GOAL provides the following services to its participating schools:
1. GOAL takes a decentralized approach to its scholarship program, encouraging and empowering officials at its participating schools to handle all donor development and scholarship applicant pre-qualification activities.
2. GOAL totally respects the special relationship that each participating school has with its parent, alumni, faculty and staff, and individual and corporate supporters and does not contact them in connection with any other charitable solicitation or service offering.
3. Upon request, GOAL provides participating school officials with consulting services regarding best practices in connection with both the development of contributions and the awarding and processing of scholarships.
4. Upon request, GOAL assists participating school officials in the design and wording of any and all marketing materials, either generic to the GOAL program or specific to the school’s GOAL effort.
5. GOAL is staffing its organization at a level necessary to provide exceptional customer service to its participating schools, including, at the present time, an Executive Director, General Counsel, Director of Marketing and Communications, bookkeeper, and receptionist/assistant.
6. GOAL permits donors to designate that their contributions be used in support of scholarships at its participating schools, with any designated contributions not used in the year of contribution being obligated and held for use in funding scholarships at the participating schools in later years.
7. GOAL provides each participating school with quarterly (or more frequent) reports detailing designated fund status, including contribution activity, scholarship awards, and investment returns.
8. Upon request, GOAL officials assist participating schools in the cultivation of corporate donors and accompany participating school officials in making presentations to potential corporate donors.
9. In the event a participating school is very successful at securing GOAL contributions and desires to have other deserving private schools share in that success, GOAL officials will work with the participating school in developing a GOAL advisory committee and process for using "excess" funds to provide scholarships at such other private schools.
10. GOAL provides a quick turnaround on all scholarship recommendations submitted by its participating schools.
11. GOAL hosts an annual GOALTenders conference at which participating school officials are able to join representatives from other participating schools in sharing best practices and possible improvements in the GOAL program.
12. GOAL maintains a website portal that provides access to current best practices in the areas of marketing, development and scholarship administration accumulated from its participating schools.
13. On behalf of its participating schools, GOAL monitors all proposed legislative and regulatory changes to the state law under which GOAL operates.
14. GOAL is served by an independent Board of Directors consisting of eight members, all of who are dedicated to providing greater opportunities for access to learning to Georgia children.
