SVP Miami Has a Dual Mission:
• To create a dynamic community of engaged, informed, and inspired philanthropists and social impact investors, who make a true impact collectively to scale solutions for greater social returns.
• To build a critical mass of robust, ‘investment-ready’ social ventures that continuously increase their impact, diversify their revenue streams and solve social problem
s collaboratively and systemically. Our Approach:
SVP Miami employs Venture Philanthropy – a venture capitalist-based model, but with social returns as the goal. Venture Philanthropy places an emphasis on organizational infrastructure and sustainability with the understanding that only strong social ventures can deliver quality offerings to their constituents and ultimately increase their impact. By providing general operating funds, skilled volunteers, professional consultants and training opportunities, the SVP approach allows the social ventures to develop core competencies, management practices, strategies and systems to enhance their effectiveness. This model is supplemented by providing Education & Events for Partners and the general community. Our Partners:
SVP Miami Partners (i.e., the venture philanthropists) are professionals, executives, entrepreneurs and community leaders who want an innovative, impactful and leveraged way to give back with a network of like-minded people. Partners provide their funds and volunteer their time and expertise. Our Investees:
We invest in nonprofit or for-profit social ventures that have a proven model and are looking to grow, innovate or otherwise increase their social impact. They may be in their early-stage of development or more established, and must be ready for a significant investment in the infrastructure of their organization. Our Impact Areas:
We seek to strengthen social ventures that are dedicated to improving economic opportunity and affordability, education, health or the environment. We look for significant and measurable impact potential in one or more of our chosen impact areas.
