Why You Should Work With Us
The Ohio State University’s chapter of Students Consulting for Nonprofit Organizations offers pro-bono consulting work for Columbus-area nonprofits. Working over a ten-week project cycle, our consultants collaborate on a variety of deliverables, including things like rebranding, database management, improvement of internal processes, marketing, and others. Our teams are always up to the challenge to help you improve your business processes in any way that we can. Our projects consist of four student associate consultants led by one project manager. Each team works together to assist one of a variety of nonprofit clients we have chosen for the semester with clients spanning Columbus, Central Ohio, and Beyond.
We aim to expose our consultants to a variety of real-world business functions and problems in order to provide meaningful deliverables to our clients.
Past Work (SP 25 Project Cycle)
Armor Down Girls
From Project Manager, Audrey Greer: “Armor Down Girls is an organization that provides a safe space for girls to increase confidence, eliminate self-doubt, and promote self-love. Led by Dr. Parsons, ADG supports girls through an after-school reading program. We are working on program creation, a marketing plan, website development, and fundraising. Dr. Parsons has been amazing to work with and is super receptive to our ideas! She knows the value SCNO brings. My team is fantastic and super diligent. Their creative ideas inspire me to think outside the box. I could not have asked for a better group of girls to work with.”
Project Manager: Audrey Greer
Consultants: Allie Sewell, Gauri Anyarambhatla, Sonali Patel, Sohini Parsi
Senior Advisor: Sraavya Potluri
People In Need Delaware County
From Project Manager, Shreya Arunkumar: “Our client, People In Need, Inc. of Delaware County Ohio (PIN) is dedicated to providing emergency assistance to Delaware County residents in their time of need. Some of their services include providing a food pantry, produce markets, mobile markets, and a holiday clearing house to provide residents with nutritious food packages and fresh produce. Our team has been working on 3 different deliverables, which consist of increasing revenue, devising methods to attract more young adult volunteers, and developing a method to maintain their digital card check-in system. The associate consultants have been putting in a lot of effort in coming up with creative ways to complete their deliverables while still following our client's specifications. Working with this team has been an amazing experience as they have all been sharing their ideas and collaborating to get input and advice on their deliverables.”
Project Manager: Shreya Arunkumar
Consultants: Ava Manno, Emma Cheng, Parnika Adusumalli
Senior Advisor: Laura Felderean
Beyond the Game
From Project Manager, Ben Putnam: “Beyond the Game is a Columbus-based nonprofit that uses sports to teach valuable life lessons. Their website frames it perfectly - "It is imperative to teach kids at an early age that there is more to learn about sports than just playing the game." Whether it is through their Guys with Ties & Girls with Pearls program or through their football camps, Beyond the Game is committed to making an impact on our community's youth. Our project team was tasked with helping streamline Beyond the Game's outreach process. Their annual fundraiser, Bourbon with the Buckeyes, raised over $70,000 last year. We have been working towards helping Beyond the Game connect with potential contributors more efficiently so Beyond the Game can continue holding and expanding this incredible event. Aside from that, our team is doing work to allow Beyond the Game to hold events with collegiate and professional athletes. Working with Beyond the Game has been absolutely incredible so far. Our project team is extremely grateful to be given the chance to work with an Ohio State alum and the deliverables assigned to us have been a great opportunity to give our associate consultants impactful project experience. We cannot wait to present our work at midpoint!”
Project Manager: Ben Putnam
Consultants: Tejas Suresh, Moyo Ogunfayo, Sammy Rodriguez, John Piehowicz
Senior Advisor: Claire Casey
Common Greens
From Project Manager, Maezhen Clark: “Common Greens is a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting central Ohio communities with regional farmers and food producers through vibrant farmers markets! My favorite thing about working with the team is how dedicated they are and how we have a good time working with one another!”
Project Manager: Maezhen Clark
Consultants: Jordan Fiderer, Anderson Tabora, Aditya Lahiri, Kirill Gruzberg
Senior Advisor: Naina Sarup
Worthington Resource Pantry
From Project Manager, Sadhana Nori: “We’ve been working with Worthington Resource Pantry, whose mission is to feed our community by connecting neighbors to healthy food, resources, and each other. With their recent brand refresh and a big move to a new facility in June, we’ve been focused on enhancing their marketing, donor stewardship, and grant management systems to help them grow and serve even more people. My favorite part about working with my team is the genuine enthusiasm and passion they bring to their work. It’s clear in every meeting just how much they care, and that dedication is truly inspiring.”
Project Manager: Sadhana Nori
Consultants: Neerja Shah, Reya Singh, Esther Rein, Vaishnavi Tathineni
Senior Advisor: Adam Peters
Accompanying Returning Citizens with Hope (ARCH)
From Project Manager, Pranav Dixit: “Accompanying Returning Citizens with Hope is a local nonprofit serving formerly incarcerated individuals to help them get accustomed to society on their own terms. SCNO is working on their new initiative to start up a mobile dog grooming service using a refurbished ambulance which is now fully equipped with all of the necessary tools. The team is working to help them with their organizational structure, marketing strategy, and website development. The team was super excited to come together and make a lasting impact.”
