SVP Seattle

Meet the Board Social
2023-11-14 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Poco Bar & Lounge, 1408 E Pine St, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Join us for a drink, some light bites, and chat with our SVP board members. It’s a great opportunity to connect with our fantastic board members and gain valuable insights into our board’s plans and goals for the future of SVP.

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What’s Going On: Policy Considerations to Address Wealth Inequality
2023-11-09 17:00 - 19:00 | Byrd Barr Place, 722 18th Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Come hear from community leaders about both why we need to and how we can put in place policies and programs that help people overcome systemic poverty and wealth inequality. There are several programs that we know have been very effective and some creative ideas are being proposed such as Baby Bonds and a Guaranteed Basic Income. In addition, Washington State has one of the most regressive tax structures in the US. Many are taking note and proposing real solutions for our state legislature to contemplate in the upcoming 2024 session, including a wealth tax, reformed estate tax, and other ideas.

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Meet our speakers:

Dr. Stephan BlanfordExecutive Director, Children’s Alliance
As the Executive Director of Children’s Alliance, Dr. Stephan Blanford leads a team of committed staff, volunteers and more than 6,000 members, advocating fiercely for the improved outcomes for children in Washington state. As an unapologetic advocate for racial and social justice, Stephan’s work has ranged from early learning to college entrance leading small, direct service youth development agencies to multidisciplinary demonstration projects.
In 2013, he was elected by the voters of Seattle and served a four-year term on the Seattle School Board, where he received the “Leadership for Equity” award at the conclusion of his term. More recently, the Evergreen Chapter of the American Society of Public Administrators awarded him the “Billy J. Frank Race and Social Justice” award for leadership and advocacy. Extending his work at a national level, he is the board chair of Integrated Schools and serves on the board of Partnership for America’s Children, Balance our Tax Code Coalition, and several other progressive organizations.
Dr. Blanford holds a Bachelors’ degree in Social Justice from Antioch University, a Masters in Public Policy from the Evans School of Governance and Public Policy and a Doctorate from the College of Education at the University of Washington.

Senator Noel Frame36th Legislative DistrictD-Seattle
Noel Frame (she/her) has represented the people of the 36th Legislative District as their state senator since January 2023, after having served the district as state representative beginning in January 2016.
Noel is an award-winning legislator, having been honored more than 15 times for her work advocating for youth involved in the foster care and juvenile justice systems, expanding services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavioral health challenges, championing economic development, and fixing the state’s upside-down tax code. She takes on many of the toughest challenges facing our state – reforming our criminal legal system, building more affordable housing, strengthening and investing in the diverse communities that make up Washington state, balancing our tax code, and more.
In 2023, she serves as vice chair of the Senate Housing Committee, vice chair of the Senate Business, Financial Services, Gaming & Trade Committee, and as a member of the Senate Human Services Committee. She previously served as the chair of the House Finance Committee.
In addition to her role in the state Legislature, Noel is a small business owner and partner of BDS Planning & Urban Design, a community development consulting firm located in Belltown. She is a facilitator, organizer, strategist, and engagement specialist with more than 20 years’ experience in the non-profit, private, public, and political sectors.
Noel and her husband Jim live in Greenwood with their toddler, Holden. She has lived in the 36th District since 2005 and is originally from Battle Ground, in southwest Washington. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Sharonne NavasCo-Founder and Executive Director of the Equity in Education Coalition
The first American-born child of immigrant parents from Guatemala and El Salvador, Sharonne understands, and values, the complexity of being multi-lingual and multi-cultural in America. A native of New York City, Sharonne moved to the Seattle area in 2009.
Past professions include being a community organizer with Stand for Children, Executive Director of Para Los Niños, Assistant Director of Development for NARAL Pro-Choice America, Deputy Executive Director for Ayuda, Inc., and Development Coordinator for the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
In 2010, she was appointed as Commissioner for the Washington State Commission on Hispanic Affairs.
In 2016, she was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Green River Community College.
Sharonne was an advisory member for the Thrive By Five‘s “Talk, Love, Play” initiative, a cohort member of Thrive by Five’s “Advancing Racial Equity Theory of Change in Early Learning,” a committee member of the WA State Education Opportunity Gap Oversight and Accountability Committee. Sharonne is currently a member of the advocacy caucus, community network steering committee, and sponsors group of the Road Map Project of CCER.
She also volunteers for the South King Council on Human Services and was a Board member of the League of Education Voters and is on the Steering Committee of the Southeast Seattle Education Coalition. Sharonne holds a BA in Psychology and Sociology from St. John’s University.
She spends her off-time exploring the various foods and wines of WA State with her husband Steve and their tweenie dachshunds, Manny, and Porter.

