Project Access NOW sets sights high for 2009/2010
Project Access NOW is a young organization and has enjoyed great support and success during its first year (plus a few months) of operations. With the basic program in place, the Board of Directors of Project Access NOW is moving into its next developmental stage…..yes, we are growing up!
One of the first tasks accomplished by the new Chair of the Board of Directors, Mark Rosenberg, MD, was to engage the board in the creation of Project Access NOW’s first Strategic Plan. The Board of Directors participated in a Strategic Planning retreat in April with Marc Smiley of Decisions Decisions. With guidance from Marc and Mark, the board was able to clarify its role and create some ambitious goals in about a three month time frame – whew! We have an amazing, committed and hard working board of directors.
Perhaps the most important goal is that Project Access NOW will double the number of people served by our program this coming year to at least 3,000. Better yet is the fact that after only one month of operations this fiscal year, we are solidly on course to reaching that goal! There is still much to accomplish and more partners to engage in order to provide sustainable support to the low-income, uninsured. Many people and organizations are involved in doing what they can to assure that even the most vulnerable among us have access to basic health care. The Board of Directors of Project Access NOW is proud to count themselves among those who are intentionally and passionately making life better for people in our community.
With record high unemployment, confusing debates about health care reform and way more need than available resources, Project Access NOW offers some hope and respite from the harsh realities surrounding us. Despite political and ideological debates, uncertain revenue streams and apparently ineffective reform efforts, one thing we know: Nearly 1,500 individual human beings received access to needed medical care that they may not have received with out Project Access NOW and its partners. People received care in a dignified manner from volunteer physicians and other health care providers who simply wanted to do the right thing – Connect People to Health Care. Today.
Linda Nilsen-Solares
Executive Director
(August 2009)
