Insider look: Alignment for collective impact

Earlier this week I shared Parts 1 and 2 of this email series. Today in part 3, let’s get into how we are shifting towards a collective strategy and some […]

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Insider look: How philanthropic trends shape our strategy

Yesterday I shared with you part 1 of an email series giving you the inside scoop on our updated strategy. Today I’m digging into the following question: What factors in the global […]

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Reimagining What’s Possible

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 […]

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Meet the Reimagine Pilot Grantmaking Committee

SVP International staff selected a grant committee of sector experts and experienced systems change leaders to score nominated affiliates and nominees against the grant criteria.

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Let’s Lead by Example

Hello SVP Community,

As a long-time SVP Partner, I’ve gotten to know many of you over the years. And, like you, I worry about what’s happening in the world and how we can do more together to strengthen communities in the face of injustice.

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Collective Impact

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, […]

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Reimagining Together: Opportunity for Action

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.

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Statement from SVP International about Global Philanthropy and Racial Justice

As a network that started in the United States, and with our largest base in the United States, it is our responsibility to lead by example and to promote justice-based philanthropy. Today, SVP International is recommitting to and accelerating our work to tackle problems at their root, re-imagine systems, find and fund solutions that are regional, national, and global in scale and to trust and fund movement leaders who are closest to the problems and the solutions.

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