Lilliane Ballesteros
Lilliane has 15 years of experience working with nonprofits and community organizations to develop and implement funding strategies, and advocate for program and policy changes. She started working with LCF in 2013 in a Development Role. since 2019, she has served in her current role as Executive Director to support and build statewide power with Latinx/e communities. Lilliane loves exploring WA State, including eating oysters in Seattle, clamming on the coast, and enjoying the Yakima River.

New Partners Onboarding (Virtual)
2023-10-25 17:00 - 18:00 | WA
Join us to meet with fellow new Partners, and learn more about SVP Seattle. At the onboarding, Emiko Atherton, our Executive Director, will share:

SVP’s mission, vision, and program
What it means to be an SVP Partner
How to share your time and talent through volunteer projects
Information about upcoming SVP programs
You will also have a chance to connect with other new Partners.

To RSVP, please email info@svpseattle.org with “RSVP to New Partner Onboarding” in the subject line. Zoom link sent upon registration confirmation.

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Skilled Volunteering Onboarding
2023-10-19 12:00 - 13:00 | WA
What is SVP’s approach to skilled volunteering? What does capacity building for a non-profit mean? What kind of non-profits and volunteer jobs are available?
Join SVP Seattle staff and Partners to learn more about how SVP pairs Partners with non-profits looking for skilled volunteers to work on projects focused on building an organization’s capacity, such as website development and design, project management, strategic planning, and communications strategy. You’ll learn more about the non-profits we support, our approach to volunteering and capacity building, hear stories from other volunteers on their experiences, and what volunteering opportunities are open right now.
We require this orientation for anyone interested in volunteering with SVP.
*Zoom link provided upon registration.*

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Philanthropy and Wealth Inequality
2023-10-18 17:00 - 19:00 | Byrd Barr Place, 722 18th Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Philanthropists will discuss their relationship with wealth and what they are trying to do to address systemic poverty and wealth inequality.

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Meet our speakers:

Cathy Habib
Cathy and her husband, David, joined SVP in 2001. Cathy had spent 10 years in Software Development at Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft before transitioning to staying home with their two young children. Cathy served on the SVP Education grant committee in 2007 which then inspired her to get more involved as a volunteer in local Education efforts. She served on the Bellevue Schools Foundation board for 9 years, several of those years as their VP of Grantmaking. In 2011, Cathy joined the early “volunteer” staff of Eastside Pathways, a cradle-to-career collective action organization in East King County. She now serves as the Eastside Pathways board chair which oversees the nonprofit Eastside Pathways “backbone” and provides a leadership table for the Eastside Pathways Partnership. Because of Cathy’s interest in collective action, she joined the SVP EduCAT committee in 2018 to deepen her knowledge of Collective Action efforts in the Puget Sound region.
David Habib
David Habib joined Social Venture Partners in 2000, after a career in software development at Microsoft. Since 2000, he has focused exclusively on the nonprofit sector, where he has provided program management and software engineering for database and web-based applications for nonprofits. Along with his wife Cathy, he has been involved in philanthropy and nonprofit work since then.
He has served on two SVP grant committees, and has been an avid technology volunteer, working on database projects for many SVP investees and other Puget Sound area nonprofits including SPEB, Rainier Athletes, Youth Eastside Services, Child Care Resources, New Futures, Washington Environmental Council, Powerful Voices, Seattle SCORES, Groundwire, Rainier Scholars, and many others. He also worked for Salesforce.com’s Foundation, working on software for the nonprofit sector.
Beth McCaw
Beth McCaw is the founding funder of Threshold Philanthropy, LLC, and with her husband Yahn Bernier, co-founder of the Bernier McCaw Foundation. Beth and Yahn have a long history of giving in their communities, most recently in Washington state, which has been their home since 1998. It’s here that Beth had transformative experiences on the Board of Directors of YWCA of Seattle/King County/Snohomish County and YWCA USA, as President & CEO of Washington Women’s Foundation, and also as a member of the Sisterhood, a community of seven white women and six Black women who are living into what it means to deeply reckon with white supremacy and the wealth gap. As part of the Sisterhood, Beth is actively working to build intergenerational wealth in Black families and at Threshold, through relationship-building and the return of resources, is exploring individual reparative action and how to help people and communities heal.
Srilakshmi (Sri) Remala
Srilakshmi (Sri ) Remala is a Senior Program Officer on the K-12 Solutions team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focused on scaling high-quality instructional materials through digital experiences for students and educators that build context, motivation and engagement mathematics. Over the last 10 + years, she has focused her career on bringing technology products to market that improve student and teacher outcomes especially for low-income students and students of color. She has led product teams at ed-tech companies like Committee for Children, Agile Mind, and DreamBox Learning and recently developed a mobile app for college students to stay on track to achieve their term goals. Sri began her education sector work as part of the on the ground team of two non-profits in our region, Washington STEM and Community Center for Education Results (CCER). Sri is driven by the belief that where you live and zip code you were born into should not determine the quality of education and opportunities you receive. She is actively involved in her family’s philanthropy effort at The Satya and Rao Remala Foundation and has made investment both locally and abroad in STEM programs, university scholarships and educator development opportunities. The Remala Foundation support for education takes many forms and is rooted in the belief that education opens doors to opportunity and economic mobility. Sri holds a bachelor’s from Carnegie Mellon University and an MPA from UW Evans School of Public Affairs. Sri currently serves on the advisory board for the University of Washington College of Education and Zeno Math.

