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Industry
Philanthropic Finance
What we did
GTM Strategy, ML Pricing, Liquidity Engineering
Awards
Impact Innovation Medal ’24

Objective

Lift revenue 30 % in four months while maintaining triple-accreditation compliance.

What we've done

1. Built an ML pricing engine (Python, scikit-learn) forecasting fund fees vs. liquidity.

2. Tableau + Airflow pipeline for auto-refreshed KPI board.

3. Negotiated new banking lines—liquidity +40 %, rate -120 bps.

Creative Process

1. Stakeholder Alignment | Mural-based workshop to prioritize impact metrics.

2. Data Warehouse Spin-Up | Snowflake schemas, dbt models, dbt tests.

3. Pricing Model | Gradient-boost grid-search, 93 % prediction R².

4. Board Buy-In | Scenario storytelling with DCF overlays.

5. Iterate | Weekly sprint reviews, agile backlog, OKR scorecards.

Results
  • 32 % revenue surge in 120 days.
  • Contribution margin +22 %.
  • Real-time dashboards slashed quarterly report prep from 19 h → 90 min.
  • Board confidence index (survey) climbed from 3.2 → 4.7/5.
  • Conclusion

    Non-profits shouldn’t run on hope—they should run on models as sharp as Wall-Street desks.

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