Case Study: Equal Opportunity Schools builds a focused expansion strategy with Slalom

Setting a strategic path for Equal Opportunity Schools

Equal Opportunity Schools, a Seattle-based nonprofit ensuring students have access to challenging high school courses, needed a strategic plan to focus its expansion efforts. Its strategic initiatives team was operating at maximum capacity and lacked a clear path to achieve its growth goals. The organization engaged Slalom through its Philanthropy Fellow Program for a pro-bono engagement to address this challenge.

Over a three-month engagement, a Slalom consultant helped the team create an actionable strategic plan, revamp its pricing model, and optimize its tracking database by consolidating manual spreadsheets. The team also shifted its sales cycle and adopted an agile workflow. As a result, Slalom helped Equal Opportunity Schools establish a focused expansion approach, providing a clear strategy to maximize its impact and end the constant scrambling, which directly correlates to helping more students.

Equal Opportunity Schools

Luke Justice

Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives