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Hallo there am Michael from Kenya. Am 26 and I have just finished my college two weeks ago. Am planning to start an organization that will help the youths and also the society. Am drafting my objectives and how to achieve them but am experiencing some difficulty to express them. Kindly help. Thanks
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Dear Michael, 
Thank you so much for contacting the Community Tool Box and congratulations on completing your degree and your interest in starting an organization. If I may direct you to some specific resources, there is the Developing a Strategic Plan and Organization Structure and beginning with a strategic plan: https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/structure/strategic-planning. There are also some useful tools in Chapter 20 on the Community Tool Box, Establishing Youth Organizations https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/implement/provide-information-enhance-skills/youth-organizations/main. In drafting your objectives, I would suggest that you would want your objectives to align with your mission and that you take into consideration how do these objectives speak to what I want to achieve, what I want to measure as a sign of success, what will be doable given my resources, and how can I achieve them given any time parameters. 
It sounds as if you have the ideas already and you just need to think through them a bit more. 
 
Good luck, 
 

Question Date: Wed, 11/25/2020