Projects
Information becomes powerful when it is accessible to a wide audience. SVT is interested in the visualization and communication of information about impact.
One of our visualization projects was prompted by the ’08/09’s economic recession, and a question posed by documentary producer and Full Circle Fund member Marc Smolowitz, who asked how the recession was affecting the nonprofit community. We worked with him to explore the answer in 2009. Read more...
SVT hosts a small co-working space in San Francisco's Mission district for young companies and individuals involved in socially / environmentally responsible businesses. Rent includes an individual space for your sole use, 24/7 access, utilities, high speed internet, faxing, scanning, printing, and access to the conference room, conference room phone line, kitchen, and other common areas. Read more...
Want to know what impact you’re having, but unsure how to measure it? Join the Social E-valuator US pilot!
SVT Group invites you to join KPMG, Ashoka Germany, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers in being among the first organizations to pilot Social E-valuator, an online tool that walks you through the process of determining how to measure your impact. Join the vanguard of organizations currently defining best practices and international standards for impact and SROI assessment. Read more...
SVT Group partnered with Cisco to create this tutorial based on SVT’s methodology, which has been used by domestic and international nonprofits, funders, corporations and investors, to clarify goals, assess results and identify opportunities to increase both impact and financial performance. Watch the video and view the presentation
With numerous active projects in six areas (restoration, biodiversity, sanitation, education, microenterprise and advocacy), and a $14 million UNDP Global Environment Facility grant, Grupo Ecologico Sierra Gorda needed a way to organize the overwhelming amount of data it collected and to use that data to optimize its impact and its future fundraising capabilities. SVT developed a customized impact management system to measure the ecological, economic, and social benefits and carbon co-benefits generated through its community-based work. Read more...
Nemours Health & Prevention Services (NHPS) is a non-profit organization born of a major children’s healthcare provider based in Newark, Delaware. NHPS works with families and community partners to help children grow up healthfully and in particular, to avoid childhood obesity. NHPS wanted to be able to answer what the best use of each next dollar was. NHPS came to SVT to design and build an “SROI Toolkit” to maximize positive impact per dollar across its programs and partnerships.
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Morrison & Foerster, LLP is a world-renowned, San Francisco-based law firm highly respected for its cross-sector expertise and commitment to public service. The firm wanted to align and expand its existing expertise with the growing market opportunities in the advancing cleantech industry. Inherently interdisciplinary, cleantech endeavors generate legal issues that require synthesis among several substantive legal areas, including corporate transactions, intellectual property, and environmental law, among others. Read more...
Sustainable tourism and ecotourism managers and investors share the goals of protecting the local environment, offering environmental and cultural education, and providing economic empowerment benefits for local communities, while generating a profit. To do this, they need practical tools to manage and prioritize the multiple (and often competing) beneficiaries. SVT’s ECOframe methodology can help.
ECOframe is a management framework to help sustainable tourism operators and investors ensure maximum positive impact for the resources at hand. ECOframe enables you to: Read more...
