NCPC Releases New Strategic Plan

Al Lenhardt, NCPC President and CEO

The National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) has built an impressive record during 25 years of service to America. Now we plan to extend and enrich this record for another quarter of a century and beyond. To do this, NCPC will rely on our beloved icon McGruff the Crime Dog, our superb and dedicated staff, our executive and volunteer leadership, and a powerful new focus on measurable societal impact.

Over the next five years, NCPC will seize opportunities to address the challenges incumbent on the nation’s premier center of excellence for crime prevention. We will aggregate this work under a powerful unifying theme, Safer With McGruff.

Prevention practitioners, justice-related organizations, and the business community—indeed, all Americans—face ever-increasing threats to their safety. NCPC will sustain close relationships with professionals and organizations that work directly with citizens, even as we increase our own research capacity, distribution network, and brand impact. Through collaboration and education, we will help make America a safer and more caring nation.

NCPC will make a quantifiable difference in helping communities reduce crime. And we will strengthen our role as the clearinghouse for crime prevention activities throughout America.

Our strategic plan focuses on the years 2007 through 2011, and it looks to the future. It does so because anticipating crime risk and impact is vital to prevention and saves both money and lives. NCPC will pursue four strategic goals. Our goals focus our work and enable us to leverage resources for greater impact.  These goals are protecting children and youth, partnering with government and law enforcement to prevent crime, promoting crime prevention and personal safety basics, and responding to emerging crime trends. 

We at NCPC commit ourselves to monitoring and assessing our progress as together with our partners across America. we work to make our nation, its families and children, and all of its communities Safer With McGruff!