Community Tool Box – Section 3. Creating Objectives

To obtain long-term results, we need to have mid-term goals that will lead to the outcomes we desire. If a child wants to finish high school (his long-term goal), in the meantime, he will need to successfully complete the second, third, fourth (and so on) grades.

Learning to develop these statements of goals is what this section is all about. In the last section of this chapter, you learned how to develop your organization’s vision (for example, "A world without AIDS"), as well as its mission (for example, "To ensure the highest quality care of people in our community with HIV/AIDS and halt the further spread of the disease through a comprehensive community initiative."). Now we’ll look at developing the specific objectives that will help to make your vision and mission a reality.

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