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OUUC Annual Goal Statements for January-December 2006

OUUC Leadership Team
May 14, 2005 (with revisions)

Activities and Actions

Leadership Team’s Five Year Goal:

Expand OUUC presence in the larger community to better articulate and demonstrate UU principles and to enlarge and diversify our membership.

Goals and objectives for 2006:

  1. Increase visibility of OUUC and understanding of UU principles in the larger community
    • Identify ways and places to best communicate our message in diverse parts of the community.
  2. Welcome and integrate newcomers in a way that encourages rewarding involvement.
    • Create activities and programs that would appeal to a diverse congregation
    • Identify and communicate ways newcomers can participate in the life of the church
    • Educate the congregation in ways to make newcomers feel at home
  3. Establish the UU ministry in the wider community (beyond our doors)
    • Identify and implement the use of appropriate media to deliver our message.

SPACE

Leadership Team’s Five Year Goal:

Within five years, we have a design for facilities to accommodate expanded activities and staff, and expanded membership. The design should include the potential to accommodate 500.

Goals and objectives for 2006:

  1. Accomplish/action on the timeline suggested in the UUA Consultant report.
    • Complete the Strategic Plan
      • activity 1: Hold congregational discussion of plan
      • activity 2: Hold congregational vote on plan
    • Develop a Facilities Plan
      • activity 1: Board appoints facilities planning group
      • activity 2: Complete the facilities plan
      • activity 3: Hold congregational discussion of plan
      • activity 4: Hold congregational vote on plan
    • Undertake a Financial Feasibility Study
      • activity 1: Board appoints study group
      • activity 2: Begin study
  2. Provide short-term means of solving problems arising from our limited space.
    • Develop a prioritized plan of solutions
      • activity 1: Board tasks Buildings & Grounds Committee with job
      • activity 2: B&G Committee conducts needs assessment
      • activity 3: B&G Committee develops plan with prioritized options
    • Determine financial feasibility of options
    • Implement at least the top priority, feasible solution
    • Improve our use of the B&G Annex
      • activity 1: Assess current use and develop alternatives

Staffing

Leadership Team’s Five Year Goal:

Assure adequate staffing while providing fair compensation.

Goals and objectives for 2006:

  1. Fairly compensate our staff in 2006.
    • activity 1: Update Fair Compensation Plan based on potential increase in membership
    • activity 2: Raise awareness of staff Fair Compensation Guidelines to membership
    • activity 3: Increase staffing in Personnel Committee to accommodate workload
  2. Staff the Volunteer Coordinator position (paid or non-paid).
    • activity 1: Perform a needs analysis
    • activity 2: Write a position description
    • activity 3: Actively recruit for the position
  3. Create a proposal to host a Ministerial Intern
    • activity 1: Write a plan describing what OUUC offers to candidates
    • activity 2: Determine fair compensation

Funding

Leadership Team’s Five Year Goal:

Our operating budget of $350,000-375,000 adequately funds an expanded staff and programming, and a substantial capital campaign is underway to accommodate space needs.

Goals and objectives for 2006:

  1. Fully Fund 2006 Budget Requests

    Success Factors: Pledges increase to $300K
    100% of members pledge a “Fair Share” pledge
    50% of members pledge at the Sustaining Level
    97% pledge fulfillment

    activity 1: Increase awareness of committee budget requests
    1. Unitariana
    2. Canvass Brochure
    3. Sunday Testimonials

    activity 2: Canvass all members and friends face-to-face
    1. Kick-off Event to build community
    2. Canvasser Training from UUA District
    3. 30% of congregation recruited for canvassing

    activity 3: Actively track pledge fulfillment

    1. Giving statements are mailed/emailed as scheduled
    2. Communications made to those consistently behind on pledge

    activity 4: Actively canvass new members upon joining
    1. Every new member pledges before joining
    2. A rotating set of year-round canvassers is created

 

Sustaining

Leadership Team’s Five Year Goal:

Sustain and improve the ways we maintain the well being of our congregation.

Goals and objectives for 2006:

  1. [Physical Plant] Have buildings and grounds that are in good repair.
    • Have prioritized repair and maintenance plan
    • Execute
  2. [Organization] Committees are complete in membership and have a structure that is stable, active, engaging, and responsive.
    • Each committee has and uses succession process.
    • Burnout prevention (work in progress)
  3. [Whole Congregation] Increase participation and decrease attrition of congregation
    • Central monitoring system established for participation in activities
    • Evaluate attrition, why and how to fix
    • More touchpoints with each member and friend
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