Foundations of Wealth Inequality
2023-09-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Byrd Barr Place, 722 18th Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
We are excited to host Anne E. Price to kick off our series with a look at the underlying foundation of wealth in the US. She has spent 25 years in the public sector working on child welfare, hunger, welfare reform, workforce development, community development and higher education. Anne E. Price currently serves as Co-President and Founder of The Maven Collaborative, an organization working to fully dismantle racial and gender inequality within our economy.
Book Giveaway!
The first 25 people to register and attend the first of the series — Foundations of Wealth Inequality on September 13th — will receive a copy of Poverty, by America, by Matthew Desmond. This new book explores systemic poverty in the United States and the role that more fortunate Americans play in perpetuating the endurance of persistent poverty.

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New Partners Onboarding (Virtual)
2023-08-17 12:30 - 13:00 | WA
At the onboarding, Emiko Atherton, our Executive Director, and Asia Wisecarver, SVP Board Member, will share:

SVP’s mission, vision, and program
What it means to be an SVP Partner
How to share your time and talent through volunteer projects
Information about upcoming SVP programs

You will also have a chance to connect with other new Partners.
To RSVP, please email info@svpseattle.org with “RSVP to New Partner Onboarding” in the subject line. Zoom link sent upon registration confirmation.
OR RSVP on eventbrite

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Coffee, Tea, and SVP
2023-07-12 10:00 - 23:30 | Queen Bee Café, 8805 Points Drive NE, Clyde Hill, WA, 98004, United States
We invite you to join us for our upcoming Partner meet-up over coffee and tea on July 12, from 10:00 am to 11:30 am, at the Queen Bee Cafe in Clyde Hill. This is a great opportunity for partners to connect over your favorite hot beverages. Our meet-ups are open to all partners.

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June Gathering
2023-06-21 18:00 - 20:00 | WA
Join us on June 21, from 6:00 – 8:00 pm for a Partner gathering at Tapster-South Lake Union. Meet with fellow SVP Partners old and new at this casual event. Come for some light bites, beer, and non-alcoholic beverages: stay for the great company.
Our happy hours are 21 and over. We love dogs, but not at this event.

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SVP International: June Learning Lab 1
2023-06-06 16:30 - 17:30 | WA
Join Social Venture Partners International for our next Virtual Learning Lab to learn from other philanthropists and experts while sharing your insights.
Don’t miss this opportunity to:

Connect with Partners from across the globe
Gain more insight into accountable and impact-driven giving
Learn about emerging trends in philanthropy and the social sector

Find a Learning Lab that works with your schedule and click the link to register:

