ACCA INC ANNANDALE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOR ACTION

Expand Volunteer Base. Initiatives include:
a. Expand recruitment of volunteers from member churches, community
households, schools, and businesses.
b. Focus on recruiting volunteers with skill sets that match ACCA’s needs, such as
implementing new IT systems as needed, social media, and fund-raising.
c. Maintain an ongoing list of volunteers from all the programs.
d. Determine additional ways to recognize volunteers for their work,
such as through awards, group events, tee shirts, etc.
2. Improve Engagement with Member Churches and the Community.
Initiatives include:
a) Continue to improve interaction with pastors and churches. Conduct annual
briefings on ACCA with church staff and leadership. Encourage churches
without ORs to appoint an OR.
b) Obtain email addresses from donors and other contacts where feasible in
order to send e-newsletter(s) and otherwise keep them engaged.
c) Promote ACCA by conducting briefings with civic associations, other faith
communities, and other community organizations as part of a community
outreach effort to recruit volunteers, donors and partners.
d) Encourage board members to meet with local businesses to promote ACCA
and recruit donors and partners.
3. Improve Engagement of ORs and other Board Members in Board Activities
and Meetings. Initiatives include:
a) Mentor/train ORs, encourage ORs to attend meetings and engage actively in
board meetings. Encourage ORs to share best practices at Board meetings.
b) Explore ways to engage more ORs and other board members in board
initiatives.
c) Explore ways to increase participation at board meetings, such as remote
meeting capabilities, decreasing number of meetings, cut down on lengthy
reports, etc.
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4. Enhance ACCA’s Use of Information Technology. Initiatives include:
a) Develop an IT Tool to support the Furniture ministry.
b) Expand the leveraging of CDC and HSM’s respective IT resources to aid in
promoting and implementing both of these ACCA programs.
c) Expand the use of electronic tools to facilitate communications,
development, document sharing, volunteer recruitment, and
community outreach.
d) Seek ways to improve ACCA’s outreach and engagement with the
community through use of ACCA’s electronic communications tools, such
as its webpage, Facebook, and e-newsletter, to expand ACCA’s outreach.
e) Seek ways that IT can be used to facilitate maintenance and collection of
operational performance indicators.

This plan is focused on those priorities that would enhance ACCA’s ability to serve those in need and meet the demands of the changing environment in which ACCA operates.

For 54 years, ACCA has served its community and we will adapt to changing demographics, technology, volunteer needs, and donor preferences in order to continue with our work.

We have developed our IT resources in order to better serve our clients and coordinate with local government agencies. We are recruiting volunteers through several local and nationwide platforms and are establishing practices which will enable ACCA to adopt to virtual volunteers.