Georgetown Public Policy Institute
Client-based projects are opportunities to have GPPI graduate students apply their skills, experience, and education on projects for your organization. You gain real solutions to your project needs.
Client-based projects are conducted in two modes:
• As one assignment among several others in a semester-length Public Management seminar
• As the only assignment for a semester-length client-based course
The management part of this exercise is two-fold:
• Students gain project management experience from the team effort required to produce a deliverable (or set of deliverables) to the client
• The topic itself may have direct management implications
Students work in teams (2-3 students each) on a real-world project with a nonprofit, private, or public organization as their client. The project should consume about 5 hours a week through the course of the semester. Periodically throughout the semester, the students meet with their clients to report progress.
Students are presented with a list of potential projects at this first class and have the teams formed by the second class. The client attends one of the early classes to brief the class (and particularly the team) on the details of the project. Student teams then begin work and complete their efforts by the end of the semester.
To learn more about client-based project opportunities, contact GPPI Associate Dean Joe Ferrara at 202-687-2565 or jaf@georgetown.edu.