Coach Core
2023 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Coach Core is a social mobility charity using the power of sport and apprenticeships to change the lives and career prospects of under-represented young adults. Trained as inspiring sports coaches, they change their own life trajectories while providing powerful ripple effects in their local communities.
Common Denominator
2023 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Common Denominator aims to help in-need middle school students love math and build confidence through tutoring and mentorship.
Directions for Our Youth
2023 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Directions for Our Youth engages young people as active partners in their own development as they seek to become thriving, self-sufficient adults and agents of change within their local and global communities.
Generation: You Employed, UK
2023 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Generation helps disadvantaged jobseekers facing barriers to employment by supporting them as they pursue life-changing careers they otherwise could not access. To achieve this mission, it delivers free bootcamps that teach key skills for in-demand jobs, with mentorship support and matchmaking for interviews at its partner employers.
I'RAISE Girls & Boys International Corporation
2023 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
I'RAISE is dedicated to supporting the mental wellness of youth and providing educational services and resources to children, parents and communities through holistic, low- to no-cost in-school and community-based services.
Leonard Cheshire
2023 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Leonard Cheshire is one of the U.K.’s leading pan-disability charities. It believes in building a fairer, more inclusive society that recognizes the positive contributions we all make, and supports disabled people to live, learn and work as independently as they choose, whatever their ability.
Meeting Essential Needs with Dignity, Inc. (MEND)
2023 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
MEND strengthens the health of individuals and families in Essex County, NJ, by increasing access to fresh and healthy food.
Neighborhood Housing Services of Brooklyn, CDC, Inc. (NHS Brooklyn)
2023 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
NHS Brooklyn creates and preserves affordable housing by providing opportunities for homeownership education, financial assistance and community leadership.
NHS Charities Together
2023 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
NHS Charities Together works with and provides funding for over 230 local charities that support the workforce of the National Health Service while improving care for patients and communities across the U.K.
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
2023 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The NSPCC is the leading charity for safeguarding children in the U.K. It has been protecting children for over 100 years—doing everything it can to prevent abuse and neglect, alongside providing expert support to help children recover.
Riverdale Neighborhood House
2023 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Riverdale Neighborhood House strengthens its community in the Northwest Bronx by delivering programs and ensuring access to resources that build bonds, create networks and promote equity across generational, cultural, racial and economic lines.
Save the Children
2023 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
In the U.K. and around the world, Save the Children is working to keep every child safe, healthy and educated. It has helped provide over 45 million children with the opportunities they need to survive and thrive. With children, for children, it is changing the future for good.
Summer Search
2023 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Summer Search's mission is to unleash students' potential through mentoring and transformative experiences.
The Sato Project
2023 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Sato Project is dedicated to rescuing abused and abandoned dogs in Puerto Rico, where there are an estimated 500,000 stray dogs (known locally as ”satos”) roaming the island’s streets and beaches.
Thrive For Life
2023 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Thrive For Life aims to transform lives behind and beyond the prison walls.
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation
2022 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation’s mission is to further the pioneering vision of the choreographer, dancer, and cultural leader Alvin Ailey by building an extended cultural community which provides dance performances, training and education, and community programs for all people; this performing arts community plays a crucial social role, using the beauty and humanity of the African-American heritage and other cultures to unite people of all races, ages and backgrounds.
America SCORES New York
2022 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
America SCORES New York seeks to create equitable opportunities for young people to experience sport, express themselves and inspire positive change off the field and outside the classroom.
Bookmark Reading
2022 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Bookmark Reading Charity was started in 2018 with a simple vision: “We want every child to read.” They give children the reading skills and confidence they need for a fair chance in life, through their flexible volunteer-led programme. For the children who need them, they are changing their story.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
2022 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award empowers young people from all backgrounds and circumstances to develop confidence, resilience, and self-belief to take on their own challenges, follow their passions and make a difference in their community.
Global Kids
2022 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Global Kids’ mission is to educate, inspire, and activate youth to take action on critical issues facing their communities and the world.
Goddard Riverside
2022 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Goddard Riverside strives toward a fair and just society where all people can make choices that lead to better lives for themselves and their families; they serve more than 20,000 New Yorkers each year with programs ranging from Early Childhood Education to Older Adult Centers.
Good Grief
2022 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Good Grief builds resilience in children, strengthens families, and empowers communities to grow from loss and adversity.
Latino Commission on AIDS
2022 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Latino Commission on AIDS mission is to improve and expand access to quality and appropriate health care in order to impact HIV, viral hepatitis, STI prevention and other health challenges faced by our communities, as well as promote research, treatment, and support services by and for Hispanic/Latinx.
Lord’s Taverners
2022 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Lord’s Taverners provide inclusive cricket programmes, empowering young people with disabilities and from disadvantaged communities to develop the knowledge, skills, capabilities and confidence required to overcome the challenges of inequality and reach their potential.
The Lower Eastside Girls Club
2022 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Lower Eastside Girls Club amplifies the inner power of young women and gender-expansive youth in New York City through free, year-round innovative programs in STEM, Arts, Digital Media and Sound, Wellness, Civic Engagement, and Leadership
Place2Be
2022 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Place2Be is a children’s mental health charity with over 25 years’ experience working with pupils, families and staff in UK schools. The charity provides mental health support in schools through one-to-one and group counselling, expert training and professional qualifications.
St Giles Trust
2022 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
St Giles Trust uses expertise and lived experience to empower disadvantaged people to turn pasts into positive futures. Their services support people facing poverty, exploitation, caught up in crime, or a combination of issues to overcome adversity.
UHAB (Urban Homesteading Assistance Board)
2022 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
UHAB empowers low- to moderate-income residents to take control of their housing and enhance communities by creating strong tenant associations and lasting affordable co-ops.
Young Epilepsy
2022 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Young Epilepsy is dedicated to standing up for children and young people with epilepsy, recognising their right to be heard. They exist to create a society where these individuals are enabled to thrive and fulfil their potential. Together, the possible is created.
Barnardo's
2021 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Barnardo's is a children's charity that protects and supports the UK's most vulnerable young people. It helps children through the trauma of sexual abuse and exploitation, and provides support for young people in care.
Strategic Question Category
Program Model
Center for Urban Families (CFUF)
2021 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The mission of the Center for Urban Families is to strengthen urban communities by helping fathers and families achieve stability and economic success.
Strategic Question Category
Business Model
Cerebral Palsy Foundation
2021 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Cerebral Palsy Foundation is a catalyst for creating positive change for people with cerebral palsy.
Strategic Question Category
Expansion/Scaling Strategy
City Year UK
2021 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
City Year UK is a youth and education charity which empowers 18 to 25-year-olds, from all backgrounds, to tackle educational inequality through a year of full-time volunteering in schools.
Strategic Question Category
Expansion/Scaling Strategy
The Felix Project
2021 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Felix Project is a London-based food redistribution charity with a mission to fight hunger and food waste by delivering surplus food for free to local charities and schools, so that good food can become good meals for people in need.
Strategic Question Category
Expansion/Scaling Strategy
Helpforce
2021 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Helpforce works in partnership with NHS Trusts, Integrated Care Systems and volunteering organisations to accelerate the growth and impact of volunteering in the sector.
Strategic Question Category
Business Model
Nest
2021 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Nest is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) building a new handworker economy to increase global workforce inclusivity, improve women’s wellbeing beyond factories, and preserve important cultural traditions around the world.
Strategic Question Category
Business Model
NHS Charities Together
2021 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
NHS Charities Together is the national charity caring for the NHS. It is an umbrella organisation made up of 241 NHS member charities based within hospitals, mental health trusts, ambulance trusts, community health trusts and health boards across the UK.
Strategic Question Category
Business Model
Queens Community House
2021 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Queens Community House provides individuals and families with the tools to enrich their lives and build healthy, inclusive communities.
Strategic Question Category
Program Model
Save The Music Foundation
2021 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Save The Music Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps students, schools, and communities reach their full potential through the power of making music.
Strategic Question Category
Expansion/Scaling Strategy
Waterkeeper Alliance
2021 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Waterkeeper Alliance strengthens and grows a global network of grassroots leaders protecting everyone’s right to clean water.
Strategic Question Category
Program Model
ActionAid
2019 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
ActionAid is an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. Dedicated local staff aim to end violence against women and girls, keep them out of poverty and help to create a better future.
Strategic Question Category
Strategy Clarification
Advancement for Rural Kids (ARK)
2019 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
ARK partners with rural communities in the developing world to secure food, kids’ schooling, and income for life starting with its award winning 5-cent school lunch.
Strategic Question Category
Expansion/Scaling Strategy
Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE)
2019 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Asian Americans for Equality is dedicated to improving the lives of immigrant and low-income New Yorkers by strengthening and empowering communities.
Strategic Question Category
Program Model
Cancer Research UK
2019 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Cancer Research UK's vision is simple: to bring forward the day when all cancers are cured. The charity’s pioneering work into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer has helped save millions of lives.
Strategic Question Category
Growth Strategy
Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
2019 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Reeve Foundation is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding innovative research, and improving the quality of life for people living with paralysis through grants, information and advocacy.
Strategic Question Category
Expansion/Scaling Strategy
The Family Center
2019 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Family Center works to strengthen families affected by crisis, illness or loss to create a more secure present and future for their children.
Strategic Question Category
Business Model
Girls on the Run NJ East
2019 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Girls on the Run inspires girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.
Strategic Question Category
Business Model
Greyston Foundation
2019 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Greyston Foundation's mission is to create thriving communities through the practice and promotion of Open Hiring™.
Strategic Question Category
Expansion/Scaling Strategy
The New York Center for Children
2019 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The New York Center for Children (NYCC) is the only independent center in New York City to provide free, comprehensive evaluation and therapy services to child victims of physical and sexual abuse and their families, for as long as their healing requires.
Strategic Question Category
Expansion/Scaling Strategy
New York City Audubon
2019 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
New York City Audubon, an independent nonprofit organization affiliated with National Audubon Society as an urban chapter, works for the protection of wild birds and habitat in the five boroughs, improving the lives of New Yorkers.
Strategic Question Category
Program Model
Prep for Prep
2019 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Prep for Prep develops ethical and effective leaders who reflect our diverse society for the enduring benefit of all.
Strategic Question Category
Program Model
Sue Ryder
2019 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Sue Ryder supports people through the most difficult times of their lives. Whether that's a terminal illness, the loss of a loved one or a neurological condition – we’re there when it matters. Its doctors, nurses and carers give people the compassion and expert care they need to help them live the best life they possibly can.
Strategic Question Category
Growth Strategy
Teenage Cancer Trust
2019 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Teenage Cancer Trust is a cancer care and support charity in the UK that exists to improve the cancer experience of young people aged 13–24. Founded in 1990, the charity's key service is providing specialist teenage units in NHS hospitals. It also trains and funds staff who are teenage cancer specialists.
Strategic Question Category
Effective Business Models
Variety
2019 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Variety, the Children's Charity, is an international children's charity with the aim to support sick, disabled or disadvantaged children and young people, improving lives everyday.
Strategic Question Category
Effective Business Models
Access Sport
2018 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Access Sport uses the power of sport to enhance the life prospects of disadvantaged and disabled young people living in deprived inner city areas of England. They provide intensive support and training for inspirational coaches, volunteers and young leaders, empowering them to build thriving, and connected community sports clubs.
Strategic Question Category
Expansion Strategy
BronxConnect
2018 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
BronxConnect's mission is to renew the mindset of the urban youth, empowering them to transform their communities from within and stay out of jail for life.
Strategic Question Category
Expansion Strategy
Education Through Music
2018 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Education Through Music (ETM®) partners with inner-city schools to provide music as a core subject for all children and utilizes music education as a catalyst to improve academic achievement, motivation for school and self-confidence.
Strategic Question Category
Expansion Strategy
Eva's Village
2018 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The mission of Eva’s Village is to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, treat the addicted and provide medical care to those in need.
Strategic Question Category
Program Optimization
Mencap
2018 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Mencap work toward a world where people with learning disabilities are valued equally, listened to and included. This is achieved by changing attitudes, providing services and influencing those who support their vision.
Strategic Question Category
Business Model
New Alternatives for Children
2018 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
NAC provides comprehensive healthcare and social services to children living in poverty who have special medical and behavioral needs.
Strategic Question Category
Program Optimization
NY Council on Adoptable Children
2018 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
COAC proactively identifies, develops, recruits, stabilizes and strengthens family systems to provide permanent, loving and nurturing homes to children.
