Case Study:
World Savvy
How might we activate community to forge school partnerships?
World Savvy is a national nonprofit working with educators and community leaders to reimagine learning for a more globally connected world. By 2035, their goal is to embed global competence into classrooms across the U.S. by engaging 10,000 schools in World Savvy comprehensive school partnerships.
Learn
Before making recommendations on how to introduce comprehensive school partnerships to World Savvy’s community, Olio took time to get real about the current state of the U.S. K-12 education system and ground in the experiences of educators, district leaders, and community advocates. By reflecting on feedback from stakeholders, Olio gained empathy for the level of nuance required to navigate school environments in today’s world.
Strategize
Applying relevant insights to our engagement strategy, Olio developed a series of tools and that bring the experience of co-creating school partnerships alongside World Savvy to life—sharing information about the model in ways that reflect global competence values like exploration, connection, and collaboration.
Activate
During community events, World Savvy audiences are immersed in a customizable story arch that emphasizes the social outcomes of the organization’s school partnership model. The narrative weaves itself into everything from a modular installation used at in-person events, to digital content, to donor lifecycle materials—creating an engagement experience that deepens interest and investment in the organization.
Results
sell out events with half of RSVPs from new contacts
multiple school partnership leads activated
thousands of QR code scans to engage in calls to action