Helping new nonprofits build a better world for all

Management and Entrepreneurial Counsel

The Social Venture Capital Foundation provides those nonprofits that it chooses to support with a range of management advice and entrepreneurial counsel.  The forms of management counsel available to grantee organizations include, but are not limited to, assistance in:

Clarifying Mission, Goals & Strategies

• clarifying the mission and of your organization, and finding ways to express the mission clearly,

• setting goals for your organization and defining how success will be measured,

• devising, assessing, and improving innovative strategies to carry out your organization's mission and achieve its goals

• developing the necessary competencies for success

• anticipating and planning for the unexpected  

• providing independent evaluation of performance and/or the adequacy of current management systems (or organizational development or staffing needs) to achieve the organization's vision and to carry out its mission 

• ensuring continuous improvement

Incorporating, Becoming Tax Exempt

• establishing your organization and arranging for its incorporation,

• obtaining tax exempt status from the IRS, so that donor contributions will be tax deductible,

• enabling y our organization to function as a project of the Social Venture Capital Foundation until it is incorporated and has its own tax exempt foundation status,

• finding legal counsel to help with these and other tasks

Fund Raising, Record Keeping & Financial Accountability

• establishing and maintaining systems for proper financial record keeping,

• ensuring compliance with State regulations governing fund raising, record keeping, reporting, and other financial and non-financial requirements,

• finding a bookkeeper to keep the books and an auditor to review them periodically

Developing Strategies for Financial Self Sufficiency

• identifying prospective contributors and strategies for cultivating their support, 

• going beyond  grant writing and philanthropic fund raising to develop entrepreneurial approaches for self-sufficiency,

• helping define revenue raising strategies that promote, rather than detract from, the core mission

Network Building and Public Relations

• introducing your organization to SVCF's Mutual Support Network,

• building the other network, contacts, and strategic alliances that your organization needs to carry out its mission,

• developing and carrying out an effective public relations program to enlist support for the work of your organization,

• assistance in designing and publishing web sites, articulating the mission, goals,  and activities of, and needs being met by, your organization

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