Grassroots.org Social Venture Consulting Program

Spring 2011 Projects

Melwood Horticultural Training Center provides services to people with disabilities in order to maximize their capabilities to live full and rewarding lives through work training and other services. SVC Consultants devised a streamlined Excel driven database by which Melwood can track potential corporate sponsors for its annual revenue generating PGA Golf Tournament.
SVC Undergraduate Consultants: Dylan Benach, Jessica Matta, Kelly Shih, & Anastasiya Zubilova

Snyder Center For Aphasia Life Enhancement (SCALE) is a non-profit organization focused on assisting persons living with aphasia by providing information, classes and additional resources aimed at community integration and awareness. SVC Consultants made strategic, marketing, and benchmarking recommendations to the client in order to increase its membership and capture its target customer demographic.
SVC MBA Consultants: Fernanda Lopez and Jerome Beccas

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

Loudoun Volunteer Caregivers is a non-profit coalition of more than 200 volunteers in Loudoun County dedicated to helping elderly and disabled adults maintain independence and quality of life. SVC Consultants developed a methodology by which LVC could qualify and quantify the services offered to care receivers and identify cost-value breakdown on a project by project basis.
SVC MBA Consultants: Seble Alemayehu, Ram Nadakuduru

GapBuster Learning Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating, empowering, and elevating young minorities in grades K to 12 while nurturing their hopes and aspirations for the future. SVC Consultants developed targeted recommendations to help streamline GapBuster program definitions, to provide efficient procedures for enrollment, and to improve data capture collection and management.
SVC MBA Consultants: Greg Herbold, Abhishek Ranjan, Bethel Samuel

National Sportscasters & Sportswriters Association & Hall Of Fame is dedicated to honoring, preserving and celebrating the legacy of sportscasters and sportswriters in the United States – for their creativity in storytelling, their pursuit of truth and their conveyance of information. SVC Consultants provided recommendations for a sustainable revenue generation model going forward driven by new targeted customer marketing, social media presence, and ROI-based metric development.
SVC MBA Consultants: Goutham Budati, Ian Cruse, Johnny Graham