Past Consulting Engagements
Since 2012, PennPAC has completed 161 pro bono consulting projects in New York City, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area. PennPAC works with nonprofit clients to design a customized project in one of these areas:
- Strategic analysis and growth planning
- Marketing, messaging and communications strategies
- Program analysis
- Accounting and finance review
- Funding strategies, including earned income opportunities
- Board development strategy, including junior boards
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Download a list of past consulting engagements here.
Client | Topic | Year | Location | Description |
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Change Summer | Growth Planning | 2022 | NY | Mini Project: PennPAC developed an organizational chart and staffing plan to align with the organization’s projected growth over the next few years. |
Correctional Association of New York (CANY) | Program Analysis | 2022 | NY | PennPAC analized the opportunities and costs associated with implementing prison oversight programs that leverage volunteers. |
Covenant House | Organizational Structure | 2022 | NY | PennPAC identified strategies for creating career pathways and professional development opportunities for front line and direct service staff. |
Girl Be Heard | Marketing Strategy | 2022 | NY | Mini Project: PennPAC identified priorities and resources in preparation for an organizational rebranding initiative. |
Housing Partnership | Growth Planning | 2022 | NY | PennPAC assessed the organization’s position in the market and competitive advantages to inform where to focus its work in the years ahead. |
The REACH Institute | Marketing Strategy | 2022 | NY | PennPAC created a marketing and awareness strategy for a REACH program focused on providing education on mental health treatment to therapists. |
American Swedish Historical Museum | Growth Planning | 2022 | Philadelphia | Mini Project: PennPAC Philadelphia conducted a wide range of stakeholder interviews and reviewed best practices to support the ASHM strategic planning process. |
Mitzvah Circle Foundation | Marketing Strategy | 2022 | Philadelphia | PennPAC Philadelphia developed a marketing strategy that includes tools to attract additional donors. |
5 Buckets Foundation | Program Analysis | 2022 | Bay Area | PennPAC Bay Area conducted a landscape analysis of local financial literacy programs, evaluated current communications systems, and created a roadmap for future marketing efforts. |
Thrive Alliance | Program Analysis | 2021 | Bay Area | PennPAC Bay Area created a quantitative analysis model of the local nonprofit landscape that will aid Thrive Alliance in current and future efforts to assist the sector. |
Sitike Counseling Center | Growth Planning | 2021 | Bay Area | PennPAC Bay Area provided Sitike Counseling Center with recommendations on how to strengthen their technology infrastructure in order to increase efficiency and improve and grow service offerings. |
Brooklyn Community Services | Marketing Strategy | 2021 | NY | PennPAC reviewed BCS' event strategy, explored best practices for both virtual and hybrid events, helped to create an events calendar and recommended metrics to evaluate results. |
Elite Learners | Program Analysis | 2021 | NY | PennPAC conducted a program analysis for Elite Learners, considering their mission and how to best assess their impact. They provided recommendations and resources to shape their future programmatic priorities. |
Harlem Junior Tennis & Education Program | Marketing Strategy | 2021 | NY | PennPAC developed a communications strategy for HJTEP, with a focus on donor communications and messaging to various constituents via their website and social media. |
South Bronx United | Marketing Strategy | 2021 | NY | PennPAC reviewed South Bronx United’s marketing and communications strategy and focused on how to deliver targeted messaging to their various stakeholder groups across a range of channels. |
TheaterWorks USA | Marketing Strategy | 2021 | NY | PennPAC examined the marketing and branding strategy for TWUSA’s two new online platforms and considered how to best leverage current social media strategies, digital user experience best practices, and a wide range of partnerships to complement their core business. |
Womankind | Organizational Structure | 2021 | NY | PennPAC reviewed Womankind’s operations, financial systems, processes and controls and provided recommendations on how to make improvements in these areas to increase efficiency and reduce risk. |
IMPACCT Brooklyn | Organizational Structure | 2021 | NY | Mini Project: PennPAC assessed the organizational structure of IMPACCT’s finance and accounting functions. They made recommendations on how to leverage both staff and consultants to optimize effectiveness and efficiency and provided metrics to analyze their operations. |
