ASSITEJ International
Working plan 2008-2011
Drafted by the ad hoc working plan committee, adopted by the General Assembly in Adelaide on May 16, 2006

The goal of the working plan is the expansion, improvement, and addition of systems, rocedures, and action steps that will allow ASSITEJ to better fulfill its core mission of service to ational centers, practitioners, children, and young people:

1. Secure stable funding for the general secretariat
2. Continue to increase income by identifying and developing new income sources (working with foundations and government agencies, advertising, and public relations)
3. Identify appropriate volunteer professionals with specific experience and related to theneeds of the organization, such as fundraising, networking, particular research areas. Create a ‘knowledge bank’ of these individuals, and, as needed, invite one or more ofthese individuals to be a ‘short-term’ counselors for one or two EC meetings.
4. Analyze and improve communication and information systems in order to make them more efficient, inclusive and have a wider outreach and dissemination to national centers, practitioners, and other interested parties. This includes the newsletter, festival guide and website, exploring discussion groups, a blog, Facebook, a web resource area, and others. Continue to explore translation of appropriate documents.
5. Create a contract to be signed by ASSITEJ and countries interested in hosting future world congresses. This contract would include language on expectations regarding the balance between a very inclusive representation of the entire membership of ASSITEJ as well as the highest standards of artistic expression.
6. Continue to actively assist in the creation of new national centers; expand the efficiency of the regional networks; investigate dormant and gatekeeper centers and assist in making them active and inclusive; help provide tools to centers to assist in organizing and expansion as well as tools to assist with artistic professional development.
7. Change to format of the budget in order to make it more ‘actual’, including the contributions of national centers in support of the secretariat, contributions toward EC members’ travel, and such.
8. Continuation of active support of the NEXT generation of practitioners, including professional development and advocacy.
9. Increase the visibility of ASSITEJ both within member countries as well as internationally through new public relations activity (such as a DVD on ASSITEJ)
10. Continuation of the ASSITEJ Archives as well as the script database , including making it more user-friendly.
11. Continuation of production the ASSITEJ Book. Explore ways to distribute it more widely (especially to universities and training academies) in paper and electronic copies, as well as translation of selected articles.
12. Continue promotion of World Children’s Theater Day; ASSITEJ International Projects; ASSITEJ International Festivals; Honorary Membership; ASSITEJ Award for Artistic Excellence.
13. Help identify and articulate new trends in the field such as theater for the very young, laboratories, multi-media, and working with artists and children with special needs such as disabilities.
14. Continue to seek connections and collaborations with parallel organizations such as IDEA, ITI, IATC, as well as theater education organizations.
15. Actively support the development of ITYARN .

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