Alpha FMC Charity Case Competition

We’re excited to invite Cornell University students to participate in Alpha FMC’s annual CSR case competition, hosted by our Corporate Social Responsibility team in collaboration with our charity partner, Food for Life. This competition offers students the chance to tackle a real business challenge faced by Food for Life, gain mentorship from Alpha FMC Consultants, and advance their recruitment goals. The competition will run virtually over a few weeks starting in mid-January, with an information session scheduled for early January to provide students with more details about Alpha FMC and the case competition.Alpha’s Global Charity of the Year: As part of Alpha FMC’s Corporate Social Responsibility efforts, each year employees take part in selecting an organization to partner with as its ‘Global Charity of the Year’. Over the course of this partnership, Alpha provides pro-bono consulting services and facilitates fundraising efforts on behalf of the organization, helping to drive real change and further the organization’s mission. This year Alpha has selected Food for Life as its partner in this effort. The Current Problem: Food for Life is at an inflection point. Its current program model – which largely consists of smaller programs in community-based spaces – provides broad access but is overstretched on resources and has relatively low reach per program. Larger, cold storage-enabled programs serve far more households but are limited in number and lack a clear cost-benefit and impact analysis to guide expansion. At the same time, Food for Life is facing financial pressure as its mid-tier donor base continues to decline, and its long-time donors are expected to age out in the next decade. Together, these operational and funding challenges create an urgent need to redesign program delivery, modernize donor engagement, and build a more scalable, sustainable model for the next decade.Key highlights for students include:
Mentorship from experienced consultants.
The opportunity to solve a real-world business problem.
Accelerated recruitment: Winners will bypass the first-round interview for either the full-time Grad Analyst position (2027 intake, for 2028 graduates) or our summer internship (2027 summer intake, for 2028 graduates).