Goal 1: MWFB develops and continues to provide high-quality educational opportunities for parents and early childhood professionals. Goal 2: MWFB expands programs and services to reach more families, especially those in underserved areas of southern AZ. Goal 3: MWFB expands resources available for children, families, educators, and volunteers. Goal 4: MWFB develops evaluation tools for programs. Goal 5: MWFB ensures that programming is aligned with mission, vision, and core values. Goal 6: Identifies and maintains relationships with strategic partners. Partners include key educational foundations, publicly supported entities, home visitation agencies, teen parenting programs, and school districts. Goal 7: MWFB staff strategically participates and attends community meetings with partners. Goal 8: MWFB establishes relationship with University of Arizona. Goal 9: MWFB defines the nature of its partnerships with other local, state, and national literacy organizations. Goal 10: MWFB creates and facilitates an early literacy community of practice within Tucson and southern Arizona. Goal 11: MWFB is responsive to inquiries related to early literacy. Goal 12: Ensures that current programming aligns with current research and/or evidenced-based practice. Goal 13: Integrate new components of research and/or evidenced-based programming into current programs as appropriate. Goal 14: MWFB has sufficient number of high-caliber staff to deliver programs. Goal15: High-quality materials are used in each program. Goal 16: Increase families' awareness of MWFB services. Goal 17: Maintain and expand the awareness of MWFB programs and services to other key organizations and educational programs in the community. Goal 18: Create new events to extend awareness to appeal to new target audience. Goal 19: Seek publicity for events and programming. Goal 20: Quantify MWFB impact and share with the community; provide results of national research on the benefits of early literacy efforts. Goal 21: Set immediate and long-term financial and organizational development goals. Goal 22: Diversify funding sources to develop a financial safety net to accommodate for the ups-and-downs of grant-based funding. . Goal 23: Increase the proportion of MWFB funding that is unrestricted to enable staff to work on research, education, and program development activities that are not grant-funded. Goal 24: Increase board involvement.

Maintain a strong staff, strong leadership, and an active and engaged board to implement and support the goals and objectives outlined in the Strategic Plan.

We have implemented and carried out our plan of work for 21 years. We have a strong staff and an engaged board who is dedicated to the organization succeeding and carrying out its mission.

We will track our numbers, our goals, and continuously evaluate how we are progressing and make adjusts as needed to maintain high quality programming.

We have accomplished so much and continue to grow and expand our services to meet the needs of the communities we serve. We recently received funding to expand our services to Maricopa County in the Avondale School District.