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What We Do
Serving Social Organizations Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration
We bring together interdisciplinary graduate student teams that provide pro bono consulting services to social organizations in Durham and beyond. We provide students with the opportunity to gain experience beyond the classroom in a collaborative environment while strengthening the work of change makers at the intersection of technology, business, and public policy.
We bring together interdisciplinary graduate student teams that provide pro bono consulting services to social organizations in Durham and beyond. We provide students with the opportunity to gain experience beyond the classroom in a collaborative environment while strengthening the work of change makers at the intersection of technology, business, and public policy.
How We Do It
Sharing New Ideas, Creative Strategies, and Cutting-edge Tools to Realize Social Missions
Graduate teams are assigned to selected partners for a minimum of one semester (4 months) to conduct services that include:
Graduate teams are assigned to selected partners for a minimum of one semester (4 months) to conduct services that include:
- Impact Evaluation: Comprehensive assessment of changes in the social, environmental, and financial outcomes of programs and policies.
- Integrating new tools and technology: Development of new tools or implementing current technology to help make service provision make effective and efficient.
- Social change strategy: Design strategic plans and help establish programs to identify new visions that achieve social change.
- Development and Finance: Help identify areas of financial concern and implement fundraising and grant writing strategies.
- Capacity building: Enable partner organizations deliver on their missions with lasting impact by:
- Effectively identifying community needs;
- Increasing public awareness and engagement;
- Creating more effective volunteer systems;
- Designing, implementing, expanding, or helping scale service delivery;
- Devising systems and procedures that enhance program management;
- Identifying other needs and projects that can improve or enhance organizational capacity.
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