By Navy League National President David J. Reilly
This is blog post appears in the November issue of Seapower magazine, the official magazine of the Navy League of the United States.
An organization that stays focused on its mission is one that is poised to succeed in the face of adversity.
We’ve seen the Navy League of the United States through many challenges and trials, and it’s because we are moving the organization forward, with focus and a steady hand. Thanks to the hard work of past National President Bill Stevenson and the ad hoc committee he stood up, we’ve been able to refer to his 2020 President’s Guidance as an example of how to better outline and describe our top priorities for the Navy League.
Building on that success, we have just released its follow-on document, the Navy League 2021-2023 Guidance, which is available to read on the Who We Are page of www.navyleague.org. In this document, we reinforce our commitment to the three pillars of our mission — education, advocacy and support. Then we outline the current seven most critical areas that we should focus our attention on now, which are: our mission, communication, membership recruitment and retention, council success, developing future leaders, youth programs/Sea Cadets, and diversity and inclusion.
This list is not all inclusive of the organization’s needs and it does not try to detail every challenge. What the current Navy League Guidance does is serve as our institutional compass, pointing us toward unified success. Year over year, the guidance will help us to iteratively grow and evolve, helping us to continue meeting our mission of supporting and advocating for our sea services.
I encourage all members to go on our website and read the details of all these areas deserving of our focus. As always, I’m proud of the work we do together.