United States Sailing Association Inc

1. Create opportunities for life-long participation.

2. Provide sailors with a broad spectrum of activities, ranging from casual recreational sailing to high-performance competition.

3. Capitalize on regional sailing expertise to encourage the development of shared programs that reflect the interests of local sailors.

4. Make volunteering with US Sailing easy, rewarding and mutually beneficial

5. Achieve American success in sailing and tell the story.

1. Create opportunities for life-long participation: (a) Engage sailors through their lifetimes by offering a variety of sailing activities and roles. (b) Understand sailor's needs through technology and data analysis, focused communications and customer service. (c) develop targeted communications channels and content that reflect sailors' interests and lives. (d) Make it easy for sailors to rejoin sailing in a variety of roles at any time in their lives.

2. Provide sailors with a broad spectrum of activities, ranging from casual recreational sailing to high-performance competition: (a) Offer First Sailing opportunities to engage a socioeconomically diverse population of new sailors. (b) Administer racing rules and data for racing sailors. (c) develop new programs in response to sailors' changing needs and interests. (d) Distribute information and facilitate members' engagement with each other and the sport.

3. Capitalize on regional sailing expertise to encourage the development of shared programs that reflect the interests of local sailors. (a) identify successful local practices and share them widely while assisting sailing organization in implementation (b) develop regional ambassadors and experts to support new and existing programming. (c) Coordinate activities, training and events through shared calendars and other vehicles.

4. Make volunteering with US Sailing easy, rewarding and mutually beneficial (a) train, mentor and support volunteers effectively. (b) clarify volunteers roles and responsibilities to ensure a successful experience. (c) provide transparent qualification requirements for certified volunteers and clear, accessible pathways for advancement. (d) actively recognize and reward outstanding volunteers at all levels.

5. Achieve American success in sailing and tell the story. (a) Recognize outstanding local and regional programming. (b) Celebrate members who make exceptional contributions to the sport, (c) Develop programs that promote excellence in sailing, (d) Gather resources and funding to support high-performance programming.

US Sailing has a full-time staff of 56 committed professionals working in a collaborative culture across 8 departments to develop and implement programming and serve an active membership base of 45,000+ members, as well as to engage and support 1800 sailing organizations around the country.

Fifty-four volunteer staffed and managed committees work in tandem and collaboratively with US Sailing staff to provide subject-matter expertise and regional representation across the country.

A close partnership between staff and volunteers allows US Sailing to maintain a broad footprint throughout the USA, keeps the organization tuned-in to local activity and opportunities for deeper engagement, and provides US Sailing with deep pool of human resources with a high level of expertise in a wide variety of sailing disciplines.

(a) 2019 launch of the Siebel Sailors Program which provides non-traditional sailors in 5 major American cities with quality equipment and coaching that give youth sailors the opportunity to advance their skills and join the wider sailing community through competition.

(b) 2019 launch of a Women in Sailing Leadership initiative to provide women with the training and tools they can leverage into leadership roles in the sport. The first Women's Coaching Clinic was implemented in December, 2019.

(c) In 2020, we're launching a Community Sailing Partnership Initiative to leverage/expand the potential inherent within the community sailing center network.

(d) created and distributed a new model for the development of youth sailors, focused on age-appropriate activities that maintain interest and keep young sailors engaged,

(e) created an APP for kids, coaches and parents to track skill development progress in an engaging, fun format,

(f) created online safety programs that exponentially expands access to best practices

(g) requiring all US Sailing certified instructors, coaches, race officials, staff and volunteers to secure SafeSport certification to keep sailors safe from emotional and sexual abuse,

(h) Progressed toward a long-term goal to offer an online component for all US Sailing training programs starting with Teaching and Coaching Fundamentals