Pamflet Nr. 1 — 180 Degrees Consulting Delft–Rotterdam
TU Delft × Erasmus Rotterdam · student consultants · est. 2019

Good work,
for those
doing good.

We are students, and we are not sorry about it. The first multi-city branch of 180 Degrees Consulting — the world's largest university-based consultancy — doing serious strategy work for non-profits and social enterprises. Radical thinking, professional discipline.

Gratis. €0.

Pro bono, always — quality protected by review, not by fee

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The facts — nothing shouted here is invented

What we are

2019founded in Delft → Rotterdam
2 citiesTU Delft × Erasmus, one team
1stmulti-city branch worldwide
€0pro bono, always

impact numbers — honestly sourced, arriving with our first Impact Report. We don't shout numbers we can't prove.

The manifesto

We believe:

  1. Strategy is not a luxury good.

    The organisations doing the caring deserve the same quality of thinking the profitable ones buy — so we give it away.

  2. Claims need receipts.

    Every deliverable passes an AI-assisted review our branch built and published in the open: a finding must quote the document verbatim, or stay silent. Audit us.

  3. Students are an asset, not an apology.

    Engineers from Delft, economists from Rotterdam — trained, reviewed, and hungrier than any billable hour.

  4. The work speaks, or nothing does.

    No fake logos, no invented statistics, no stock faces on this pamphlet. The gaps are marked until real work fills them.

What we take on — six fronts

The work

  1. Digital Transformation

    The right tools and processes, so a small team stops losing hours to manual work.

  2. Marketing & Engagement

    Reaching the audiences your mission serves, and the donors and volunteers who sustain it.

  3. Financial Sustainability

    Funding models and cost structures that survive beyond the next grant cycle.

  4. Market Assessment

    Evidence on where demand, partners, and competition actually are before you commit resources.

  5. Operational Efficiency

    Finding where effort leaks out of your processes and redesigning them around your capacity.

  6. Impact Measurement

    The numbers that prove your work works, for boards and funders.

For students — the recruitment poster

Engineers.
Designers.
Economists.

No consulting experience required. Work directly with a non-profit's leadership for a semester — real client, real stakes, a trained team around you, and a board-ready deliverable you helped build when you leave.

You'll learn structured problem-solving, client communication, and AI-assisted consulting methods no other student club teaches. Students from both campuses wanted — the Delft×Rotterdam mix is the brand.

application timeline & portal — opens with recruitment season

For firms & experts

Two ways to stand with us

Recruiting partners get access to a self-selecting pool of ambitious students from two top universities — the ones who chose to spend their evenings doing pro bono strategy work.

Knowledge partners — trainers, mentors, pro-bono experts — raise the bar of our client work and get a front seat on how the next generation consults.

partner logos — awaiting first partnerships. This pamphlet carries no logo it hasn't earned.

Partner with us

Ondertekend — the people behind this pamphlet, executive board 2026

Signed,

Every 180DC branch is entirely student-run. Faces follow the photo session — this pamphlet pastes up no stock people.