About CAFR

 

Strategic Plan for 2005-2010

• Vision
• Mission
• Values
• CAFR Stakeholders
• Strategic Goals
• Membership
• Tools/Education/Outreach
• Services/Special Events
• Advocacy/Policy
• Resources

 

Vision

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To maximize the amount of material being recycled in Colorado and used as resources.

Mission

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To bring together individuals and leaders in business, education, nonprofits and state and local government to take action to turn ever greater amounts of waste into resources.

Values

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• Healthy
• Credible and influential
• Effective
• Cohesive and focused
• Diverse

CAFR Stakeholders

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Our customers and stakeholders are segmented into the following groups in no particular order:

• Businesses – Large and Small
• Communities
• Governments
• Media
• Recyclers
• Waste Haulers

Strategic Goals

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CAFR has adopted five strategic goals (2005 through 2010) to accomplish the mission of the organization:

• Membership
• Tools/Education/Outreach
• Services/Special Events
• Advocacy/Policy
• Resources

Membership Goal

1. Grow membership by 20% annually
• Establish personal invitation & contact program
2. Achieve a diverse membership base that reflects a representative cross section of public and private sectors.
• Establish evaluation categories
• Analyze current membership category distribution
• Establish program to reach diversity goal
3. Maintain 90% membership retention from one year to the next.
• Establish integration program

Tools/Education/Outreach Goal
To create a set of resources and tools designed to assist members do their jobs and forward recycling. Committee is responsible for conducting the following, with assistance / feed into web site committee and some with special events

1. Toolkits
• 1st year develop tools around 2-3 key recycling issues – and 1 tool/yr around harder to recycle or unique waste streams. (per year)
• Tailor toolkits and materials to different relevant audiences
• Immediate 1st year develop list of recycling or solid waste contacts for each county in the state to upload to website (for continual updating)
• Pull together recycling library of at least 50 reports in the first year: add 20-30 in each year; organized around topics for easier searching
• Template legislation for locals
• Members only part of website is One method of dissemination / workshops or others can also be useful methods
• Clearinghouse for looking for grants – make information available to members
2. Workshops
• At least one specialty workshop per year on key recycling issue of interest (under consideration for our work: single stream, PAYT, improving curbside efficiencies or other topics we ID’d last year)
3. Media/Information
• Speakers bureau / specialists / experts for Peer match organized by topic and region of the state (for continual updating)
• Create canned press releases quarterly for distribution by CAFR and adaptation/ use by locals / members (newspapers as focus) (and make sure CAFR is mentioned / recognized to grow the “voice”)
4. County & Municipality / Business / and Solid Waste Industry Outreach
• Each year, contact an additional 25% of counties (and some of the cities within) – [to benchmark level of effort – as if each Board member contacted one county they don’t live in each year – but NOT assigning Board members]. – By 5 years we’ll have reached all – schools may come out of this also. Used to expand list of recycling and media contacts.
• Each year for solid waste industry, develop a relationship with 10% of the industry
• Entails gathering information about current activity in recycling, obstacles, education needs / networking; considering attending an event / becoming a member
• Each year for business industry, develop a relationships with 30 per year (developed estimate based on 2 per board member, but not signing Board members up to do the work) Entails – discussions about wastes / waste management practices and problem wastes; education needs; considering attending an event / becoming a members.
• Each year for media relations – develop relationship with 3-5 media total
5. Statewide basic data collection
• Start in year 2
• Develop method for acquiring / tracking current status of recycling statewide
• Use to identify what is / is not being collected, trouble spots, use the contacts with city/county/hauler, etc. to identify data sources that exist, but have not been assembled
• Look for / apply for grants on data collection

Services/Special Events Goal

1. Annual Recycling Summit Goals
• Feature Annual Recycling Awards
• Increase attendance by 15% annually
• Increase income by 15% annually
• Generate at least one piece of media coverage per year
2. Specialty Workshops/Forums
• Present two per year
3. Annual Meeting
• Move Annual Recycling Awards to Summit
• Increase attendance by 15% annually
• Income exceed expenses annually
• Have CAFR members host and sponsor
• Increase income annually by 10%
4. America Recycles Day (ARD)
• Have one major community event annually
• Rotate area of the state to “host” the event
5. Newsletter
• More frequent issues – bi-monthly
6. Website
• Develop and implement Members Only pages/services
• Develop report(s) on the number of hits

Advocacy/Policy Goal

1. Pass statewide legislation
• Hold an annual meeting of the policy committee and the board to discuss ideas for legislation for the upcoming year
• Access and utilize member resources
• Facilitate the development of relationships between members and legislators
• Host events where members interact with legislators
• Create an organizing mechanism (like a phone tree or something) to get members to contact legislators at bill time – rapid response.
2. Help local communities with local legislative issues
• Virtual library of boiler plate language for ordinances already passed
• List of experts for presentations
• Links to resources outside Colorado
• Links to our own FAQs, data, info, etc on our website
3. Explore splitting CAFR into a 501(c)6 and a 501(c)3

Resources Goal

1. 5-year plan
• Fundraising plan in place with annual updates and diversified funding
• Active member involvement on all the committees – goal is 25% of members participate (this was later reassigned to the services committee and each committee individually)
• Maintain and expand staffing and be able to support it
• Maintain active Board participation
• Fiscal management and investment plan in place
• Be a great place to work with benefits, retirement, etc
2. 2005 plan
• Rename the Fundraising committee the “Resource Committee”
• Develop fundraising plan
• Establish CAFR as an employer
• Establish some of the easier employee benefits like vacation and sick leave
• We reassigned: Member involvement
• Maintain and active board – to ED and BOD – recommended establishing a month report from BOD members on their CAFR activities for the month.