Success Stories
Join these organisations who’ve benefitted from the decisionscience team’s support
=mc consulting’s decisionscience team have worked with a wide range of agencies, from large international NGOs to national federations and small local social enterprises or local government bodies. To find out how we might help you in fundraising, in promoting supporter engagement, in persuading customers to spend more, or in improving desired behaviour among users. To find out more about a specific case study contact us.
Some of our Success Stories
Encouraging more visitors to do more
Bristol Museums and Arts Galleries is one of the UK’s leading cultural service. It comprises six venues throughout Bristol, each with a different focus and designed to address a specific audience. The most contemporary of the venues is M-shed.
=mc consulting decisionscience team was asked to focus on M-shed and advise on how to increase sales in the museum shop, which should have been a key source of earned income.
Better behaviour through decision science
ISSA, the International Step-by-Step Association, is based in Holland and works across Europe and Central Asia. It is an association of agencies committed to protecting and developing the interests of early years children. Always on the lookout for new ways to improve these systems, ISSA asked us to help them explore the potential of decision science to help them achieve their goals.
Bringing science to an Olympic team
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado with sport-specific associations spread throughout the 50 states.
They approached the =mc consulting decisionscience team to increase support to underfunded sports – both financial and in terms of participation.
Securing funds for humanitarian causes
Doctors Without Borders (DWB), is the name by which Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is known in the USA. DWB is one of the world’s leading humanitarian agencies. It provides specialist medical teams – doctors, nurses, surgeons, anaesthetists, health workers – to work in the most challenging situations imaginable. DWB approached the =mc consulting decisionscience team for help to design set up a series of online experiments exploring how decision science might help improve giving from prospects and supporters.
Persuading shoppers to be more caring
In recent years foodbanks have become a common phenomenon in towns and cities across the UK as poverty becomes a sad part of everyday life. Many are locally run and managed some by churches, some by charities, some by local authorities.
=mc consulting decisionscience team was asked by the UK’s largest coordination agency, The Trussell Trust, to help them explore how to raise more funds using decision science techniques.
With support from ACE, =mc ran the World’s Largest Arts Fundraising Experiment over six months with 10 cultural organisations, improving results by up to 400%.
We worked with this vital nationwide agency to help tackle one symptom of increasing poverty by increasing donations to local and national foodbanks.
Edinburgh Zoo was keen to explore how to engage visitors more with the animals in the Zoo and in their African conservation projects. =mc designed a series of onboarding experiments.
One of the UK’s leading child protection and development agencies hosted a day across the communications and fundraising teams to look at ways to improve messaging.
The world’s largest dementia charity working in all 50 US states wanted to use decision science to improve their supporter journey for major donors.
=mc consulting was hired to run a training in decision science for various US sports federations- helping them secure the funds to ensure athletes could prepare for the Olympics.
We have worked on several projects with MSF in the USA, Mexico, Switzerland, France and UK, helping them secure funds online, face to face, and with major donors.
This international early years support agency worked with our team to explore how to improve the care provided to children by caregivers including parents.
One of the UK’s leading museum services wanted to improve traffic to their retail outlets. Some targeted advice from the =mc consulting team helped transform sales.
An INGO specialising in cleft operations for children, SmileTrain used decision science techniques to improve staff alignment with their strategy alongside the =mc team.
This innovative local authority commissioned a programme to develop new income generation initiatives and then market them using decision science principles.
This new health charity has an ambition to build a paediatric surgical unit in every African country by 2030. The =mc team helped them explain their ideas simply and clearly.
UNICEF UK is one of the leading members of the UNICEF humanitarian family. With =mc consultants they worked on creating standout messages for donors
As a global intergovernmental agency, OECD asked =mc to work with their Paris-based economists to improve the way they communicated their research.
France’s foremost specialist cardiac research unit had some complex information to share with key commercial partners. The =mc team offered frameworks and challenge.