Help PIEPR shape their strategy and achieve their goals

Project summary

Help Psychologically Informed Environments Promotion and Research (PIEPR) shape their strategy to promote and research effective solutions to homelessness, social exclusion, and complex needs.

PIEPR need support structuring and prioritising ideas into a cohesive strategy that will help them establish credibility with funders and potential partners, and to scale up rapidly.

Project description

PIEPR is a newly created CIC, dedicated to developing the ideas and practice of Psychologically Informed Environments (PIEs)– an approach now endorsed in principle in homelessness services by all four UK governments.

Having already proved PIEs as an effective solution for addressing homelessness, PIEPR need a strategy to support them in their ambitions to reach further afield.

Their immediate objectives include establishing credibility with funders, managing growth, and in the longer term, supporting ongoing development, research, and promotion efforts in ‘frontline’ services, as members of a community of practice. While bursting with ideas and enthusiasm, PIEPR is currently run by volunteers, and now needs to create a properly funded team to grow.

They need assistance in structuring their ambitions, plans, and options into a cohesive strategy, and to prioritise business focus areas. This project will require engagement with multiple stakeholders to test ideas for revenue opportunities, identify potential partners and manage the risks in rapid growth.

Your contribution would help shape the future of PIEs and have a tangible impact on the lives of vulnerable individuals.

How will this project benefit the organisation?  

Securing funding through a combination of investment and project work will allow PIEPR to reach and support many more organisations, to create environments that work to nurture social well-being.

Helping to put this fledgling organisation ‘on the map’, will allow the potential of the PIE approach to be better realised.

Apply

If you feel you can offer your assistance please complete the application form by Friday 5 July 2024. 

The OR Society fully supports equal opportunities.

Location

The PIEs community of practice is primarily online, any work can be conducted remotely.

We anticipate that Northern Ireland is likely to become a focus area in the near future. Face-to-face activity in events there would be an option but not a requirement.

Time commitment

TBD

Desired start date

ASAP

Desired end date

Autumn 2024

About the organisation

PIEPR as a CIC is new; but it takes on the management (and momentum) of an active existing community of practice. For further information please visit https://pielink.net/

About Pro Bono OR

For further information about Pro Bono OR, please visit: www.theorsociety.com/Probono or email [email protected]