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Our Promise: Young people want to shape the world. Camp Fire provides young people with the opportunity to find their spark, lift their voice, and discover who they are. In Camp Fire, it begins now. Light the fire within.

Strategies:1. Develop best practice and curriculum to guide club and camp

programming.

2. Expand adult volunteer opportunities to enhance program quality, build new relationships and engage the community.

3. Increase evaluation capacity at Camp Fire Minnesota.

4. Develop innovative ways to leverage technology in Camp Fire Minnesota programs.

Camp Fire MinnesotaStrategic Plan 2016-2018

Goal A: Set the standard for high quality and inclusive youth development programs.

Strategies:1. Develop and implement year-round outdoor education

curriculum and programs at Camp Tanadoona to grow club-to-camp participation, engage campers during non-summer season and expand user groups.

2. Expand opportunities for youth and families from camp and club to participate in Camp Tanadoona and Camp Bluewater programs.

3. Become the recognized leader and advocate for youth in nature.

Goal B: Engage more youth with the natural world to catalyze growth.

Strategies:1. Implement Camp Fire Minnesota’s nature-based progressive

program model that engages K-12 in activities to develop youths’ sparks for learning, leading and living.

2. Build new partnerships to grow Camp Fire Minnesota programs.

3. Grow club and camp programs around areas of demonstrated need.

4. Increase family connections at club and camp.

5. Provide culturally relevant programs driven by community, youth and family needs.

Goal C: Prepare more youth for success in learning, leading and living.

Indicators of Success:• Number of youth served

• Youth retention rate

• Number of adult volunteers and contact hours

• Evaluation tools assessed

• Completion of technology research

Indicators of Success:• Number of participants in

non-summer camp programming at Camp Tanadoona

• Number of club youth attending summer camp

• Culturally relevant, nature-based programming developed

• Nature-based key messages implemented

Indicators of Success:• Number of youth participating in

progressive programming

• Number of new partnerships

• Partners identified for program growth

• Family communication plan developed

• Culturally relevant, nature-based programming developed

Camp Fire Minnesota’s10-Year Vision

We light the spark in each young person.

Camp Fire youth are confident leaders, who embrace nature, create healthy lives, and

achieve academic success.

Camp Fire youth are stewards of their world.

Camp Fire Minnesota is nationally recognized as a growing,

thriving organization that delivers model youth development programs.

Strategies:1. Develop Camp Fire Minnesota’s clear and compelling story -

encompassing club, camp and our nature focus.

2. Invest in marketing department.

3. Capitalize on technology to tell our story.

4. Build branding to promote participants’ personal connection and association to Camp Fire club and camp.

Goal D: Boldly shape and share Camp Fire Minnesota’s powerful story.

Strategies:1. Expand revenue-generating mission-driven programming.

2. Expand contributed revenue through new donors, Capital Campaign for Tanadoona and annual fundraising.

3. Increase Camp Fire Minnesota’s financial stability through growing the Minnesota Camp Fire Foundation.

4. Design an Innovation Pool to support the scaling up of new ideas.

Goal E: Increase financial resources to sustain Camp Fire Minnesota’s growth.

Strategies:1. Attract and retain high quality youth development staff.

2. Drive diversity and inclusion in all aspects of the organization.

3. Develop technological infrastructure to support expansion and growth of clients served.

4. Build succession plans for board and staff leadership.

5. Improve Tanadoona facilities for expansion and growth.

6. Enhance the unique role of Bluewater in Camp Fire’s mission through partnership development, infrastructure assessment and investment and program enrichment.

Goal F: Increase organizational capacity to sustain Camp Fire Minnesota’s growth.

Indicators of Success:• Camp Fire Minnesota’s

nature-based key messages developed

• Resources dedicated to marketing department

• Technology plan created

• Plan developed to engage youth in telling their Camp Fire story

Indicators of Success:• Revenue-based programming business

model created, along with the marketing and outreach plans in place to implement

• Increase overall contributed revenue

• Capital Campaign Phase 2 fundraising goal set

• Legacy Gift Plan developed and actions in place to implement

• Research best practices to support Innovation Pool

Indicators of Success:• Improve staff retention

• Diversity & Inclusion plan in place to implement

• IT plan developed and incorporated in 2017 budget

• Succession plan in place

• Launched “quiet phase” of Capital Campaign Phase 2

• Operations plan developed for Bluewater