Learningquest Inc
Education & Enrichment programs for adults of all ages
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Elderly and retired people have a need to exercise their minds and have contact with other people. Many younger adults that have time during the day also have to desire to expand their knowledge. These include stay at home mothers and fathers or "empty nesters."
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Term Courses
There are two terms a year with approximately 50 courses in a wide variety of field.
Special Interests Groups (SIGs)
SIGs usually meet weekly throughout the year and focus on a specific area: Hand & Foot;Progressive Christianity Explored; Jewelry Making, Computers, Cameras & Questing; Great Convesations; two hiking groups; Bunco' Mah Jongg and Ukulele
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Being a community resource for the diverse citizens of the city of Huntsville and Madison County . In addition to provide a wide range of volunteer taught classes, LearningQUEST wants to conduct enrichment activities that brings out community together. Specifically, we want to increase our members overall with emphasis on obtaining in increase in minority members. Since we are a volunteer run organization with approximately 200 volunteers, we need to formalize our policies and procedures that helps new volunteers learn how to do their assigned tasks.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
A Strategic Planning event was held by the Board of Directors 2017. The specific goals for 2018 follow:
Develop volunteer recruiting and training system.
Develop a marketing plan.
Document policy and procedures for all committees and activities.
Develop a Document Control System for easy access to the membership.
Establish a diversity plan that includes addressing cultural and racial diversity.
Develop an evaluation system and test.
Conduct five fellowship events per year.
Implement an online registration system.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
LearningQUEST has a very active Board of Directors and approximately 200 member/volunteers. Therefore, have the manpower to meet out goals. Also we have sufficient funding. Another resource is partnering. We partner with the public library and local church that have space for us to conduct the classes. We also partnered with a local university whose students prepared a Marketing Plan for us.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Many of our one time goals have been completed and the others, such as continuing to grow the membership, will be on-going objectives. We have implemented the on-line registration system. The market plan and volunteer recruiting and training system are nearly complete. Development of the Document Control System has started and hopefully will be complete by Dec 2018.
Expanding Diversity will continue to be a challenge for a few years but we have a plan to slowly accomplish our objective. Another issue for the future is to find additional class room space
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Operations
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Learningquest Inc
Board of directorsas of 07/23/2018
Larry West
Larry K West
John Ofenjoch
Jan Warlaw
Larry Tubbs
Joyce Howell
Jill Bromley
Susan Herring
Mary Beth Walker
Shobha Bhat
Bill McClure
Arnita Cole
Robert North