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Introducing the newest member of the SVP community! Girls Who LEAP (GWL) was selected as a recipient of an SVP Vancouver microgrant to support their strategic planning process.

Meet Meagan Sutton, an expert in evaluation and impact with over 15 years of experience working with nonprofits and social enterprises around the world.

For those of you who are looking to keep learning over the summer, we’ve got you covered with SVP’s Summer Reading List. We have collected an assortment of resources that explore issues and ideas within the nonprofit sector.

At SVP Vancouver, we believe in the transformative power of collaboration. It isn’t just about what our funding enables—it’s our Ties: the relationships and networks we cultivate, the bridges we build between organizations, and the collective impact we achieve.

On June 5th, eighty-one eager guests gathered together for  SVP’s 23rd Annual General Meeting at beautiful VanDusen Gardens. We were also joined by an amazing panel who shared how SVP’s unique model of support has helped them grow and evolve, and better support the children and youth they serve.

At our AGM on June 5th, we were thrilled to present the SVP Distinguished Partner Award to Dan Bowditch.

At SVP we FIND, FUND, and STRENGTHEN organizations through our venture philanthropy model, forming close, trusting relationships with them. We we want to help organizations go even further; to level up and do even more. We want to change the game for the non-profits we work with, the kids they support, and the non-profit sector as a whole. 

Introducing an exciting new granting approach for SVP Vancouver that will help us triple our venture philanthropy support, starting today.

Nicole Geyer, outgoing board chair at SVP Vancouver and passionate advocate for philanthropy and community engagement, reflects on her journey from viewing philanthropy as a stuffy concept associated with wealth to embracing it as a personal commitment to giving back.