TEAM

Frontier College

Frontier College is a literacy organization established in 1899. Frontier College aims to improve literacy levels in Canada by providing education to those who seek assistance with their learning and have been overlooked or left behind by the formal educational system.

Project Details

The Frontier College project is helping the organization improve their volunteer onboarding process by evaluating their policies and procedures manual and analyzing human resource information systems.

Project Manager: Courtney van Ballegooie
Consultants: Hidemi Mitani-Shen
Analysts: Ricky Asfour, Bela Maetzel, Peter Im

HIM - Health Initiative for Men

The Health Initiative for Men Society (HIM) is a public health organization for gay and bisexual men operating in Greater Vancouver. Since 2008, HIM has offered sexual health testing, professional counselling, sexual health education and athletic/social programming for gay men.

Project Details

The HIM project is helping to diversify the organization’s funding by researching target demographics and forming a fund development strategy for sustainable individual donations.

Project Manager: Vardaan Gautam
Consultants: Armaan Singh
Analysts: Simran Alibhai, Yang Ge, Brendan Smith

JustWork Economic Initiative

JustWork Economic Initiative is a non-profit running three social-enterprises in the Greater Vancouver Area (JustCatering, JustRenos, and JustPotters). Each enterprise offers quality goods and services and combined they provide meaningful employment to 25 people on a regular basis.

Project Details

The JustWork project is helping the organization to assess its operations by comparing its practices to industry leaders and determining areas for improvement to increase profitability.

Project Manager: Vivek Gautam
Consultants: Katrina Kwong, Huzaifa Wahla
Analysts: Matthew Howald, Xiangyin Xin

Open Primaries

Open Primaries is an organization that represents the movement that no American should be required to join a political party to exercise their right to vote. This mission is accomplished through two entities: Open Primaries Advocacy and Open Primaries Education Fund.

Project Details

The Open Primaries project is helping the organization streamline public engagement by determining key demographics to focus on and methods to optimize reach.

Project Manager: Oliver Gianacopoulos
Consultants: James Wells
Analysts: Khush Dodani, Sarvesh Ramalingam, Tathiana Tang

SOS Children’s Village

SOS Children’s Village Thrift Store Foundation (SOS BC) is a non-profit organization that provides family-based foster care for children and youth in our communities through a Village model. This includes support to caregivers, youth, and kids through residential services, program and support services, and wraparound care. Their Village consists of 5 homes that house children and their foster families. These homes provide a sense of community, connection and belonging, in a system where isolation is all too frequent.

Project Details

The 180DC UBC team (the Team) analyzed the feasibility of the potential store as well as the opportunity cost of allocating resources to another store instead of fundraising and other projects.

Project Manager: Oliver Gianacopoulos
Consultants: Chay Shi, Abigail Okyere, Cindy Li, Deep Parekh