Waterloo

Sample of Consulting Projects

• Venture for America

  Area: Entrepreneurship
  Year: 2020

  

  Venture for America (VFA) is a nonprofit organization headquartered in New York City that was founded in 2011 with the mission to create economic opportunity in American cities by mobilizing the next generation of entrepreneurs and equipping them with the skills and resources they need to create jobs.
  
  VFA is a competitive two-year fellowship program for recent college graduates who want to work at a startup and create jobs in American cities.
  
  www.ventureforamerica.org

• Business and Education Partnership of Waterloo region

  Area: Education
  Year: 2019

  

  Business Education Partnerships is a non-profit with the goal of providing high school students guidance to find the career best suited for them.
  BEP was looking for efficient ways in which they could efficiently spend the money their organization receives.
  
  For the first project, the 180DC Consultants produced an in-depth analysis of the current costs BEP was incurring, conducted research detailing alternative services that would incur lower costs and completed a risk assessment on each alternative.
  
  For the second project, BEP was looking to solidify and systematize the way they engaged with corporate donors. To achieve that, 180DC identified potential local corporate donors, identified key individuals to approach within those potential donor organizations, and provided engagement strategies to attract them to donate to BEP.
  
  www.bus-edpartnership.org/

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Waterloo Region

  Area: Youth
  Year: 2019

  

  Big Brothers Big Sisters of Waterloo Region foster and facilitate high quality, safe mentoring relationships for children in need. They believe in delivering high quality volunteer-based mentoring programs that will change the lives of youth and help them achieve their potential.
  
  At the heart of their challenge was finding the funds to support additional programs and hire more staff, as only a small portion of their funding is consistent, while the rest varies every year. They were looking for ways they can save money on their operational expenses while exploring more consistent funding that Big Brothers Big Sisters of Waterloo Region can rely on.
  
  For this project, the 180 consultants produced an in-depth analysis of the current costs Big Brothers Big Sisters were incurring, conducted research detailing alternatives services that would incur lower costs. They looked into alternative means of funding that offer a consistent amount every year.
  
  www.waterloo.bigbrothersbigsisters.ca/

• Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation

  Area: Grants
  Year: 2019

  

  Through their pilot program called, On The Table, KWCF and Cambridge and North Dumfries Community Foundation (CDNCF) hoped to understand what topics were of the most importance to individuals across the Waterloo region.
  
  The On The Table event was held between September 27 – 29.
  KWCF and CNDCF achieved their goal of hosting 25 sites as part of the On the Table pilot. These events were hosted by interested community members across the Waterloo region.
  
  180 Degrees Consulting Waterloo first made changes to the existing ‘Take Action’ worksheet that KWCF had created. This was then shared with the hosts of each On the Table session.
  
  Then, the Consultants created a form to gather feedback from the hosts. After the sessions had been completed, consultants reviewed the data collected and formulated a report to identify what issues matter to individuals across the Waterloo region.
  
  www.kwcf.ca/

• Canadian Mental Health Association

  Area: Health
  Year: 2019

  

  CMHA is an organization that provides a full care system for those with addictions, mental health or development needs. This full-care system includes providing recovery-focused programs for the Waterloo community and businesses.
  
  The consultants analyzed CMHA's current processes, highlighted key pain points, and proposed a procedure on how to solve the problems CMHA had with their current process.
  
  www.cmhaww.ca/