Xavier Mission | Marketing Strategy | 2021 | NY | Mini Project: PennPAC created a marketing strategy for Xavier Mission that includes recommendations on timing, content and market segmentation. |
Philadelphia Futures | Marketing Strategy | 2021 | Philadelphia | PennPAC Philadelphia created a communications strategy for Philadelphia Futures that included including targeted messaging for various stakeholders aligned with the organization’s commitment to anti-racism. |
Brooklyn Navy Yard | Growth Planning | 2021 | NY | PennPAC provided recommendations to inform BNY's plan to launch Yard Labs, a new initiative that will enable companies to “to use the Yard as a living lab and test bed for new technologies.” |
One Brooklyn Health | Marketing | 2021 | NY | PennPAC evaluated OBH's marketing and branding, and helped them to create a strong and compelling message about their ability to serve the community. |
Literature to Life | Growth Planning | 2021 | NY | Mini Project: PennPAC helped Literature to Life prioritize areas of focus as they develop an actionable strategic plan. |
Project Tomorrow | Growth Planning | 2021 | NY | PennPAC provided Project Tomorrow with an analysis of nonprofit replication strategies and opportunities, as well as best practices for program replication. |
Publicolor | Growth Planning | 2021 | NY | PennPAC identified strategies to expand and replicate Publicolor's programs. |
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYPLI) | Marketing | 2021 | NY | PennPAC assisted NYPLI in creating marketing and outreach strategies for stakeholders including volunteer attorneys, small law firms, vendors and community-based organizations to increase awareness of their mission and programs. |
Alpha Bravo Canine | Marketing | 2021 | Philadelphia | Mini Project: PennPAC Philadelphia reviewed ABC's marketing materials and assessed their messaging to ensure that their communications are mission aligned and specifically targeted to a range of stakeholders. |
Support Center for Child Advocates | Program Analysis | 2021 | Philadelphia | PennPAC Philadelphia helped SCCA create a performance assessment tool for their volunteers. |
Family Connections | Program Analysis | 2021 | Bay Area | PennPAC Bay Area provided Family Connections with the tools to efficiently and robustly track their organizational impact through data acquisition and standardization. |
Fix Our Ferals | Marketing Strategy | 2020 | Bay Area | PennPAC Bay Area helped their client select a new name - Veterinary Access - that betters reflect their broadened scope of services for cats and dogs in San Francisco's East Bay. They also assisted with new mission and vison statements as well as a communications plan. |
Mission Bit | Marketing Strategy | 2020 | Bay Area | PennPAC Bay Area designed a streamlined data acquisition and management system to track Mission Bit's alumni and developed targeted communication and engagement strategies for supporting and connecting them. |
The Always Dream Foundation | Marketing Strategy | 2020 | Bay Area | PennPAC Bay Area created a Parental Resource Guide for The Always Dream Foundation's website that includes best practices for developing early childhood literacy in the home. Additionally, the team developed a framework for training beneficiary families on the Foundation's virtual communications platforms. |
Casita Maria | Marketing Strategy | 2020 | NY | PennPAC designed a mass communication strategy to more effectively reach various stakeholder groups in the near and long term. |
Democracy Prep Public School | Growth Planning | 2020 | NY | PennPAC evaluated Democracy Prep's near-to-peer advising program, including the staffing and delivery model necessary to support an increasing number of recent graduates. |
Diaspora Community Services | Program Analysis | 2020 | NY | Mini Project: PennPAC helped Diaspora Community Services to establish data collection processes for their program areas so they can better communicate their results to external stakeholders. |
Fast Feet NYC | Growth Planning | 2020 | NY | Mini Project: PennPAC worked with Fast Feet NYC to develop a strategy for geographic expansion. |
Flatbush Development Corporation | Board Development Strategy | 2020 | NY | PennPAC provided recommendations to FDC on how to establish a Junior Board to engage a younger constituency. |
Green Worker Cooperatives | Financial Analysis | 2020 | NY | Mini Project: PennPAC provided GWC with best practices in the areas of operations, financial systems, and funding opportunities. |
PennPAC | Growth Planning | 2020 | NY | The PennPAC for PennPAC project yielded recommendations that will have further refine our road map for how we can increase our capacity and improve our sustainability. |
Row NY | Growth Planning | 2020 | NY | PennPAC explored the viability of creating an Adaptive Rowing League, (programs for patients doing physical rehab) and created a framework for assessing the cost effectiveness of other revenue generating programs |
