Beacon of Hope Goals

Personnel Goal: To utilize the staff and volunteers of the organization to provide high quality service to the Old Fourth Ward, Downtown, and Midtown community and its residents.

Personnel Objectives: To actively recruit, train, and retain passionate, experienced, and knowledgeable board members, staff, and volunteers.

Fiscal Goal: To maintain an organization that is fiscally sound, well-managed, and represents a diverse economic portfolio including investments, cash, and savings.

Fiscal Objective: To allocate all funding in a diligent, prudent, resourceful, and honorable manner to designated programs and initiatives. To, at all times, operate in an efficient, responsible, and accountable manner, understanding the importance and benefits of truthfulness and integrity.

Program Goals: To be the most reliable and comprehensive provider of education, human service and community development programs in the Old Fourth Ward, Midtown, and Downtown communities.

Program Objective: To remain responsive to the needs of the community through the development and implementation of relevant educational, human service, and economic empowerment programs.

Educational Goal: To provide accredited, accessible, and affordable early childhood and school-aged (out of school time) educational services to the children of the Old Fourth Ward, Downtown, and Midtown community.

Objectives: To acquire and maintain all necessary and required certifications and accreditations from the State of Georgia for the purpose of operating early childhood learning centers, schools, after-school, and out of school time programs designed to service students on levels pre-k through 12th grades. Maintain national accreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

Human Services Goal: To consistently provide effective services that foster and encourage successful living—personally and within the community.

Objectives: To address the various needs of the community in an effort to improve the quality of life for residents through the provision of opportunities related to: employment, fair and quality housing, financial planning, life skills, violence and drug prevention, and intervention.

Community Development Goal: To maintain a safe, healthy, and economically-viable environment for residents of the Old Fourth Ward, Downtown, and Midtown.

Objectives: To offer community programs aimed at educating and empowering the citizens of the Old Fourth Ward, Downtown, and Midtown community about the importance of reducing crime, drugs, violence, and unemployment, thereby contributing to shedding negative stigmas of the community as an undesirable location for business and residential life devoid of caring, committed, and concerned citizens. To also increase home and business ownership by minority groups within this community, by facilitating and encouraging home ownership opportunities, as well as serving as an example of economic development and empowerment through diverse investments within the area.