Meet the winners of SEED20 OnStage 2018!
After weeks of coaching, practice and an unbelievable evening, the awards go to…
SEED20 Announces Top 10 Presenters!
Over the past few months 20 local organizations have received coaching and mentorship. SEED20 recently hosted Selection Night where all twenty participants in the SEED20 Class of 2018 gave their three minute pitches in hopes of being selected as one of the 10 to present on the stage of Knight Theater on April 16th…
Welcome to our 2018 Investees!
SVP Charlotte is excited to announce our newest deep, multi-year Investments! Thanks to generous contributions of both time and money from our network of Partners, SVP is investing in three high impact nonprofits for 2018. We look forward to working with them to make our community a better place!
Engage, Explore, Educate (E3) provides new engagement opportunities to Partnership
Engage, Explore, and Educate Through E3, by: SVP Partner, Patti Weber Starting in early 2018, the newly formed E3 (Engage, Explore, Educate) Committee will host a robust series of monthly engagement offerings designed to bring Partners together. The goal of this series is to provide you with new opportunities to engage with nonprofit organizations and…
Ladies Night at Fashion and Compassion
Lead Partners, Meredith Jolly and Denise Ratchford had a wonderful idea sitting around the table at SVP for a Fashion and Compassion meeting over the summer. That idea became the first SVP Ladies Night event for SVP Charlotte! Ladies enjoyed light refreshments while browsing the beautiful jewelry and heard a presentation from Executive Director, Michele…
SVP Blue Sky Committee Launches Engaging New Speaker Series
Blue Sky Committee Chair, Eric Gorman The Blue Sky Committee has been exploring key players, big trends, and innovative initiatives in the Charlotte region through its Blue Sky Speaker Series, 2017. In August, Josh Jacobson of Next Stage spoke to us about his firm’s new capacity building initiative called “Cultivate”, which will kickoff at the…
Lead Partner shares exciting news about the SEED20 Alumni Network
SEED20 Alumni Network, by Debbie Darden (Pictured: SVP Partner, Joanne Beam) One of the unique features of SEED20 is that we don’t just wish the non-profits well and wave goodbye after the checks are handed out at each year’s OnStage event. We stay in touch, and provide various opportunities for them to stay connected to…
Summertime at SVP Charlotte
We here at SVP Charlotte headquarters often hear, “You slow down in the summer, don’t you?”. The short answer is, “well…sort of”.
SVP Investees gearing up for fall!
They have worked hard all summer and are gearing up for fall. They are ready, are you? We took some time to chat with the leaders of a couple of our Investees to find out what needs they have and learn a little more about their plans for fall!
Partner Feature: The Power of Fashion and Compassion
As we seek to give back to Charlotte through SVP, it is a real gift to be exposed to the diverse people who make up our city. We are very privileged to be in positions that craft policy that affects these people. Exposure does wonderful things for us as it puts a face to a to a formerly nameless group of people. Perhaps more importantly, exposure causes us to walk away changed, enriched by the experience and strengthened in our resolve to help, as we ourselves have been helped.