CIO STRATEGIC PLAN TIMELINE

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1 CIO STRATEGIC PLAN TIMELINE Timeline Key: Full Year Quarter 4 Quarters 1-2 Quarters 2-4 Quarters 3-4 FRAMEWORK: BUILD GOAL I: CIO is a strong, multiracial multicultural organization with diversified, stable funding, a constituency-based staff, and an engaged immigrant and refugee board able to effect change for the long haul. 1. Increase funding from individuals, immigrant and refugee owned businesses, grassroots community members, and major donors. a. Hire 1.0 FTE Development Coordinator to attract and manage non-grant funding, and to utilize full Databank capabilities to engage new members in specific volunteer activities and/or events, lectures, engagement opportunities, etc. b. Organize 4-6 member-driven fundraising events, including events in different geographic regions in which CIO has a membership base. c. Develop 60 major donors over four years, ideally balanced at 15 per year. 2. Increase the linguistic and cultural diversity of CIO s staff so as to better reflect and serve our grassroots base a. Hire 4-5 new multilingual immigrant and refugee organizing staff from diverse backgrounds able to reach identified key constituencies, prioritizing languages based on highest community need for CIO support. 3. Recruit, support and retain immigrant and refugee Board members with an emphasis on the newly arrived

2 a. Actively engage current Board members in new recruitment. 4. Create an Executive Director succession plan a. Identify and actively engage constituent Deputy Director as intended successor to Kayse Jama. 5. Re-locate CIO offices and resources into the communities where our constituents live a. Work to expand CIO s geographic reach based on changing state demographics. b. Expand presence in Washington County. c. Conduct a feasibility study for a capital campaign to create a multi-functional, CIO-owned center. 6. Drive intercultural, pro-immigrant and refugee messaging that changes the narrative about newcomers. a. Hire a Communications Director FRAMEWORK: ORGANIZE GOAL II: CIO organizes immigrant and refugee leaders, newcomer-led organizations, community members, and partners to take collective action. 1. Expand CIO s successful leadership development programs and create new ways for graduates to stay connected, continue learning, and take action

3 a. Increase the number of CIO Leadership Program graduates annually through expanding to multiple locations, particularly in East Portland and Washington County and other locations where we may expand. b. Institute and support a CIO Leadership Alumni Network c. Conduct a study on the feasibility of investing in a training center to ensure a physical home base for progressive immigrant and refugee leadership development in the Northwest 2. Build the capacity of I/R led organizations through training, mentorship and strategic support 3. Build CIO membership to 5,000 by a. Hire an LGBTQ Program Organizer to ensure inclusive membership development 4. Grow electoral organizing capacity to increase immigrant and refugee power. a. Register naturalized citizens to vote and engage them in the electoral process. 5. Establish an immigrant and refugee owned small business membership program to promote economic prosperity for newcomer families, build relationships among business owners, and exert collective power on issues of concern a. Build the business membership program to 100 members b. Organize base of immigrant and refugee owned businesses able to provide on-the-job training, internships, and other strategic support. 6. Grow capacity, operational and administrative support to develop a c4 arm 7. Develop and implement service to organizing structures that move members from receiving services that meet their basic needs to becoming empowered agents of change.

4 FRAMEWORK: ACTIVATE GOAL III: CIO mobilizes its base to impact the issues that most affect immigrants and refugees, making concrete improvements in their lives. 1. Work to prevent regressive provisions in local, state, and national public policy that would have a negative effect on our base. 2. Advocate for inclusive immigrant and refugee provisions in local, state, and national public policy. a. Create economic opportunity for immigrants and refugees i. Support and promote policies and programs in the Oregon Legislative Assembly which support job development and economic prosperity ii. Advocate for increased financial support of programs that promote economic development for immigrant and refugee individuals, families, and communities iii. Consider food security and economic development initiatives that offer the opportunity for immigrants and refugees to cultivate and sell culturally-specific crops, or that offer other business development opportunities b. Integrate immigrants and refugees into the larger community i. Assist immigrants and refugees with adjusting their legal status ii. Work to pass comprehensive federal immigration reform that provides a clear path to citizenship to all currently-undocumented individuals in the United States and promotes family and community unity for all immigrants and refugees iii. Provide US-born members specific tools and strategies to become good allies to newcomers

5 c. Promote policies and systems change which address social determinants of health i. Lead and partner on health equity policy campaigns ii. Assist immigrants and refugees in accessing health services d. Work to reduce the overrepresentation of immigrants, refugees, and people of color in the criminal justice system i. Promote and support policies that address the criminalization of immigrants, refugees, and people of color, and build community capacity to demand police accountability at a state and local level ii. Monitor the implementation of state and local racial justice policies and take appropriate follow-up action as needed e. Work to improve access to safe, affordable, accessible housing, including large-family housing f. Work with partners to close the educational achievement gap for immigrant and refugee students i. Work toward policies that support the successful education of immigrant and refugee students, and ensure that ELL funding is both adequately allocated and spent appropriately ii. Engage immigrant and refugee students and families in order to reduce the educational achievement gap in their local communities