Strategic Plan for 2009 and Beyond

Vision

Improving people's lives through the transforming power of chemistry

Mission

To advance the broader chemistry enterprise and its practitioners for the benefit of Earth and its people

Core Values:

• Passion for chemistry in the broadest sense
  • Research
  • Education
  • Innovation
  • Solutions for today's and tomorrow's challenges
• Focus on members
  • Service to members
  • Volunteer contributions
• Professionalism
  • Integrity and transparency
  • High standards of quality and excellence
• Diversity and inclusion
  • Diverse community of highly-skilled chemistry professionals
  • Advancing chemistry as a global multidisciplinary science

Goals

1. ACS will be the indispensable professional and information resource for our members and other chemistry-related practitioners.
2. ACS will be a preeminent global scientific community that engages members and other scientific professionals to advance science education, research, knowledge, interaction, and collaboration.
3. ACS will be a global leader in enlisting the worlds scientific professionals to address, through chemistry, the challenges facing our world.
4. ACS will be a leader in communicating to the general public the nature and value of chemistry and related sciences.
5. ACS will be a premier advocacy organization for members and the profession, creating and communicating policy statements in accordance with our Congressional charter.
6. ACS will be a financially sustainable organization that serves members, chemistry, and related sciences.