* April 13th Announcement *
First Consulting Project of 2009
for Net Impact SF Professional Chapter
Apply by Friday, April 24th to join the team of Net Impact SF professionals participating in a nationally scalable green consulting project!
Rubicon National Social Innovations (RNSI) (http://rubiconnsi.blogspot.com) is a recent offshoot of 35-year old Rubicon Programs (www.rubiconprograms.org), a social services agency that runs two social enterprises, including a bakery and a landscaping firm, in Richmond, CA. The goal of the San Francisco-based non-profit organization is to launch nationally-scaled social enterprises that have a positive and lasting impact on individuals living in poverty and are financially sustainable in the long-term from the revenues they generate.
Rubicon’s Director Jonathan Harrison would like to recruit a team of Net Impact SF Professional Chapter members as pro bono consultants to carry out a feasibility study for a national energy retrofit enterprise. Green for All (www.greenforall.org), a team of part-time pro bono consultants from Bain & Company (www.bain.com), and three business school interns will partner with our team to carry out this study. In addition to earning revenue, the social enterprise must achieve three social objectives:
· To employ hard to employ groups and create an enterprise which will help facilitate disenfranchised populations to tap into the burgeoning green jobs that will form the apex of the new economy.
· To increase the value of low- and middle income homes by making them more energy efficient.
· To increase the ability of low and middle income households to invest in deep efficiency measures by increasing their access to financing tools that increase the affordability of these measures.
RNSI is looking for our team of consultants to conduct research and analysis into several areas upon which the success of this business is contingent. Please contact us if you have an interest or knowledge these areas and would like to be involved:
- Energy retrofitting/weatherization
- Market analysis
- Strategic analysis
- City level energy efficiency incentives/programs
- New technology for efficiency
- Financing tools for efficiency
- Community impact of green jobs
Pro bono consultants will each be expected to devote 5-6 hours per week to this effort, for a total of about 4 months (during evenings/weekends).
This is a unique opportunity and spots for this project will fill up quickly.
By Friday, April 24, 2009, please send your CV and a brief statement of interest in the Rubicon project to:
Sarah Miller, Project Lead for Rubicon Study at sarita.miller@gmail.com
Please send any questions about the Service Corps program offered by the Net Impact SF Professional Chapter to:
Sarah Rea, Service Corps Program Coordinator at rea.sarah@gmail.com
