About Social Venture Partners International.

Transforming how the world gives.

Social Venture Partners (SVP) is the world’s largest network of engaged philanthropists — 29 affiliates and 2,100+ donor-partners across four countries. In partnership with community, social change organizations, and movement leaders, our global network is working toward a more just and equitable future for ALL.

Our Vision

Social Venture Partners seeks to bridge the gap between rising global need and shrinking philanthropic engagement. Our vision as a network is to transform the way the world gives. We’re not just reimagining philanthropy. We’re actively changing it.

Why SVP

We believe philanthropy can be one of the most powerful levers for justice in our lifetime. But too often, giving remains transactional, short-term, and disconnected from the people and communities it seeks to serve.

SVP offers a proven, scalable path from charity to collaboration, and from top-down giving to community-led, equity-centered philanthropy. For connection. For community. For people ready to turn intention into impact.

The problems are global. The solutions are local.

What We Do

SVP works at the intersection of:

People

Transforming how individuals give, show up in community, and engage in civic life.

Places

Strengthening the communities where SVP lives by building local capacity and lasting change.

Practices

Advancing equity, sharing power, and centering community leadership in every engagement.

For nearly three decades, this model has been tested across diverse geographies and proven to deliver systemic change.

Transformational Together

SVP does four things in parallel, and the power is in the combination:

We transform how individuals give. SVP partners deepen their understanding of philanthropy, strengthen their engagement in civic life, and become more intentional about how they show up for the communities they care about.
We strengthen nonprofit capacity. SVP works closely with local nonprofits to strengthen organizational health, so those organizations can serve more people, respond to community needs, and sustain their work over time.
We build connected communities. SVP brings people together across differences, sectors, and experiences to deepen belonging and cultivate communities that are more resilient, collaborative, and capable of creating change together.
We grow civic participation. SVP enables communities to work together across differences to address complex challenges.
By influencing philanthropists and nonprofits simultaneously, the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.

Who We Are

SVP Affiliates

SVP affiliates are local SVP chapters. There are 29 across four countries. Affiliates bring together individuals locally to work in community. Each affiliate works to transform its community — with more money, more time, more community power, partner by partner, grantee by grantee.

SVP Partners

SVP partners are individuals, couples, families, businesses, and funders who invest money, time, and skills in causes and communities across the globe. SVP partners don’t just write checks. They show up, build relationships, and give in ways that transform their communities, and along the way, they find their community.

Find an Affilate Near You

SVP International’s Role

We seek out and collaborate with community leaders, other values-aligned social change organizations, foundations, individual philanthropists, and SVP affiliates to co-create an ecosystem where magic happens — the magic of increased experimentation, rapid learning, and local-regional-national-global connections. SVPI holds the network together as one community, moving together, while each affiliate builds that shared momentum at home.

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