Project Manager: Pranav Dixit
Consultants: Melody Chang, Reid McMonigle, Laasya Vadrevu, Katelynn Wesley
Senior Advisor: Arjaa Raghu
Upper Arlington Commission on Aging
From Project Manager, Julianna Hrebenach: “The UACOA works to empower, educate, and enrich the lives of Upper Arlington's aging community by providing services from caregiver support groups to physical labor to educational symposiums. Our team has been working on improving the accessibility of marketing materials, streamlining data collection, expanding fundraising efforts, and deepening outreach engagement. It's great working with a team that is so dedicated to the organization's mission and that puts forth so much effort and attention to detail to the deliverables. We're excited to present our work and make a lasting impact on the UACOA!”
Project Manager: Julianna Hrebenach
Consultants: Olivia Darmanie, Sanju Gudla, Maddie Musto, Kai Switzer
Senior Advisor: Max Robins
Spread the Love Projects
From Project Manager, Howie Weng: “Our client is Spread the Love Projects (STLP), and their mission as a nonprofit is to address the healthcare equity gap, with a special focus on providing life-changing aid to families navigating pediatric healthcare challenges. The deliverables we are working on for STLP include Program Development, Outreach, Fundraising, and Organizational Strategy. Working with my team on this unique project has been an inspiring, fun, and wild ride! Certain aspects of this partnership—such as the fact that the nonprofit is relatively young—have been interesting to adapt to, and my team is doing such a fantastic job being flexible, professional, and collaborative! We are constantly learning from each other, and I can't wait to see our final results hopefully make some impact in the realm of healthcare equity.”
Project Manager: Howie Weng
Consultants: Ethan Ross, Sonali Dasari, Mia Dearing, Ben Hsiao
Senior Advisor: Steven Liu
Development Alert
From Project Manager, Joseph Lee: “Our client is Development Alert, which is a non-profit organization based in Uganda. Their mission is to combat poverty, biodiversity loss, and marginalization by addressing their root causes and consequences through sustainable solutions and partnerships. One of our deliverables is establishing student ambassadors for their organization to help promote their mission to the United States. Another deliverable we have been working on is marketing a fundraising campaign for a young tailor in Uganda. Next, our team is helping the organization organize their fundraising structure by suggesting a list of potential sponsors, creating a sponsorship packet, and a fundraising model. Finally, we have worked on their website and helped them organize their membership structure as well. My favorite thing about working with my team is genuinely the people I work with. From our client all the way to our consulting team, they all want to make a positive difference, and they work tirelessly to make that happen. Throughout our entire project cycle, I had never ran across an issue with effort, and the drive from my team members fills me with passion/motivation to do my very best as well. My client also inspires me everyday. I had the pleasure of working with Zachery, who is the CEO of Development Alert. Even when he is immensely busy handling work to help the people in Uganda, he always greets our team with a positive attitude and humility, which makes everyone he interacts with happier. Also, his dedication to his mission inspires not just me but everyone involved in making the world a better place.”
Project Manager: Joseph Lee
Consultants: Likitha Penumarthi, Ved Srivastava, Matthew Godinich
Senior Advisor: Leah Wassef
The Starfish Assignment
From Project Manager, Akshaya Mukkala: “Our client is The Starfish Assignment, an all-volunteer 501 charity devoted to strengthening the bonds between law enforcement and the community. They strive to bridge the gap between the community and the police through various activities. Currently, we are working on decentralizing the responsibilities currently handled by the founder to ensure a more sustainable and scalable and leadership structure and creating a robust volunteer program that effectively engages and retains individuals passionate about the mission. Our team's favorite part about working with The Starfish Assignment is learning about the creative programs they have and helping to improve them, such as Books and Badges and block parties with the police.”
Project Manager: Akshaya Mukkala
Consultants: Sam Lenchner, Henry Holtz, Nicholas Besada, Andrew Zalar, Charlie Kasper
Senior Advisor: Chace Arnold
Deaf World Against Violence Everywhere
From Project Manager, Aadi Patel: “This semester, our project team is working with Deaf World Against Violence Everywhere (DWAVE), a nonprofit supporting Ohio’s Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing communities through advocacy, education, and crisis response. We’re helping them with fundraising, outreach, organizational strategy, and more. It’s been so inspiring to work with a team that’s passionate about creating real impact and learning from such a mission-driven organization!”
Project Manager: Aadi Patel
Consultants: Rhea Chanda, Julian Turpeau, Jolina Jiminez, Michael Coale
Senior Advisor: Sid Subramanian
Modcon Living
From Project Manager, Evan Gjerde: “Our client is Columbus based Modcon Living who work to assist the elderly, veterans, and the disabled to live independently by assisting them with emergency home repair for a variety of maintenance issues. They also have an income-based subscription service called tool library where anybody can check out a variety of tools, like anything from a screwdriver to a lawn mower, to work on home repair themselves. A few deliverables we are assisting them with is, we are assisting them in automating several of their administrative systems involving donor relations/donor base expansion, project communication and database updating. My favorite part about working with my team is seeing their growth and how they creatively approach problems and adapt to new challenges. I felt like I learned so much from watching them work and assisting them.”
Project Manager: Evan Gjerde
Consultants: Charlie Hite, Zach Hutton, Sereen Mashal, Rohan Patel
Senior Advisor: Elizabeth Liu