At Meeting #4, Partners will engage in a “diligence deep dive” using SV2’s Nonprofit Assessment Rubric categories. At this optional but encouraged meeting, Partners who wish to go deeper into the diligence process will examine and discuss the strategy, impact, leadership, and financials of the three finalist organizations. Participants are welcome to join for the first hour (financials), the second hour (strategy/impact and leadership), or both.

The Economic Inclusion Grant Round -- part of SV2's local Pathways to Opportunity focus -- will look at approaches and organizations that are supporting economic rebuilding in just, equitable, and inclusive ways. As job displacement is accelerated by the pandemic, we’ll learn about a range of needs and how various groups of workers are being disproportionately affected -- and what interventions are working to get people back to work. We'll consider various approaches like upskilling or reskilling efforts, and intervention models including both direct services and advocacy.

Our Funder Allies, The San Francisco Foundation and The Sobrato Foundation, will nominate promising organizations from their portfolios and will share their insights and best practices with SV2 Partners at our kickoff meeting. This Grant Round will continue SV2’s new approach to the application process: verbal “coffee chats” between small groups of Partners and nonprofit applicants will take the place of written grant applications. Partners will learn about the sector and conduct diligence on the organizations over the course of five meetings from September to December. The chosen Grantee will receive a grant of $100,000 over three years, along with Beyond-the-Dollars support; two finalists will each receive $10,000.

The Grant Round is led by Partners Hillary Ford and JoAnne Tillemans and staff member Jody Chang. If you’d like to participate in the Grant Round, please join the Economic Opportunity Group on mySV2 in order to receive future communications and access to files. Please contact Jody Chang (jchang@sv2.org) if you have questions about the Grant Round or trouble accessing mySV2.

This session will be held in virtual format via Zoom. The meeting access info will be sent via Eventbrite confirmation emails. To access the meeting info, Eventbrite will require you to log in or create an account if you don’t already have one.

You will receive confirmation emails from Eventbrite 48 hours before the event, 2 hours before the event, and as the event begins. In any of these confirmation emails, click the orange “Go to online event page” box. This will take you to a screen with a gray “video” square. When you're ready to join the meeting, click on the arrow in the gray square, which will take you to the Zoom meeting.

If you have additional questions, please contact Lucinda Brommersma (lbrommersma@sv2.org), Director of Partner Engagement.

Economic Inclusion Grant Round Meeting #4