New Boston Pride Committee Inc

The main organizational goals of Boston Pride, per our strategic plan, are currently to:
- Develop a strong volunteer recruitment, training, and management program
- Prepare for our organization's 50th anniversary
- Create additional events for specific subsets of our community
- Conduct an economic impact study
- Build up relationships with new community organizations
- Hire staff

- Develop a strong volunteer recruitment, training, and management program: the Board of Directors is conducting an audit of our current practices and a review of practices by other similar organizations. Through a qualitative and quantitative analysis of our gaps, we will define options (e.g., external subcontracting, investment and recruitment of part-time management staff, community-based partnering ...) and review the pros/cons.

- Prepare for our organization's 50th anniversary: our organization is launching a major recruiting campaign in 2018 to build our volunteer base for 2019 and 2020 (the year of our 50th), solidifying skills and competencies of our leaders, building relationships with new, external stakeholders specifically for a larger-than-usual set of events and programs in 2020.

- Create additional events for specific subsets of our community: we are planning events for the bear, drag, trans, bi, and senior communities. We are expanding existing programs to ensure their intersectional reach.

- Conduct an economic impact study: we will partner with the GBCVB and the new LGBT Chamber of Commerce to establish this study.

- Build up relationships with new community organizations: our community is growing, and so does the number of smaller, grassroots organizations in the greater Boston area. We will reach out to them and offer our support, especially to ensure that they get optimum visibility during Pride.

- Hire staff: we will leverage the funds saved-up over the last couple of years to hire admin staff, which will relieve the pressure from key leaders and volunteers of the organization.

- Community partnerships: we have established many partnerships and working relationships with a dozen established community organizations. They are supporting us in reaching our goal by collaborating with us on programming and sharing with us their best practices. They also enable us to network with larger crowds and pools of candidates, and to reach underserved populations in our communities.

- Sponsorship: we have revamped our sponsorship program to align with corporate and institutional sponsors' objectives. This has yielded a large uptake in the number and size of sponsorship contributions in recent years, which, in turn, is giving us the financial freedom to reach our goals and develop new or existing programs.

- Reputation and legitimacy: over the past 5 years, our organization has invested in the services of a PR firm to bolster our communication... and we are now ripping the rewards of this investment. With a strengthened public image and the capacity to reach large and wide, we are improving the quality and spread of our impact in our community, which, in turn, brings more people and sponsors to the organization.

Previously stated goals (2014-2017):
- Build an emergency / "rainy day" fund: completed
- Build a cash reserve to support the hiring of operations and development staff: completed
- Solidify existing programs (organizationally): completed
- Develop a strong volunteer recruitment, training, and management program: in progress
- Create a Council of Advisors: completed
- Launch a Community Grants fund: completed
- Recruit additional members for the Board and Committee: completed

New stated goals (2018-2020):
- Develop a strong volunteer recruitment, training, and management program: in progress
- Prepare for our organization's 50th anniversary: in progress (recruiting campaign and early planning launched in October 2018)
- Create additional events for specific subsets of our community: in progress (specific partnerships are being built)
- Conduct an economic impact study: not yet started
- Build up relationships with new community organizations: in progress (specific organizations have been identified for partnerships)
- Hire staff: not yet started