SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS ENGAGED PHILANTHROPY IN TAMPA BAY
ABOUT SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS SVP is a global network of more than 40 affiliated organizations of philanthropists and social changemakers with the capacity, commitment, and passion to create lasting change in our communities.
With expertise in strategic planning, finance, fundraising, marketing, social enterprise, and other professional skills, Social Venture Partners provides senior level consulting free of charge to nonprofit leaders and their teams. This capacity building and professional development can make a real difference. Each project strategically deploys the resources of the partners, whether the goal is to launch a new initiative or social venture, strengthen operations or enhance the sustainability of the nonprofit organization. As a group, SVP Tampa Bay learns together, grows together, and invests in our community together. We work with partners on every level of their philanthropic journey in service to the nonprofit sector in Tampa Bay. We create opportunities for powerful relationships among our partners and nonprofits, providing learning opportunities and resources to grow their impact. We nurture and grow revenue-generating social ventures that help fund their important work.
IMPACT OF SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS
Stronger communities - local to global Multi-sector collaborations, understanding and partnership A more equitable and engaged culture of giving Improved and increased flow of resources Civically engaged and community-oriented philanthropists A sharing of professional expertise and financial resources with the community
CATALYZE more resources towards solutions and innovations for systems change.
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ways to disrupt philanthropy as usual for more proximity and accountability.
philanthropists to provide provide communities with what they need most they need most.
A letter from Social Venture Partners Tampa Bay founding partner, Irv Cohen Social Venture Partners Tampa Bay was founded six years ago with the support of the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay and operates as a field of interest fund of the Foundation. We were inspired by the opportunity to create a platform for a more engaged type of philanthropy. We envisioned an organization that would bring together people who want to give back to the community with their time and talents as well as well as with financial contributions. Today, we are part of Social Venture Partners International, a network spanning 43 cities and nine continents and numbering 3,200 partners who work closely with the nonprofits they support. Each affiliate city raises its own funds, deploys those funds locally, and has its own governing board yet we all share a commitment to positive social change through innovative approaches in the nonprofit sector. At SVP Tampa Bay, we believe that collectively we have the ideas, skills, resources, creativity, and commitment to achieve greater social impact in our region. Our work is centered on collaboration-- with one another as funders and with the organizations we serve. Through our philanthropy and shoulderto-shoulder work with nonprofits and social ventures, we strive to elevate and enhance the best ideas and the most impactful initiatives. Nonprofit leaders tell us that the senior-level counsel and hands-on engagement that our partners offer their organizations can be game changing.
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The SVP model is entrepreneurial and responsive. These values were put to the test during the COVID-19 pandemic. SVP Tampa Bay quickly responded by expanding our team to support more organizations and segments of the community. We organized a series of timely webinars on topics that would help nonprofits weather this difficult period, such as how to apply for PPP funding, grant writing, donor development, and the best ways to conduct business during and after the pandemic. SVP Tampa Bay efficiently connected organizations and community members through our online COVID Assessment Recovery Engagement System (CARES http://tampabay. svpcares.org), a web platform jointly created with the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay and the nonprofit technology organization Inspiring Service. CARES tracked the needs of area nonprofits and linked them with donors and volunteers ready to help. As the world returns to normalcy, CARES is becoming a centralized Tampa Bay volunteer opportunity database. We created “Crisis Strike Teams” to shake up traditional cycles of giving and enable community members to be more responsive. At a time of reckoning with a legacy of racial injustice, we identified opportunities for systems change. We kept our partners up to date on the most urgent trends in our region through SVP partner meetings. And we continued our core work of nurturing social enterprises that contribute to the financial sustainability of nonprofit organizations. Throughout the past extraordinary year, the value of engaged philanthropy has never been clearer. It’s also extremely satisfying and stimulating work. The need is great and the nonprofit organizations who serve Tampa Bay need and deserve our full support. We welcome others to join us. To learn more, reach out to info@svptampabay.org.
