SDSVP
San Diego Social Venture Partners (SDSVP) is made up of individuals with business, technology, and professional backgrounds. Partners invest their time, talents and resources in the San Diego community. Partners are Venture Philanthropists providing financial and business expertise to help non-profits accomplish their mission.
SDSVP’s Mission Statement
SDSVP drives community solutions with investments of time, expertise and resources
SDSVP’s Core Values
Sustainability - we believe SDSVP should be part of the long-term solutions for our community.
Accountability - we believe in monitoring and measuring results.
Innovation - we believe in challenging the status quo and taking calculated risks to try out innovative ideas.
Leadership - we believe in creating the organization that we expect of others.
Respect - we believe in treating each other and our Investees with respect.
External Goals For FY07/08
SDSVP will add significant value to the San Diego philanthropic community by:
1. SDSVP Investees will measurably improve their capacity.
2. SDSVP Partners will exemplify leadership through participation on other non-profit boards, committees as well as SVP working groups.
3. SDSVP will generate co-funding and collaboration with other grant makers.
In fiscal year 07/08, SDSVP will use its existing capacity assessment tool to track external goals and where necessary develop both a baseline and a measurement system to track the remaining external goals.
Internal Goals For FY07/08
SDSVP goals for internal operations will be:
1. SDSVP will have 100 Partners and retain 90% of non-graduated Partners.
2. 85% of SDSVP Partners will indicate that their investment into SDSVP was effective personal philanthropy and worth the money
3. SDSVP will improve our capacity as measured by SDSVP Organizational Capacity Assessment Tool. SDSVP will move our ratings up to a “Level 3” in the Mission, Vision, Strategy and Planning category.