No images? Click here SVP Cleveland | Winter 2020 Newsletter Thursday, February 27 at 5:30 pm Flowers. Foreign languages. Foster kids. Flying & floating. Flow & fashion. All of this year’s bigBANG! nonprofits put the F in Flair and get an A+ for missions impacting NEO. Come hear their 4-minute Fast Pitches and vote on the winner of the Most Persuasive Pitch! This year, bigBANG! will be at Accelerate 2020: Citizens Make Change. Stable Growth: Kinnect’s Expansion Increases Stability to Ohio’s Children in Foster Care and Their KinSVP Investee, Kinnect, is embracing change. Kinnect began their mission as a regional approach to identifying individuals whom a foster child considers their “kin” and involving these kin to create stability and permanency for that child. Recently, that mission expanded statewide. And SVP Partners have jumped in wholeheartedly to support our newest Investee’s growth. Moments of Silence. Moments of Hope. A Glimpse into Cleveland’s Human Trafficking CourtBy: Cil Knutsen, SVP Lead PartnerI am sitting in a small courtroom in downtown Cleveland next to Tenisha Gant-Watson, Executive Director of Jordan Community Resource Center. Unlike any other court I’d seen in real life or on TV, the room is filled with women. Everyone is visiting and chatting among themselves, cracking jokes and catching up. Some are clean and sober, others seem to be high. Some are with guards in special pews and wearing gray jail scrubs, not the ‘Orange is the New Black’ outfits my stereotype led me to expect. Beyond How It’s Always Been: SVP Partner, Denise Crudup, Blazes a New Trail and Believes in Our Unique NaturesBy Connie Collins, SVP Fellow SVP Partner Denise Crudup admits to having been a helicopter mom while her child grew up. As the time approached for her daughter to go off to college, she resolved she would turn those energies toward helping the community around her through philanthropy. A seasoned educator, holding two graduate certificates, three Master’s degrees with a fourth in progress, Denise approached this new journey as she does everything; “I got this, I will figure it out.” Then, her husband was offered a great job in another state. Tinkerer and Tackler, from Bike Parts to Nonprofits, SVP Partner Ben Faller Loves a Challenge By Connie Collins, SVP Fellow Ben Faller’s favorite books from his youth were Our Universe and The Way Things Work. These titles reveal a deep and early desire to understand Mechanics—how forces affect material bodies, the conditions under which that happens best, and the right tools that get it done. Yes, this would make Ben a great problem-solver. And he loves to solve problems—in concrete ways with bike parts or wood and tools and in not-so-concrete ways with people and relationships and society. "Rx Racial Healing: A Path Toward Equitable Opportunity and Outcomes for All" National equity expert and Glenville native, Dr. Gail Christopher championed her vision for racial healing and overcoming the false narrative of racial hierarchy to more than 100 community representatives on September 19, 2019. The event was presented by Social Venture Partners (SVP) Cleveland in partnership with The United Black Fund (UBF) of Greater Cleveland and The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (moCa).
Our Partners share a passion to help build a just society where everyone has the opportunity to thrive. We invite you to visit the Equity section of our website and see what equity means to us and how SVP is using an equity lens to guide us as an organization. Thank you to our Board Members & Partners. |