SVP TAMPA BAY IS:
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Catalyzing more resources to make our communities stronger Creating more accountability and community connectedness Turning donors into systems change advocates
THREE SIGNATURE 2020 SVP TAMPA BAY PARTNERSHIPS The Lealman Exchange (LEX) is a county-owned property in Pinellas County that holds the potential to be an agent of change for the community of Lealman. Many Lealman residents live in poverty and experience poor health outcomes and low levels of educational attainment. After a thorough strategic planning process, which engaged many community members, the Lealman community is poised to bring service providers together in LEX to work in a new way to help individuals move beyond immediate emergencies toward living more secure and fulfilling lives. Our partners were honored to bring high-level consulting skills to the LEX Strategic Plan process. The plan recommendations were accepted by county leadership and the facility will be managed according to a Collective Impact Model. This means participating stakeholders and service providers will be united by a common agenda, shared measurement systems, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and a backbone support organization dedicated to creating long-term sustainable impact within the Lealman Community.
THE SKILLS CENTER OF TAMPA The Skills Center is a youth development organization that intentionally uses sports to teach life skills, build character, and foster academic success in youth aged 13-18. With the combined support of SVP Tampa Bay partners and network connections, including Capex Advisory Group, a leading developer of complex capital projects, and the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay, the Skills Center was able to acquire a $4.25 million property. The organization will build a stateof-the-art, multipurpose facility on the site, which will house five youth-serving nonprofits. The organizations will share administrative services, programming and funding to more efficiently and effectively serve the youth in East Tampa.
SVP Tampa Bay supports our donor partners in pursuing partnerships with nonprofits that have the potential to make our communities and economies stronger.
FAST PITCH Established in 2017, Social Venture Partners Fast Pitch program works with a multitude of nonprofits each year to bolster the key skills they need to build long-term sustainable organizations. The Fast Pitch program leads area nonprofits through an accelerator program coached by experts in operations, marketing, finance, law, and the art of storytelling. The program culminates in a community celebration where participants each have 3 minutes to tell their story before a judging panel and audience members. Winners of the pitch competition are awarded unrestricted grant funding. Win or lose, each participating nonprofit walks away from Fast Pitch with new skills, connections with prospective donors, and an enhanced public profile.
2020 350+
Partner Hours Volunteered—providing senior-level counsel in areas from law to finance, fundraising to technology, human resources to marketing and beyond.
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collaborative engagements between nonprofit/ social ventures and partners
$42k Invested in Tampa Bay nonprofits
Scores of lasting relationships between top business talent and our region’s most impactful and innovative nonprofit leadership
MORE SVP TAMPA BAY PARTNERSHIPS
Partners worked collaboratively with the Area Agency on Aging to develop a survey aimed at creating a stronger shared network among affiliated organizations that work together to support the aging and disabled communities in Tampa Bay. Results of the survey will guide future Adoption Related Services of Pinellas, projects, including a shared branding doing business as Family Enrichment campaign and fundraising messaging. Services supports families of all sorts, including foster and adoptive families, with counseling, psychiatric services, Echo of Brandon has excellent resources classes, support groups and more. in place to help neighbors rebuild their SVP Tampa Bay partners worked with executive director Natalie Cuddy at Family Enrichment Services to complete an OCAT, an organizational capacity assessment tool. After collecting and analyzing the self-assessment data, SVP made suggestions for strategic improvements in opportunity areas. The organization went on to increase the size of its board, develop a strategic plan, increase its social media presence, and diversify its funding.
Area Agency on Aging Pasco Pinellas – The Area Agency on Aging of Pasco Pinellas is a trusted resource to advocate, educate and empower seniors, adults with disabilities and caregivers. They promote independence, in partnership with the community.
lives, from earning their GEDs to navigating a job search, creating a resume, or practicing interview skills.
During the 2020 Fast Pitch program, partners worked with Echo executive director Eleanor Saunders to develop a two-pronged communications strategy: to tell a story that captured the impact of their work, and weave in the narrative of Echo Handmade, Echo’s social enterprise. Echo Handmade provides sustainable revenue through Echo Boutique, a thrift store created with support from SVP.
Ready for Life provides the support, resources, and guidance former foster care youth need to successfully transition to adulthood. Ready for Life is a family-like community that serves, inspires, and empowers young adults who have aged out of foster care. Inc to Inc advocates on behalf of incarcerated nonviolent drug offenders, returning citizens and at-risk youth from marginalized and disenfranchised communities. The organization’s programs rehabilitate through teaching about business and entrepreneurship.
SVP Tampa Bay partners have been involved with many successful initiatives at Ready for Life, including a successful strategic planning process with its board of directors. Additionally, each staff person had the opportunity to work with an SVP mentor with expertise in their area of operational responsibility.
