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Strengths
Weaknesses
• Longevity experience and reputation
• Research-driven validated programs
• Models of excellence
• Staff expertise and strong cross-generational staffing • Fiscal management expertise/established and effective
backbone administrative infrastructure • Partnerships collaborations contracted services providing
capacity for sharing/meeting matching requirements • High demand for BI services • Continuing impact from pandemic (sicknesses etc ) • Recovery from pandemic lowering achievement scores • The “Great Resignation” and “quiet quitting” (staff
turnover) leadership turnover turnover in schools grants office
leadership turnover • Stagnant funding funding and the need to pursue funding funding • Time constraints/scheduling difficulties due to competing
interests
• Limited and finite resources—budget limitations
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SWOT ANALYSIS
Opportunities
Threats
• Extend programming and resources around social-emotional learning/emotional intelligence to students and schools coping with PSTD mental health support needs bullying etc • Continue services focused on on on next generation of STEM education civic engagement/social studies humanities
• Identify new areas of funding • Capitalizing on technology—social networking to recruit new staff video technologies for professional development AI • Extend partnerships and collaborations • Convey BI BI value proposition—success of BI BI initiatives
• Delays in recovery from pandemic schools and and communities severely damaged with great difficulty to regain lost ground
• High level of competition for qualified and experienced college access staff • Need to expend resources (i e e e e e e e lack of additional support) on unfunded mandates including excessive reporting requirements program and financial audits
• Political climate (government continuing resolutions)
THE BRONX INSTITUTE
RECERTIFICATION PLAN 2023
SWOT Analysis
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