Our Strategic Plan
Executive Summary. Bresee’s 2018-21 Strategic Plan came on the heels of six straight years of program, budget, and staffing growth. The plan was not a continued growth plan, but one which called for an intentional focus on organizational culture, a deepening of the existing program work, and stabilization of the organization to allow Bresee’s infrastructure to catch up with its growth. It called for enhanced financial sustainability measures, focusing on elevating the development resource engine and volunteer leadership Boards, as well as re-building a vibrant campus after 20 years of deferred maintenance.
The progress on this plan was abruptly disrupted approximately half-way through implementation in March 2020 by the COVID pandemic. Bresee then pivoted its resources and would distribute over $15 million in emergency services to over 9,000 clients, three times its normal average, to meet the community’s basic needs for close to the entire next three years, through December 2022.
Bresee’s current July 2023- June 2025 Adaptive Strategic Plan is a two-year bridge plan designed to help build upon and finish the work of the 2018-21 plan. If this new bridge plan is successful, Bresee will enter the 2025-26 program year having re-established annual program implementation plans across the organization, continued to build a diverse, high performing workforce, completed key campus safety and facility upgrades, firmed up financial stability measures even further, and built a comprehensive strategy for its next stage of expansion.
