United Communities Against Poverty

Semester: Spring 2012

United Communities Against Poverty is a non-profit organization whose mission is to alleviate poverty, improve community relations, and maximize the quality of life for the diverse residents of Prince George’s County. Service Corps consultants performed a budget analysis for the organization, identifying financial strengths and weaknesses and developing strategic recommendations.

Consultants: Dominic Cronshaw, Russ Dunlap, Derek Hu

PLEN

Semester: Fall 2011

The Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN) is a national organization whose focus is preparing college women for leadership in the public policy arena. SVC consultants helped PLEN to analyze its current cost and revenue streams, and developed recommendations for a new pricing strategy in regards to tuition and membership dues to help sustain and catalyze its future growth.

SVC Consultants: Veni Kumar, Alice Ntambi

Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance

Semester: Fall 2010

The Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance (SEFAA) in Atlanta, Ga. was created to champion fiber arts through education, community outreach and exhibitions, and to provide a friendly, creative, inspiring environment for anyone interested in the fiber arts.  SVC Consultants helped the relatively new organization develop its budget and fiscal processes, and provided it with pro-forma and other templates to utilize as it continues to grow.

SVC MBA Consultants: Vladimir Inozemsev & Shashank Saini

Permaculture Credit Union

Semester: Fall 2010

Permaculture Credit Union provides affordable financial services to its members in Santa Fe, N.M., to support ethics of permaculture–care of the earth and people, and the reinvestment of surplus for the betterment of both.  SVC Consultants researched alternative capital sources, drafted an industry white paper and prepared an analyst brief with their recommendations for the PCU board.

SVC Consultants: Adetope Lufadeju & Justin Waters

Jewish Foundation for Group Homes

Semester: Fall 2009

The Jewish Foundation for Group Homes provides individuals with developmental disabilities and/or chronic mental disorders the opportunity to live independently within the community with dignity, personal choice, and respect while offering the opportunity to experience Jewish life while supporting others with the opportunity to practice their own faith. SVC consultants helped them with a fiscal management project that included a cost/benefit analysis of its current transportation program.

SVC Consultants: Lindsey Cohen, Vegard Hamso, Carter McJunkin, Karmen Peng.

Community HealthCorps

Semester: Fall 2009

Community HealthCorps is the largest health-focused, national AmeriCorps program that promotes health care for America’s underserved, while developing tomorrow’s health care workforce. SVC consultants helped Community HealthCorps with fund development—in particular, developing a plan to increase revenues and enhance resource utilization of its 260 AmeriCorps volunteers supporting its 36 health centers across the country.

SVC Consultants: Arvinder Bhatia, Jesse Moshman, Tetsuya Morito, Yu-Ling Pu

Academy of Hope

Semester: Fall 2009

The Academy of Hope changes lives and improves the community by providing high-quality adult education in a supportive and empowering environment. SVC consultants helped with fiscal management, including developing a 3-year operating budget and identifying sources of financing (evaluating the potentials of loans, financing from community-based organizations and/or direct donations) for the organizational startup.

SVC Consultants: Puja Samria, Karen Pereira, Justin Trudel, Nicholas Madejski, Joyce Liow, Bryan Parks, Jonathan Mayer, Brad Wilson, Mahsa Saedirad, Jeffrey Crawford and Arti Anand.

Global Youth Connect

Semester: Fall 2008

Global Youth Connect, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based out of Kingston, New York, has spent the past decade uniting young adults worldwide in their pursuit of a shared in a vision of universal human rights and social justice. The SVC consultants provided a fundraising and grant-development strategy for the organization. SVC Consultants: Chisom Iwu and Lauren DeStefano

InterConnection

Semester: Spring 2008

InterConnection has worked since 2009 to facilitate access to the Internet by providing training, low-cost refurbished computers and Internet services to underserved local and global populations. So far the organization has had a successful and sustainable venture with Interconnection Uganda, developing a business model under which refurbished PC’s are shipped to Uganda for final assembly and some software installation. The project aimed to develop a packaged framework to determine the feasibility of new resale ventures offshore. The package included a spreadsheet-based financial model to analyze the main costs of the operation, along with a general guideline to asses the target market and facilitate the establishment of new operations offshore. SVC Consultants: Jorge Diaz, Joshua Israel & Jonathan Hollaway.

Hiyaah Power Girls

Semester: Fall 2007

Hiyaah Power is a dynamic online community that consists of a network of over 40,000 women in 40 states, the UK and Caribbean. It was created to serve as an online conduit of information for women.