EPF's DRAFT Strategic Plan

From Episcopal Peace Fellowship (www.epfnational.org)

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EPF's DRAFT Strategic Plan
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Feb 7, 2008, 09:31

Episcopal Peace Fellowship

Strategic Plan 2007-2012

The Episcopal Peace Fellowship is proactively–

Dismantling Violence, Doing Justice, and Striving to be Peace Makers

EPF holds these values as central to its work, its decision-making, and its relationships.

Over the next 5 years EPF will:

Identify, develop, and disseminate tool kits of materials and other resources to all EPF chapters and individual members in each diocese that support and empower local organizing, education, connections, and actions
Increase organized ecumenical opportunities for public witness at regional, national, and international actions, conferences, and meetings
Increase participation in the development and dissemination of intellectual work that articulates analyses of key issues and their relationship with peace and justice action
Advocate for change within the church structure that integrates and embeds nonviolent peacemaking values and skills as core competencies and requirements for service by clergy, licensed ministers, seminary students, and lay leaders
Increase public policy and advocacy at local, state, and national levels advancing the millennium development goals through information, model legislation. Lobbying skill development, strategy options, and networking
Expand nonviolence work in local communities with people seeking to address peace and just issues “in place” that impact directly on their lives
Strengthen EPF as an organization by increasing the diversity, breadth, age range, and involvement of its members; growing its volunteer, staff and financial resources to support its work; and ensuring ongoing organization leadership and operational capacity.

To move each vision element forward, the following action steps will be implemented

Identify, develop, and disseminate tool kits of materials and other resources to all EPF chapters and individual members in each diocese that support and empower local organizing, education, connections, and actions

Develop appropriate toolkits i.e. suburban parishes, peacemaking for Sunday school, counter-recruitment
Appoint a small working group to do research toward developing a catalogue of resources and local actions (Allison will be a part of it) –possible source is committee chairs with content information etc.
Smaller group to work on diocesan contacts, job descriptions for chapters (target 5 high function pilot chapters), perhaps annual reports
Get action groups linked on EPF website
ID and recruit speakers who would speak on issues of our core values
Compile a list of existing materials
ID parishes and contacts in each diocese, ID key parishes and contacts
ID existing resources on critical issues (people and materials) and put names on website for contact
All current communications work integrated and continued

Increase organized ecumenical opportunities for public witness at regional, national, and international actions, conferences, and meetings

Organize 3 focus regional witness activities per year
Add links action groups (Yahoo Groups to Democracy list/base) to EPF websites
Facilitate EPF presence at demonstrations against the “war du jour” and school of Americas
Ensure EPF presence at diocesan conventions
Continuing to protest nuclear anything
Encourage local groups to get involved with local ecumenical coalitions
Continue to participate in cooperative delegations

Increase participation in the development and dissemination of intellectual work that articulates analyses of key issues and their relationship with peace and justice action

Identify individual scholars and theologians who can write for our publications and help us think as an NEC about systems and P&J
Go to seminaries
Find academic programs with P& J emphasis and build EPF relationship with them and offer to be speakers, teach classes etc.
Seek intern to create bibliography on economic globalization
Identify related P&J information and sources centers
Talk to General Seminary Tutu Center and explore alliance/partnership

Advocate for change within the church structure that integrates and embeds nonviolent peacemaking values and skills as core competencies and requirements for service by clergy, licensed ministers, seminary students, and lay leaders

Explore and prioritize other organizations and structures of the church (CPT. EPPT, AR, EGR)
Make sure we have appropriate tool kits
Connect with seminary professors to provide "peace courses”
Infiltrate seminaries and local education schools i.e. diocesan schools, formation schools etc.
Create relationships with entities throughout the EC which may be (A…t.) to EPF – lit/music
Continue to participate in the consultation; evaluate and develop policies/procedures to relationships with urban caucus, Anglican Pacifist Fellowship and others with whom there is a representative/collaborative participation and maintain current level of presence at general convention

Increase public policy and advocacy at local, state, and national levels advancing the millennium development goals through information, model legislation. Lobbying skill development, strategy options, and networking

Develop relationship with and make sure those who want to become involved with EPPN can do so through our website and how to contact their legislators
Identify areas where there are linkages, connections
Develop pra… for appoints and connections with EPF representations with 2 organizations (CPT, PVS, CCW, PTPN is not working on
Nurture relationship between EPF and EPPN
Get local members to be connected to EPPN

Expand nonviolence work in local communities with people seeking to address peace and just issues “in place” that impact directly on their lives

Research existing nonviolence training and evaluate where are the gaps?
Develop a curricula – time and developmentally appropriate annual report from chapters and disseminate best practice/contact information
ID existing people and resources for work projects now underway i.e. Indigenous, NYC, Haiti
Explore Lilly Intern possibility for development of peace curricula for young adults

Strengthen EPF as an organization by increasing the diversity, breadth, age range, and involvement of its members; growing its volunteer, staff and financial resources to support its work; and ensuring ongoing organization leadership and operational capacity.

· Formalizing activity of membership committee, give tasks for orientation and engagement

Implementation Tasks:

Edit, clarify, priorities and sequence action steps
Ensure “alignment” with implementation tasks and data/input from members
Review meeting structure and agendas for NEC meetings
Review committee structure and assignments
We added a lot; reflect on and ensure opportunities to sunset/drop things as well
Do a “reality check” and set priorities
Ensure follow up consultation; this is beginning