Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO)
1. Evaluate SEO programs & grow SEO scholars
Evaluate each program according to impact on mission and finances
Grow SEO scholars based on board, funding, and success rates
Risks and trade-off w/ growth-as you grow in scale, you’re not able to maintain the ratio between teacher and student.
-lower SAT/ACT scores
-less competitive with college acceptance
-may not be able to find enough teachers and mentors
-What would we do to mitigate the risks?
-Risk with maintaining capacity by increasing students, could increase costs and hinder desired program outcomes
Other recommendations:
-Outsourcing for mentoring help regarding college prep…
-Scale-up by reducing the number of years
-Changing the 8-year model to reduce the number of years (and cost of the program)
-building partnerships with other schools to build a pipeline that doubles the number of students served
-Assess the current pipeline of SEO scholars
2. Governance & transparency
Increase transparency of strategic plans related to growing revenue (Consider producing annual report)
Reveal what the cost of each program is and how it affects their bottom line if the desire is to grow at scale, SEO should consider sharing more in-depth information to achieve growth
Undergo compensation review to ensure equity across the organization (Assess staffing and compensation)
Better promotion-Social media marketing, acceptance to top colleges (what colleges are students being accepted to?),
