Making an impact
LWI students work with the leaders, stakeholders, and board members of Greater Boston organizations facing business challenges in delivering on their chosen mission. These projects allow students to truly make an impact in their local community by bringing a consultative approach to analyzing the systems by which the organization is operating, and the systems it operates within.
Action Learning
Organizational assistance for a COVID-era food pantry
Students from Orgs-Lab joined forces with BINcA, a Boston high school that serves English-language learners, to help its food pantry succeed.
Learn MoreOther sample projects
- The Boston chapter of a large-scale national mentoring program was struggling to recruit new mentors among industry professionals now working from home more frequently post pandemic. Geographic proximity to Boston neighborhoods, and representation from a diverse community of mentors were among the constraints for the new mentor recruitment efforts.
- A nonprofit organization addressing the complex and high needs for housing in the Boston Metro Area helps hundreds of families each year by providing furniture as they transition into a new apartment or home. Along with over 100 nonprofit partners, this organization recognized a significant challenge causing cancellations for families was the lack of access and funds for the transportation of the furniture from the donation center in MetroWest, to their homes in over 20 Greater Boston communities.
- A well-known organization with a prized after-school athletics program was challenged to provide impact measures for preparing student athletes to matriculate and persist for degree attainment in college. The organization needed help in assessing attendance and outcome measures of their tutoring, STEM and robotics, and college-readiness programs