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Social Venture Partners Delaware (SVP DE) is part of a growing movement to make high-quality early childhood education available to low-income and poverty-level children in Delaware. SVP DE uses a new concept of giving based on the venture capital model that combines financial investment with partner expertise to nurture those investments with guidance and resources to ensure success.

It’s a community that we believe can effect lasting positive change by providing innovative early education nonprofit organizations with the tools they need to give every child in Delaware a solid academic foundation.

The SVP Model

The SVP model brings together worlds that typically do not overlap:  grant making, volunteerism, nonprofit capacity building, and philanthropic education.  Every SVP is a network of people who believe that they can have a positive impact on their communities and organizations who are using innovative strategies to address complex community issues.

SVP Partners are individuals who want to make a meaningful contribution to nonprofit organizations by sharing their skills, time, and financial resources.

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The first half of the SVP model is investment that builds the long-term capacity of organizations, rather than short-term projects or programs.  Capacity building investments include cash grants, skilled volunteers, professional consultants, leadership development and management training opportunities.  These efforts contribute to increased organizational effectiveness and impact.  SVP Partners make an annual contribution of at least $5,500, and make decisions about how to share their collective investment.

The other half of the SVP model is the mobilization of a community of lifelong, informed, and inspired philanthropists.  Through engagement with Investees, connections with SVP Partners, and participation in education events, Partners are inspired to reinvest and make new investments in organizations associated with SVP as well as more broadly.

Social Venture Partners Delaware
100 W. 10th Street, Suite 609 - Wilmington, Delaware 19801 - 302.778.2680