Reimagine Giving is a growing community of donors and movement leaders around the globe committed to lasting systemic change. We are building both a platform for philanthropists and a fund for the movement.
In the context of COVID-19 and the urgency for a more racially just future, people around the world are giving … and asking, “How else can I be part of the change?”
Large-scale regional, national, or global funders have not moved significant resources to the frontline leaders working to create more equitable communities. In fact, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color have been largely excluded from historic philanthropic funding.
We need to direct resources to fill the gaps in where philanthropic dollars have gone.
Social Venture Partners is a global movement of over 3500 engaged donors, volunteers, and social change leaders. Together, we have invested more than $70 million in more than 900 nonprofits. SVP currently has affiliates in 40 cities and 8 countries across the globe.
SVP International seeks to enable:
- A more equitable and engaged culture of giving
- Improved flow of resources between communities
- More civically engaged and community-oriented philanthropists
- Increased sharing of wealth and power
- Multi-sector collaborations, understanding, and partnerships
- Stronger communities locally and globally connected
We work towards our collective impact by intervening in regional, national, & global systems.
We heard from our Partners that they want to be part of the change with donors around the globe. We have also heard that Partners want ways to participate regionally, nationally, and globally, alongside the work they do locally.
That’s why we’re building on our local strength. As we launch this new community we will build a network of donors and social change leaders joining together across class, race, issues, and geographies, with curiosity, honesty, vulnerability, and accountability.
Reimagine Giving provides a way for SVP Partners to stand up for the values that SVP’s have been demonstrating for decades. In this movement, you can build community across the network to jointly create systems change, while enabling SVP International to leverage our national relationships to fund local work.
Reimagine Giving makes visible the people behind the funds. Standing up as a collective group, we can be a force for change within the institution and systems in which we exist.
In SVP, we know that advancing justice requires a whole ecosystem perspective and addressing issues at their root. Our community of philanthropists has long had a commitment to evolving alongside the needs of communities and this is one such attempt.
The first round of this fund is a quick-turnaround source for action grants that go directly to Black, Indigenous, People of Color advancing systems change and we are working with our SVP Affiliates in the US and Canada to identify those organizations.
By building upon frontline efforts for systems change, this Fund will be one way to counter historic gaps in philanthropic investment. For grantmaking in the U.S. and Canada, that means prioritizing Black, Indigenous, and People of Color led efforts; and for future grantmaking, we will analyze gaps within the local context.
Those who experience the impacts of unjust systems have the vision and creativity to lead on transforming these systems.
Systems change means addressing issues at their root and includes everything from proactive visioning, power building, supporting artists and creatives, culture work, changing public narratives, policy, advocacy, and community organizing.
