Anyone familiar with the areas of McKinsey that do work on nonprofit/refugee work? What qualifications are needed? I’ve done pro bono related work at Deloitte,not sure how to do that full time.
Eg: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/employment-and-growth/a-road-map-for-integrating-europes-refugees
Non-profit and pro bono consulting is just self gratification. If you want to improve lives for the less fortunate, work there directly
Actually it provides the insight necessary to inform decisions made by orgs helping the less fortunate. Just as important. Do you have more information on it?
Most ‘non-profit’ work consulting companies do it either greenwashing to buy good will or a play to build a connection with a client.
I’m very, very skeptical that McKinsey has an ongoing practice focused on these issues that isn’t anything more than a vehicle to gain access to clients
nah it’s pretty legit
I think they are generalists too. Move over to McK and try to find the opportunities.
Generalists? Do you mind if I message you for more info?
Thanks for asking! This work takes two distinct forms: our social sector hub (which principally serves philanthropies) and our social impact ventures (generation.org being the most prominent)
This is really helpful, thanks! Would you happen to know anyone in either of those who’d be willing to chat more?
We have various practices that overlap public and social sectors - like public health, education. MGI is our think tank doing social and economic research to build fact bases on important issues. We do a ton of really cool (as most of our firms do) non profit work / from our research into gender and work, through building public school systems, to building the first ever carbon abatement cost curve over a decade ago. But I don’t think we have full time roles / teams here, we build teams with the capabilities needed.
Check out Dalberg. They are exactly what you're looking for and at a global scale. Tons of positions open. If you're open to less traditional hard strategy type work, but still in this "consulting for good" space, check out places like IDEO.org (new product/service/system/comms development) & Purpose & Formative (Seattle based) are interesting, too - they seem to focus on comms/messaging/engagement strategy.
Thanks!
There is a large-ish group in Geneva specialised in international organisations and over represented in the philanthropy work. Most of the pro-bono work is spread out and done by consultants mostly working on other things.
Adams International is another organisation to try. Likely a better place if this is what you want to do.
When you say refuge work, did they do a cost cutting analysis for coyotes? Is that why they cram so many in shipping containers?
If you’re interested, Accenture does a lot of really cool nonprofit work especially on environmental issues
I’m in H&PS and I really enjoy the work. I’ve gotten to be on really cool, challenging projects that actually make a difference in the word