Strategic Question Category
Expansion Strategy
Per Scholas
2018 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Per Scholas opens doors to technology careers for individuals from often overlooked communities.
Strategic Question Category
Business Model
Roots and Wings
2018 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
www.rootsandwingsnj.org
Mission
The mission of Roots & Wings is to provide young adults who age out of the New Jersey foster care system with safe housing, educational support, case management, counseling, and life skills in order to empower motivated individuals toward self-sufficiency.
Strategic Question Category
Expansion Strategy
Save the Children
2018 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
In the U.S. and around the world, Save the Children gives children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm.
Strategic Question Category
Business Model
Shelter
2018 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Shelter helps millions of people in the UK every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness by providing advice, support and legal services. And Shelter campaigns to ensure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help.
Strategic Question Category
Business Model
Teens and Toddlers
2018 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Teens and Toddlers. Teens and Toddlers believe no child should be prevented from achieving their potential. Since 2001 their award winning 18 week core programme has helped to inspire over 8,000 disengaged and disadvantaged young people by giving them the essential life-skills and self-belief they need to succeed at school and in life.
Strategic Question Category
Business Model
The Children’s Society
2018 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Children’s Society has been supporting young people since 1881 working to ensure they are heard in their situation and are paired with a trusted adult as they believe no child should feel alone. They currently offer a range of programmes as well as campaigning to create change at a local and national level.
Strategic Question Category
Expansion Strategy
YMCA of Greater NY
2018 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
YMCA of Greater NY is a community service organization with three core goals: empowering youth, improving health and strengthening community for all New Yorkers.
Strategic Question Category
Business Model
Barnardo’s
2017 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Barnardo’s is one of the UK’s oldest and largest children’s charities, they exist to transform the lives of the most vulnerable children.
Strategic Question
Should Barnardo’s establish a textile recycling enterprise as an earned income strategy? If so, how?
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
2017 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (Restoration), the nation's first community development organization, partners with area residents and businesses to improve the quality of life in long-blighted areas of Central Brooklyn.
Strategic Question
Which industry offers opportunities for long-term career building and is the best fit for Restoration’s goals– food services, transportation, or IT?
Gina Gibney Dance
2017 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Gibney Dance, founded in 1991, is a trailblazing organization whose mission is to bring the possibility of movement where it otherwise would not exist.
Strategic Question
How should Gibney Dance price its digital services to balance affordability for artists and financial sustainability?
Marie Curie
2017 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Marie Curie is the UK’s leading charity caring for people living with any terminal illness, and their families. It offers expert care, guidance and support to help them get the most from the time they have left.
Strategic Question
Should Marie Curie develop a care quality service? If so, how?
Place2Be
2017 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Place2Be is the UK's leading children's mental health charity working in 282 schools across the UK to provide early-intervening emotional and mental health support to 116,000 children and their families.
Strategic Question
What is the most effective business model for Place2Be to maintain quality and grow their services?
Police Athletic League
2017 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Police Athletic League, together with NYPD and the law enforcement community, supports and inspires New York City youth to realize their full individual potential as productive members of society.
Strategic Question
How should PAL expand its In-STEP program geographically? Where would be the best fit – Manhattan, Brooklyn, or Staten Island?
Qualitas of Life Foundation
2017 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Qualitas of Life Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides basic financial education to Hispanic individuals and their families in New York, in order to foster their financial security and improve their standard of living.
Strategic Question
What business model should Qualitas use to expand its impact beyond the tri-state area?
Rescuing Leftover Cuisine
2017 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Rescuing Leftover Cuisine aims to become the world's most widely used solution for companies and individuals to eliminate food waste in their communities, make food rescue sustainable and universal, and make food hunger a thing of the past.
Strategic Question
Should Rescuing Leftover Cuisine expand into the event catering food rescue market?
Save the Children
2017 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Save the Children gives children in the UK and around the world a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm.
Strategic Question
What is the most effective business model to grow Save the Children UK’s parental engagement programmes?
Stanley M. Isaacs Center
2017 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Isaacs Center’s mission, in working with children, young adults, and seniors is to promote social and physical well-being and encourage growth, self-reliance and dignity throughout every stage of life.
Strategic Question
Should the Isaacs Center reduce its current service portfolio by allowing one or more of its three core service areas to be absorbed by another organization?
Tuesday’s Children
2017 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Formed in the aftermath of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, Tuesday’s Children is a response and recovery organization that supports youth, families, and communities impacted by terrorism and traumatic loss.
Strategic Question
How should Tuesday’s Children expand its Military Families Initiative? Where would be best to target first – Dallas/Fort Worth, San Antonio, San Diego, or Norfolk, VA?
Unicef UK
2017 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Unicef works around the world, including in the UK, to keep children healthy, happy and safe.
Strategic Question
Should Unicef UK expand its Child Rights Partners programme across London?
Volunteer New York!
2017 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Volunteer New York!’s core mission is to inspire, mobilize, and equip individuals and groups to take positive action to address pressing challenges, support nonprofits and strengthen the quality of life in our community.
Strategic Question
What strategies should Volunteer New York! pursue to increase its impact, both in terms of increasing the number of volunteers activated and the extent of their service?
Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDco)
2017 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
WHEDco’s mission is to give the South Bronx access to all the resources that create thriving neighborhoods: from high-quality early education and after-school programs, to fresh, healthy food, cultural programming, and economic opportunity.
Strategic Question
How should CookSpace price its kitchen rental fees and technical assistance across customers to balance serving entrepreneurs in need and improving financial sustainability?
Brooklyn Free School
2016 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Brooklyn Free School’s mission is education for social justice.
Strategic Question
Should BFS pursue fee-based service growth in its educator enrichment services: educator professional development, curriculum publishing, and/or school consulting?
Centrepoint
2016 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Centrepoint is the UK’s leading charity for homeless young people, working with 7,800 16-25 year olds a year to get them into a job and a home.
Strategic Question
Should Centrepoint establish a café(s) as an earned income strategy? If so, how?
Coram
2016 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Coram is the oldest children’s charity in the UK. Coram Life Education delivers health and wellbeing education to 700,000 children nationwide, providing the skills and knowledge they need to make positive lifestyle choices for years to come.
Strategic Question
What is the most effective business model to grow the Coram Life Education programme into schools?
El Taller Latino Americano
2016 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Since 1979, El Taller has been an open space for expression and dialogue inspired by the belief that creativity dispels fear and mistrust among communities.
