Strategic Plan
Our Strategic Plan Is Here! 🚀
Big news—we’ve officially completed the Cville Tool Library Strategic Plan! This roadmap lays out our vision for the future, with five key initiatives to grow, improve, and strengthen our impact.
As a community-driven organization, we want YOU to be part of the journey. Check out the plan, see what excites you, and let us know where you’d like to get involved!
Thank you for being part of this incredible community—we can’t wait to build the future together! 💪🔧
The Journey to our Strategic Plan
Prior to opening our doors in March 2022, Cville Tool Library organizers spent months planning, soliciting donated tools, recruiting members and volunteers, and ironing out many wrinkles in order to begin loaning tools. Since then, we’ve enlisted many new members, increased our inventory to over 1,000 tools, recruited and trained dozens of volunteers, and established a solid financial footing for the inaugural version of the Cville Tool Library. Yay, team!
While we’re pretty pleased with ourselves, we recognize that bootstrapping a project like this can be limiting for long-term growth and sustainability. We realized it was time to take a more carefully-crafted, research-based approach to plan the next phase. We are grateful for the support received from Bamaworks Foundation for the development of our strategic plan. We conducted extensive research and solicited community input during the summer of 2024, and began synthesizing that data into the framework of the Cville Tool Library’s first Strategic Plan. This plan will influence decision-making for the Cville Tool Library to ensure that it reflects the needs and desires of the community we serve.