Sustainability

The Institute has established a five (5) year Strategic Plan which spells out areas of growth and development, profit centers. The Plan contains annual basic funding formula which will be used to figure fixed cost, current and future operational expenses, and projected expenditures for expansion of needed services.

The Plan calls for the Institute to reach out to a diversity of possible funding sources, which includes meeting with additional local, county, state, and federal agencies, private foundations to secure funding, expand community outreach activities which will open doors for to acquire technical assistance and additional private donations, expanding our annual affairs, and increasing our base of volunteers, to sustain operations.

The Institute’s Plan also emphasizes the importance of recruiting youth and adults to assist in Institute activities, and in the utilizations volunteers as instructors, mentors, tutors, related positions, and entering into collaborative opportunities to carry out the operations and services.