Strategic Question
Should El Taller launch an initiative to provide curriculum, materials and training for their dual-language children’s programming on a fee basis?
Global Goods Partners
2016 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Global Goods Partners is a nonprofit social enterprise dedicated to alleviating poverty and promoting social justice by strengthening women-led social enterprises in marginalized communities in Asia, Africa and the Americas.
Strategic Question
Which of Global Goods Partners’ three sales channels (retail, wholesale, private label) should the organization pursue?
Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership
2016 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership is a school-based non-profit whose mission is to provide a safe, structured environment for children to compete and to learn while they develop into leaders within their community and beyond.
Strategic Question
Which of the three potential high school program approaches (school-focused, after-school, or partnership) should HLL pursue?
Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership
2016 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership’s mission is to stimulate economic development in inner city communities by accelerating the growth of the small business sector – the business segment that has the greatest potential to positively impact job creation and wealth building.
Strategic Question
What business model should IFEL pursue for online training – including pricing, funding model, target customers, and marketing strategy – to achieve scalable.
Jumpstart for Young Children
2016 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Jumpstart’s mission is to provide language, literacy, and social-emotional programming for preschool children from under-resourced communities and promote quality early learning for all.
Strategic Question
Should Jumpstart launch a post-graduate fellowship to recruit and support early education teachers (for ages 3, 4, and 5)?
National Eating Disorders Association
2016 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
National Eating Disorders Association supports individuals and families affected by eating disorders, and serves as a catalyst for prevention, cures, and access to quality care.
Strategic Question
Where should NEDA expand its NEDA Walks program, and what model (i.e. network structure across geographies) should it use to achieve deepest impact?
NSPCC
2016 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The NSPCC is the only children’s charity fighting to end child abuse in the UK and Channel Islands. They help children who have been abused to rebuild their lives, protect children at risk, and find the best ways of preventing child abuse from happening.
Strategic Question
Should NSPCC expand its ‘Letting the Future In’ service in Camden and Islington? If so, how?
The Andrew Goodman Foundation
2016 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Andrew Goodman Foundation’s mission is to ensure that young voices and votes are a powerful force in our democracy.
Strategic Question
What growth model and partner selection approach should Andrew Goodman Foundation pursue to expand its Vote Everywhere program?
The Future Leaders Trust
2016 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Future Leaders Trust is an independent charity with the mission to raise the achievement of children, regardless of background, and to provide them with equal choices and opportunities in life by developing a network of exceptional school leaders.
Strategic Question
What is the most effective business model to expand the flagship ‘Future Leaders’ programme?
Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership
2016 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
http://www.thebp.org/
Mission
Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership (THEBP) is the leading education charity that bridges the gap between students and the world of work, to enable students to broaden their horizons and igniting a determination to fulfill their aspirations.
Strategic Question
Should Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership expand its services to Greenwich? If so, how?
York Street Project
2016 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Working together to help women and children break the cycle of poverty.
Strategic Question
What is driving Kenmare High School’s dropout rate? How might York Street Project significantly lower the dropout rate?
Action for Children
2015 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Action for Children provides targeted support to vulnerable and socially excluded young people right across the UK.
Strategic Question
Should Action for Children establish charity shops as an earned income strategy, and if so, how should they pursue this?
Bridge Street Development Corporation
2015 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Bridge Street Development Corporation builds partnerships with businesses, government, and other community stakeholders to provide civic and economic opportunities to the residents of Central Brooklyn.
Strategic Question
Should Bridge Street Development Corporation expand its affordable housing development to new neighborhoods? If so, what neighborhood is the best fit (Canarsie, East NY, Brownsville, Northern Crown Heights)?
Career Ready
2015 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Career Ready provides a structured programme of internships, mentoring, masterclasses and workplace visits to prepare 16-19 year-olds for the world of work
Strategic Question
Should Career Ready create a school cluster model in the Southall Area and if so how?
Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
2015 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies works to promote the social and economic well-being of greater New York’s most vulnerable by advocating for just public policies and strengthening human service organizations.
Strategic Question
What should FPWA prioritize in expanding the Center for Leadership Development: Executive Education, Organizational and Programmatic Support, or Civic Engagement?
Grace Institute
2015 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
www.graceinstitute.org
Mission
Grace Institute empowers underserved women in the New York area to achieve employment and economic self-sufficiency.
Strategic Question
How should Grace Institute expand their sector-specific job training program? What industry (technology, finance, or hospitality) would be most appropriate?
Harlem Educational Activities Fund
2015 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Harlem Educational Activities Fund changes the lives of underserved young people, beginning in middle school and continuing in college and beyond, through a youth development approach that includes rigorous year-round academic enrichment, social and cultural exposure and constant individual attention.
Strategic Question
Should Harlem Educational Activities Fund expand their Bed-Stuy pilot program? If so, how?
Headstrong Project
2015 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Headstrong Project is a not for profit veteran's service organization founded in 2012 that is committed to helping fellow post 9/11 combat veterans recover from PTSD and related conditions, “the hidden wounds of war”, in order to lead full and meaningful lives. Through its Weill Cornell Medical College partnership, Headstrong Project provides evidence-based, high quality mental health care that is completely confidential, cost free, and bureaucracy free.
Strategic Question
How should Headstrong Project expand geographically; which of Houston, Detroit or San Diego would be the best fit?
Partnership with Children
2015 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Founded in 1908, Partnership with Children’s mission is to strengthen the social, emotional and cognitive skills of at-risk children.
Strategic Question
Should PWC launch a fee-for-service training program, and if so, how?
The New York Center for Autism Charter School
2015 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
www.nycacharterschool.org
Mission
The mission of the New York Center for Autism Charter School is to provide individualized, scientifically-based educational services to children on the autism spectrum, helping ensure that they reach their full intellectual, social, and emotional potential.
Strategic Question
Should NYCACS expand impact and reach by developing additional charter school locations? If so, how?
Rays of Sunshine
2015 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Rays of Sunshine is a national charity, whose mission is to brighten up the lives of seriously and terminally ill children by granting wishes for them and their families
Strategic Question
Should Rays of Sunshine grow their ‘Rush wishes’ programme in order to grant additional wishes and have added impact?
Start Small. Think Big.
2015 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Start Small Think Big’s mission is to help low- to moderate-income individuals build and sustain thriving businesses in order to increase their personal financial security and stimulate economic activity in underserved communities in New York City.
