SVP Vancouver
We’re back with a special SVP Vancouver version of the holiday classic! Three years in a row makes it a tradition!
We do this to celebrate the season, and also to acknowledge all the incredible work we’ve achieved in 2023 to help vulnerable children and youth in B.C. thrive, thanks to your support.
Since 2001 SVP has invested in high-impact nonprofit organizations that are working to improve the lives of B.C.’s children and youth. Our ultimate goal: Be an exceptional and catalytic funder that enables high-impact nonprofits to flourish and grow. All in the service of helping more kids and youth in B.C. thrive. As we look to the future, we want to also share successes of our past, starting with Take a Hike.
SVP Vancouver Alumni organization Fresh Roots received a Flex Fund grant to work with equity, diversity, and inclusion consultant Eman Salem to continue to explore how they can foster an anti-oppression and anti-racist lens throughout their work.
Meet Bob Armstrong, an executive and advisor who channels his financial acumen and leadership skills toward making an impact in his community. As an active member of SVP Vancouver, Bob enjoys contributing more than just dollars by sharing his strategic planning and governance expertise.
Giving Tuesday is coming up next week, on November 28th. Our Alumni and Investee organizations have put together engaging Giving Tuesday and Year End campaigns that aim to raise funds – and awareness – so they can continue doing their incredible work, helping children and youth in B.C. thrive.
Meet Wayman Crosby (pictured with wife, Penny), a passionate philanthropist, community leader, and SVP Vancouver member. Wayman has been deeply engaged with a number of charities, both local and international, for nearly 50 years and has seen firsthand the transformative impact of investing in children’s potential. He currently serves as a member of the Investment Committee for Nicola Wealth Real Estate, as well as a director of the Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation and the Nicola Gives Back Charitable Committee, where he helps cultivate a culture of engagement and giving.
On October 16th, a group of SVP Partners and staff gathered for an “Fostering Belonging Through DEI” session with Eman Salem from IronSelf Consulting. It is part of SVP’s strategic plan to further embody equity in our work as a foundation, recognizing that without actively working to change the systems that hold societal inequities and inequalities in place, we aren’t fully enacting or working toward our vision of helping children and youth thrive. We want to ensure we are serving our community in the safest, most inclusive way possible.
Since 2001, SVP has done things differently. We’ve always done more than throw money at a problem. Instead, we walk alongside our nonprofit Investee and Alumni organizations, yes, offering multi-year financial support, but also providing so much more than a grant: responsive capacity-building support, access to volunteer expertise, community, and thought partnership to help nonprofits in the start-up phase stabilize and grow.
At SVP Vancouver, our aim is to provide more than funding – to walk alongside Investee and Alumni organizations to help them get to where they want to be, respectfully and equitably. Some of our recent work with two new Investee organizations, New Westminster Family Place and West Coast Kids Cancer Foundation, illustrate our working relationship – and show why accompaniment leads to more long-term impact for the organizations we work with and their communities.
Discovery Team members: Nicole Geyer, Helen Stortini, Sohee Kim. Our SVP Early Years Innovation Fund is fuelling ground-breaking ideas and stepping in to provide critical and unique support that fills a gap in the Early Years funding horizon. Our proposed work with New Westminster Family Place (NWFP) is just another example of this in action.