Slice Out Hunger | Growth Planning | 2020 | NY | Mini Project: PennPAC created a plan to build organizational infrastructure that included guidance on board guidelines, operations, communications, and engagement. |
Terra Firma | Growth Planning | 2020 | NY | PennPAC developed recommendations for Terra Firma on how to replicate their program model and provided guidance on a funding strategy compatible with this effort. |
Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone | Growth Planning | 2020 | NY | PennPAC advised UMEZ on strategies to procure capital for loan funding and identified institutions in the banking sector to target. |
Urban Green Council | Growth Planning | 2020 | NY | PennPAC developed a road map to expand Urban Green Council's Green Professional (GPRO) offering, a national training program that teaches the principles of sustainability and trade-specific green construction & maintenance. |
Smith Memorial Playground and Playhouse | Growth Planning | 2020 | Philadelphia | PennPAC Philadelphia provided Smith Playground with recommendations on how to increase their member enrollment and engagement. |
San Francisco Achievers | Growth Planning | 2019 | Bay Area | PennPAC Bay Area gave SFA the tools to evaluate growth and possible expansion within SFUSD in the face of the dramatically changing demographics of SF. |
Black Women's Blueprint | Marketing Strategy | 2019 | NY | PennPAC helped BWB to develop a Corporate Marketing Strategy. |
Brownsville Community Justice Center | Growth Planning | 2019 | NY | PennPAC provided BCJC with a plan to guide the expansion of its Neighborhood Hub's training and job placement programming. |
Center for Family Life | Growth Planning | 2019 | NY | PennPAC determined the optimal market for CFL's Brightly cooperative expansion and developed a replicable framework to be leveraged for future growth. |
GallopNYC | Funding Strategy | 2019 | NY | PennPAC provided GallopNYC with recommendations on how to diversify their revenue streams. |
Institute for Career Development | Program Analysis | 2019 | NY | Mini Project: PennPAC identified gaps in veteran employment services and provided recommendations to build ICD's veteran employment program. |
Jumpstart | Marketing Strategy | 2019 | NY | Mini Project: PennPAC provided research and recommendations to help Jumpstart improve its marketing strategy to develop new corporate sponsorships. |
Mentor New York | Growth Planning | 2019 | NY | PennPAC helped Mentor New York assess the different ways to provide additional youth with mentors. |
Queens College | Funding Strategy | 2019 | NY | Mini Project: PennPAC provided recommendations to increase revenue from Queen College's parking services. |
Sunnyside Community Services | Marketing | 2019 | NY | PennPAC developed a positioning strategy to increase referrals to Sunnyside's home-care services. |
The Legal Aid Society | Organizational Structure | 2019 | NY | PennPAC identified new markets and provided recommendations to LAS to update the scope of its consumer debt services. |
The Liberty Fund | Board Development Strategy | 2019 | NY | PennPAC helped TLF to develop a strategy to create an Associate Board that can leverage their own social networks to increase fundraising and visibility. |
Community Child Care Council (4Cs) of Alameda County | Financial Analysis | 2018 | Bay Area | PennPAC provided a finance strategy for 4Cs of Alameda County to initiate and run an internal incubator program. |
R.O.C.K. | Web/Social Media | 2018 | Bay Area | PennPAC reviewed R.O.C.K.’s current social media channels and created a comprehensive social media strategy and plan for the organization. |
Exalt Youth | Replication/Growth | 2018 | NY | Mini Project: PennPAC helped identify new and expanded internship opportunities for Exalt’s students, particularly in the STEM fields. |
GMHC | Marketing | 2018 | NY | GMHC sought PennPAC’s assistance to update their marketing and messaging strategy to communicate their updated value proposition to key stakeholders. |
Grace Institute | Program Evaluation | 2018 | NY | PennPAC provided assistance to assess the impact of rapidly changing technology on key sectors for Grace's graduates and made recommendations to update their training curriculum. |
Horizons National | Replication/Growth | 2018 | NY | PennPAC developed a growth plan to identify attractive opportunities and provide recommendations around organizational structure and governance for Horizons National's affiliate expansion. |
ITAC | Web/Social Media | 2018 | NY | Mini Project: As a follow up to the website development project undertaken by the PennPAC team during the Spring 2018 project cycle, this project focused on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and related activities. |
