Beat The Street Essay

Beat the Streets Philadelphia (BTSP) is the local chapter of a soon-to-be national non-profit organization. The original chapter was started in New York by Mike Novogratz and was originally known simply as Beat the Streets. The mission for each Beat the Streets chapter remains true to the original – which is to, “…develop the full human and athletic potential of the urban youth and to strengthen the culture of…wrestling.” [1]. Those who have participated in the sport of wrestling credit the sport with all manner of self-development outcomes and subsequent successes. Beat the Streets was founded because of the belief that participation in wrestling helps to build the characteristics of discipline, work ethic, self-evaluation, and self-motivation

Given the nature and backgrounds of our board members and the experience of our full-time staff, everyone understands the need for growth in analytical capabilities. Every level of internal leadership understands and is committed to becoming an analytical competitor.
Large-Scale Ambition
This is another area where Beat the Streets is in strong standing. With the creation of a Beat the Streets National organization designed to be an umbrella which serves, among other things, as a repository for best practices, the chapter organizations have an opportunity to accelerate their growth and progress by learning from each other. Each chapter will also benefit from national data collection, which gives many more data points, allowing for greater analysis and theoretically better insight during the decision-making process. Based on the above assessments Beat the Streets Philadelphia is what Davenport defines as a Stage 1: “Analytically Impaired” organization. He describes Stage 1 organizations as such:
Analytically impaired: The organization is flying blind and reactive. It’s plagued by missing or poor-quality data, multiple definitions of data and poorly integrated

Standardizing and Systematizing each of these processes has been a work in progress over the last year, and in some cases, are still under development. Budgeting processes have been a primary concern due to our non-profit status and the need to maximize financial efficiency and impact. Our budgeting processes has been refined by standardizing expenditures (stipends, operational budgets), allocating discrete sums for specific purposes (gear, apparel), and tracking/assigning costs (proper identification of expenses and establishing team accounts to track expenses). Budgeting is an area that has improved and will continue to improve as across the organization as the mentoring programs begin their standardization process. As the budgeting data increases and improves, we will be able to identify expenses which yielded the best results as determined by our agreed upon objective measures, enabling us to make better decisions about how we spend financial resources. Volunteer Recruiting and Development are also in a maturation