Rich Shockey

CEO

Rich comes to SVP with over 20 years of experience serving in non-profit leadership. Most recently, he served as the Executive Director of Flourish Furniture Bank in Kansas City, which has served over 5000 unhoused neighbors and others in crisis in the community with a home full of furnishings during his tenure. He has dedicated himself to serving under-resourced and disempowered communities both in his professional and personal life.

Rich also served as a foster parent for 13 years, providing a safe and nurturing home for nearly 75 children in need, and now serves on the board of directors for his foster agency, EmberHope. He has worked in legislative advocacy as well, leveraging his expertise and passion to advance policies that promote social and racial justice, health, and equity.

Rich loves travel and gastronomic adventures with his wife and two teenage sons and can often be found watching youth soccer on weekends. LinkedIn Profile

Dara Bellinson

Senior Program Manager

Dara, originally from Michigan, has spent years working in the social impact sphere with focuses on transformative fundraising, homelessness and food insecurity, and early childhood education.

Alongside their work with SVP Denver, Dara co-founded Community Resource Collective (CRCL) where they supported grassroots organizations in New York City by mobilizing resourced young professionals to engage in informed, sustainable, and lifelong philanthropy. They have enjoyed continuing this work in Denver, grounding themself in the Denver organizational sphere and working alongside incredible Colorado-based changemakers! 

Dara loves trees, playing pool, the smell of winter, and looking at mountains. LinkedIn Profile

Karen Mortimer

Relationship Coordinator

Karen is an Illinois native who joined the ranks of Coloradans in 1997.  Karen has been an administrator with education organizations such as Facing History and Ourselves & the Donnell-Kay Foundation and volunteers extensively within the education space where she focuses on efforts to amplify parent voice, especially within marginalized communities, and to promote transparency and equity. Her husband, Greg (a Colorado native), is the CIO for Adams 12 School District.  Their son graduated from Manual High School and is headed into a career in audio engineering and their daughter is a student at Kenyon College.  LinkedIn Profile

Community Participation:

• Member, Denver Public Schools District Accountability Committee
• Board Member, Ednium
• Team Member, Colorado Immigrant Justice Fund