The NPCA Foundation recently completed a comprehensive strategic planning process to clarify its mission, strengthen industry impact and create new opportunities for member engagement. Guided by Chair Greg Stratis and the Foundation Board, the new plan reaffirms that the Foundation exists to benefit NPCA members and the precast industry by attracting, engaging, and developing the next generation.
The result is a renewed mission: “To strengthen the future of the precast industry and its people by attracting, engaging, and developing the next generation to preserve and grow our shared legacy.”
The plan also introduces four strategic objectives:
1. Enable Foundation Success
This foundational objective focuses on strengthening financial resources, operational systems, and sustained support. Member engagement is not limited to donations—members can participate in fundraising challenges, share newsletters, champion Foundation messaging, and encourage peers to get involved.
2. Elevate Industry Awareness
The Foundation will promote precast as a dynamic and stable career path through a new website, refreshed social media channels, and expanded outreach tools. Members can help by following, sharing, commenting, sponsoring, and promoting Foundation content within their companies and communities.
3. Promote Community Connection
Growing engagement is central to the plan. Members are encouraged to subscribe to newsletters, contribute articles, sponsor communications, join donor programs, or simply share Foundation materials within their networks. These actions broaden the Foundation’s reach and strengthen its community.
4. Develop Next Generation Talent
The capstone objective focuses on building workforce-aligned programs that support diverse populations and meet the evolving needs of precast producers and suppliers. New initiatives will emerge over the next year, with calls for input, roundtables, sponsorship opportunities, and community partnerships.
As the Foundation Board puts this plan into action, members will see new ways to get involved through communications, sponsorships, fundraising programs and opportunities to shape upcoming initiatives.
NPCA Foundation Executive Director Christina Trexler encourages members to get involved.
“This is your Foundation,” Trexler said. “Your ideas, your feedback and your participation are what will help it succeed.”