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Meet the Innovators: Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Texas
04/12/10
Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) of North Texas provides one-on-one mentoring to children. They have developed strong and innovative statewide partnerships with government as well as faith-based organizations through their proven model that relates to mentoring children of prisoners through the Amachi Texas initiative. They also recognize the importance of outcome measures, utilizing randomized controlled trials funded by the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Their methods are so successful that they recently received national recovery funds to do consulting and help replicate their model across the country. Read More!
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Meet the bigBANG! Innovators: Shared Housing Center, Inc.
04/09/10
Shared Housing Center, Inc. serves thousands of people a year through housing and follow-up support on a very limited budget. Their “Building Blocks for Success” initiative was created to evaluate their program and measure its success. Using strong partnerships for their mental health and childcare initiatives, including a mental health component on-site delivered by Parkland Hospital HOMES, they help their families focus on root causes for becoming homeless, enabling them to break destructive patterns. Read More!
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Meet the bigBANG! Innovators: Vision Regeneration
04/05/10
Vision Regeneration, Inc. is changing the cultural environment of at-risk youth in order to eliminate violent and destructive behaviors, helping them turn instead to lives that are productive, rewarding and spiritually enriched. Working in the highest crime neighborhoods of Dallas, Vision Regeneration offers school-based intervention programs, after school and summer prevention programs, and juvenile offender programs. They created the nation’s first Youth PROMISE Council, based on the federal Youth PROMISE Act, in order to replicate proven programs in five target areas of Dallas. Recognizing and leveraging the powerful role cultural influences play in the lives of youth, Vision Regeneration also launched a social network and broadcasts a TV show to engage youth in a positive way.
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The Seeds Of Change
04/02/10
Youth Village Grows More Than A Garden Thanks To DSVP
They say from small seedlings grow mighty oaks. But in the case of Youth Village’s expanded community garden program, this growth is more than just a metaphor. It’s a real life example of social innovation in action! Read More!
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OneStar Foundation Supports bigBANG!
03/29/10
bigBANG! is thrilled to partner with OneStar Foundation who has been a collaborator and supporter of the June 10 event since we forged the Texas Social Innovation Initiative. Committed to growing social innovation, OneStar seeded North Texas with an infusion of dollars and capacity building through a competitive grant process that identified nonprofit innovators that have a proven track record, a sustainable business model, and vision for growth. Read More!
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Interview With Social Venture Partners: A Longtail Philanthropy Model
03/26/10
By: Betsy Fuchs Wolfe
Modern Giving
Social Venture Partners (SVP) is an innovative organization that combines contributions of many sizes from individual philanthropist partners into larger, venture-capital type gifts. Accompanying these gifts is strong capacity building expertise and volunteer efforts from the philanthropist partners themselves. This model of giving is ideal for philanthropists who want to be involved in community efforts, share their expertise with local nonprofits, and meet and socialize with other local philanthropists. Read More!
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Save the Date: Good Morning Texas’ Rob McCollum to emcee bigBANG!
03/17/10
Social Innovation is an idea that is spreading globally. It’s a non-political catch-all term for thinking differently about how communities advance conversations and ideas that will address the challenges their communities face. Social Innovation recognizes that our toughest challenges cannot be solved with money or non-profits alone. Please save the date for June 10th, as the bigBANG! convenes a community of investors, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders and others who want to help catalyze positive impact. Host of Good Morning Texas, Rob McCollum will emcee the event. His personal interest in philanthropy and storytelling will permeate the conference as will his wit and charm. Read More!
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BANG!
02/22/10
If social innovation and Texas are a passion of yours, then you won’t want to miss this experience! Dallas Social Venture Partners and The Dallas Foundation present the bigBANG! Read More!
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Giving circles pool money to make a bigger difference for charity
08/09/09
By: Eric Aasen
Dallas Morning News
This article features DSVP Executive Director, Stacy Caldwell, and DSVP Partner and Board Member, Dodee Frost Crockett.
"We bring the resources and years of business experience of all of our partners to help that particular nonprofit do what they do better, faster, smarter. I saw this as a way to use all the skills that I have developed in 20 years in business and carry it into the community that I love." - Dodee Frost Crockett, DSVP Partner and Board Member
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Many Help Young Offenders Refocus
01/18/09
By: Robert Miller
Dallas Morning News
This article features DSVP Investee Youth Village Foundation and highlights the work and investment of Dallas Social Venture Partners.
"The managerial input may outweigh the dollar contributions in importance. "Money isn't the solution to all of our issues," said Stacy Caldwell, executive director of Dallas Social Venture Partners. "It takes rolling up our sleeves because these people take their work very seriously. When they say they're going to do something, it's done."
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DSVP Adds Nonprofit Organization to their Investment Portfolio
12/10/08
By Jeanne Culver
DALLAS (December 10, 2008) – Dallas Social Venture Partners (DSVP) today announced that The Youth Village Foundation will be added to their social investment portfolio for 2009. A grant of $30,000 of unrestricted general operating funds was awarded to The Youth Village Foundation. The Youth Village Foundation is the 14th nonprofit agency to be added to DSVP’s investment portfolio. Read More!
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Nonprofit agency helps kids take first steps toward success in learning
11/23/08
Robert Miller
The Dallas Morning News
This article features DSVP Investee Educational First Steps and highlights their impact with children in Dallas.
Any discussion of the effectiveness of child care centers in the Dallas area is likely to include the guiding light provided by the nonprofit agency Educational First Steps.
EFS is not a child care center. Rather, it partners with local child care centers to provide tools that help them improve the mental and physical development of the youngsters placed in their care. Read More!
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The Tools to Succeed
11/10/08
Dallas Morning News editorial
This article features DSVP Investee The Wilkinson Center and the openning of their new site.
The doors have been opened to The Wilkinson Center's new site off Buckner Blvd. This site will help serve the Pleasant Grove neighborhoods by offering classes for adults to gain better work and by also having a food pantry. Read More!
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Dallas Social Venture Partners Members Receive Three Neighborhood Excellence Initiative® Awards from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation
11/06/08
DALLAS – Nov. 6, 2008 – Dallas Social Venture Partners today announced three of the five recipients of the prestigious Bank of America Charitable Foundation Neighborhood Excellence Initiative (NEI) Neighborhood Builder awards are members of their organization. Five community leaders were recognized by Bank of America for making a difference in the Dallas community. Three of them are DSVP partners who received the awards for their work as community leaders.
“Bank of America has long held the belief that a healthy community is a healthy place to do business, and we are committed to creating real impact in the Dallas community,” said Richard Holt, Dallas market president, Bank of America. “The Neighborhood Excellence Initiative underscores our belief that investing in leadership is a sound practice, whether building the capacity of our nonprofit organizations,...
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Social Venture Partners Gets High Marks for Service and Support by Nonprofit Organizations throughout North America
10/30/08
Social Venture Partners Gets High Marks for Service and Support by Nonprofit Organizations throughout North America
SEATTLE (October 30, 2008) – Social Venture Partners International (SVPI) announced its latest outcome results associated with measuring how well SVP affiliates help nonprofit organizations build capacity. The 2008 Capacity Building Report ranks overall satisfaction from nonprofit organizations funded by SVP in the United States and Canada. The report also tracks perceived value added by SVP partners.
Social Venture Partners is an international network comprised of more than 2,000 accomplished individuals who combine their professional skills and financial contributions with a passion for philanthropy. The Social Venture Partners network currently has 24 affiliates located throughout the United States, Canada and Tokyo.
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DSVP Members are successful examples of Social Entrepreneurs
10/23/08
New nonprofit born and 135,000 school-aged children in Dallas County benefit
DALLAS – October 23, 2008 – “It is probably best we didn’t know everything we were getting ourselves into when we started this. Research showed us that Dallas lacked a unifying program to promote communication and increase training among afterschool providers”, said Janet Mockovciak, co-founder, Dallas Afterschool Network and Dallas Social Venture Partners partner. Dallas Social Venture Partners (DSVP) was the genesis from which Mockovciak and two others gave birth to this new nonprofit.
DSVP is a nonprofit organization that is a partnership of individuals and foundations committed to strengthen the North Texas community through the thoughtful application of their collective dollars and business expertise. DSVP maintains a social investment...
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Funding for nonprofits is changing
10/10/08
By Joyce Tsi
The Dallas Business Journal
More and more North Texas nonprofits are creating their own for-profit subsidiaries as a way to insulate themselves from the ups and downs of traditional fundraising efforts. The trend is likely to become even more common as nonprofits, like other businesses, try to service in an increasingly volatile economy.
Nonprofits should undertake these for-profit ventures by carefully weighing the risks, and developing detailed business plans, like any for-profit business would, said Stacy Caldwell, executive director of Dallas Social Venture Partners, which pools the investments of individuals to support local nonprofits’ for-profit business ventures. Read More!
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DSVP members dedicate time, money to youth agencies
08/17/08
By Robert Miller
The Dallas Morning News
It targets nonprofit agencies that focus on at-risk youth, particularly in education. To become members, individuals write checks that add up to $5,000 a year for two years and dedicate themselves to weeks and perhaps months of personal involvement. Read More!
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Volunteers nurture a portfolio of nonprofits
09/17/07
By Bob Moos
The Dallas Morning News
"But I knew I wouldn't be satisfied with simply writing checks. I was looking to get involved in something that was larger than myself and that would make a difference in kids' lives." Read More!
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