Strategic Question
How should SSTB expand their financial advising services? What service mix and delivery structure (i.e., partner vs. in-house) will have the greatest impact?
Student Sponsor Partners
2015 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Founded in 1986, Student Sponsor Partners addresses the high school dropout crisis in New York City by providing low-income, at-risk students – nearly 90% of whom come from minority populations – with four years of non-public, college-preparatory education.
Strategic Question
How should SSP expand into college prep, readiness, and persistence programs to improve post-secondary education outcomes, and, what should their partnership strategy be to deliver services?
Think Forward
2015 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Think Forward helps the most vulnerable young people navigate the transition from school to work, providing highly trained coaches based in their schools to guide and support them
Strategic Question
Should ThinkForward expand its services into Kent? If so, how?
Whizz Kids
2015 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Whizz-Kidz provides vital mobility equipment and support and life skills to disabled children.
Strategic Question
Should Whizz-Kidz expand its Wheels in Motion programme into Hackney? If so, how?
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
2014 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) the leading national nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to understanding and preventing suicide through research, education and advocacy, and to reaching out to people with mental disorders and those impacted by suicide.
Strategic Question
How should American Foundation for Suicide Prevention expand its web-based screening tool to workplace settings?
Catholic Guardian Services
2014 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Catholic Guardian Services works to protect and nurture disadvantaged children and individuals with disabilities (including foster youth) to increase prospects for self-sufficiency and strengthen family structures.
Strategic Question
How should Catholic Guardian Services expand their Youth Employment Services program? What industry (technology, food service, hospitality, or health care) is most attractive?
Children of Promise, NYC
2014 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Children of Promise, NYC (CPNYC) is a community based organization with a mission to embrace children of incarcerated parents and empower them to break the cycle of intergenerational involvement in the criminal justice system.
Strategic Question
Should Children of Promise expand into Central Harlem?
Community Links
2014 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Community Links seeks to tackle the causes and consequences of social exclusion in East London by raising aspirations for a better life, reducing poverty, extending opportunities in education and employment and building a stronger community. Eighty percent of their work is delivered in Newham, the second most diverse borough in the UK.
Strategic Question
How does Community Links most effectively expand its services into the borough of Waltham Forest in a way that complements and enhances other charities’ existing services in the borough?
Day One NYC
2014 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
www.dayoneny.org/dayone
Mission
Day One partners with New York City youth to end dating abuse and domestic violence through preventive education, supportive services, legal advocacy and leadership development.
Strategic Question
Should Day One create a train-the-trainer service model for its education programs?
ELBA
2014 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
East London Business Alliance is working to bring positive change in east London, facilitating corporate involvement in community organizations, education and employment.
Strategic Question
What is the most effective model for ELBA to engage its corporate members, in order to reduce poverty and deprivation in the East London?
Good Shepherd Services
2014 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The mission of Good Shepherd Services is to surround at-risk New York City youth and their families with a web of supports that promote a safe passage to self-sufficiency. To achieve this mission, they lead in the development of innovative youth development programs; provide quality, effective services that strengthen participants’ connections with family, school and community; and advocate on their behalf for broader change.
Strategic Question
Should Good Shepherd expand their offerings to include specialized trauma-informed practice trainings to other service providers in NYC? If so, what should the product mix and structure be?
Greenwich House
2014 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Greenwich House was founded in 1902 as a settlement house to help Greenwich Village’s immigrant population adjust to life in New York City. Though needs continue to change, the mission of Greenwich House remains constant: to help individuals and families lead more fulfilling lives by offering social and health services, cultural and education programs and opportunities for civic involvement to New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds, serving some 15,000 New Yorkers annually.
Strategic Question
How should Greenwich House expand its healthy living services for seniors?
Hamilton Families
2014 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Hamilton Families works to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty for families in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through a Housing First approach, HFC provides a continuum of housing solutions and hands on services that promote self-sufficiency.
Strategic Question
Should Hamilton Families seek to invest significantly in the rapid re-housing program to reduce shelter waiting lists?
International Rescue Committee
2014 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives.
Strategic Question
What product and pricing strategy should International Rescue Committee pursue for immigration services in NYC and Miami?
Magic Breakfast
2014 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Magic Breakfast seeks to reach the point where no child is too hungry to learn. Every school day, Magic Breakfast provides a free, nutritious breakfast to more than 7,500 children in 230 primary schools in the UK.
Strategic Question
How should Magic Breakfast achieve the most efficient, cost effective expansion over the next two years?
Metropolitan College of New York
2014 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
MCNY, a fully accredited undergraduate and graduate institution, offers a range of programs at its New York City campus; MCNY’s expertise lies in serving ‘nontraditional’ college students who benefit from MCNY’s innovative programming, practical connections with the workplace, and student supports.
Strategic Question
Should Metropolitan College of New York create a program for youth aging out of the foster system within its undergraduate college?
New Alternatives for Children
2014 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
NAC’s mission is to provide high quality services in support of birth, foster, and adoptive families caring primarily for medically fragile children, which includes children with severe physical disabilities, emotional/behavioral challenges, and developmental disabilities. NAC’s services enable children to remain in or to be returned to their families whenever possible or to be adopted by loving families.
Strategic Question
Should New Alternatives for Children expand the their medical clinic by optimizing their current model, expanding pediatric services to the community, or developing a specialized autism clinic?
Phipps Neighborhoods
2014 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Phipps Neighborhoods works toward a New York City in which no one is caught in the cycle of poverty. They provide children, youth and families in low-income neighborhoods the opportunities they need to thrive through comprehensive education and career programs, and access to community services.
Strategic Question
Should Phipps Neighborhoods launch a fee-for-service training model for its education and learning initiative? If so, should it offer open workshops or client-based trainings, and what revenue model should be pursued?
Project Renewal
2014 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Project Renewal's mission is to end the cycle of homelessness by empowering men and women with mental illness, addiction, or both to renew their lives with health, homes and jobs.
Strategic Question
Which option(s) should Project Renewal pursue to expand their social enterprises – expanding into high-end catering services, creating a moving company, or launching a landscaping company?
The Prince’s Trust
2014 U.K. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Prince’s Trust provides practical and financial support to young people who have struggled at school, are unemployed for an extended period or have been in trouble with the law.
