Mission, Vision & Strategic Focus
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Our vision is a community of strategic, engaged philanthropists collaborating to serve capacity building needs of all local non-profits.
In 2011, Partners began to implement a three year Strategic Focus in lieu of a strategic plan. The image depicts our Partner’s commitment to the core SVP model, a desire to grow our Partnership, and aspiration to expand impact in Boulder County by meeting the following goals:
- Build non-profit capacity.
- Engage and grow philanthropists.
- Educate non-profit leaders.
- Strengthen SVP’s relationship with the community through strategic partnerships.
- Engage next-generation givers.
- Impact quality of board governance county-wide.
To make a significant positive impact in our Boulder County community, SVP believes in the following values:
- Nurturing the philanthropy and volunteerism of our partners
- The power of leverage, through our pooled giving model, combining both intellectual and financial capital to strengthen nonprofits
- Capacity building as a strategy to effect change and produce results, through the hard work of both our donor partners and nonprofits
- Engaging individual philanthropists, community leaders, nonprofits, foundations, and businesses in our work, and
- Dedicating diverse resources to areas of identified community need.
SVP Boulder County invests in, engages, and advances the work of our local non-profits and philanthropists. We use proven methodology that leverages financial capital (cash grants) with human capital (pro-bono consulting) to create stronger, more sustainable non-profits. While we do so we also engage, educate and connect partners to help them become more effective and strategic philanthropists.
For 2012 & 2013 our grantmaking will be focused on the following five areas: Aging & Seniors, Early Child Care & Development, Health Care Access, Housing & Homelessness, and Social Enterprise.
SVP currently funds four non-profit organizations. Investments range from $10,000 to $25,000 per year along with an average of an equal donation of pro-bono capacity building consulting. Investment decisions are made by majority vote of partners at semiannual partner meetings. Decisions take into consideration SVP's internal capacity to provide sufficient human and financial capital to support long-term sustainability of community non-profits. While applications are reviewed annually, typically SVP funds an organization three years in a row, until they graduate from SVP.
