Investee Stories
SPEB Redefined
April 7, 2021
Hear from SPEB's Executive Director Regina Elmi about how their mission and vision will expand to cultivate multiculturalism and their growing work in advocacy. Read More
Becoming EarthGen
March 14, 2021
Meet EarthGen. Washington Green Scholls has a new name, logo, and colors to center youth as changemakers for environment justice. Learn how Lead Partner Carey Crutcher Smith provided crucial leadership from the brainstorming sessions to the design to the rollout to make EarthGen happen. Read More
United Indians – Decolonizing Indigenous Care with Doulas
November 19, 2020
Camie Goldhammer, Daybreak Star Doulas’ program manager, and her team of doulas provide postpartum care critical to indigenous women. At Daybreakstar Doulas, they take on the traditional role of a grandma or an auntie — they are bringing indigenous practices of women supporting women back to their community. Read More
Futurewise – Washington Can’t Wait
November 19, 2020
Futurewise launched their Washington Can’t Wait Campaign to fight for action on climate change, environmental justice and affordable housing by passing the biggest changes to the Growth Management Act in three decades. Read More
SVP Partner Briefing Highlight: Investee Insights
October 21, 2020
Take a deeper look into the work of SVP Investee, Washington Green Schools (WGS), and how they adapted all their programing virtually. Meredith Lohr, WGS's Executive Director, shares the impact from their capacity building volunteer projects completed in their first three years as an Investee. Read More
Summer Partner Meeting RECAP
June 25, 2020
The Summer Partner Meeting was a wonderful night of highlights and connections! Though we couldn't gather in person it was great to see so many Partners, Investees, and community members on the call as well as some SVP's longest supporting advocates. Read More
This May, the K-12 Education New Grant Committee selected Somali Parent Education Board as the next multi-year capacity building Investee. SVP is excited to build alongside SPEB – helping to improve and progress their efforts as well as connectingthe partnership with their transformative work over the coming years! Read More
