Colorado Safe Parking Initiative Adopts Strategic Roadmap
In its April Board meeting, the Colorado Safe Parking Initiative voted to adopt a three-year strategic roadmap. Created over several months with input from guest parkers, parking lot hosts, community partners, volunteers, and staff, the roadmap points the way forward for the young organization.
CSPI’s Strategic Vision is that, by the end of 2026, CSPI will have operational capacity, financial sustainability, and robust strategic program partnerships to ensure people sheltering in vehicles have their basic needs met and support on their way to stable housing.
Executive Director Terrell Curtis is thrilled to look at the next three years through the lens of the Strategic Roadmap. “We’ve built strategies and benchmarks for each year, and we’re creating the internal practices that will ensure we’re making progress,” she explains. “It’s all about creating the community of support and programming to help people find their way toward stable housing.”
The vision is bolstered by these Strategic Levers and Intentions:
Operational Capacity
CSPI shows clear evidence that it is moving from the “Start Up/Adolescent” stage of the Organizational Life Cycle to “Mature” as measured by the Connelly Organizational Assessment Tool (or equivalent Ford Foundation Organization Assessment Tool).
Financial Stability
CSPI’s fund development strategy increases private funding, diversifies revenues, develops strategic partnerships that provide reliable annual resources (including in-kind donations and volunteers) to meet annual operational and program goals.
Program Excellence
CSPI demonstrates robust safety and housing outcomes by improving and growing programs and services whose impact can be consistently and reliably reported to internal and external partners, with input from Parkers, Lot Hosts, Partners, and other volunteers.
If you’d like to see the full Strategic Roadmap, please contact Terrell Curtis, terrell@colosafeparking.org.
