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Venture Capital, Finance, and Investments
Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator
Techstars is a global startup accelerator and VC firm headquartered in New York City and operating since 2006. Its Workforce Development Accelerator invests in early-stage startups that are transforming the future of work through education, recruitment, and employee well-being. SVT builds the capacity of each portfolio company and the fund overall to determine and assess key impact metrics to guide their growth.
Happiness Capital
A multi-million dollar venture capital impact fund based in Hong Kong investing in food, agriculture, health, wellbeing, trust, and environment. SVT led design of a comprehensive framework to assess the impacts on wellbeing of parties who are affected by the fund’s investments.
Mission Driven Finance
Works with local and national private market investors to address the missing middle, helping investors to create the impact they want and businesses and community partners to get the capital they need. SVT facilitated the development of a Theory of Change and Impact Management Framework to guide their scaleup from $100 million to $1 billion in AUM.
Calvert Impact Capital
Previously Calvert Social Investment Foundation, Calvert is a 30+ year global impact investment firm that helps all types of investors and financial professionals invest in solutions that benefit people and the planet. SVT did a study of the gap between asset owners and investment advisors of interest in impact information (TLDR: the gap was surprisingly significant).
CalPERS Environmental Investment Advisor
CalPERS manages the largest public pension fund in the United States, with more than $469 billion in assets being managed for over 15 million California public employees, retirees, and their families. With PERS’ Environmental Investment Advisor, Bryan Martel, SVT designed a pioneering environmental due diligence and performance reporting system for the $200 million pilot program, It was later applied to PERS’ $600 million in a fund of funds totalling $9 billion in syndicated assets.
New Philanthropy Capital
Seconded to NPC, SVT Partner David Pritchard leads the evaluation team assessing the impact of MacArthur Foundation’s Catalytic Capital Consortium, an investment, learning, and market development initiative bringing together leading impact investors to encourage greater impact and use of catalytic capital.
“We liked SVT because of the clarity of work and we understood that SVT is respected in the field...We’ve definitely used a number of the tools SVT produced and have managed to attract a lot of national attention with a publication and conference presentations that resulted from the work."
Allison Gertel-Rosenberg, Director, National Prevention and Practice, Nemours.
Making Missing Markets for Equality, Social Justice, and Poverty Alleviation
RIDER
RIDER is an AI-enabled, national community of practice focused on shifting system conditions to drive rural child poverty out of existence, co-founded by SVT and Rural Opportunity Institute. RIDER is energizing five rural site leaders across 5 states, speeding learning, and accelerating access to resources. Our innovative work has been recognized as a design team within the New York Federal Reserve Bank’s Making Missing Markets initiative.
Prison Fellowship Program
Engaged SVT to quantify the invisible value of citizenship skills programs for incarcerated individuals across 4 Oklahoma state prisons, which serve many people with life sentences who are often forgotten.
Kenya Youth4Peace Initiative
Engaged SVT to analyze the value, costs, and durability of outcomes of its conflict resolution skills programming with young people 18-35 in high-conflict regions, revealing the creation of $1.5-2.5 million in social value.
KOKO Networks
Vertically-integrated sustainable cooking fuel and equipment company operating in Kenya and India that provides bioethanol cook stoves to replace charcoal, improving climate and women’s health outcomes. KOKO engaged SVT to design a blueprint for the “plumbing” behind its social and environmental value.
TrueHomes
A leading semi-custom home builder in the Carolinas, particularly in Charlotte and surrounding areas. They are committed to expanding affordable housing through initiatives such as their Doorway to Prosperity and Faith in Housing programs. SVT created a model to assess the “societal breakeven point” and social return of a workforce housing development in Charlotte that the firm intends to steward for a century.
Amref Health Africa
Amref Health Africa is the largest Africa-based healthcare nonprofit, serving millions of people every year across 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. SVT has teamed with Amref to evaluate and quantify the SROI of a number of projects including the work of the Maridi Health Sciences Institute in Sudan.
“SVT is clearly the leader in SROI analysis…. The approach SVT took was incredibly practical… We were trying out a bunch of different folks in this area of social impact metrics and Sara came out as the best.”
Eric Carlson, Co-creator, Global Social Benefit Incubator.
Social and Environmental Regeneration
Rethink Ireland
A national organization supporting innovative charities, social enterprises, and community organizations thorugh a €109 million social innovation fund. SVT is a preferred contractor for providing IMM support to its awardees.
Unite Wisconsin
A million-dollar a year nonprofit based in Milwaukee that improves the health and lives of people living in economically disadvantaged areas, with SVT delivering their impact evaluations for the past six years.
Restore the Earth Foundation
Commissioned SVT to build an SROI model aligned with Social Value International’s standards to quantify the net market, ecological, and societal value of their Mississippi River watershed reforestation projects.
Charity Intelligence Canada
An independent research organization that helps donors give intelligently by evaluating the transparency, accountability, and impact of Canadian charities.
“ … Corporations are now placing much more weight on social impact; [SVT’s] model helps us communicate our initiatives … “
Restore the Earth Foundation.