May Learning Lab 1 – Thursday May 11, at 4:30 pm PST

May Learning Lab 2 – Thursday May 25, at 8:00 am PST

June Learning Lab 1 – Thursday June 8, at 4:30 pm PST

SVP International: May Learning Lab 2
2023-05-25 08:00 - 09:00 | WA

Look, Listen & Learn: First Annual P.A.L. Anniversary
2023-05-20 11:00 - 15:00 | WA
Join Look, Listen & Learn on Saturday, May 20, from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm, for its first-anniversary party celebrating the friendship of its two beloved co-hosts, Possum and Auntie Lena, collectively known as P.A.L. Gather at the Renton Community Center for garden-themed activities.
Inspired by the early learning segments from our television series, the First Annual P.A.L. Anniversary is a fun-filled day for children, friends, and families to participate in the same activities seen on the show. The event theme for 2023 is Gather, Garden + Grow, commemorating P.A.L.’s first meeting—in Auntie Lena’s backyard garden!
For more information, visit: www.looklistenandlearn.org/first-annual-pal-anniversary
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Spring Spotlight Celebration
2023-05-17 17:00 - 19:00 | WA
Join the SVP Seattle community over beverages and appetizers to celebrate our graduating Grantees, United Indians of All Tribes, and Washington Building Leaders of Change. We’ll also hear a keynote from Microsoft’s Amy Liu, sharing her insights on the future of sustainable urban development. The Spring Spotlight Celebration is hosted at the Daybreak Star Cultural Center in Discovery Park, Seattle.

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Keynote Speaker

Amy Liu is Director of Human Services and Affordable Housing Initiative in Washington State at Microsoft. In that role, she helps lead Microsoft’s Affordable Housing initiative and also oversees philanthropic grants in Washington State. Amy’s career has spanned many industries and types of organizations, including the public, private and non-profit sectors. Amy is a recovering attorney with a wide range of work experiences, including working in an urban school district, the mortgage finance industry, law firms, a Presidential campaign, and a statewide education advocacy organization. She is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan with both her undergraduate and law degrees. She has been an avid angler for most of her life and has recently committed to learning to fly fish.
Special Opportunity: Guided Gallery Tour

Guided Tour of the Daybreak Star Permanent Collection and Sacred Circle Gallery4:00 – 5:00 pmRSVP required: email SVP Partner Terri Cole
In 1975, the City of Seattle’s 1% for Art Program allocated $80,000 for the Daybreak Star Center for an original collection of Native American Art across cultures. Native American artists were selected through a national competition to create a group of works representative of contemporary India and Alaskan Native art from over 360 tribes in North America. Enjoy hearing about the art collection from one of United Indians staff, Jose.

SVP International: May Learning Lab 1
2023-05-11 16:30 - 17:30 | WA

Spring 2023 Book Club: Meet the Author
2023-05-10 12:00 - 13:00 | WA
Please join SVP Seattle, in partnership with Progress Alliance and the Washington Women’s Foundation, on Wednesday, May 10, from 12:00 – 1:00 pm for an exclusive online event with Clyde W. Ford, author of the 2022 book, Of Blood And Sweat: Black Lives And The Making Of White Power And Wealth. His book provides a compelling look at the past and its broad implications for present-day calls for racial equity, justice, and the abolishment of systemic racism.
This conversation will be moderated by SVP Seattle Executive Director, Emiko Atherton. We’ll also have time for a Q&A with the audience and Mr. Ford.

SVP is hosting an informal watch party in person at the Cloud Room on Capitol Hill. Join a small group of staff and Partners to watch the Clyde W. Ford author event together. Please email Heather at heatherh@svpseattle.org with questions or to join the gathering.
We encourage you to read the book and buy your copy at Parable – a Black-owned bookstore based in Tacoma. Please click here to purchase it online at Parable.

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Look, Listen & Learn: Season 4 Casting
2023-05-06 10:00 - 16:00 | WA
Is your little one interested in being part of Look, Listen + Learn? Sign up for auditions!
Auditions will be held Saturday, May 6th, from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm at John Stanford Center in SODO. Each audition is roughly 15 minutes long.
Consistent with our mission, LL+L TV seeks to include diverse children and families in our productions.
Children must be 6-9 years old to audition. No prior acting experience is required.
Preference will be given to Black, Indigenous, and other children of color. The criteria we use to identify children to feature on our show include:

Developmentally appropriate social-emotional skills and behaviors
Ability to focus attention for a short period of time
Willingness to interact and positively respond to questions or instruction
Basic English-language speaking skills
Some familiarity with Look, Listen and Learn

Sign-up here.
Auditions are limited and will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. If all time slots are booked, please email ap@looklistenandlearn.org to be added to the waitlist in the event of a cancellation.

Spring 2023 Book Club: Of Blood and Sweat (May 2)
2023-05-02 12:00 - 13:00 | WA
We’ll be reading Clyde W. Ford’s new book, Of Blood And Sweat: Black Lives And The Making Of White Power And Wealth. His book provides a compelling look at the past and its broad implications for present-day calls for racial equity, justice, and the abolishment of systemic racism.
This group will meet online four times total, February 23, March 21, April 18, and May 2 from 12:00-1:00 PM.

