Defining your organization's mission, vision, values, and goals – either overall as an organization or in a specific project – can be a useful way to establish direction for your work. This page contains a recommendation sheet from the Alliance and several examples from Alliance member organizations. Use these examples when writing a new mission statement, defining values or goals for a new project, or defining organizational identity.
Mission / Vision / Values / Goals: an Alliance tipsheet
What: a recommendation sheet from the Alliance for organizations hoping to create visioning documents.
Year: 2011
Mission / Vision / Values / Goals tipsheet (Dropbox, PDF)
Sample Mission / Vision / Values / Goals of Alliance Organizations
What: A spreadsheet with mission, vision, values, and goals statements from 24 Alliance member organizations.
Year: 2012
Sample Mission / Vision / Values / Goals (Dropbox, XLS)
BikeWalkKC's Vision Document
What: And example of a new organization’s comprehensive visioning document. This document was created around the organization's founding in 2011 for discussion with the board of directors, staff, and advisors.
Year: 2011
BikeWalkKC vision (Dropbox, PDF)