
•Grow
from a local base of operations to a nationwide organization.
Assessment
of organizational capabilities:
We
have adequate resources and experiences to offer our services.
Resources
include a charter vessel properly insured and equipped with
safety gear and operated by a professional crew. Our human
resources include a professional crew with decades of experience
providing seagoing services. Our staff additionally includes
people with experience in teaching, counseling, prosthetics,
care-giving and living assistance for the elderly and youth.
Our
staff and members of our Board of Directors have the business
and organizational backgrounds necessary to expand our organization
nationwide, in a controlled and cost-effective manner, as
funding increases.
Strategies:
•Build
relationships with non-profit organizations serving the overall
needs of our various categories of service recipients. These
organizations will link us to the people we serve.
•Increase
the number of excursions and the number of recipients served
as funding increases.
•Escalate
fundraising activities to support geographic expansion of
our services.
•Systematically
expand our services to other major harbors with a nationwide
goal in mind.
