2018-2019 Business Plan Master

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SEED TO OAKS Business Plan
Executive Summary
We believe real and lasting change is within reach. In FY 2018, we increased the number of
churches we have mobilized from 6 to 25. We helped churches place 37 people into full-time
jobs – accruing over $750,000 in earned income, in collaboration with 12 businesses. We
helped over 750 families receive free health services, including 128 tooth extractions, at a time
when Kentucky is tightening requirements for health coverage among the poor. We launched
two educational summer academies with a proprietary gospel-centered curriculum that helped
100% of children who attended every day to become academically ready for the school year.
And, we facilitated 8 neighborood assessments helping to position churches for greater gospel
reach in their own neighborhoods.
This year is even more promising. We are expanding
our health services, bringing job taining and
placements to new regions, multiplying our education
efforts and launching our neighborhood assessments
to chuches outside Kentucky.
Seed to Oaks projected results from our 2018/2019
strategic plan, and the $580,000 operating budget
include:
1) The expansion of our neighborhood assessments
to 20 new church partners. Our Assessments are
designed to help churches and church plants
understand their own neighborhood, so they can
build a strategic plan to reach them with the
gospel.
2) The expansion of our health efforts to 30 health
clinics with the goal of reaching over 3,000+
residents along with the launch of a navigation
system that will connect people to a medical
home for long-term care.
3) The placement of 75 full-time placements (over
$1.1MM in earned income projected for families
not currently working)
and a 70% 6-month retention rate through
JobOne, our job skills and placement program,
which is operated through local churches.
4) The multiplication of our summer academies to
six next summer. Our academies are a reading
readiness and mathematics program run by certified
teachers that helps ready children for the academic
school year.
5) The introduction of a new leader’s cohort, which
concentrates on leadership development for
ministry leaders and pastors, designed to help them
to mobilize church members to community
involvement and commitment to mercy ministry.
We believe that the success of Seed to Oaks is
measured by the degree local churches, not Seed to
Oaks, having a powerful and visible presence in their
neighborhoods. We are unique in that our aim is to
mobilize local churches to the front lines of social
change so that more people hear the gospel of Jesus
Christ and trust him as Savior.