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April 6, 2005
Newburgh Community Action Committee, Inc. Completes Strategic Plan
The Board of Directors has completed its three year Strategic Plan which will guide the agency work and development thru 2008. As President, I can attest to a wide spectrum of input from the community at large and the NCAC board members. We started the planning process on January 7, 2004, with Mike Burns of Brody Weiser and Burns and Margaret Irwin of Riverfront Planning and Development supported by a grant from Evelyn Harris of the New York State Department of State, Division of Community Services. At the December 2004 Board of Directors' meeting, the board adopted the Strategic Plan and NCAC staff has begun to implement the ten (10) goals enumerated.
We invite you to review and comment on our 2005-08 Strategic Plan.
Forward comments to Rudy LaMarr, Executive Director at rlamarr@newburghcac.org
Salahuddin M. Muhammad, President,
Board of Directors
Newburgh Community Action Committee
Jan 7, 2005
Newburgh Community Action Committee, Inc. Strategic Plan Development Process
In 1964 the Johnson Administration launched an ambitious program to combat poverty in America which later came to be known as the so called "War on Poverty." Newburgh Community Action Committee Inc. (NCAC) is one of 1100 nation wide agencies remaining from this national effort. We have been working and developing plans to further that Vision and Mission through activities associated with community services, community renewal and revitalization. This very long and arduous journey is not complete, and may never be, but we believe that NCAC has, and can continue, to make a positive difference in the lives of the poor and disaffected in the greater Newburgh area. Recently, with very little staff and diminished resources, we are changing lives and living the promise of Community Action to effectively impact the conditions that cause poverty. While, after 35 years, NCAC continues to provide quality responses to those in need, we need to do more. We could not do it alone in the past and we can not do it alone now! Therefore, we are undertaking a planning process which shall include stakeholders from a broad sector of this community; our customers and grantors, business and labor groups, educational and cultural organizations, ecological and planning firms, government and political entities, religious and other secular institutions.
January 7, 2004 was the initial meeting of NCAC's staff and consultants in pursuit of planning for the future.
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