During the 2020 Fast Pitch program, Inc to Inc worked with SVP to achieve its 501c3 nonprofit status. Inc to Inc is currently connecting with the Pinellas Ex-Offender Re-Entry program to test a pilot of their program and is well-positioned to attract donations and philanthropic support.
Through connections facilitated by SVP, Ready for Life applied for and received a grant from the Pinellas Housing Finance Authority to assist with housing former foster youth. A part-time CFO was engaged to create and manage budgets for the grant project.
Keep St. Pete Lit has been connected to the SVP family since their first Fast Pitch in 2017. The literary organization collaborated with another Fast Pitch participant, Starting Right Now, which works to end youth homelessness. The two organizations are developing literacy and creative writing resources for students in the Starting Right Now program.
launch an app to enable the organization to pivot during COVID and continue the high level of collaboration and service for which the Tampa Bay Healthcare Collaborative is known. After the successful launch of the app, SVP partners re-enSaving Our Seniors fills the gap between gaged with TBHC to develop creative Medicare and financial limitations expe- ideas for revenue generation from the app. rienced by Tampa Bay seniors, with a focus on supporting independence among those who would be sedentary or expe- WellBuilt Bikes is a nonprofit bike shop rience injury due to the lack of proper committed to sharing the benefits of cyequipment and supports. As part of the cling with the full community. They sell Fast Pitch program, they connected and refurbished bikes at affordable prices collaborated with Feeding Tampa Bay, and invest the sales revenue into their the region’s largest food relief organiza- Earn-A-Bike program. Earn-A-Bike ention, to provide pandemic-related food ables Tampa residents to own their own relief. This has enabled Saving our Se- bike, regardless of their ability to pay. niors to provide meals to their network WellBuilt Bicycles is a prime example of of senior clients. how participation in Fast Pitch can lead to a long-term relationship with SVP and The Tampa Bay Healthcare Collabora- a path towards sustainability. WellBuilt tive is a membership-based, nonprofit Bikes has worked with SVP partners to organization. It has evolved over time develop marketing and communications in response to the needs of the mem- plans for their social enterprise and have bership and the community. Members received financial support. SVP worked include health and human service organi- with WellBuilt Bikes executive director Jon zations, businesses, healthcare providers Dengler to grow and evolve a strategic and individuals concerned and impacted plan that has led to an incredibly strong by the gaps and limitations of the current social enterprise working to support the health care and social systems. While homeless community in Tampa Bay. TBHC does not provide direct services, member organizations provide services to meet the needs of all Tampa Bay residents across the healthcare continuum. SVP assisted with a plan to develop and
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At SVP Tampa Bay we define capacity building as the development of core skills, management practices, strategies, and systems to enhance an organization’s effectiveness, sustainability, and ability to fulfill its mission. We recognize that nonprofit practitioners are the program experts, and we complement that expertise with no-cost, hands-on professional services. Their mission leads, we support and counsel. More than simply writing a check, SVP partners want to personally engage and contribute at a deeper level. SVP Tampa Bay provides an outlet for impactful giving and community-minded volunteerism.
$355,000
in unrestricted grants have been awarded by SVP Tampa Bay to area nonprofits since its founding in 2015.
SVP TAMPA BAY PARTNERS Ann Campbell Ashley Adams (Stetson Associate) Bruce Elliot Geoffrey Anderson Irv Cohen Jesse Coraggio Joe Hamilton Joseph Clark Karen Chassin Katie Schultz Keara McGraw Lou Buccino Louis Orloff Mackenzie H Vojtko (Stetson Associate) Marlene Spalten Michael Lally Noel Baker Randy Rosenthal Robert J. Fox (Stetson Associate) Ron Diner Ruth Ross Sam Giunta Sandy Ward Sean Lally Sydnie Coraggio (Stetson Associate) Tricia Manning William Carlilse (Stetson Associate)
Long-standing partners, Community Foundation of Tampa Bay (CFTB) and Social Venture Partners (SVP) Tampa Bay, are united by one common goal: impactful community change. We each approach our goal from different, yet complimentary, angles, coming together to achieve the goal of sustaining high-impact nonprofits right here in Tampa Bay. SVP is a field of interest fund at the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay.