Strategic Plan 2008 to 2011
VBSR STRATEGIC PLAN, 2008-2011
Message from Julie Lineberger, Chair of the VBSR Board of Directors:
The Advisory Group has drafted a three-year Strategic Plan with your input… Now, with your help, we will make the vision a reality!
VBSR is a dynamic, growing organization. When we began in 1990, our message that businesses can do well by doing good was fresh and different. Many businesses appreciated our commitment to these principles even when they disagreed with us. In 2008, our nearly 600 members include many of Vermont’s leading businesses, acknowledged and awarded for growing high-quality jobs, creating exceptional workplaces, and maintaining a healthy environment. As we come into our organizational adulthood, we bring a youthful spirit of imagining and living the possibilities.
With the leadership of the Strategic Planning Advisory Group, and input from over 250 VBSR members as well as external stakeholders, we have created a three-year, strategic plan. With this plan, we envision together how business growth and the common good can be linked to create lasting economic, social, and environmental prosperity. By strengthening our strategies, living the business life according to our principles and building a sustainable organization, we lead the way for more businesses to do the same. Please join us in shaping the voice and future of business in Vermont.
- Julie Lineberger, LineSync Architecture, VBSR Board Chair
According to the Strategic Plan, by 2011 VBSR will be…
An authority on how businesses can build social and environmental capital along with economic prosperity in Vermont – by building the business case that demonstrates the economic advantages of socially responsible business.
A vibrant learning community that develops and promotes innovative and transformative SR business practices – by developing and executing a plan to assist member businesses and organizations to integrate socially responsible practices in their daily operations.
An effective leader of change for sustainable public policies – by identifying and fulfilling unmet leadership needs in critical policy areas that would represent the highest and best use of VBSR’s collective knowledge and voice.
A robust and effective organization capable of achieving our strategic goals – by developing a three-year business plan to achieve strategic priorities and an adequate and sustainable level of funding.
