Grassroots.org Social Venture Consulting Program

Fall 2008 Projects

Aumazo, Inc. is a project which introduces a new tradition in Cameroon by extending secondary education for girls in rural communities beyond middle-school to include high school. Aumazo propose a curriculum that foregrounds critical literacy and the development of critical thinking skills. The SVC consultants provided a web strategy, social networking, and multimedia strategy to help with fundraising and outreach.
SVC Consultants: Amil Husain, Daphene Altema-Johnson and Nitin Sawant

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

Kids for Tomorrow is a NYC-based organization dedicated to improving the education of disadvantaged children throughout the world. The SVC consultants provided a one year action plan that included budgeting, fundraising, benchmarking, board development and volunteer management for Kids for Tomorrow.
SVC Consultants: Jeanette Jordan, John Olson and Sirish Rao Vattam

Looking For My Sister is a Metropolitan Detroit based organization founded by a survivor of domestic violence and committed to promoting awareness of domestic violence through community outreach, education, intervention and transitional housing service for victims of domestic violence. The SVC consultants developed a marketing and public relations strategy for Looking for My Sister. SVC Consultants: Scott Lewis and Kathryn Phelps

The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship provides entrepreneurship education programs to young people from low-income communities. The SVC consultants provided a marketing strategy for the organization, including messaging, public relations and digital marketing. SVC Consultants: Danielle Safran, Laura Lin and Jocelyn Bryan-Merisca

The Engaged University’s Master Peace Community Farm, located at the Center for Educational Partnership in Riverdale, Maryland, provides healthy, affordable, and sustainably grown produce to its surrounding community. The SVC consultants objective for this organization was to develop and sustain the production of one or more healthy snacks that could be consumed by the local community, produced locally, and marketed sustainably.
SVC Consultants: Ralph Su, Tim Lewis and Lindsey Cohen

The University of Maryland Office of Sustainability (OS) is tasked with managing the development of the campus™ Climate Action Plan, a 40+ year strategic plan tasked with reducing campus-wide greenhouse gas emissions from all operations and activities, and setting the stage for movement toward the goal of carbon neutrality. The SVC consultants worked to define a methodology to measure energy consumption and to assist in the development of an incentive based marketing plan to be implemented by the Office of Sustainability and Facilities.
SVC consultants: Brian Childs, Anthony Moskunas and Saumil Shah

The Woman’s Heart is a non-profit organization which seeks to provide innovative recovery and support services for all women recovering from addition–anywhere at anytime. The SVC consultants provided strategic marketing, a plan to sustain revenues and to enhance resource utilization for the organization.
SVC consultants: Vivek Srivastava and Siddhartha Jain

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