Our Strategic Plan arrives at a moment of extraordinary change and possibility for Feeding Westchester. Through almost two years of pandemic response, we have doubled the scale of our mission and stretched every facet of our organization.
The following plan is organized around five primary goals, which fit into two broader categories that capture our external work, Healthy Community, and our internal work, Healthy Organization.
Our five goals stand on the foundation of our commitment to equity.
We will achieve a more complete and confident understanding of hunger in Westchester County that allows us to focus on greatest needs, set ambitious goals, and track and report impact, while respecting our neighbors’ interests and priorities.
Feeding Westchester plans to gather continuous feedback on our neighbors’ and partners’ experiences and preferences with respect to our services. We will:
We will meet our neighbors’ food needs at the greatest possible scale, while developing innovative solutions to address challenges in the sector that have historically comprised dignity, accessibility, convenience, and quality.
Feeding Westchester will strengthen our in-house information resources and practices of information-sharing to better connect neighbors with resources and services beyond Feeding Westchester. We plan to:
Feeding Westchester will strengthen and establish new connections to wraparound services — both in-house and at partner organizations — to combat systemic disadvantages and create pathways out of hunger.
We aim to increase access and break down barriers throughout our network to reach more people and communities. In order to accomplish this, we will:
We plan to develop the space, staffing, resources, and practices needed to achieve the goals of the strategic plan and operate sustainably at larger scale.
Feeding Westchester will:
Feeding Westchester will invest in the knowledge and practices needed to include and support all staff, deepen collaboration, and pursue equity across the organization.
We will:
