180DC Delft–Rotterdam›For clients
Bring us a real problem
We work with almost any organisation doing good — non-profits, social enterprises, and mission-driven teams. Impact is our focus, not a barrier to entry. Quality is protected by our review system, not a fee: our consulting is uniquely affordable, and our students do it for the experience and the mission.
Request a scoping call
One hour, no commitment. Tell us the challenge and we'll tell you honestly whether a 180DC team is the right instrument for it.
What happens after you press send: a Consulting Director replies to arrange the scoping call. If we don't think we're the right fit, we'll say so and tell you why.
Every deliverable is reviewed against professional consulting standards before it reaches you. How that works →
How a cycle runs
We run two consulting cycles a year: October–January and March–June. Each engagement is scoped to a single cycle — roughly a semester of work by a dedicated team.
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Scoping call
Start of cycle
A structured discovery conversation: your challenge, your constraints, what success looks like. One hour, no commitment.
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Proposal, signed by you
Week 1
A written scope: what we will answer, what we won't, and what you'll hold at the end. No surprises mid-project.
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The project
The cycle
A team of 4–6 student consultants with a dedicated Team Leader. A mid-point review where you course-correct, and working sessions as the analysis firms up. Your time: about an hour a week.
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Board-ready presentation
End of cycle
Presented to you, with every underlying analysis handed over. Yours to use, cite, and build on.
What we can be pointed at
Each engagement is scoped to one area. These six are where most of our work sits — but the branch is always expanding and we take projects case by case. If your challenge sits outside this list, ask anyway; out-of-scope inquiries are welcome.
Digital Transformation
Putting the right tools and processes in place so a small team stops losing hours to manual work.
Marketing & Engagement
Reaching the audiences your mission serves, and the donors and volunteers who sustain it.
Financial Sustainability
Building funding models and cost structures that survive beyond the next grant cycle.
Market Assessment
Evidence on where demand, partners, and competition actually are before you commit resources.
Operational Efficiency
Finding where effort leaks out of your processes and redesigning them around your capacity.
Impact Measurement
Defining and tracking the numbers that prove your work works, for boards and funders.
Every deliverable is reviewed before you see it
An AI-assisted senior review our branch builds in-house and publishes in the open: evidence, logic, and clarity checked against professional consulting standards.
“A finding must quote the document verbatim, or stay silent.”
The consultant does every rewrite; the reviewer only teaches. Our standards are not student-grade.
What a deliverable looks like
Our first case studies are being prepared for publication, with client consent. Until then, here is exactly what a 180DC engagement produces: a board-ready strategy deck, every underlying analysis handed to you, quality-assured before it reaches your desk.