ITAC | Web/Social Media | 2018 | NY | PennPAC assisted ITAC with a web redesign strategy that included an updated design, positioning, and messaging that reflected best practices and communicated the organization’s expanded services into high tech advanced manufacturing initiatives. |
LIFT | Marketing | 2018 | NY | PennPAC developed a marketing strategy to update LIFT’s brand positioning and communications to reflect recent initiatives that have expanded the scope and scale of their services. |
New York Junior League | Program Evaluation | 2018 | NY | PennPAC helped NYJL to develop an impact measurement strategy for a representative selection of programs that would serve as a roadmap to replicate across the organization. |
Pace University | Financial Analysis | 2018 | NY | PennPAC provided an assessment of the opportunity to leverage Pace’s underutilized real estate assets, primarily residence halls, and developed a high-level implementation plan for entering these markets. Earned income from the plan will assist in funding student-centered initiatives while offsetting tuition increases. |
The Floating Hospital | Marketing | 2018 | NY | PennPAC developeda digital marketing strategy to promote a health clinic in Astoria Queens based on a comprehensive demographic review of the neighborhood. |
American Cancer Society | Marketing | 2018 | Philadelphia | PennPAC helped the Society create a plan to promote its services to the general public with special emphasis on their Daffodil Days program. |
Fairmount Park Conservancy | Marketing | 2018 | Philadelphia | PennPAC helped create a business, operations, and marketing plan for the Conservancy's Gifts for All Seasons program. |
Horizons | Replication/Growth | 2018 | Philadelphia | PennPAC developed a roadmap for growth for Horizons in the Philadelphia area, focusing on the organizational dynamics and structure of expanding the program into more schools; establishing growth milestones; assessing the costs and benefits of branding locally vs. nationally; and researching the most effective ways to raise local funds in support of the expansion. |
Journey Beyond | Marketing | 2018 | Philadelphia | PennPAC created a communication and marketing strategy for the client’s fundraising needs. |
The Moyer Foundation | Development | 2018 | Philadelphia | PennPAC provided guidance to the Foundation on its fundraising challenges, in the wake of its rapid expansion. |
Youth Build | Strategic Planning | 2018 | Philadelphia | PennPAC assisted YouthBuild with a business plan and growth strategy for their new “Learning Exchange” platform which will serve as an educational resource complete with training materials, case studies, videos, and other technical assistance offerings for other schools, programs, and partners. |
D-Rev | Product Analysis | 2017 | Bay Area | The team conducted a market assessment and product analysis for a potential future product in the newborn health space. |
Science is Elementary | Replication/Growth | 2017 | Bay Area | PennPAC evaluated and made recommendations regarding growth opportunities for SiE, providing the client with potential targets and a user case study for marketing their licensing agreement. |
Exalt Youth | Communications | 2017 | NY | PennPAC developed a plan to guide the messaging and strategy for communications with individual donors and community partners, as well as drafted two communications pieces. |
Godwin-Ternbach Museum (Museum at Queens College) | Strategic Planning | 2017 | NY | PennPAC provided the strategic planning research and assessment to guide the museum in writing a strategic plan. PennPAC conducted an internal and external scan to prepare a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis, identified key goals for the plan, and provided a planning template. |
I Have A Dream Foundation | Strategic Planning | 2017 | NY | PennPAC provided a strategic growth plan to systematize and strengthen their affiliate growth. The team assessed the strength of the current network of affiliates, identified best practices, and provided recommendations for a growth strategy to assist IHDF in achieving the ambitious growth target laid out in their Vision 2020 plan. |
Kupferberg Center for the Arts | Marketing | 2017 | NY | The PennPAC team developed revenue maximization strategies for KCA, compatible with its mission statement and goal of engaging better with the community. The components included an analysis of Queens demographics; a synthesis of information gleaned from stakeholders as well as industry experts; and a market research survey of 60,000 customers, non-customers, and university affiliates. |
Learning About Multimedia Project | Financial Analysis | 2017 | NY | PennPAC assisted the LAMP three years ago in developing a pricing model for their proposals. The model has been a valuable, and widely used tool to which they attribute supporting the growth and success they have experienced. However, it no longer meets their needs as the proposal requirements have grown in size and complexity. PennPAC developed a user friendly, flexible, updated pricing model for LAMP's RFPs and provided in-person training and detailed documentation/manual for LAMP staff. |
NYC Housing Partnership | Financial Analysis | 2017 | NY | PennPAC assisted NYC Housing Partnership in assessing the fit and attractiveness of three opportunity areas under consideration: mergers and acquisitions with distressed housing nonprofits, small lending, and development. |
One to World | Financial Analysis | 2017 | NY | PennPAC assisted OTW in evaluating two potential new revenue streams. As part of this evaluation, PennPAC conducted a market analysis for both opportunities and developed a go to market strategy. |
Riverdale Senior Services | Web/Social Media | 2017 | NY | PennPAC supported their small marketing staff with recommendations and execution of a digital marketing strategy. We assisted them in establishing a Facebook presence, designing email marketing, and advising an under-resourced website redesign project underway. |
Concilio | Development | 2017 | Philadelphia | PennPAC identified a strategy to diversify funding streams including corporate sponsors, individual donors, foundation and federal grants; created a plan to boost fundraising during cultural events; and developed a proposal to better integrate the organization's social services and cultural work. |
Read by 4th (Free Library of Philadelphia) | Communications | 2017 | Philadelphia | PennPAC researched best practices and available resources and built a proprietary library of tips for parents. Tips were based on evidence-based research and/or best practices, and were worded to be understandable to parents with a 4th grade reading level. The team also created a tip library and recommended strategy for distribution to a wide audience. |
Sunrise of Philadelphia | Communications | 2017 | Philadelphia | PennPAC developed and refined a consistent messaging strategy for all programs; provided feedback on new logo and new mission statement in order to brand the organization for future growth; developed a one sentence tag-line; and reviewed social media, website and newsletter and suggested ways to better utilize these platforms. |
Women Against Abuse | Marketing | 2017 | Philadelphia | PennPAC analyzed current marketing materials and platforms, met with key staff members and developed a formal marketing plan for the organization as a whole or for specific programs. |
A Caring Hand | Development | 2016 | NY | PennPAC advised A Caring Hand on how to grow, develop, and further engage their board and fledgling junior board, to support them in achieving the goals of the strategic plan. |
Competent Kids Caring Communities | Marketing | 2016 | NY | The PennPAC team evaluated strategies to further penetrate sales of the program into schools, as well as the potential to seek additional grant-based funding. Applying their findings, the team developed a growth plan to help this program take off. |
Footsteps | Financial Analysis | 2016 | NY | PennPAC helped Footsteps in conducting a financial review to identify fully allocated costs for their programs and provide financial tools and recommendations in support of their marketing, development, and growth planning. |
GallopNYC | Program Evaluation | 2016 | NY | PennPAC reviewed stakeholder needs and the processes associated with the evaluation system, its goals and metrics, and communication of its outcomes, to provide recommendations for strengthening the impact of this system. |
Jumpstart | Marketing | 2016 | NY | PennPAC developed key messages for 4 stakeholder groups: student volunteers, college partners, preschool partners, and donors. Also recommended communication vehicles, timing and a high-level digital strategy. |
NYC Industrial and Technology Assistance Corp | Replication/Growth | 2016 | NY | The PennPAC team developed a strategic growth plan to guide ITAC’s entry into the digital manufacturing space. The plan defined the spectrum of advanced manufacturing, identified relevant services for ITAC’s client base, provided an overview on the NYC landscape of competition and potential partners, and identified opportunities for ITAC. |
Pro Bono Net | Marketing | 2016 | NY | The PennPAC team provided a marketing and communications plan to assist Probono.net in reaching more people with legal needs and more effectively engaging with current and new partners. |
Violence Intervention Program | Program Evaluation | 2016 | NY | The PennPAC team conducted a strategic review of VIP's program offerings and the resources required and evaluated the services of peer organizations as well as client needs to provide recommendations for an optimal target of services. |
Centro Nuevo Creacion | Development | 2016 | Philadelphia | The PennPAC team updated communication materials and developed a strategy for donor outreach, grant management, relationship building, and retention. |
