Oley Foundation Strategic Vision

Oley Foundation Strategic Vision

2023–2025

Beth Gore, Executive Director

On November 17–18, 2022, the Oley Foundation Board of Trustees and advisors gathered in Nashville, Tennessee, for strategic planning for 2023–2025. In attendance were Officers: Kelly Tappenden, President; Shirley Huang, Vice President; Steve Atkinson, Treasurer; Vanessa Kumpf, Secretary; Directors: Lisa Epp, John Mahalchak, David Mercer, Sharon Rose; Advisors: Timothy Arends, Manpreet Mundi; and Executive Director: Beth Gore.

We looked at where Oley started, where Oley is, the current and future state of home nutrition support and what Oley’s role should be. The Board updated our tagline, mission, vision and values, as follows.

Tagline

Oley. A home nutrition therapy community and advocacy group. While the Board liked the previous tagline of “Help along the way,” they felt it didn’t convey WHO the Oley Foundation is. You will start to see this new tagline incorporated across our platforms.

Vision

Oley envisions a world where patients are united, supported and empowered to thrive on home nutrition support. This is the WHY we exist. We commit to keeping this vision front and center for all the decisions we make as Board and staff.

Values

• Trustworthiness—We will be credible, transparent and act with integrity.

• Compassion—We will keep the voice of the patient central to our mission.

• Inclusivity—We will be accessible and accountable to all stakeholders in the nutrition support community.

This is the HOW we will do what we do. We commit to demonstrating these values in everything we do.

Key Strategic Initiatives

With input from various stakeholder groups, the Board outlined the key strategic initiatives for 2023–2025. Starting in 2023, you will see increased efforts and new or improved programs surrounding each of these strategic initiatives.

Advocacy

Be the voice to, of and for the people on home nutrition therapy and their caregivers. Oley has always and will continue to advocate directly one on one to members. This includes the following.

Individual Advocacy:

• Oley Ambassadors. The Oley Ambassador’s main goals are to offer peer-to-peer support to other home intravenous and/or tube feeding (home parenteral and enteral nutrition, HPEN) consumers and caregivers; to help Oley Foundation outreach and support efforts; and to heighten awareness of Oley resources in their geographic area, social networking community, clinical circles, etc.

• Information requests. Our members know they can count on us when they have questions. We receive these requests from phone calls, emails and social media. We do our best to answer the question or connect the member with appropriate resources.

• Enteral Donation Program. Oley temporarily has this program on pause but hopes to have it back up and running very soon.

National Advocacy:

Oley’s Board expanded the area of advocacy to include national advocacy as well. While Oley has contributed over the years to this, the Board agreed it was vital for us to create a National Advocacy Task Force which will establish goals, priorities and initiatives.

Education

Create and disseminate patient-focused best practices for home nutrition support. Oley has always been and will continue to be strong in the area of education. This includes:

• Annual conference—two- to three-day in-person and virtual meeting. Oley 2023 will be in St. Louis on June 27–30. (Visit oley.org/Oley2023 to learn more and register.)

• Regional meetings—half- to three-quarter-day in-person and virtual meeting. Next one to be announced soon. We plan to hold one to three per year.

• Mini meetings—half- to three-quarter-day virtual meeting. (Visit oley.org/Enrichmentprograms to learn more about our next meeting and to register.) We plan to hold two to four per year.

• Webinars—one- to two-hour virtual meeting. (Visit oley.org/Enrichmentprograms to learn more about our next webinar and to register.) We plan to hold about six per year.

• Newsletter—starting in 2023, you might notice we are going quarterly and fully digital with interactive links. For those who would still like to receive the newsletter in paper form, call (518) 262-5600 or email oleyfoundation@gmail.com.

• Website—we are currently looking into upgrading our website.

Community

Unite, support and empower everyone involved in home nutrition therapy in an inclusive, diverse and accessible environment. Oley has over 27,000 members who are consumers, caregivers, healthcare professionals, members of related industries and members of associations. Oley’s commitment is to better identify, target and communicate more effectively with each member type. We also will be working towards reaching and welcoming new members.

Innovation

Support the patient-centered improvement and evolution of nutrition therapy to enable patients to live the best life possible. This is a new focus area for Oley. We are working on developing what all this means and entails. Could we partner with smaller companies that were started and run by a nutrition support consumer or caregiver that have a product or service? Could Oley provide a platform for bringing a product to market? Could Oley create patient-driven research to answer burning questions that would ultimately lead to the evolution of nutrition therapy and how it is delivered?

Get Involved.

• Town Hall. The Oley Board and staff welcome all to attend the Town Hall meeting in person in St. Louis or virtually. We will be prepared to address the strategic plan in further detail. Details about the meeting to come.

• Comments. We also welcome you to submit your comments. Visit oley.org/contactus or call us at (518) 262-5079. We’d love to hear from you.

• Volunteer. Would you like to volunteer to help Oley fulfill its mission? Are you interested in helping with any of the details outlined above? Visit oley.org/Volunteer to see ways you might get involved.