The following plan was adopted at the Annual Board of Directors "Advance" held in Key West, Florida, July, 2002:

I. Goals/Objectives:

Reef Relief will meet its mission statement of protecting coral reefs through grassroots community-based efforts that focus on (1) direct action marine projects of coral reef restoration, surveys, monitoring, and research; (2) environmental education for targeted audiences that include children, residents and businesses; policy guidance to act as a watchdog for coral reefs; and (3) international efforts that support and strengthen the creation and implementation of community based efforts to protect coral reefs around the globe.

II. Strategies for meeting these goals:

Reef Relief will implement programs in the following three areas to meet its goal of protecting coral reefs: marine projects, environmental education, policy guidance and international projects.

III. Capacity Building

Reef Relief will establish adequate funding for our programs by establishing a budget each year that establishes proposed income and expenses for each program and by raising funds to meet that budget through grants, contributions and memberships, special events, and in-kind donations of goods and services.

* The budget that was approved for this fiscal year 7/1/02-6/30/03 is $674,529, less than last year, but still quite a challenge.

A Finance Committee was formed to help strengthen Reef Relief's financial matters. Peter Rosasco, Tom Nitti, Bob Soos and Paul Koisch volunteered to participate.

Reef Relief will build a staff that is capable of meeting program demands in an efficient manner. The staff will be adequately trained, properly compensated, and expected to meet reasonable workloads. Generally it was agreed that the staff is stretched too thin and doing too much. It was further agreed that a webmaster must be hired to keep the website current and to enlist new members. It was also noted that salaries should be raised to be comparable to other similar non-profit efforts, once the financial stability of the organization strengthens.