Increase worldwide membership from 3,400 members to over 10,000 members.
Increase online member participation into a truly bustling community where users worldwide (regardless of time zone or time of day) can always find others to talk to and gain support from.
Expand dive program membership worldwide to 100 active members.
Launch our self-study classroom with at least 10 free basic courses that are utilized by students around the world, plus more advanced courses for reasonable fees.
Begin to offer regular in-person live events at locations around the USA to support members.
Increase the number of blog followers from 20 to over 100.
Increase the yearly donations from ~$600 in 2017 to over $10,000 in 2018.
Assemble an even larger volunteer staff, and one that can handle even more responsibility.
Be able to pay executive director a part-time salary to allow him to focus more time on growing the company.
Be able to hire a part-time management staff from our already large team of volunteers.
Gain local and nationwide press coverage for the company.
Begin using the Salesforce grant to encourage more member participation, higher class enrollment, and greater donation amounts from a greater number of people.
2017 Accomplishments
Launched our unique coaching, tutoring, and web design programs (November 2017).
Launched our new multi-page website (Novermber 2017), which you are looking at right now.
Applied for a received a grant in the amount of $1,500/month from Salesforce, affording us 10 enterprise licenses per month.
Increased online membership in our free community from 0 to 3,400 worldwide, with members located in over 45 countries.
Recruited over 25 volunteers to work with the company, in accounting, web design, app development, foreign language instruction, coaching, publicity, and management.
Helped over 200 individuals worldwide find (on a one-on-one basis) career guidance, motivation, encouragement, and life direction through our online community.
Launched the Break Diving Personal & Business Success Blog, which now has more than 50 articles, 20 followers, and readers from more than 50 countries worldwide.
Held three live in-person Break Diving events in the New York City area, with attendance ranging from as few as two people to as many as six.
Raised over $400 in donations from eight different individual supporters, and still growing.
Applied for a received a grant in the amount of $10,000/month from Google, affording us incredible advertising reach each month.
Gained tax-exempt status from the IRS.
Registered as a foreign corporation doing business in New York.
2016 Accomplishments
Started the corporation in Delaware.
Completed all paperwork for the IRS and New York State