Strategic Question
How can The Prince’s Trust most effectively engage a greater number of Corporate Partner employees in order to maximise the support offered to young people?
Bring Me A Book
2013 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Bring Me A Book envisions a world in which all children can read and succeed, and works to strengthen the language and literacy skills of the growing number of California’s underserved children.
Strategic Question
Should BMAB expand its book access programs through digital media? If so, what resources and timeline would it take to make this successful?
Futures and Options
2013 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Since its founding in 1995, Futures and Options’ mission is to provide low-income, inner-city youth with job skills and meaningful work experiences so they will be motivated to further their education and can become self-reliant contributors to the economy.
Strategic Question
How can a better understanding of its cost structure improve Futures and Options’ decision making, allocation process, and plans for expansion?
HealthCorps
2013 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
HealthCorps works to lead a nationwide movement toward a new generation of healthy young people. Their mission is to implement an innovative in-school model that inspires teens to make healthier choices for themselves and their families.
Strategic Question
Is the HealthCorps University model a viable and effective way to reach a critical mass of children and teens in the United States, with the goal of reducing the prevalence of childhood obesity? If so, where should HCU go in its next phase of growth?
Hollaback
2013 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Hollaback is a movement to end street harassment, powered by a network of local activists around the world. Hollaback leverages technology to bring voice to an issue that historically has been silenced, and build leadership within this movement.
Strategic Question
How can Hollaback effectively take its existing city training and movement-building model to college campuses? Is there a viable earned income model in this expansion to colleges?
Hot Bread Kitchen
2013 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Hot Bread Kitchen seeks to address the professional marginalization of immigrant women by opening employment pathways in the food manufacturing field.
Strategic Question
What are the best cities or regions in which to expand Hot Bread Kitchen’s organization?
Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House
2013 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House is a community-based nonprofit organization that offers comprehensive services to the youth, seniors, immigrants and families of Western Queens.
Strategic Question
How can Riis Settlement improve the civic engagement, educational attainment and ultimately economic independence of low- to moderate-income adults in its community?
Let's Get Ready
2013 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Let's Get Ready provides low-income high school students with free SAT preparation, admissions counseling and other support services needed to gain admission to and graduate from college. Services are provided by volunteer college students who also serve as role models and mentors.
Strategic Question
How should Let’s Get Ready expand geographically and what conditions must be in place to enable and sustain the expansion?
Mentor New York
2013 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Mentor New York supports the mentoring community with low- or no-cost services, bringing together many mentoring programs to improve the quality and quantity of safe and successful mentoring relationships.
Strategic Question
Should Mentor New York expand to become a statewide mentoring partnership. If so, what would it take to do so?
The Boys' Club of New York
2013 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Boys’ Club of New York offers comprehensive afterschool and summertime programs to 4,000 boys and young men in New York City.
Strategic Question
Should BCNY continue to own and operate the Somerset camp location under the current business model? If not, what model should it pursue?
The Hope Program
2013 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Empowers New Yorkers living in poverty to achieve economic self-sufficiency through employment and advancement.
Strategic Question
What is the feasibility of HOPE creating a revenue-generating business that both serves the training and transitional employment needs of their students and graduates while providing the revenue to expand HOPE’s services?
The W Connection
2013 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The W Connection works to equip widows with the education, training and emotional support they need to rebuild their lives.
Strategic Question
Which funding model is most viable to scale the W Connection’s impact ― membership, Individual donations, or earned income from corporations ― and how should they develop this funding strategy?
Westside Family YMCA
2013 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Westside Family YMCA’s cause is to strengthen the foundations of community through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility.
Strategic Question
What are the unmet needs of families, teens, and seniors within the West LA community? How can the Westside Y best meet these needs while existing within its operational framework? What evaluation criteria can be implemented to ensure these programs are making an impact on the communities they serve?
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
2012 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Brooklyn Children’s Museum was the first museum created expressly for children. With award-winning, hands-on exhibits and innovative use of its collections, the Museum engages children from pre-school to high school in learning adventures.
Strategic Question
What earned income strategy should Brooklyn Children’s Museum pursue, including admission fee structure and earned income ventures?
Chicago Youth Centers
2012 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Chicago Youth Centers (CYC) invests in youth in underserved communities in Chicago to help them discover and realize their full potential. CYC is committed to putting kids on track for life.
Strategic Question
Should CYC continue to own and operate the camp under the current business model? What alternatives to owning-operating should CYC consider for offering camping to participants?
Children’s Aid
2012 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Children’s Aid helps children in poverty to succeed and thrive by providing comprehensive supports to children and their families in targeted high-need New York City neighborhoods.
Strategic Question
How should Children’s Aid approach potential M&A opportunities? How should Children’s Aid move forward with the target organization in question?
Children’s Museum of Manhattan
2012 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Children’s Museum of Manhattan inspires children and families to learn about themselves and our culturally diverse world through a unique environment of interactive exhibitions and programs.
Strategic Question
What parts of the EatSleepPlay initiative can be scaled? What is required for expansion?
Covenant House
2012 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Covenant House New York is the nation’s largest adolescent care agency serving homeless, runaway and at-risk youth. They are part of Covenant House International, serving over 50,000 young people each year in 21 cities in North and Latin America.
Strategic Question
What industry mix and partnership strategy should Covenant House New York pursue to improve placement and retention rates for youth participating in their vocational training programs?
Family & Children’s Agency
2012 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Family & Children’s Agency is a leading nonprofit human service organization committed to increasing the social and emotional well-being of its clients.
Strategic Question
For home care services, what service mix and pricing strategy should Family & Children’s Agency pursue?
Friends for Youth
2012 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Founded in 1979, Friends for Youth’s mission is to create quality mentoring relationships for youth who need them most.
Strategic Question
Of current offerings, can any services operate as fee-for-service? What would it take to launch this new fee-for-service model?
Grameen America
2012 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Founded by Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus, Grameen America is dedicated to helping women who live in poverty build small businesses to create better lives for their families.
Strategic Question
What are the options for Grameen America to provide borrowers with basic health services, either directly or through another entity?
iCouldBe
2012 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The mission of iCouldBe is to provide at-risk middle and high school students with an online community of professional mentors, empowering teens to stay in school, plan for future careers, and achieve in life.
Strategic Question
How should iCouldBe select and pursue partners for growth? What is the impact financially, organizationally, and technically of different speeds of growth?
