Skills sponsorship, a strong social commitment for Wavestone
Rémy Leclercq, CEO of the association Make.org, Olivier Quinet, manager at Wavestone, and Hiba Solbi, consultant at Wavestone, talk about their collaboration and the benefits of skills sponsorship for all stakeholders.
What is the role of the association Make.org?
Rémy: The role of Make.org is to identify, design and accelerate projects of general interest that have a national and decisive impact on the challenges of our society: fighting violence against women and children, enabling everyone to eat better, acting for the environment, etc. Our goal is to support more than 150 projects within 5 years!
How does Wavestone help you achieve this goal?
Rémy: Wavestone consultants play a major role in the project identification phase, the goal being to find the best projects to accelerate and those with the greatest impact. To do this, they interact with hundreds of associations and companies, and thousands of citizens. They also help us in the framing phase, working on budgets and feedback. The last phase of support, is the management and measurement of the impact of the various projects, which lasts about 2 years.
What has been the most memorable aspect of working with Wavestone consultants?
Rémy: It’s their desire to learn and to pass on the skills they have acquired on other client projects in order to use them for the common good. They really want to be useful and are fully committed to the efforts led by Make.org.
What are the differences between client assignments and assignments for an association?
Olivier: It’s a client assignment like any other, except for the fact that it’s unbilled!
Hiba: There is no difference indeed! As consultants, we are expected to meet the same requirements in terms of quality, delivery, rigor and posture.
What did you gain from skills sponsorship?
Olivier: It’s a client assignment like any other, except for the fact that it’s unbilled!
Hiba: There is no difference indeed! As consultants, we are expected to meet the same requirements in terms of quality, delivery, rigor and posture.
What has been the most memorable part of your experience with Make.org?
Olivier: I was particularly impressed by the dynamism I found in my interventions for Make.org and the fact that I worked with very young teams.
Hiba: It is our capacity to change things! Everything we work on is crucial. At the beginning we have a mountain in front of us and then as we accompany the associations, we see that the projects have evolved.
The skills sponsorship in one word?
Hiba: Commitment.
Olivier: Pro-bono, the good by the pro!