Strategic Plan

We submitted a revised and updated 2009-2013 Strategic Plan (PDF) to the Office of Financial Management (OFM) June 13, 2008.

 

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This strategic plan for the Washington State Arts Commission represents a shift in our thinking, our investments, and our way of doing business to be as effective as possible in today’s environment.

 

Prior to developing this plan, our research phase, shaped in terms of “findings” confirmed the value of the arts—economically, socially, cognitively, behaviorally, and intrinsically—to people and communities, the importance of providing support for the arts, and the urgent need to respond to twenty-first century challenges in order to ensure healthy investments in the arts.

 

The findings led WSAC to a set of principles to guide its work, and, ultimately, to select three strategic pathways to focus its recommendations: education, community, and stewardship. Keeping to these strategic pathways will ensure that state resources of time and funding are focused, relevant, and have impact. The goals and objectives targeted to these strategic pathways embrace bold change, and offer a new perspective on the future as WSAC re-focuses its efforts.

 

This strategic plan is for the five-year period beginning in fiscal year 2009 and continuing through 2013. The full report includes the supporting findings, and detail for implementing the goals. Agency work plans and budget requests are being developed for the 2009-11 biennium.

 

Previous Strategic Plans

Like every state agency, WSAC is required to submit a strategic plan each biennium; this is the basis for the agency's budget request.

 

WSAC's Strategic Plan 2007-2009 was submitted to OFM in June 2006; our budget request was due that August.

 

In recent years, WSAC has developed a strategic plan every four years, with the plan updated and refined - usually with constituent input - for off year submittals.

 

We previously submitted a Strategic Plan in 2004 (PDF). Our 2004 plan was developed to align with the Priorities of Government (POG), and reflects budget constraints then facing the state.