SVP staff is pleased to announce we have moved offices!
A special thank you to Beacon Partners for being such great landlords over the last five years!
Besides having new office space, there are a few things you may not know about your SVP staff.
SVP is excited to announce our two new Investees! Please meet:
Listening to a story being told at a SEED20 Alumni event recently, we asked Ian Joyce, grand prize winner of SEED20 last year, to share his most recent experience.
Kicking off a new series of feature articles, we invited SVP Partner, Mark Weber, to talk a little bit about why social media is so important for nonprofits.
We are thrilled to announce the 20 nonprofit entrepreneurs who will be a part of the 5th annual SEED20 experience! Selected for their relevance, innovation, and potential for tangible community impact, the SEED20 Class of 2016 is… 1sTouch, Inc. American Pit Bull Foundation Arts for Life Charlotte Campus Pride Catapult Concepts Code For Charlotte Croquet…
Finding a way to describe the intangible has been my long time goal as the founder and president of Pearls for Creative Healing. How do you quantify the healing effects of art and the work that has literally transformed victims of abuse in to survivors? How do you gain champions and ultimately financial support for…
Whenever new Partners join SVP, we’re eager to share the story of why they’ve chosen to participate in our unique model of engaged and strategic philanthropy. Sure, we think it’s pretty swell: who wouldn’t be drawn to deep, committed work with local nonprofits tackling the most critical issues in their communities? Yet every time we ask, we learn something new about how and why SVP intrigues new community members. That’s why we highlight new Partners: to learn about their backgrounds and previous commitments: their lives before SVP, where they want to go from here, and what role they see us playing in their bright vision of the future.
Less than a year ago, ourBRIDGE was nothing more than an idea. It seemed so far from reality that it didn’t even have a name. After four successful years of serving refugee and immigrant students, the federal program that inspired ourBRIDGE was soon to be terminated, leaving the children it served without the academic support…
Sandy Marshall is a paradigm-shifter, a glass-ceiling-breaker, a nonprofit executive-turned social entrepreneur. She joins several like-minded leaders in spearheading a surge of national, organizational and community-based campaigns to foster more and better opportunities for women and girls in STEM fields. Marshall’s energies are currently focused on Project Scientist, the Charlotte-based nonprofit she founded in 2012…
Dick Sesler describes SEED20 OnStage! as “a cross between a TED Talk and Dancing With The Stars.” As founder and executive director of Camp Blue Skies, Dick jumped at the opportunity to share his organization’s mission and vision with the audience at SEED20 OnStage! Camp Blue Skies walked away with third place prize of $7,500 and…