Macaulay Honors College
2012 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Macaulay Honors College inspires and prepares students to solve the challenges facing New York City, our nation, and the global community. They offer exceptional students transformative opportunities to develop their potential beyond what they imagined.
Strategic Question
What would be the best strategy for Macaulay to build a residential living/learning community? What would it take to launch a residential living/learning community?
Reach the World
2012 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Reach the World cultivates relationships between young students and volunteer world travelers through an innovative program of online journalism and face-to-face interactions.
Strategic Question
What growth strategy should Reach the World pursue for high school programming? Which distribution channel should they pursue?
StoryCorps
2012 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
StoryCorps provides Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 40,000 interviews from nearly 80,000 participants.
Strategic Question
What business model should StoryCorps pursue in order to grow its school programming? Which schools should they target?
Tuesday’s Children
2012 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Tuesday's Children has made a long-term commitment to meet the needs of every individual impacted by the events of September 11th, 2001. They provide support at each stage of life through innovative, needs-based programs and mental health support.
Strategic Question
Should Tuesday’s Children extend programming to focus on veterans?
Union Settlement
2012 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Union Settlement is an on-the-ground resource for East Harlem residents of all ages, and a strong advocate for the needs of underserved communities. Since opening our doors in 1895, Union Settlement has brought education, wellness and community-building programs to the people of East Harlem.
Strategic Question
Should Union Settlement launch fee-for-service adult education classes?
W!SE
2012 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Working In Support of Education (w!se) is an educational nonprofit dedicated to providing educational support services nationwide, building financial literacy and preparing students for college and the global workplace.
Strategic Question
What states, cities and large county school districts should WISE target for growth? What are the financial and organizational impacts of this growth in the highest-priority locations?
Feeding America
2011 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Feeding America is the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity, feeding America's hungry through a nationwide network of over 200 member food banks. Collectively, they supply food to more than 37 million Americans each year.
Strategic Question
What are the strategic options for Feeding America to integrate a cooperative shared service model across its network (e.g., HR, accounting, payroll processing, technology, purchasing)?
Green Chimneys
2011 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Green Chimneys' mission is to restore possibilities and create futures for children with emotional, behavioral, social and learning challenges through educational, therapeutic and outreach services.
Strategic Question
What programming mix at CEC will best allow Green Chimneys to both achieve mission and provide financial stability?
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
2011 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Hispanic Scholarship Fund’s mission is to strengthen America by advancing the college education of Hispanic Americans with scholarships, college retention and career opportunities.
Strategic Question
What should be the model for HSF’s Generation 1st Degree partnerships?
Only Make Believe
2011 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Only Make Believe creates and performs interactive theatre for children in hospitals and care facilities. Only Make Believe is dedicated to the principle that freeing a child's imagination is a valuable part of the healing process.
Strategic Question
What are the options for how OMB could structure expansion, and what are the pros and cons of each? Which options allow OMB to best uphold artistic integrity? How should OMB structure expansion into Washington, D.C.?
Reach the World
2011 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Reach the World cultivates relationships between young students and volunteer world travelers through an innovative program of online journalism and face-to-face interactions.
Strategic Question
Which distribution channel and platform should GeoGames pursue? Potential for market share, Monetization potential, Impact on mission; How can the organization support an earned revenue “business” within the non-profit?
Sheltering Arms
2011 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
With a mission to transform the lives and communities of New Yorkers in need, Episcopal Social Services strengthens families, promotes the healthy development of children and youth, and empowers its clients to become self-sufficient.
Strategic Question
Should ESS launch a mixed private pay model for early childcare?
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity
2011 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity provides a broad range of educational and career development opportunities to hundreds of disadvantaged high school students, college students and young professionals across the nation.
Strategic Question
What are the key strategic factors SEO should consider in
identifying and assessing high priority cities for expansion? (e.g., public transportation, under-resourced student population, cost per student) Which cities should SEO focus on in the near-term?
Sustainable South Bronx
2011 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
SSBx provides a collaborative model that addresses environmental, economic and social concerns through policy change, green job training, environmental education, and community greening programs.
Strategic Question
What does the market look like for each of the green infrastructure developments? How should SSBx approach having a presence in this space?
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
2011 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center provides a home for the birth, nurture and celebration of our organizations, institutions and culture; cares for our individuals and groups in need; educates the public and our community; and empowers our individuals and groups to achieve their fullest potential.
Strategic Question
What are the goals of the Family Services program? How should the Family Services program grow (i.e., “start, stop, continue”)?
The Olana Partnership
2011 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Olana Partnership supports the conservation, preservation, development and improvement of Olana State Historic Site, the 250-acre, artist-designed landscape and home of famed Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church.
Strategic Question
Is it feasible for TOP to assume management of Olana?
Upwardly Global
2011 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Upwardly Global's mission to eliminate employment barriers for skilled immigrants and refugees and integrate this population into the professional U.S. workforce.
Strategic Question
What is UpGlo’s intended impact within healthcare? How should Upwardly Global decide which new healthcare professions to enter? Based on this framework, which healthcare professions should UpGlo enter?
Voices of September 11th
2011 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
www.voicesofseptember11.org
Mission
Voices of September 11th provides information, support services and annual commemorative events for 9/11 families, rescue workers and survivors; commemorates the lives and stories of September 11th; and promotes public policy reform on prevention, preparedness and response to terrorism.
Strategic Question
What support services did they receive or currently receive? What are the gaps in their support services needs? Do these needs vary by survivor segment? If so, how? What services can VOICES provide given its long-standing work with 9/11 families and rescue workers?
Wildcat Service Corporation
2011 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Wildcat provides job opportunities and resources for New Yorkers to become economically independent. Wildcat has helped hundreds of thousands of unemployed and underemployed New Yorkers find jobs, build careers, and receive training.
Strategic Question
How should Wildcat determine which industries to expand into?
Wildlife Conservation Society
2011 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild lands around the world through science, conservation, education and management of the world’s largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo.
Strategic Question
What are the goals for the Bronx Zoo store? What is the right positioning for the Bronx Zoo store?
Women’s Initiative for Self Employment
2011 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Women's Initiative builds the entrepreneurial capacity of women to overcome economic and social barriers and achieve economic self-sufficiency.
Strategic Question
What are the key strategic factors Women’s Initiative should consider in determining whether to: Grow or not more broadly?
Grow or not in a specific area? Assuming growth, what are the strategic options Women’s Initiative might consider for its growth?
Accion USA
2010 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Accion empowers low- to moderate-income business owners through access to fairly priced financial products and education. These entrepreneurs – often minorities and women – can build sustainable assets, better provide for their families, create employment and strengthen their communities.
Strategic Question
How can the East Coast lending model be scaled? What needs should ACCION seek to meet?
Harlem Educational Activities Fund
2010 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
HEAF changes the lives of underserved young people in middle school through college and beyond, through a youth development approach that includes year-round academic enrichment, social and cultural exposure, and individualized attention.
Strategic Question
What are the organizational and resource implications for HEAF in launching an expansion? What will be the value proposition to potential funders as part of the capital growth campaign?
Mt. Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program
2010 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Mount Sinai SAVI Program provides free and confidential counseling, advocacy, support and referral services to past and present survivors of rape, sexual assault, incest, and domestic violence, and their families and friends.
Strategic Question
How should SAVI pursue growth? What are the options for growth as well as the financial and resource implications?
Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners (formerly Credit Where Credit Is Due)
2010 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners empowers low-income people to become productive participants in the U.S. economic system, helping them convert low wages into assets and long-term wealth, while simultaneously contributing to community revitalization.
Strategic Question
How should CWCID pursue growth of its Getting Ahead financial education model (e.g. program expansion, geographic expansion, etc.)?
Peace First
2010 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Peace First empowers students to create their own safe classrooms and communities by forming partnerships with elementary schools, middle schools and young adult volunteers.
Strategic Question
What are the key central functions and capacities Peace First needs to build out in order to scale (e.g. training, evaluation, product development, technology, learning and knowledge management)?
Pro Mujer
2010 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Pro Mujer is an international women’s development organization founded in 1990 which provides Latin America’s women with the means to build livelihoods for themselves and opportunities for their children through financial services, business and empowerment training and high-quality, low-cost healthcare.
Strategic Question
What criteria should Pro Mujer use to evaluate potential new markets? What are the factors critical to an organization’s success during expansion?
Project Enterprise
2010 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Project Enterprise’s mission is to support and develop entrepreneurs and small businesses in under-resourced communities in New York City by providing micro loans, business development services and networking opportunities.
Strategic Question
Should PE involve more individuals in investing in its revolving loan fund? What are the options? What is the demand?
Summer Search
2010 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Summer Search is a national youth development organization whose mission is to help low-income teenagers transform what they believe is possible for themselves and develop the skills they need to become college-educated leaders who give back to their families and communities.
Strategic Question
How should Summer Search build out its clusters during this growth phase? What are the priority geographic areas? What are the major drivers of cost?
Teach for America
2010 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Teach For America's mission is to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting our nation's most promising future leaders in the effort.
Strategic Question
How should Teach for America build to its goal of 10% Native American students, given growth and funding constraints? What are the growth options and the implications for the current network?
The Fresh Air Fund
2010 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Fresh Air Fund has provided free summer experiences in the country to more than 1.7 million New York City children from disadvantaged communities since 1877.
Strategic Question
How should FAF pursue growth of its year-round programming? What are the option and implications?
YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood
2010 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood is a multi-service community center providing educational, recreational, and social services for members from pre-school to homebound frail elderly in both individual and group settings.
Strategic Question
How should the organization appropriately structure fees for arts programs (e.g. financial aid, staggered fee membership structure, etc.)?
Wildlife Conservation Society
2010 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild lands around the world through science, conservation, education and management of the world’s largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo.
Strategic Question
What are the ways that the private sector might invest with WCS in projects focused on verifiable emissions reductions sold as carbon offsets?
Brooklyn Community Service
2009 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Brooklyn Community Services seeks to empower at-risk children, youth and families, and adults with mental illness or developmental disabilities to overcome the obstacles they face, as we strive to ensure opportunity for all to learn, grow and contribute to ONE Brooklyn Community.
Strategic Question
If the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service were to launch an elder care management venture in New York City, what is the revenue potential?
Cancer Research Institute
2009 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The Cancer Research Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving the lives of cancer patients through immunotherapy, science-based treatments that help the body’s immune system to fight disease.
Strategic Question
What is the operational feasibility of implementing a point of sale fundraising campaign?
City Kids
2009 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
City Kids' mission is to empower urban young people, ages 13 to 19, through arts and educational programs to develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to succeed in school, the workplace, and in life.
Strategic Question
How should CityKids position and price its flagship program Bridge Builder Initiative to most effectively enhance the organization’s future growth?
iMentor
2009 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
iMentor builds mentoring relationships that empower students from low-income communities to graduate high school, succeed in college, and achieve their ambitions.
Strategic Question
How should iMentor Interactive position and price its online mentoring platform in order to ensure a sustainable growth phase over the next 5 years? What basket of partner types would be optimal in order to maximize profitability?
Lighthouse International
2009 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
www.lighthouse.org
Mission
Since 1905, Lighthouse International has led the charge in the fight against vision loss through prevention, treatment and empowerment.
Strategic Question
If Lighthouse International were to launch an eco-friendly glasses line, would there be sufficient market demand to ensure a viable venture?
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
2009 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society mobilizes people and resources to drive research for a cure and to address the challenges of everyone affected by multiple sclerosis.
Strategic Question
What homecare services delivery model should the National MS Society – New York Chapter adopt in order to drive organizational efficiency and high-quality service?
New York Cares
2009 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
New York Cares is the city's largest volunteer management organization, running volunteer programs for 1,300 nonprofits, city agencies, and public schools.
Strategic Question
How should New York Cares devote its resources to amplify volunteer engagement and use its resources most efficiently?
Oceana
2009 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Oceana is the largest international organization focused solely on ocean conservation. Their offices in North America, South America and Europe work together on strategic and directed campaigns to help return our oceans to former levels of abundance.
Strategic Question
What framework should Oceana use to assess potential areas of expansion as it expands its global footprint, and what are these countries?
Selfhelp
2009 U.S. Strategy Challenge Participant
Mission
Selfhelp is dedicated to maintaining the independence and dignity of seniors and at-risk populations through a spectrum of housing, home health care and social services.
Strategic Question
If Selfhelp were to launch a consulting practice to help other organizations access capital and perform construction oversight for their senior housing properties, how viable would this venture be?
