Portfolio Support
Leveraging our team’s expertise to provide guidance and problem-solving on topics ranging from customer discovery to long-term strategic vision.
While only the winners of the Ivory Prize receive a financial award, all of the Top 25 finalists receive access to a range of benefits designed to accelerate their growth and maximize their impact. These benefits include the following:
EXPOSURE & ACCESS to key industry events and speaking opportunities.
HIGH-QUALITY CONNECTIONS to important stakeholders in the housing industry, including potential funders, partners, and customers across both our national network and in Utah.
SPONSORED STUDENT INTERNS through our Student Associate program at the University of Utah and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies’ Ivory Fellowship in Housing Affordability and Sustainability. These placements provide critical capacity for organizations as they grow their impact and help the next generation of housing leaders launch careers in the industry.
PRO BONO SUPPORT leveraging our team’s expertise to provide guidance and problem-solving on topics ranging from customer discovery to long-term strategic vision. You can see examples of our past research projects below.
Project Type
Business Strategy
Scaling & Growth
Challenge
Housing Navigator, a tech platform for finding affordable housing in MA, receives frequent, inbound questions about how to build similar portals in other states.
Solution
In partnership with Exygy/Bloom Housing, created a “how-to” playbook that outlines the critical first steps for government and nonprofit practitioners to build an affordable housing portal in other states.
Project Type
Business Strategy
Scaling & Growth
Challenge
Connect Homes, a prefab builder, will expand its operations to the Mountain West in 2024 and needs to understand the competitive landscape in these new markets.
Solution
A competitive landscape assessment of the main prefab players in Connect Homes’ six target markets, including company info on product offerings, market share, and messaging.
Project Type
Business Strategy
Scaling & Growth
Business Operations
Challenge
Build UP, an AL-based workforce development program, just won $3M in funding. The team wants support thinking through how they should use this capital to grow.
Solution
A growth and partnerships strategy for how the Build UP model will expand to new markets across the US, including a roadmap, goals and objectives, and plan for doing so.
