ACT Strategic Plan

ACT Strategic Plan 2020—2023

Click here to view the detailed ACT Strategic Plan 2020-2023 document.

In the Fall of 2019, the newly elected ACT Board of Directors held a Board Retreat with a specific purpose of creating a strategic plan for ACT, led by a professional facilitator. We did this for a few reasons:

  • The most effective not-for-profit organizations do strategic planning to first examine and define their mission. Ours is: To be a welcoming place where people of diverse backgrounds have fulfilling theatrical experiences that are a vital part of the cultural landscape and the quality of life in our community. Furthermore, our vision is: To provide opportunities for Central Iowa community members to present and enjoy quality live theater.
  • It is not enough to say that we are a Community Theater, because that means different things to different people. Who are we and who do we want to be? We felt a strategic plan would help us answer these simple but critical questions. From there, goals and objectives –along with quantifiable and measurable steps to reach them — need to be set to work toward that plan for the future. To our knowledge, ACT has never created a strategic plan.
  • Ours is a three year plan, with planned progress drafted to focus solely to realize three goals:
    1. Ankeny Community Theatre has the facilities, systems, and resources necessary to support its mission.
    2. Ankeny Community Theatre’s programs support the creative growth and development of its members.
    3. Ankeny Community Theatre is known throughout the region for its creative, high quality, accessible choice for high quality theater productions.
  • To stay true and faithful to our strategic plan, ACT will focus solely of programs and procedures that will help us advance toward these goals and become the theater we want to be and the theater we know our patrons deserve.

Click here to view the detailed ACT Strategic Plan 2020-2023 document.

(If you don’t have time to read the details, click here for a summary of the goals and objectives.)