CONTRIBUTE TO OUR BRONX-WIDE PLANNING PROCESS
WE INVITE YOU TO HELP US PLAN WHAT THE BRONX WILL LOOK LIKE IN 30 YEARS!
The Bronx-wide Coalition has launched our Bronx-wide planning process to co-create a community-led, 30-year economic development plan for the borough grounded in racial justice and economic democracy. As we move through our process, we will continue to update this page with ways you can engage and provide input. We hope you will share your ideas with us!
Our first Bronx People’s Assembly on May 7 focused on conducting a SWOT analysis, a tool to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats across seven key sectors. A sector is an area of the economy, and we are focusing on these sectors because of the impact they have on our local economy and our lives.
Below are word clouds representing the key ideas that came up in the SWOT across each sectoral breakout. If you’d like to contribute your ideas, click on the links below to fill out short surveys.
May 7 SECTORAL BREAKOUTS SWOT
SHARE YOUR IDEAS!
As you fill out the survey, we encourage you to keep a few things in mind:
We know all of these sectors are interconnected, and we encourage you to highlight those connections. We also know that these sectors have sometimes been narrowly defined. We encourage you to think expansively about the things that impact these sectors and the potential solutions.
Although we will identify weaknesses, and threats, our process is grounded in an asset-based approach. An asset is simply something that holds value. Examples are people, economic resources, organizations, land, culture, and more. An asset based approach highlights the strengths and opportunities in our borough--what we already have, what’s working, and what’s beneting us -- in order to help us develop solutions from this perspective.
We encourage you to think about root causes. Root causes allow us to identify and understand not just the symptoms of consequences of issues, but the underlying root causes Once we have a clear analysis of the root causes of the issues we are facing in the Bronx, we can come up with systemic solutions that target the root, not just the symptoms or consequences. When we say systemic solutions, we are talking about transforming existing systems and sectors, which is about creating new goals and better outcomes for Bronxites.
