Class Projects and Fieldwork

Opportunity Fund's programs are constantly evolving and growing, so we depend on the help of students and faculty of educational institutions throughout the Bay Area to help us with new initiatives. Past Opportunity Fund field projects include program design, program evaluation, target market research, and mapping. If you are a professor or student who has an idea for graduate level fieldwork or a class project and would like to find out a way to work with Opportunity Fund, please contact shaolee@opportunityfund.org.

Past Projects:
Haas Business School Team Examines Opportunity Fund's Metrics and Evaluation System
UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and McKinsey & Company teamed up to form Social Sector Solutions: a project where students, coached by McKinsey consultants, engage in a semester-long consulting project with Bay Area nonprofits.  In the spring of 2008, the Haas S-Cubed team tackled Opportunity Fund’s evaluation system across all three of our programs and established metrics and a plan to help us maintain our leadership in social impact evaluation.

San Jose State University's Anthropology Students Conduct Market Research
San Jose State University's anthropology department graduate students completed fieldwork for their degree by partnering with Opportunity Fund.  Over six months, students conducted geographic and customer behavior market research to help our Small Business Team reach more Bay Area entrepreneurs in need of our products.
 

Delmas Park Affordable Homes Financed by Opportunity Fund