Strategic Plan Updates
In the spring of 2019, extensive interviews were conducted with past, current and prospective families. The research findings were distilled into a S.W.O.T. analysis which identified the school’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The projects listed below were prioritized as having the greatest impact on stakeholder satisfaction and the long-term vision of the school.
In a very short period of time, many people generously stepped up to support the strategic plan initiatives with very generous donations of time, talent, treasure (and elbow grease). We are blessed!
Financial contributions may qualify you to take advantage of the Idaho Tax Credit. If talent or expertise is more in your wheelhouse, please click here to fill out our Volunteer Questionnaire. We would love to have you involved any of the below projects.
Strategic Plan Overview
Time, Talent & Financial Donations: A generous volunteer has donated services in strategic planning, project management and legal services worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Scope of Project: A multi-phase project to identify the school’s greatest strengths (core values) and most pressing needs to ensure that St. Mary’s remains innovative and continues to thrive in a changing educational landscape.
Want to get involved? We are actively looking for project vice-chair; task managers; subject matter experts; industry connections; contractors, and worker bees for all projects listed below. Contact our project consultant, Tami Springer at tspringer@synesisconsulting.net to find out more.
Click here to fill out our Volunteer Questionnaire if you want to get involved with this project.
Westside Grounds Project
Time, Talent & Financial Donations: $47,000 +/- has been donated along with countless hours of engineering services, space design, permit submission, grant writing, and general oversight.
Scope of Project: This is a multi-phase project providing additional green space, landscaping, fencing, play areas and signage on the Westside of the school.
Project Update: A big shout out to Julia Grant and Emily Skoro who have spent countless hours applying for grants, obtaining bids and organizing volunteers to advance this project. Emily has been working with Planning and Zoning to redesign a more efficient parking lot and to get the necessary permits. On Jan 31st, Julia submitted an application for a $97,000 Neighborhood Investment Program Grant. In late July, we will find out whether we will be awarded full or partial funding. In support of our grant application, the Northend Neighborhood Association committed $2,500 in matching funds for our project. Lowell’s PTO and the Treasure Valley Canopy Network have provided letters of endorsement for our grant. Julia will be meeting with City Park Planners to brainstorm the proposed “Urban Play Area” included in this project. Unbelievable work ladies!!
Want to get involved? We are actively looking for landscapers, fence contractors, artificial turf installers, worker bees, project organizers and even folks who can help get bids. Donations and discounts are always appreciated, but we appreciate good referrals too. Who do you know in our school, parish or community who might want to get involved? Contact Julia Grant at NaturalAssetAdvisors@gmail.com to find out more.
Click here to fill out our Volunteer Questionnaire if you want to get involved with this project.
Interior Beautification Project:
Time, Talent & Financial Donations: Twenty hours of time have been donated for interior design services. An additionally, thousands of dollars have been donated and earmarked for a variety of furnishings and upgrades.
Scope of Project: This is a multi-phase project to refresh, beautify, organize and update technology inside the walls of our school for more effective learning spaces.
Project Update: Interior designer and space planner Paula Dryden, has donated 20 hours of her time to create a design to refresh the School’s interior and use existing space to better support our students, teachers, and parishioners who use the space. Paula recently toured our facilities and will be discussing her preliminary thoughts with the project team this coming week. We will continue efforts to prioritize and focus these plans to support a phased approach over the next few years to ensure financial sustainability.
Want to get involved? We are actively recruiting a project manager and subject matter experts to help run this project. Additionally, we are looking for an architect as well as good contractors for flooring, paint, drywall, electrical, plumbing, windows, lighting, and many other construction needs. We need someone to organize and energy audit with Idaho Power and determine whether we would qualify for one of their upgrade energy efficiency rebate programs. Donations and discounts are always appreciated, but we appreciate good referrals too. Who do you know in our school, parish or community who might want to get involved?
Click here to fill out our Volunteer Questionnaire if you want to get involved with this project.
Website, Marketing & Communication Project:
Time, Talent & Financial Donations: Over $30,000 and hundreds of hours have been donated by volunteers for research, project management, photography, copywriting, proofreading, graphic design, and technology testing.
Scope of Project: Update website and marketing materials to include additional technology, parent resources, and tools for better communication
Project Update: This is a multi-phase project. Phase I is complete as we launched the new website this week. We welcome feedback on typos, inaccuracies, or broken links that might be hiding in the pages (despite our best efforts to proofread all text before the launch). Email our project manager at AdvisoryBoard@StMarys-Boise.org if you find any corrections that should be made.
Phase II: We are actively working on integrating additional technology to support school communications and manage the needs of all School stakeholders. Tools to streamline and better manage volunteer opportunities and sign-ups, lunch orders and payments, event sign-ups and payments, community directory, and registration and tuition payments are currently being vetted.
Want to get involved? We are always looking for graphic designers, photographers, videographers, and marketing professionals to help on our marketing committee. Donations and discounts are always appreciated, but we appreciate good referrals too. Who do you know in our school, parish or community who might want to get involved?
We are currently screening technology solutions such as signup.com, signupgenius.com, and membershipworks.com. If you have any experience with CRMs, sign-up tools, or other software that you feel would meet our needs or are interested in helping us explore options, please email the project manager at AdvisoryBoard@StMarys-Boise.org.
Click here to fill out our Volunteer Questionnaire if you want to get involved with this project.
