Clients + Partners

What is your next challenge?

Chances are good that we’ve been there. Here are 10-second success stories in six categories:

 

• BUSINESS ACCELERATION
  • • A Next Street growth plan helped a building services company transition out of the SBA 8(a) program and compete for larger private-sector contracts, exceeding revenue targets by $1 million.
    • Next Street helped an award-winning social marketing business increase capacity to serve larger customers and qualify for state and federal contracts.
    • Bridge financing, cost reductions of 30%, training for 400 employees and new marketing tools helped a regional food service firm secure over $35 million in new, multi-year contracts.
    • Next Street helped the owners of a restaurant chain multiply outlets by one third and build sales in other restaurants.
    • Next Street helped a product development and manufacturing client identify new targets for sales reps, increasing revenues by nearly 20% every year since 2008.
• BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
  • • Next Street helped a property management company restructure its organization and streamline executive decision-making, stepping up performance for a major public housing agency.
    • In a tough environment for newspapers, Next Street is helping a small publisher keep the presses rolling by identifying cost savings, new sources of revenue, and helping the company sell its new story to investors and advertisers.
    • As part of a three-year strategic plan, Next Street helped a client collect $400,000 in years-overdue receivables and establish new sources of financing, including a line of credit for working capital. Next Street also helped the firm engineer a management transition to support future expansion.
    • Capital from Next Street is helping an innovative technology company keep its engineering staff intact as it expands into defense contracting.
• OWNERSHIP TRANSITION
  • • Next Street helped a financial services client put its business on a stronger footing, delivering a 4-fold increase in profitability in the first year, and helping the owner realize $4 million when the company was sold.
    • When a regional service provider attracted an investment offer from a potential strategic partner, Next Street helped the company’s owners evaluate the proposal – and increase it substantially.
    • Next Street served as trusted advisor to a fast-growing professional services firm, helping ownership evaluate multiple offers and engineer the company's sale to a large, international firm.
• NONPROFIT INNOVATION
  • • A Next Street web solution helped a Bronx, NY, outreach organization connect to board members and other nonprofits while it connects low-income women to education and jobs.
    • Next Street is helping a global nonprofit develop a more diverse workforce here at home, aligning its recruiting with its social mission.
    • Next Street helped a community health center tell its story more effectively, improving awareness among donors as well as the health of its 10,000 patients. 
    • Next Street created the first formal marketing plan for a city-wide children’s chorus and a new website that increased traffic by 300% in the first 3 months. By putting rehearsal schedules and other internal processes online, the new site made the organization more efficient as well as more visible.
• URBAN DEVELOPMENT
  • • Next Street’s knowledge of tax credits helped secure over $40 million in financing for Brownsville, Brooklyn’s first new retail development in a generation, transforming a historic theater into 60,000 square feet of store space and a LEED-certified charter school for 1,200 students. The project will create over 250 full-time jobs in the community.
    • Next Street designed an innovative financing structure to fill an $18 million capital gap in a $100 million transaction to get a stalled mixed-use and transit project back on track in Washington, DC, producing jobs for 700 construction workers and 200 new permanent jobs.
• SUPPLIER CAPACITY-BUILDING
  • • Next Street is helping one of the northeast’s largest health insurers increase the performance and scale of its women and minority-owned vendors. By shortening and diversifying the supply chain, the company is improving its own performance as well.
    • Next Street is working with the Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council to increase the capacity of a dozen small companies to compete for larger contracts in the region.