Graduate Philadelphia | Marketing | 2016 | Philadelphia | The PennPAC team developed strategies for the general public and for specific groups that will help Graduate! Philadelphia tailor its communication messages and materials to specific groups of adult students. |
Bloomingdale School of Music | Program Evaluation | 2015 | NY | BSM sought PennPAC's assistance with a strategic plan for growing sales of an underutilized online music theory education product. PennPAC helped BSM identify the optimal positioning, pricing and promotion strategy. |
Carter Burden - CBCA | Marketing | 2015 | NY | Carter Burden asked PennPAC for help with an updated branding and messaging strategy to unite the organization in light of recent acquisitions, grants, and program expansion. |
Comprehensive Development, Inc. | Board Development Strategy | 2015 | NY | PennPAC provided CDI with recommendations for the recruitment and structure of forming a junior board to develop a new pipeline of younger volunteers and donors. |
Dave Nee - DNF | Financial Analysis | 2015 | NY | DNF asked for PennPAC's assistance in developing a pricing and transition strategy to migrate a free product for law schools to a fee for service model. The DNF Team found that it would be challenging to move to a fee-for-service model and therefore provided 6 other options for future financial viability of the organization and detailed one such model. |
New York City Coalition Against Hunger | Program Evaluation | 2015 | NY | PennPAC created a volunteer cultivation strategy to guide NYCCAH in attracting and retaining long-term strategic volunteers. |
Riverdale Neighborhood House | Replication/Growth | 2015 | NY | RNH engaged PennPAC at the successful conclusion of a major capital campaign and facilities expansion effort. PennPAC assisted RNH in preparing a strategic growth plan for programming to leverage RNH's newly renovated teen center and new gymnasium. |
SAYA - South Asian Youth Action | Marketing | 2015 | NY | The SAYA Team developed an updated positioning statement, tailored messaging points for SAYA's target audiences and specific recommendations for SAYA's one-pager, annual report, video, website and social media presence. |
Thyroid, Head & Neck Cancer Foundation | Development | 2015 | NY | The THANC Foundation was seeking to develop a plan to ensure sustainable funding to support expansion in reach and functionality of its product and was evaluating multiple potential funding avenues. PennPAC developed an approach for THANC to seek funding through venture capital or other early stage investor categories and provided detailed recommendations on two of the approaches. |
Children's Orchestra Society | Development | 2014 | NY | PennPAC assisted COS with a broad development strategy to strengthen its fundraising. |
Hudson River Community Sailing | Marketing | 2014 | NY | This engagement entailed developing a marketing plan to assist HRCS in growing their fee for services revenue to support their youth programs. |
National Medical Fellowships | Marketing | 2014 | NY | PennPAC provided NMF with messaging and a strategy to promote NMF and reconnect them with program alums in preparation for their 70th anniversary celebration. |
NYC Urban Debate League | Financial Analysis | 2014 | NY | PennPAC assisted the NYC Urban Debate League with a two part development plan that looked at potential for raising funds through fee for services programs to wealthy schools and a strategy to develop relationships and fundraising within the financial services and law firm sectors. |
Pajama Program | Marketing | 2014 | NY | The Pajama Program team created a marketing strategy including the creation of messaging, media selection and promotional campaign concepts. |
Renaissance Youth Center | Web/Social Media | 2014 | NY | In PennPAC's second engagement with Renaissance, a PennPAC project team created tailored messaging points for Renaissance's various target audiences including the design of prototypes for a public service announcement, brochure and press kit. |
Sports and Arts in Schools Foundation | Marketing | 2014 | NY | PennPAC developed messaging points and a marketing strategy to recruit college alumni volunteers to mentor graduates from SASF's programs. This project had a very big reach and was designed to support SASF grads as they continued on to college, many of whom are the FIF (first in the family) to attend college. |
YWCA | Program Evaluation | 2014 | NY | This engagement assisted the YW in reviewing the role of its Academy of Women Leaders (AWL) and the AWL's annual Salute Luncheon benefit to reposition them both to be more current and integral to the YW and more effective at fundraising. |
Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia | Marketing | 2014 | Philadelphia | The PennPAC team developed a messaging strategy and produced marketing materials that provided AVP with a cohesive brand image. |
