Past Clients

Fall 2007: Habitat for Humanity East Bay

Habitat for Humanity East Bay's mission is "to create successful homeownership opportunities for families with limited incomes by building sustainable housing and revitalizing neighborhoods." The first project involved creating a survey for HfH to measure and evaluate the success of its affordable homeownership programs. The second project involved ReStore, which is a HfH-run store that sells recycled construction and home improvement materials to the community. All of the profit made from the store is used to supplement the funding for HfH's programs. ABC helped ReStore reevaluate its business plan and outline steps to improve and expand its current operations.

Spring 2007: Indochinese Housing Development Corporation

IHDC provides affordable housing to the Southeast Asian immigrant community and offers programs such as after school care, field trips, and youth leadership projects. ABC assisted IHDC management in improving operating efficiency through knowledge transfer and creation of an internal document outlining general business practices. ABC also developed a 50-year low-risk investment plan with $450,000 in IHDC resources.

Fall 2006: Trans-Fair

Transfair is an organization that promotes and certifies Fair Trade products within the United States and abroad. ABC worked on two projects with Transfair, one involving market research and the other involving fundraiser strategies. The first group researched and analyzed important market and business information for the coffee trade which was eventually translated into different languages to be distributed to coffee farmers in developing countries such as Columbia, Guatemala, and Ecuador. The second group produced a toolkit which introduced new and effective fundraising strategies for Transfair to utilize in the near future.

Fall 2005 - Spring 2006: A New America

Developed loan packages and evaluation criteria for loans up to $25,000 and discussed further projects to eventually develop a micro-lending program. See the full description here (pdf)

Spring 2005: Center for the Education of Infant Death

Performed break even analysis, analyzed possible partnerships, evaluated the feasibility of implementing audiology tests for infants in Oakland.

Fall 2004: Rebuilding Together Oakland

Evaluated potential low-income neighborhoods for Rebuilding Oakland’s annual homebuilding project.

Spring 2003: Building Opportunity for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS)

Aided this community-empowerment organization with annual operation budgets of about $11 million, to develop a gardening project’s business plan and manage its sponsor relationship with the Cal basketball team.

Spring 2002: First Resort

Helped First Resort in securing a $50,000 corporate sponsorship from a leading supermarket chain. See the full description here (pdf).