Africare

Semester: Spring 2011

AfriCare works in partnership with African stakeholders to build sustainable, healthy and productive communities and to be a leading voice addressing African development and policy issues. SVC Consultants analyzed AfriCare’s current communications platforms to optimize integration, reduce fail rates, and provide the organization with metrics by which to make operations management decisions. SVC MBA Consultants: Ankit Agarwal, Wes Kim, Fatih Koca

The Financial Clinic

Semester: Fall 2010

The Financial Clinic is a New York-based organization that builds working poor families and individuals’ financial security by addressing their immediate financial challenges and helping them create trajectories for long-term goals and financial mobility.  SVC Consultants assisted the clinic in developing an online model of their service delivery, including pricing models and platform recommendations. SVC MBA Consultants: Amos Cruz, Ragavan Manogaran & Priyanshu Raj

FriendFactor Foundation

Semester: Fall 2010

Friendfactor, based in New York, NY, is a new social networking platform that aims to elevate the gay rights movement with a simple and inclusive concept: friends helping friends.  SVC Consultants researched and developed recommendations for user support—specifically, building out a peer-to-peer, crowdsourced system for handling questions and other user issues. SVC MBA Consultants: Gunangad Chowdhury & Nick Olson

Preston Mitchum, Jr. Foundation (PMJF)

Semester: Spring 2010

Preston Mitchum, Jr. Foundation, based in Baltimore, Md., provides educational after-school programming and community services to address the effects of poverty and violence on at-risk youth. The SVC team developed a streamlined volunteer management database and researched and recommended strategies for maintaining relationships with volunteers. SVC Consultants: John Comberiate, Jonathan Mann & Seema Setia

United Ministries

Semester: Fall 2009

United Ministries is a Baltimore-based housing and social justice organization dedicated to assisting homeless men who want to change their lives, and to changing community attitudes about the homeless.  The SVC consultants built an outcome management database that will allow for easy tracking and reporting of outcomes, support internal program review and increase accountability. SVC Consultants: Daniel Lupton & Daniel Orzechowski

Slum Doctor Programme

Semester: Spring 2008

The Slum Doctor Programme (SDP) is a multi-citizen effort to provide hope, medicine, food, education and dignity to orphans and people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa. SDP works to provide emergency medical care in Kenya and help widows in Uganda start their own businesses so they can support their families. The SVC consultants helped develop a strategy to market SDP to potential web-based donors, as well as the tools to build an interactive relationship with the worldwide AIDS relief community. Deliverables included an action plan and a budget for the technological infrastructure necessary to activate the process. SVC Consultants:  Aditya Naik and Tina Ogunde

Generations Community Development Corp

Semester: Fall 2007

Generations Community Development Corporation is a non-profit that helps deliver job-training and other services to unemployed and underemployed Chicago residents.

Adhikaar

Semester: Fall 2006

Adhikaar The Smith School consulting team evaluated financial management software tools to meet the needs of this growing organization. The team assessed functionality of free and paid software programs against the needs of the organization. The team also trained staff remotely on the various options available. The Adhikaar Co-founders were among the Recipients of the 2008 Union Square Awards. SVC Consultants: Lilah Pomerance and Kate Hannon.