Arts & Scraps' goals are: -Be a community hub for our store customers and neighbors. We do this in many unofficial ways- we are working to make this more and more clear, efficient and communicated. - Increase the amount of students in Detroit and Metro-Detroit who feel engaged, informed and empowered in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (as well as creativity, entrepreneurship and design). - Increase the amount of students who feel informed and passionate about environmental issues and impacts. - Recycle and reuse as much material as is possible. Consistently increase the amount that comes in and out our doors. - Increase income streams to make us a more sustainable nonprofit overall, allowing us to build a future with even greater impact.

Store: Increase the amount of customers per day through social media marketing, tracking of customers and their needs. Building a network of people who utilize our stuff and our space. Programs: Increase the amount of grant and corporate funded programs we are able to do while still serving our fee-for-service clients. Increase scholarship funds for schools who don't have access to resources to bring us. Build relationships with clients, schools and communities to increase our reach and impact. Warehouse: Increase the amount of volunteers we work with, as well as our relationships to the companies with which they work. Utilize those connections to increase productivity functionally, but also as a connection point for inspiring them to support our work in other ways. Overall: Stay true to the values and Educational Philosophy we were built upon.

- Willingness to evaluate and change processes, programs and thinking - Diverse staff that works well together; long term employees and fairly new hires, many backgrounds and ages - Board willing to give time, expertise, connections and funds - Longstanding reputation of high-quality educational programs - Broad support from the community: over 1,500 individuals give donations and over 5,000 individuals donate time; documented 12,000 volunteer hours in 2019 - Current interest in corporate volunteering - Able to span education, art, child development, environmental fields - Can produce programs and projects affordable for all levels

We measure progress in these methods: - Each individual program delivery is evaluated, the comments used to improve the program - All activities in each area are tracked to ensure goal setting and achieving is occurring. - New grants are used to set and achieve small experiments that build infrastructure needed before we roll out whole new programs. - Records are kept of each Board and committee meeting, outcomes and time commitments volunteered and fulfilled. Dashboard breaks down all financials to help board have clear picture of progress and places to grow. - Staff meetings to review all reports, leadership staff works to implement change accordingly

Goals from 2017 completed: Complete: - Website design complete; - Store income growth for sustainability - Packaging analysis - Individual goals and strategies in each department leading to growth - Additional corporations added to volunteer program, board building relationships with new and ongoing volunteers - Able to leverage corporate volunteerism into product sales, individual and corporate financial support - marketing directed towards products; substantial increase at this point - 3 new board members added In progress: - Exploring moving to a new location - Strategic planning for how Arts & Scraps can have deeper impact in the community