KEYSTONE SCIENCE SCHOOL INC

By 2017 Keystone Science School will:

--Expand its high-quality educational and youth development programs to reach a more diverse audience of learners;

--Invest in physical and technological infrastructure to increase energy efficiency, sustainability, and productivity while maintaining the highest safety standards for KSS staff and participants.

Develop and implement a plan to increase ethnic and socioeconomic diversity among staff and campers that includes reducing language barriers, scholarship distributions, and collaboration with diverse organizations.

Develop a plan to partner with new groups such as church groups, youth groups, and colleges to increase our annual program participant base.

Develop and implement an integrated technology plan to increase program participation and program access and to better connect the KSS experience to the classroom or home learning environments.

Determine the feasibility of off-campus program expansion and implement as appropriate in an effort to accommodate groups in excess of 100 participants.

Develop and implement a Sustainability Plan to include an audit of current energy and sustainability practices and create steps to reduce overall energy use.

Update and implement a plan for new construction of faculty housing and an administrative office with a keen eye to energy efficiency, affordability, long-term sustainability and safety.

KSS enjoys the support of an engaged and qualified Board of Directors who help guide our progress toward these goals, facilitate the tools and steps we must take to get there, while holding staff and the entire organization accountable through monthly, quarterly, and yearly progress reports. Additionally KSS staff are recruited based on relevant skills and experience and retained through various incentive programs. By attracting and retaining highly qualified employees and retaining their experience year after year, KSS grows its capacity to serve while also developing new, creative programs that build upon our rich history.

An extensive network of dedicated donors as well as a growing network of program partners, corporate sponsors, and foundation representatives helps KSS to develop new funding opportunities while growing and more deeply engaging our long-time supporters. These stakeholders all provide critical feedback and insight that allow KSS to evolve and improving upon best practices for programming and administration as well as evaluation and analysis of program impact.

These goals are all scheduled to be completed between 2015 and the end of 2017. Previous success toward strategic goals between 2012 and 2014 is already reported on in the 2013 Annual Report and will be updated in the 2014 Annual Report.