Upcoming Events
June 2021
Partner Connect Time
Do you miss your fellow SVP Partners? Do you wish you had unscripted time to connect and hear about how your friends are doing? Well this is the event for you! Please join us for one hour of coffee chats (Zoom breakout sessions) with your fellow Investor Partners and Encore Fellows. Matt Little, our Director of Investor Partnerships, will facilitate and suggest various fun topics of discussion, but you will be free to chat and laugh about whatever the heck you want. See you there!
July 2021
Coaching Community of Practice
Partners and Encore Fellows are invited to us for an interactive and skill-enhancing Coaching Practice Community. Facilitated by our Partner coaches, this is an opportunity to revisit and try on coaching skills in a safe space and learn from each other. This live practice builds confidence as you bring these tools to your SVP relationships and beyond. All skill levels are welcome. Come prepared to coach and be coached with your fellow Partners!
20th Anniversary (In-Person!) Summer Social with Stoller Winery
This outdoor event is limited to current SVP Partners, Encore Fellows, and Partner guests. Please join us to celebrate 20 amazing years of engaged philanthropy at SVP Portland. Stoller Winery will be hosting this fun event and leading us through a discussion of their wine varieties. We will celebrate and reminisce about two decades of community impact, and announce the recipient of the Sarah Cohen-Doherty Award, celebrating an individual who exemplifies the qualities that made Sarah so special.
August 2021
SVP Portland Partnership Panel
We invite prospective Partners in addition to current SVP Partners and Encore Fellows to join us for an overview of the SVP Partnership, a holistic view of our Community Partners, and ways to engage with SVP. Partners Larry Fox and Kelly Starkey will share their stories of how SVP operates and inspires.
Whether you are a prospective or long-time Partner or Encore Fellow, you will come away learning something new and how to become a more effective philanthropist.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Nonprofit Culture 101
This training is for current SVP Partners and Encore Fellows. SVP Portland is committed to a learning culture and creating more equitable outcomes in our community.
As a Partner, you have the opportunity to engage with nonprofits who partner with us in this mission, and who represent diverse perspectives and cultures, and ethnic and racial backgrounds. After completing this workshop, you will learn essential soft skills to engage in the nonprofit sector, and inclusively work in our Community Partner spaces with racial consciousness and cultural relevance.
20th Anniversary Series: Native American Youth and Family Center
Please join us for this public event to meet one of SVP’s amazing former Community Partners: the Native American Youth and Family Center. You will learn about SVP’s unique engaged philanthropy model and hear about SVP Portland’s five-year capacity-building partnership to help grow NAYA’s organization and early childhood programs.
November 2021
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Nonprofit Culture 101
This training is for current SVP Partners and Encore Fellows. SVP Portland is committed to a learning culture and creating more equitable outcomes in our community.
As a Partner, you have the opportunity to engage with nonprofits who partner with us in this mission, and who represent diverse perspectives and cultures, and ethnic and racial backgrounds. After completing this workshop, you will learn essential soft skills to engage in the nonprofit sector, and inclusively work in our Community Partner spaces with racial consciousness and cultural relevance.