DCA, Inc.
Dedicated to Building Support for Social Progress

DCA, founded in 1991, is a consulting firm dedicated to helping clients build support for achieving large-scale social progress. We have worked with organizations on some of the major issues of our time – AIDS prevention and treatment; early childhood education; preventing youth smoking; reducing substance abuse; and eliminating diseases that afflict millions in developing nations.

The Cause Development® methodology, created by DCA, pursues social change by redefining problems or identifying opportunities as a cause, and then building a community of individuals and organizations to advance the cause. It harnesses expertise, motivation, human and financial resources, and organizational assets in a shared effort to bring about significant, lasting change in people’s lives.

Clients call on DCA when they are seeking to create major new initiatives, reinvigorate progress on their mission, leverage philanthropic investments for greater impact, or attract financial support for their work. Our practice is based on breaking free of short-term solutions to find paths to long lasting success.

DCA clients have included:

• Funding organizations seeking to catalyze social progress, such as the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, United Way organizations, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Kauffman Foundation and the Early Childhood Initiative Foundation.
• Non-profits seeking to advance progress on domestic issues, including the National Center for Family Literacy, Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, the Center for Tobacco-Free Kids, and Reach Out and Read.
• Health institutions, such as Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Partners HealthCare System, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Public Health Association and the Center for Child Health Research.
• Non-governmental organizations and United Nations entities, such as the World Health Organization, U.S. Fund for UNICEF, Oxfam, and the Foundation for Professional Development of the South African Medical Association.

DCA has helped them:

• create and conduct campaigns that have raised more than $200 million to eliminate leading causes of blindness, child mortality, and mental retardation worldwide;
• create coalitions to improve school readiness, literacy, early childhood care, and public health;
• create the world’s first endowed chairs in an emerging medical specialty;
• design and launch the nation’s largest privately funded organization and campaign to protect youth from tobacco addiction;
• dramatically expand what has become the world’s largest clinician training program for the treatment of HIV/AIDS; and
• prepare campaigns for causes such as global poverty alleviation, advancing women’s health, and improving educational opportunity for children with disabilities.

 
How to contact us:  

DCA, Inc.		Steve Greeley
27 School Street, Suite 404		President
Boston, MA 02108
617.367.2774