

A VISION FOR THE
FUTURE A 20 year Strategic Plan for Boggs Rural Life Center
MISSION STATEMENT To preserve the rich African American heritage of Boggs Academy by providing educational resources and community services to an underserved yet diverse population. - Adopted November 2019
BOGGS 20/20/20 A 20 year Strategic Plan for Boggs Rural Life Center Ensuring the future of Boggs requires a belief in the essential values, bold aspirations for its long-term needs, and the courage to act to meet those needs. For over 8 decades, Boggs has produced responsible leaders, creative innovators, and committed public servants. Our confidence in our work comes from a faith in the enduring importance of the institution and the higher purpose that it serves. With this in mind, we present this ambitious vision for the future, a stretching set of aspirations that will focus our time, energy and resources for the coming years. With this, we will build on the rock-solid foundation that come from strong traditions, loyal alumni, community support, and a world-class staff. Sincerely, Board of Directors ‘20
For more than 8 decades, Boggs was primarily a preparatory school for the African American middle class from Georgia and other states. It was built with value-centered priorities and educational assets. We grew to the clear understanding that emotional intelligence, personal integrity and self-confidence acquired through mentorship are among the most important and reliable predictors of success and achievement. In a remarkable consistent manner, generations of Boggs graduates describe the value of belonging to something larger than oneself and one’s individual needs. They identify the teachers and coaches who had a lifelong influence on them. These are key elements in the “Boggs Experience.� Boggs 20/20/20 seeks to elevate and strengthen the transformational nature of the Boggs Experience, which draws upon long-establishes pillars: purpose, preparation and performance. Boggs 20/20/20 invites us to be bold, to aim high, and to build an exciting future.
WE BEGAN WITH OUR MISSION Strategic planning begins with an examination of mission. A bold vision for the future, particularly one that inspire change, should be rooted firmly and confidently in the context of the more permanent, enduring, institutional purpose. While the foundations of Boggs are not easily
subject to change, our mission statement, the specific articulation of our reason for being, should be periodically tended. The wording of the statement must strike a balance: on one hand the language should be transcendent and rise above specific eras and at the same time it must
retain an element of relevance and timeliness. In November 2019, the Board of Directors crafted this statement of enduring purpose, by taking into account the existing Mission. This tightly-worded version was immediately approved by the Board of Directors.
MISSION STATEMENT To preserve the rich African American heritage of Boggs Academy by providing educational resources and community services to an underserved yet diverse population.
THE VISION FOR BOGGS 20/20/20
For Boggs in the 21st century, progress means preserving and strengthening community amidst increasing diversity, cultivating students who are entrepreneurial thinkers and problem-solvers, investing in our staff so they can make Boggs a transformative experience, and ensuing that we remain both affordable and financially sustainable. In a world off distance learning and depersonalized social networking, our values-
based, intensely personal approach to education has never been more relevant or more vitally important. Students will thrive on creative engagement with exceptional teachers, who inspire confidence, instill initiative, build character, and spark a sense of optimism and high purpose. We will secure Boggs position as one of the truly great centers of learning by enhancing this richly challenging environment. Our community urgently needs Boggs’ responsible leaders, committed problem-solvers, and thoughtful innovators who sincerely seek to make a difference.
Therefore: STABILIZE - Fund all improvements: Property, Staff, and Marketing ($1,000,000). CAPITALIZE - Seize opportunities: Transitional, Hospitality and Agricultural programs ($5,000,000). GLOBALIZE - Take Boggs Experience to the world. Develop a 21st Century micro school - grades K-12 - with learner-driven technology, Socratic discussions and realworld apprenticeships in an intentionally diverse and character forging community ($20,000,000).