To ensure any San Diego County homebound senior or disabled veteran has access to daily healthy, nutritious meals along with regular safety and wellness checks, and social visits - improving health and safety, supporting independence, ensuring successful aging-in-place, reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and reducing social isolation. MOWSDC strives to achieve these goals through the effective deployment of volunteer drivers who develop caring relationships with these seniors and veterans.

Broaden our food offerings, create new food offerings, and improve compliance to dietary restrictions: Create new menu items; test, and analyze nutritional content; improve Meal Center ability to produce more meals on a daily basis and increase the number of items prepared in-house. Increase the number of unduplicated clients we serve: Increase outreach venues including website and social media; increase contracts with other programs to provide senior meals; initiate service to rural areas; develop contracts with health providers. Increase fiscal sustainability: Enhance fundraising capacity through use of website, email, and social media; improve donor databases; increase grant funding; implement a Legacy Giving program and endowment campaign; increase event net profits. Increase the number of volunteers annually: Improve outreach through use of advertising, website and social media; on-line signup through the website; standardize volunteer recognition; new outreach materials.

Meals-on-Wheels Greater San Diego is a fiscally sound organization with a strong leadership team and commitment to its mission. We are able to provide extensive outreach in San Diego County through our four strategically placed Service Centers as well as our Meal Center, where meals are prepared for delivery 6 days a week. Our strong, and growing, volunteer base (3,084) leverages thousands of hours of labor as well as travel expense to deliver meals to homebound seniors,365 days a year. With more than 54 years of experience MOWSDC's innovative approaches to providing healthy meals to a diverse population has earned us recognition from Meals On Wheels Association of America as well as providing a role model for the more than 5,000 Meals on Wheels organizations around the country. We have a robust development department and our extensive use of electronic and social media supports our fundraising efforts at multiple levels.

Increase the number of unduplicated clients we serve annually. Indicators: Number of clients including location and demographic data. Increase donations, revenues and endowment annually. Indicators: Annual total giving reports by source. Increase the number of volunteers annually. Indicators: Number and location of volunteers and data on routes completed. Broaden our food offerings, create new food offerings, and improve compliance to dietary restrictions. Indicators: Number and type of food offerings; Number of new food offerings/menus; total nutritional values for all meals demonstrating compliance with USDA senior nutrition guidelines for fat, sodium, sugar and protein.

Increase Number of Clients: In just 7 years, MOWSDC has increased annual clients served from 2,011 to 3,155 and increased our volunteer labor force up to over 3,000 individuals (who ensure daily delivery of meals and who also contribute gas and mileage for the deliveries). In Fiscal Year 2018, 430,387 meals were delivered.