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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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  • Charities hail tax plan’s defeat

    04/10/09

    By Joyce Tsai
    Dallas Business Journal

    “The wealthiest individuals don’t give because they get a tax deduction; they give because it’s in their DNA,” said Cynthia Nunn, president of the Center for Nonprofit Management in Dallas and DSVP Partner. Read more!
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  • Spring Cleaning With The Experts

    03/11/09

    By Jeanne Culver

    Several members of Dallas Social Venture Partners (DSVP) decided to do some spring cleaning this week. They wanted to transform the retail outlet thrift store at Collin County’s only homeless shelter, The Samaritan Inn. A group of retail apparel professionals alongside Dallas Social Venture Partners came together to redo, reorganize and revamp the Thrift Store. Led by Karen Akin, past DSVP Board Chair and current DSVP Lead Partner to The Samaritan Inn, the team focused on inventory, merchandising and sales. Read more!
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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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