Established in 2003, COMPASS is an alliance of MBA alumni from Harvard Business School, the Stanford Graduate School of Business,
the Wharton School , Dartmouth 's Tuck School of Business and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
With COMPASS, alumni from these schools volunteer as consultants, applying their management and business skills on projects for
nonprofits in the Greater Washington region.
Since its inception, more than 300 volunteers have worked on COMPASS projects for over 40 diverse nonprofit organizations. The COMPASS
advisory board selects 12-15 projects each year.
We work closely with the leadership of nonprofits addressing their strategic needs. Our volunteer consulting teams have worked with a
wide variety of nonprofit clients in sectors including youth and family services, emergency relief, education, the arts, and the
environment, among others. COMPASS offers volunteer consulting in four main areas of business management: Strategic Alignment, Board
Development, Funding Strategy and Executive Coaching. Volunteers are assigned to projects based on background and interest in a way
that creates maximum benefit to the organization they service. Click here to
see a list of clients and projects, past and present.
COMPASS strives to bring highly valuable business skills to organizations that can really use them. During these times when the nonprofit
sector is increasingly strained by limited resources, COMPASS consulting teams help our clients make the best use of their assets to achieve
their goals. We invite you to apply to join the growing cadre of COMPASS clients who are making this region a better place to live and work.
Take a look at your needs, consider the time you have to work with a COMPASS team, and propose a project that will bring together volunteers
and your organization to deliver better services to your own clients.
COMPASS identifies projects through an annual selection process. Nonprofits develop a potential project, secure support for the project at
all levels of the organization, and articulate their needs by answering a series of straightforward questions on our application form.
(Click here to link to information about project selection.)