
We are thrilled to announce that in 2022 SVP International will host 5 Affiliates, SVP Boston, SVP Boulder County, SVP Cleveland, SVP San Antonio and SVP Tucson to pilot JustFund as values based grantmaking administration portal. Read More
Giving USA: What does it mean for the global SVP community?
October 27, 2021
A note from SVP International CEO, Sudha Nandagopal: I’m excited to share with you a briefing by Sofia Michelakis, Deputy Director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, along with her colleague Alena Owen, who serves as Associate Program Officer on the Philanthropic Partnerships team. Sofia provides additional context as a board member for SVP […] Read More
Meet SVPI’s new team!
August 16, 2021
SVP Global Community, At SVP International, we have been on a journey together. One of reflection. Of discovery. Of reinvention. In fall 2019, we began an internal restructuring process to better lean into what communities are asking of us as a global philanthropic network. The global pandemic and the racial and economic reckonings accelerated our […] Read More
Reimagining What’s Possible
December 22, 2020
Hello SVP Community, Good morning from here in Seattle. How are you holding up? It’s been over nine months of this new pandemic world and while the recent news of a vaccine is certainly heartening, it’s clear we are not going back to gatherings, conferences, working together in person and the like any time soon. […] Read More
Collective Impact
October 2, 2020
Network Friends and Partners, 2020. Whew, hard to believe we’re already in the last quarter of this year of so much change. In Seattle and across the West Coast of the US, we have lately been living with the devastating impacts of climate change right outside our windows – something I know many of our community in […] Read More
Reimagining Together: Opportunity for Action
June 2, 2020
Our world is at a turning point and we need to step up. It is with this in mind that SVP International is launching the SVP Reimagine Fund. The SVP Reimagine Fund builds on the impact of local SVP Affiliates and Partners to catalyze more regional, national and cross-country resources to solve pressing social challenges at their root. We will start by responding to needs emerging from this pandemic and from long-standing unjust systems, while demonstrating another way for philanthropy to be close to and accountable to communities. Read More
At SVP every day is #GivingTuesdayNow
May 5, 2020
Dear SVP Community, I’m sure you are seeing many emails from nonprofits in your networks about #GivingTuesdayNow, a global giving day to support organizations affected by COVID-19, and the communities they serve. Read More