MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC

The following six goals indicate key areas of focus over the next five years.
Goal 1: Increase the number of people served with more unique opportunities to work and play in their communities.
Goal 2: Achieve financial sustainability through a balanced approach to stabilization, productivity and growth.
Goal 3: Differentiate and promote the Melwood brand in customer and community relationships by delivering innovative, quality and consistent service.
Goal 4: Prepare, modernize and mobilize a high‐performing organiza􀆟on.
Goal 5: Cultivate an inspired, empowered and skilled workforce that enriches Melwood's culture of social entrepreneurship.
Goal 6: Ensure the quality and future viability of the Melwood Board of Directors

Strategies for achieving our five‐year goals include:
- Increasing the number of people served with more unique opportunities to work and play in communities.
- Achieving financial sustainability through a balanced approach to stabilization, productivity and growth.
- Differentiating and promoting the Melwood brand in customer and community relationships by delivering innovative, quality and consistent service.
- Preparing, modernizing and mobilizing a high‐performing organization.
- Cultivating an inspired, empowered and skilled workforce that enriches Melwood's culture of social entrepreneurship.
- Ensuring the quality and future viability of the Melwood Board.

Melwood is the "vendor of choice" for a wide range of customers providing quality services to meet multiple needs. Our staff and workers are consistent local and national award winners for performance excellence in service contracts.

Melwood's business services include: Total Facility Management Services, Custodial and Janitorial, Landscaping and Grounds Management, Recycling and Electronics Recycling. Our Community Programming Division provides the following services: Day Habilitation, Employment Services, Community Support Services, Independent Living, Access Adventures (vacation/travel), Inclusive Camp, Equestrian Program, Horticultural Therapy, Operation: Tohidu Veteran's Retreats.

Melwood offers job training, employment, life skill improvement, community support and recreation opportunities to more than 2000 people each year in the DC metropolitan area. We employ more than 1,700 workers, including more than 800 people with differing abilities at more than 60 contract sites in the National Capital Area. Notable federal clients include Fort George G. Meade, U.S. General Services Administration, the United States Naval Academy, Naval Air Station Patuxent River, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Goddard Space Flight Center. Our 108-acre retreat and recreation center in Nanjemoy, Maryland, enhances our mission of empowering people with differing abilities to enrich their lives.

Melwood maintains a Strategic Scorecard that is reviewed by the board of directors and staff on a quarterly basis. The Strategic Scorecard describes goals, goal attainment measures (baseline) ad annual targets.