COVID-19, Impact Investing, Investee Spotlight, Newsletters, Social Impact Investor Group
In the midst of COVID-19 shutdowns, SVP Denver partners sprang to action to address an immediate need. Efforts to create the Left Behind Workers Fund (LBWF) began on March 26, raising more than $225,000 in the first 23 days of the initiative. More than tens of...
COVID-19, Investee Spotlight, Newsletters
A frequent term we’re hearing as we check in with our past SVP Denver capacity-building investees during the COVID-19 pandemic is “pivoting.” Simply put, how do nonprofits stay relevant and operational amid workplace closures and social distancing protocols, both...
Newsletters, Partner Spotlight
Give us a brief overview of your personal and professional background. I am a Virginia native but decades ago, I migrated very indirectly to Colorado via Ann Arbor, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Seattle. Here in Denver, I formed an economics consulting firm, Coley/Forrest,...
Investee Spotlight, Newsletters
In 2019, SVP Denver and the Denver Active 20-30 Children’s Foundation (DA 20-30) worked on a year-long capacity-building engagement with National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD). The NSCD offers adaptive lessons for individuals and groups of people with...
Newsletters, Partner Spotlight
Elycia Cook is the president and CEO of Friends First, which empowers teens with tools, knowledge and positive role models to make choices leading to healthy relationships and successful futures. She serves on our board of directors, and recently won a lifetime...
Investee Spotlight, Newsletters
Since 1997, the founders of Lighthouse Writers Workshop (LWW) have strived to ensure that literature maintains its proper prominence in the culture, and that individuals achieve their fullest potential as artists and human beings. Over the past year, SVP Denver has...
