GIRLS INCORPORATED OF COLUMBUS AND PHENIX-RUSSELL

As we embark on a new strategic direction, building from our current position of strength, our goals for the future include:
- Our program framework will effectively deliver desired outcomes for girls, particularly those who live in low and very low income communities.
- We will consistently deliver a high-quality Girls Inc. Experience.
- We will grow the number of low income girls served with the Girls Inc. program model.
- We will expand our impact by becoming a leading advocate for advancing the rights and opportunities for all girls.
- We will have the necessary resources, systems, and supports to be data-driven, performance-oriented, and an external influencer.

Effectively deliver desired outcomes for girls: align with a network-wide approach to reaching girls with an intensive, holistic method that is distinctive to Girls Inc.

Consistently deliver a high-quality Girls Inc. Experience: align business practices and strategic goals to emphasize sustainability and risk mitigation, opening the way to reach new communities.

Grow the number of low income girls served with impact: ensure we are anchored in communities where girls who most need us are located.

Expand our impact by being a leading advocate for advancing rights and opportunities for all girls:
engage in advocacy at national, state, and local levels, with a focus on the needs of girls from low-income communities and girls who face multiple, intersectional challenges.

Ensure the resources, systems, and supports to be data-driven, performance oriented, and external influencer: utilize Outcomes Measurement Strategy to demonstrate measurable difference.

Girls Inc. of Columbus has strengthened its business operations and financial management, and actively leverages our relationship with the national organization. Changes include:
• Improved operational efficiency and more properly-focused functional roles.
• Better internal controls, consistent operations policies, and clear performance expectations.
• A new pay structure based on market research to ensure competitive salaries and a stronger ability to recruit and retain high caliber staff.
• Regular professional development opportunities for all staff at all levels.
• Improved financial management practices and policies to ensure transparency and facilitate timely management decisions.

The organization has embarked on an ambitious growth plan that will increase the total number of girls served with impact to more than 2200 by 2020.

On a local level, Girls Inc. of Columbus successfully met 85 percent of its 2015-2020 strategic goals by January 2017 and ended the fiscal years 2016 and 2017 with modest revenue surpluses. In May 2016, the first new Executive Director in 35 years assumed leadership of the organization. Since then, operating and infrastructure changes have been implemented, local partnerships have been strengthened, and visibility of the organization has grown.