Net Impact Consulting Challenge

Real case. Real client. Real impact.

Net Impact is an international non-profit whose mission is "to inspire, educate, and equip individuals to use the power of business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world." Net Impact has over 250 chapters worldwide and luckily for TPT, there's one right in our backyard at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. The UCLA Anderson Net Impact Chapter holds an annual Net Impact Consulting Challenge (NICC), an event that partners MBA students with local non-profit organizations to help provide strategic solutions for the organization's identified needs. It's a partnership that is as good as it sounds. Through the NICC, MBA students work with a real non-profit organization to gain consulting experience and the non-profit organization receives valuable insight on how to address their most pressing concerns.

We were fortunate to work with a team of 6 students: Nick, Adam, Cynthia, Winnie, Chris, and KC. And even if we we're to have chosen them ourselves, we couldn't have been partnered with a finer crew! Much in the spirit of camp, they were warm, invested, hard-working, and most of all, they truly cared about our organization and how we could make it even better. Through this two week "engagement" (that's what business people call when you work with someone else... an engagement) they came up with multiple solutions, both short- and long-term, that would help our organization be more far-reaching. Whether it's through increasing our online presence, engaging our alumni group, or strenghtening partnerships, they provided us options which would allow us to raise greater funds to ultimately serve more deserving children and their families.

365 Days of Service salutes these 6 for their committment to helping our organization. On top of being busy MBA students, they dedicated many hours and their brain power to present us with many "deliverables" (another business term...about the end goal/product) that has widened our perspective of how to we might move forward to increase our organization's awareness. And from this experience one of the most important things we learned was ROI (business term, return on investment, aka. more bang for your buck) and we couldn't have asked for more: 6 dedicated students + one appreciative organization = the highest ROI percentage on the planet.

Many thanks to our NICC crew!