Ignite Consultants

Ignite Consultants is a student run, not for profit organisation providing free business consultancy to charities in Dunedin and Wellington. Ignite recruits top students every semester, runs a training weekend for our consultants, places the consultants into teams and then allocates them with a not for profit organisation which has approached Ignite asking for strategic help. The consultants work alongside their allocated not for profit for eight weeks where they spend that time developing a deep understanding of their not for profit, the issues they face, and researching into potential solutions. At the end of the eight weeks the teams present to their not for profit the strategies they have developed to help their not for profit overcome their challenges. Ignite Consultants provides a win - win model. Providing a platform for university to volunteer their time to a community organisation and allowing not for profit organisations access to free business advice