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The Social Venture Capital Foundation, Inc. (SVCF) |
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Helping new nonprofits build a better world for all
Guiding Principles
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"As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance, and equality of all citizens before the law prevail." -- Albert Einstein |
A number of principles will guide The Social Venture Capital Foundation in reviewing prospects for support. One of these guiding principles is that the groups, programs and ideas we support must hold the promise of a better world for all, not just for some. We seek to promote mutual concern and respect for the rights, needs, and well-being of others, as well as of our selves and our own communities.
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"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?" -- Rabbi Hillel |
Now, more than ever, we need to reaffirm the validity of the Golden Rule as a universal and central moral standard by which we live. But we also want our grantees to demonstrate an appreciation of an important empirical fact of life: in the 21st Century all of our fates are inextricably intertwined. The science of "ecology" teaches that the parts of our natural system are interconnected. The worldwide AIDS epidemic shows us that what threatens one of us threatens us all. Thus, in the 21st Century we can no longer afford the kinds of delusional belief systems that say, what happens in the ghetto is of no concern to those living in the suburbs and vice versa.
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny." -- M. L. King, Jr. |
Another guiding principle is that the work we support must enhance personal and parental responsibility, as well as community, social, or universal responsibility.
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"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful." -- Madame Marie Curie |
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