Mighty Writers | Replication/Growth | 2014 | Philadelphia | The PennPAC team developed a fundraising strategy for the opening of a new center and conducted a financial analysis to help optimize Mighty Writers' individual giving campaign. |
Philadelphia Education Fund | Marketing | 2014 | Philadelphia | The team created a marketing strategy for PEF. |
Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger | Marketing | 2013 | NY | The PennPAC team assisted BSCAH in developing and producing an array of updated marketing materials for clients, funders, and a press kit promoting its affiliation with the NFL for upcoming Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014. |
Breakthrough New York | Replication/Growth | 2013 | NY | BTNY asked PennPAC to assist them in creating a Replication Plan to guide them in the steps to double their current program sites from two to four locations in the next two years. |
Children of Promise | Replication/Growth | 2013 | NY | The PennPAC team assisted CPNYC in performing a feasibility study regarding replicating to a second program site, and developing a hands-on Replication Plan. |
Learning About Multimedia Project | Financial Analysis | 2013 | NY | The LAMP was seeking outside support to analyze and model their cost structure to support budgeting and the grant proposal process. |
Mobile Kitchen Classroom | Financial Analysis | 2013 | NY | The project proposal for this young organization involved creating a feasible timeline, implementation plan and budget for the launch this new program. |
Riverdale Neighborhood House | Web/Social Media | 2013 | NY | RNH was looking for a team to help them strategize their website upgrade including a landscape analysis and the creation of a site map so their audiences could better understand the organization's program offerings. |
STRIVE | Financial Analysis | 2013 | NY | After previously experiencing rapid and haphazard growth of its franchises with mixed results, STRIVE was looking for a PennPAC team to review the historical performance of its franchises and develop a strategic growth plan to guide and optimize future growth. |
Children's Village | Replication/Growth | 2013 | Philadelphia | The PennPAC team conducted a feasibility study to determine whether Children's Village should open an eighth School-Age Program classroom. |
Maternity Care Coalition | Development | 2013 | Philadelphia | MCC was looking for a team to help develop and define the responsibilities of a Young Leadership Circle (YLC). |
People's Emergency Center | Marketing | 2013 | Philadelphia | The PennPAC team developed a branding and marketing strategy for the People's Emergency Center to increase revenue and name recognition. |
Armory Foundation | Web/Social Media | 2012 | NY | This team developed an in-depth social media strategy and recommendations regarding communication with Armory Track alumni. |
City Lore | Development | 2012 | NY | A PennPAC team researched best practices and strategies to help City Lore create and retain a new generation of interested followers through the formation of a junior board. |
Pro Bono Net | Marketing | 2012 | NY | The project team performed elaborate research and a SWOT analysis to provide suggestions regarding operational efficiencies as well as marketing recommendations to reposition a fee for service product. |
Renaissance Youth Center | Web/Social Media | 2012 | NY | The first PennPAC/Renaissance Youth Center project team performed a SWOT analysis to provide candid and tactical recommendations re operational efficiencies and marketing. |
Say Yes to Education | Marketing | 2012 | NY | The PennPAC team interviewed program alumni to create bios and marketing recommendations to re-engage past participants for their upcoming 25th anniversary gala. |
12+ | Development | 2012 | Philadelphia | The 12+ team researched and created a development outreach strategy. |
Students Run Philly Style | Marketing | 2012 | Philadelphia | The SRPS team provided recommendations on ways to increase the organization's local visibility and press presence. |
Urban Affairs Coalition | Financial Analysis | 2012 | Philadelphia | The team endeavored to assess the pricing methodology for this business coalition that serves as back office for many nonprofits. |
Bottom Line | Marketing | 2011 | NY | The Bottom Line team researched marketing channels to assist this established-- but new to NY--nonprofit; the team interviewed other nonprofits in the college access sector and also NY-based nonprofits that had successful marketing and PR programs. |
Common Cents | Marketing | 2011 | NY | In PennPAC's first project, the team created a communication and engagement plan for program alumni. |
Special Operations - Finding Kids | Program Analysis | 2022 | Bay Area | PennPAC Bay Area conducted research about child sex-trafficking, with a focus on prevalence and the processes of law enforcement, for use in further building Special Operations' resources and influence. |
