AWP improved its financial position and operations from 1996 to 1999 by relying on a small and efficient staff that was entrepreneurial and reactive. Understandably, the staff was overburdened while AWP created new services, expanded ongoing services, and broadened its membership to include more than one hundred additional colleges, universities, conferences, and centers. AWP now enjoys the demands of success, and this plan establishes goals as well as the means by which to build upon that success. The association must build new resources to ensure its stability, to provide its growing membership with excellent services, and to create new projects for the development of new generations of readers and writers. The AWP Board of Directors encourages the members of AWP to comment on this plan.
Strategic plans are revisionary documents.
A good strategic plan is dynamic, changing to address an organization's changing constituencies and needs. The Board and Staff of AWP intend for this strategic plan to serve as a platform to focus discussion, solicit feedback, and direct our association towards goals that will be beneficial to our membership and contemporary literature. The AWP Board of Directors will revisit this plan annually, review the comments of membership, and make adjustments as needed. This document details the goals, objectives, and strategies that the association will pursue throughout this decade. The complete Strategic Plan is 57 pages.