February 23 Please read the Introduction and chapters 1 through 4
March 21: Please read chapters 5 through 8
April 18: Please read chapters 9 though 12
May 2: Please read chapters 13 through 16 and the Afterword

Everyone is welcome to join the book club regardless of whether they have been able to read the assigned content.
After the book club, we invite you to join our online event with author Clyde W. Ford on Wednesday, May 10 at 12 PM!
We encourage you to buy your copy at Parable – a Black-owned bookstore based in Tacoma. Please click here to purchase it online at Parable.
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SPIN: Young Entrepreneur Project
2023-04-26 12:15 - 13:30 | WA
Please join SVP Seattle and our newest grantee, STEM Paths Innovation Network (SPIN), for a lunchtime networking event supporting young entrepreneurs of color.
The Young Entrepreneur Project (YEP) supports young entrepreneurs to plant, grow, invest, and receive the fruits of their business ventures. YEP supports students of color to manifest STEM businesses by learning skills and doing hands-on training. YEP students are prepared not only with the entrepreneurial and STEM skills to succeed, but also with tools to overcome the social emotional challenges of becoming young, successful entrepreneurs. In its inaugural year at Cleveland High School, the program currently has 16 students registered with a weekly 80% attendance rate during the weekly workshops.
After working on their business ideas since the fall, the YEP students are excited to pitch them to you!

When: April 26th, 2023, 12:15-1:30 p.m.

Where: 5511 15th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98108, Cleveland High School, Seattle, WA

What: Networking event where students will have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with up to three professionals and pitch their business ideas and logos. Lunch is provided.
Who: Professionals with experience working in high-tech, start-ups of all kinds, game design, computer engineering, investing, product development, marketing, and other entrepreneurial endeavors. We welcome SVP Seattle Partners and prospective Partners!

To join us, we ask that you:

RSVP to emikoa@svpseattle.org by April 14th.
Provide your LinkedIn profile by April 21st for the students to review.
Post-event, complete a “Glow and Grow” feedback form, provided by SPIN, for each student you meet with at the event.

Spring 2023 Book Club: Of Blood and Sweat (April 18)
2023-04-18 12:00 - 13:00 | WA

Co-creation cohort
2023-04-11 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-03-14 12:00 - 13:00 | WA
SVP Seattle continues to reimagine our programs to center the voices of people most impacted by inequity, and to harness wealth, power, and privilege to dismantle unjust systems and create better futures for us all. During these monthly gatherings, Partners brainstorm and discuss programs that center and explore equity and anti-racism work.

Interested? Sign up here.

Partners in the Community
2023-04-11 09:00 - 12:00 | WA
Join the SVP Seattle board members and staff for a special event next month. We’ll be volunteering as food bank helpers at Asian Counseling and Referral Services. Following our volunteering shift, we’ll head to a nearby restaurant for lunch.

What: Food bank volunteering + lunch afterward
Where: ACRS’ CID Food Bank at 800 S. Weller St., 98104
Who: SVP Partners and friends (must be 16 years of age or older)
When: April 11th from 9 a.m.-12 p.m., optional lunch afterwards

We only have 3-5 slots, so RSVP now! To sign up, please email emikoa@svpseattle.org.
Q&A
Why are you doing this one-time event when SVP is known for skilled volunteering?
SVP’s Reimagined Vision has our Partnership showing up and supporting community whenever is needed. We also hope to build community with each other as we work side by side.
What will we be doing at ACRS?

Prepping grocery bags for delivery
Assembling and packaging food
Loading and unloading food into delivery vehicles
Supporting with organization and light cleaning within the facility

ACRS asks that all volunteers are fully vaccinated and complete a COVID-19 Vaccine Attestation.
Where will you go for lunch?
Depending on the size of the group, we will make a reservation a locally-owned restaurant that is located within walking distance of the Food Bank.

April Happy Hour
2023-04-04 16:00 - 18:00 | WA
Join us on April 4 from 4:00-6:00 pm for a Partner happy hour at Metier Brewing Company. Meet with fellow SVP Partners old and new at this casual event. Come for some light bites, beer, and non-alcoholic beverages: stay for the great company.
(Be sure to put Métier Brewing in your GPS as there is a Métier Racing And Coffee in a nearby neighborhood.)
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SVP International: Virtual Learning Lab
2023-03-30 16:30 - 18:00 | WA
Please save the date for SVP International’s first Virtual Learning Lab of the year on Thursday, March 30 at 4:30 pm PST. This is an opportunity for you to connect with Partners around the globe, learn about emerging trends in philanthropy and the social sector, and strategize and practice together on how we can reimagine giving to be more accountable and impact-driven. Thank you for being part of SVP and our work to reimagine giving.

