Capacity Building Fund
Our Capacity Building Fund will make investments in nonprofit organizations that have effective programs and strong leadership, but which could advance to a higher level of impact and effectiveness by strengthening the underlying organization. These investments offer:
- a structured assessment of organizational capacity;
- volunteer support from SVPP Partners in identified strategic and operational areas;
- assistance in defining, measuring and developing a system to track outcomes;
- as appropriate, leverage/assistance with funding requests to other capacity-building grantmakers; and,
- a modest unrestricted grant – $5000.
We expect these to be 12-to-24-month investments, depending on the Investee’s needs.
Partners offer a range of professional volunteer assistance to Investees including, but not limited to: financial, strategic, and project management, planning, marketing, information technology infrastructure, real estate and legal affairs.
Winter 2010 Investment Cycle
Our Winter 2010 investment cycle will be as follows:
January 11, 2010 – Request for Proposal issued (See links below.)
January 20, 2010, 8:30-9:30am – Investment Information Session, Center for Philanthropy, 221 NW Second Avenue, Third Floor, Portland (Note: A representative from all nonprofits that have not attended an SVPP information session in the last year is strongly encouraged to attend.) RSVP at investment@svpportland.org
February 12, 2010, 5:00pm – Deadline for submitting cover sheet and proposal to investment@svpportland.org
Week of March 8 – Finalists notified
Week of April 19 – Investee selection(s) announced
Nonprofits who wish to apply should access investment guidelines/proposal documents here:
Any nonprofit representative that did not receive an email about the request for proposal or SVPP’s regular eNews bulletin and wishes to be notified of future news and requests should submit contact information here: Contact Us
To learn more about our investment model, applying for an SVPP investment or see our Frequently Asked Questions page.
