Jun
Did you know that at any one time roughly one-quarter of the SV2 Partnership puts their hands up to serve as active volunteer leaders? Check out this year’s impressive leadership cohort here and let us know if you are interested in a...
Jun
Our Environment Lightning Grant Round was action-packed! We had the amazing opportunity to get to know how six organizations are advancing climate solutions and environmental sustainability, as well as replicating and/or scaling their...
Jun
This year, SV2 Teens decided to learn more about criminal justice reform. We went on site-visits, learned more about and allocated a $20,000 grant across three organizations: Defy Ventures (shifts mindsets to give people with criminal...
Jun
This year, SV2 hosted our first-ever place-based Grant Round in a particular geography: the North Fair Oaks community in San Mateo County. As part of SV2’s Pathways to Opportunity initiative, this Grant Round looked at the overlapping...
Jun
SV2 launched our impact investing work in 2015, and a committed and engaged group of Partners meets monthly to discuss prospective impact investment opportunities, hear pitches from social entrepreneurs, and conduct due diligence in order...
Apr
In line with funder best practices in times of crisis, SV2 recently made changes to our annual grant reporting process. Specifically, we did not ask our Grantees to write grant reports, but relied on our Lead Partner liaisons to write...
Apr
The Social Ventures we support (Grantees and Investees) are heroically, resourcefully, and lovingly rapidly adapting to fulfilling community needs. We want to highlight some ways they are doing this. We encourage you to look through their...
Apr
Mural depicting the past and present of the North Fair Oaks district of Redwood city Artist: Jose Castro There are many ways to learn about an issue, a population or a place. Some important learning occurs without ever connecting...
Apr
We’ve checked in with our current Grantees and Impact Investees, who are hard at work continuing their invaluable work. It’s quite the range: from helping children and families overcome adverse experiences, to systemically enabling...
Apr
We realize many of our community members might be feeling overwhelmed due to rising challenges surrounding COVID-19 disruptions and ramifications. In an effort to disrupt news feeds full of discouraging news, we are sharing some of the...