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Spring 2023 Book Club: Of Blood and Sweat (March 21)
2023-03-21 12:00 - 13:00 | WA
We’ll be reading Clyde W. Ford’s new book, Of Blood And Sweat: Black Lives And The Making Of White Power And Wealth. His book provides a compelling look at the past and its broad implications for present-day calls for racial equity, justice, and the abolishment of systemic racism.
This group will meet online four times total, February 23, March 21, April 18, and May 2 from 12:00-1:00 PM.

March 21: Please read chapters 5 through 8
April 18: Please read chapters 9 though 12
May 2: Please read chapters 13 through 16 and the Afterword

Everyone is welcome to join the book club regardless of whether they have been able to read the assigned content.
After the book club, we invite you to join our online event with author Clyde W. Ford on Wednesday, May 10 at 12 PM!
We encourage you to buy your copy at Parable – a Black-owned bookstore based in Tacoma. Please click here to purchase it online at Parable.
RSVP here.

Spring 2023 Book Club: Of Blood and Sweat (February 23)
2023-02-23 12:00 - 13:00 | WA
We’ll be reading Clyde W. Ford’s new book, Of Blood And Sweat: Black Lives And The Making Of White Power And Wealth. His book provides a compelling look at the past and its broad implications for present-day calls for racial equity, justice, and the abolishment of systemic racism.
This group will meet online four times total, February 23, March 21, April 18, and May 2 from 12:00-1:00 PM.
After the book club, we invite you to join our online event with author Clyde W. Ford on Wednesday, May 10 at 12 PM!
We encourage you to buy your copy at Parable – a Black-owned bookstore based in Tacoma. Please click here to purchase it online at Parable.
RSVP here.

Co-Creation Cohort
2023-02-14 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-01-10 12:00 - 13:00 | WA
SVP Seattle continues to reimagine our programs to center the voices of people most impacted by inequity, and to harness wealth, power, and privilege to dismantle unjust systems and create better futures for us all. During these monthly gatherings, Partners brainstorm and discuss programs that center and explore equity and anti-racism work.

February Happy Hour
2023-02-01 16:00 - 18:00 | WA
Join us for our first happy hour of the new year, hosted at the Cloud Room on Capitol Hill. Meet with fellow SVP Partners old and new at this casual event. There will be light bites and drinks available.
Space is limited, so be sure to RSVP.

Non-profit Learning Series: Who is Robert, and why are we following his rules?
2022-12-14 12:00 - 13:00 | WA
Join SVP Partner and Board member Alexa Carver and Dila Perera, Executive Director of Open Arms Perinatal Services, to explore non-profit boards and governance.

Alexa Carver currently operates an independent consulting firm, Inspire Impact Consulting, where she works with a wide variety of nonprofits and schools. For the past 15 years, she has focused her work with boards and leadership teams on strategic thinking, board development, and equity in governance to inspire maximum mission impact for the organizations she works with.

Dila Perera, MPH, MSW has worked in public health and advocacy locally and internationally, including time spent as a doula for Open Arms. She earned both a Master of Public Health in Maternal Child Health and Global Health as well as a Master of Social Work at the University of Washington. Dila became Executive Director of Open Arms in 2015 and is proud to lead Washington’s first and leading community-based nonprofit organization providing perinatal services.
ABOUT OUR NON-PROFIT LEARNING SERIESThis fall, we are deep-diving into how non-profits are changing to center the voices of our Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities. The three-part series will each feature an hour-long presentation and conversation for Partners and community to learn together. Whether you are new to non-profits or seasoned in the sector, you’ll gain new information and contribute to the conversation. Each of the hour-long sessions will feature SVP Seattle Partners and non-profit leaders sharing their wisdom and experience. The first session will focus on non-profit history and mission, in What’s the Backstory of Non-Profits? The second session will feature a conversation on non-profit models and philosophy, in Shedding the Charity Mantra, and the third session will delve into non-profit boards and governance to answer the question Who is Robert, and why are we following his rules? Join for one session, or better yet, all three.