PennPAC | Marketing Strategy | 2022 | National | A project team of volunteers provided a detailed, recommended approach for PennPAC’s new website. |
Harlem Junior Tennis & Education Program | Financial Analysis | 2022 | NY | PennPAC NYC conducted research and provided HJTEP with guidance to develop a financial blueprint as they assess building a larger facility for their education and tennis programming. |
HousingPlus | Organizational Structure | 2022 | NY | PennPAC NYC provided HousingPlus with strategic guidance to determine how to redesign their operations and organizational structure to meet their current and projected growth needs. |
Institute for Music & Neurological Function | Organizational Structure | 2022 | NY | Mini Project: PennPAC NYC helped IMNF to identify business opportunities and reset its strategic plans for the future. |
Pro Bono Net | Growth Planning | 2022 | NY | PennPAC NYC helped Pro Bono Net to understand the ideal operational and financial model in order to implement a software package to better manage their pro bono commitments. |
The Doula Program to Accompany & Comfort | Marketing Strategy | 2022 | NY | Mini Project: PennPAC NYC provided guidance to The Doula Program as they seek to rename their organization, and increase visibility of their mission and programs. |
Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation | Outcome Measurement | 2022 | Philadelphia | PennPAC Philadelphia helped to develop processes for measuring organizational impact, including recommendations on data collection and a database system. |
Girls First | Growth Planning | 2022 | Philadelphia | PennPAC Philadelphia assisted Girls First to explore the potential benefits and risks of establishing an income stream to defray costs associated with a potential expansion of their program. |
La Cocina | Growth Planning | 2022 | Bay Area | PennPAC Bay Area assisted La Cocina with formalizing their advisory and consulting services that they offer to food business incubators, so that they can increase their revenue and global impact. |
TurnOut | Growth Planning | 2022 | Bay Area | PennPAC Bay Area provided TurnOut with tools for evaluating and executing continued geographic expansion with a focus on how to optimize internal resources, and identify viable new locations. |
Youth Art Exchange | Funding Strategy | 2022 | Bay Area | Mini Project: PennPAC Bay Area provided Youth Art Exchange with a Corporate Development Strategy that will assist the organization in securing dependable, unrestricted funding sources. |
BloomAgainBklyn | Funding Strategy | 2023 | New York | Mini Project: PennPAC NYC created a deeper understanding of BloomAgainBklyn’s current funding sources and potential, and helped to set organizational development priorities. |
Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School | Growth Planning | 2023 | New York | Mini Project: PennPAC NYC helped to develop a strategy to increase corporate partnerships with the goal of strengthening the school’s unique work-study program. |
Fifth Avenue Committee | Marketing Strategy | 2023 | New York | PennPAC NYC identified communication strategies and tools to increase the impact of FAC’s multifaceted programs and services. |
JCC of the Rockaway Peninsula | Organizational Structure | 2023 | New York | PennPAC NYC identified gaps and needs in the JCC’s organizational structure and recommended an improved design to meet its current and future needs. |
Terra Firma | Growth Planning | 2023 | New York | PennPAC NYC assessed the capabilities of Terra Firma’s partners, and helped to create an implementation plan as the organization expands into new cites. |
Tools & Tiaras | Growth Planning | 2023 | New York | PennPAC NYC helped to create a more sustainable funding model to meet the growing demands of Tools & Tiaras. |
AccessMatters | Program Analysis | 2023 | Philadelphia | PennPAC Philadelphia reviewed program data, and provided recommendations on how AccessMatters can better use data to communicate their impact. |
Philadelphia Financial Scholars | Growth Planning | 2023 | Philadelphia | PennPAC Philadelphia developed a rubric for PFS to assess the potential of expanding to other cities and school districts. |
Local Color | Growth Planning | 2023 | Bay Area | Mini Project: PennPAC Bay Area created a development strategy to help secure sustainable operational funding in order to grow Local Color’s staff resources. |
Reading Partners SF Bay Area | Marketing Strategy | 2023 | Bay Area | PennPAC Bay Area provided Reading Partners with updated messaging about the power of early childhood literacy, and how it relates to education equity and social justice. |
Sanctuary Village | Marketing Strategy | 2023 | Philadelphia | PennPAC Philadelphia conducted research and developed messaging recommendations to increase engagement using social media and other outlets. |