DSVP adopts Strategic Plan

After a four month planning process involving more than 40 partners in three different work streams, the DSVP board of directors has adopted the recommended strategic plan. The plan is a perfect balance between strategic vision around community focused leverage and impact along with partnership focused tactical programs.

Highlights from the plan include some of the following:

• Partner Power - Programmatic alignment of philanthropy education, partnership recruitment and investee engagement with a new "Partner Committee".
• Expanded Opportunities-Support more opportunities for our partners to have the impact they seek with a "Special Opportunities Team".
• More Fuel for the Fire - Leveraging additional resources into the investee portfolio through co-investment strategies and attracting additional human capital while DSVP is actively investing in nonprofits we support through a "Community Relations Team".
  
• Nurture the Ecosystem - Further promotion of social innovation as a strategy to engage the community, build awareness of DSVP, and nurture the ecosystem of engaged philanthropists, sustainable nonprofits and socially conscious businesses.
  

Staff and Board are developing work plans, budgets, committee charters and staffing models for 2011 to support these activities. Thank you to all our partners who were involved in the process. DSVP will be a stronger better organization because of this effort and vision!