POISE Foundation
A partnership between Development Solution Organization and the POISE Foundation team, this project focused on increasing the percentage of and amount given by individual donors using actionable targeted fundraising and marketing strategies. The end objective was to increase POISE’s donor reach using low-cost and low-effort resources.
A Touch of Understanding
DSO partnered with A Touch of Understanding to evaluate expansion strategies, sustainable financial models, set goals and research how similar programs have scaled up in support of their disability awareness programs.
Family Crisis Center of Baltimore
A collaborative partnership between Development Solution Organization and the Family Crisis Center of Baltimore County to help them plan to develop the tools, process, and procedures to better support once of their core services: The Crisis Hotline. This project focused on data management for the crisis hotline. Primarily the focus would be on assessing and implementing what is necessary to move the hotline from a paper based process to a dynamic organized tool that ties together services and clients. In addition to staff, the system must support 40 volunteers which currently use physical call sheets that are mailed or scanned in.
Building New Hope (BNH)
A collaborative partnership between Development Solutions Organization and the Building New Hope (BNH) team, this project focused on raising awareness of farmers’ livelihoods and ethical trade in order to give impactful brand positioning and marketing ideas that would better target individual and institutional customers.
Cameroon Football Development Program (CFDP)
A collaborative partnership between Development Solutions Organization (DSO) and CameroonFDP, this project focused on developing a market analysis of potential sponsors, partners, and donors, and providing an overview of the competitive landscape and fundraising strategies of similar organizations.
Scholarship Plus
A partnership between Development Solution Organization and the Scholarship Plus team, this project focused on improving branding through market research and website design. The end objective was to increase the scholarship program’s exposure and access to funding opportunities.
PlanJunto
DSO partnered with PlanJunto on a project to help develop an inaugural PlanJunto Community Accelerator and outlined business and revenue models, including intellectual property and go to market strategy through a review of best practices.
Disrupt
A collaborative partnership between Development Solutions Organization and the Disrupt team from the US Institute of Peace’s PeaceTech Lab, this project focused on market research to create a game that incentivizes online disruption of pro-Islamic State messaging and propaganda through the generation of pro-peace content.
Ashoka Future Forward: Innovations for Youth Employment in Africa in partnership with The Mastercard Foundation
A collaborative partnership between Development Solutions Organization (DSO) and Ashoka Future Forward, this project focused on content generation, social media strategy and implementation that engages target audience with the work of leading social entrepreneurs transforming youth employment in Africa.