Accenture Helps BUILD Develop Growth Strategies and Tools for Youth Entrepreneurship Program Expansion
August 26 2015 - 6:10AM
Business Wire
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) in a 2015 consulting engagement helped
BUILD, a nonprofit organization, develop a framework
to broaden its impact and scale nationally. BUILD is
dedicated to proving the power of experiential learning through
entrepreneurship in under-resourced communities.
BUILD serves approximately 1,500 students in the San Francisco
Bay Area, Washington D.C., and Boston and plans to expand to New
York City, serving an additional 400 students, in 2016. BUILD
aspires to reach 15,000 students across 10 U.S. locations by
2023.
Accenture developed a reusable, replicable feasibility framework
and tool to help BUILD determine and prioritize sites for national
expansion, develop an expansion timeline and implement a roadmap
for selected sites. The expansion tool uses data analytics to
assess more than 20,000 public high schools in nearly 1,000 regions
across the country.
“Accenture has helped our organization develop strategy and
operational structures to achieve our vision,” said Christopher
Brown, Vice President of Regional Management & Growth at BUILD.
“The project was geared towards evaluating data to enable us to
make strategic decisions regarding our national expansion. The
tools developed by Accenture will help us to effectively expand our
national reach well into the future. Indeed, the work done by
the team at Accenture will bolster BUILD’s capacity to scale
effectively, ultimately supporting the success of more
under-resourced students across the country.”
BUILD has incubated 750 youth-led businesses since 2001. Since
2012, 98 percent of students in BUILD’s programs have graduated
from high school, and 98 percent of those graduates have been
accepted to college.
“Our work with BUILD centered on helping the organization become
a catalyst for innovation and change in how this country educates
children,” said Pallavi Verma, Accenture North American managing
director for state and local government public sector, education
and nonprofit work. “We focused on establishing a systematic
approach for the organization to evolve into a national model for
experiential learning in an entrepreneurial context.”
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Future.
About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services
and outsourcing company, with more than 336,000 people serving
clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled
experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and
business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most
successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help
them become high-performance businesses and governments. The
company generated net revenues of US$30.0 billion for the fiscal
year ended Aug. 31, 2014. Its home page is www.accenture.com.
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