Dr. Jerry Vockley was the featured speaker at our first “Coffee Talk” on Tuesday, July 1st.  The Coffee Talks are a new concept for PSVP.  Our goal is to provide opportunities across the county where our partners are clustered, to connect and have an informal discussion on a topic that relates to our work — [...]

Coffee Talk – Light
Pittsburgh Social Venture Partners
July 15, 2008

Our Guests:  Hideyuki Inoue, Founder SVP Tokyo and Yuki Okuda research at Keio University
We were extremely fortunate to receive a visit from Hide Inoue, the founder of Social Venture Partners Tokyo.  Hide and his colleague Yuki Okuda are crossing the US doing research on Entrepreneurship and Social [...]

PSVP investment SNAP™ Pittsburgh was covered in the Pittsburgh Business Times.
University of Pittsburgh, 3 Others get violence prevention grant
 
The University of Pittsburgh and three community groups will share $3.9 million in funding from Pennsylvania to study causes and the prevention of violence.
The project will examine how such factors as brain function and environmental characteristics may [...]

Urban Youth Action, Youth Works, Inc, and Bethlehem Haven’s project employ
This special project was a collaboration between Urban Youth Action, Youth Works, and Project Employ – a life skills and job training program developed by Bethlehem Haven. PSVP brought the three organizations together and assisted with program development, acting as an intermediary between the collaboration.
Accomplishments [...]

Pittsburgh Social Venture Partners will launch it’s 2008 Grant Cycle on April 30, 2008. We invite all interested agencies to review the following grant guidelines and criteria and submit a letter of inquiry by May 23, 2008 at 5:00 PM. To learn more, we invite you to attend our Community Launch Information Session on April [...]

The Morino Institute – http://www.morino.org/index.asp
Venture Philanthropy Partners – http://venturephilanthropypartners.org/
The Rensselaerville Institute – http://www.rinstitute.org/
 For a listing of nationwide organizations who are social entepreneurs and/or use the venture philanthropy model, follow this link to SVPI’s website.

What is Venture Philanthropy?
(Taken from the 2001 report “Venture Philanthropy” The Changing Landscape” published by the Morino Institute with Venture Philanthropy Partners. )
There is a wide difference of opinion about when and where the term “venture philanthropy” deserves to be applied. As the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation explained in replying to our survey, “The term [...]

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1/6/08
SVPI in the New York Times: Can Foundations Take the Long View Again?

06/26/06
Venture Philanthropy – Step 1: Make Fortune, Step 2: Give it Away

03/07/05
Business Week: When Givers Get Together

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12/19/07
PSVP Investees in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Family is grateful despite twins’ severe ilnesses

08/31/06
A Child’s Place at Mercy in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Child Advocates Keep Work Alive

05/16/06
A Child’s Place at Mercy in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette : Child’s Place Doctor Honored

04/07/06
A Child’s Place at Mercy in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Police to [...]