Social Venture Partners Portland

🚀 We’re hiring! Social Venture Partners Portland is looking for a Finance & Operations Manager to join our team. This hybrid role in Portland offers a chance to drive meaningful change in early education and work with a passionate group committed to equity and community impact. If you’re skilled in financial management, organizational operations, and have a dedication to diversity, we want to hear from you! Apply by September 15th to help us amplify our impact. 🌟 #Hiring #FinanceJobs #Operations #CommunityImpact https://lnkd.in/gc9yQkbj

What a fantastic evening we had at our Summer Social this past Thursday! A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for a night of networking, fun, and great conversations. Your presence truly made the event a memorable one! It was clear that our community thrives when we come together. A special shout out to Molly Day, this year’s Sarah-Cohen Doherty Community Impact Award winner. Here’s to more moments like these and to continuing the connections and collaborations that make our professional community so dynamic and inspiring. Thanks again for making the Summer Social a great time for all! #SummerSocial2024 #Community #Gratitude

🚀 We’re hiring! Social Venture Partners Portland is looking for a Finance & Operations Manager to join our team. This hybrid role in Portland offers a chance to drive meaningful change in early education and work with a passionate group committed to equity and community impact. If you’re skilled in financial management, organizational operations, and have a dedication to diversity, we want to hear from you! Apply by September 15th to help us amplify our impact. 🌟 #Hiring #FinanceJobs #Operations #CommunityImpact

We're so excited to welcome Eva Maribona, MBA, SHRM-CP to our Board of Directors! Eva works as the Deputy Director of Workplace Culture & Operations at Latino Network. Her passion for giving back, helping others, and furthering social justice, diversity, equity and inclusion, fuel her drive to positively influence meaningful outcomes and change. SVP’s mission aligns beautifully with Eva’s lifelong passion for lifting up underserved communities and transforming lives, as well as through her work at Latino Network, where she supports the wellbeing of an organization and community whose roots and future are firmly grounded in education equity. “I am honored and excited for this opportunity to learn, share perspective and experience and create wider circles of positive impact and influence through service on the board of SVP.” – Eva Maribona Read the full introduction here: https://lnkd.in/ghdjqSnd

When considering the issue of early childhood education, we know that there are three big roadblocks to universal preschool: lack of facilities, lack of spots available, and the workforce gap. While we’ve spent a lot of time and resources over the years addressing the lack of facilities and lack of spots, we had yet to dive into the workforce gap problem until recently. Understanding the workforce gap and creating a plan around addressing this problem is a priority identified through our recent strategic planning process. Before jumping to solutions, we conducted a landscape analysis in order to first understand what the main problems are, who’s doing what, where the gaps are, and what could SVP be doing to potentially address some of these gaps. Tiffany Hsieh, an SVP Partner, took on this task. As she put it, "Conducting this landscape scan has been helpful to have a centralized resource for SVP Partners (including myself) to orient ourselves to all the stakeholders and work being done around expanding the early childhood workforce in Multnomah and Washington Counties and identify where SVP can play a unique role. Finding ways to get more early childhood educators into classrooms is such a central component to accomplishing our goal of expanding equitable access to early childhood education for all kids." Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gFjCSzSC

The Emerald Line cafe in the Pearl provided a great venue for the SVP community to get together in June and enjoy the summer weather, some tasty refreshments, and good conversation. The event was well attended, with around 25 Partners, potential Partners, Encore Fellows, and staff getting a chance to mingle. Join us next time!

SVP's Community Impact Project Manager Jenn Luevano-Brummett shared a reflection about Juneteenth on our blog. She discusses two resources that have helped her dive deeper into both the history of Juneteenth as well as her own equity journey. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gjCEQbC6

We are delighted to announce that Jenn Luevano-Brummett has joined SVP Portland as our new Community Impact Project Manager! We chatted with Jenn about her background and interests, and why she's excited to be part of the team. Read the article on our blog!

Last week, a group of SVP Partners and staff toured the construction site of Latino Network’s La Plaza Esperanza, the first such place of its kind for the Latinx community in east county. SVP has been in partnership with Latino Network for over a decade, working side-by-side to collaboratively build the organization’s capacity for substantial growth, so it was truly inspiring to see this vision becoming a reality. When it opens in the fall of 2024, La Plaza Esperanza will provide a wide variety of programming for all ages, including a culturally specific preschool, youth programs, and gathering spaces for community meetings and events. Read the full blog post here: https://shorturl.at/xyYF4

Meet Roxanne Seaton! Roxanne is one of our incredible Investor Partners, and is also a creative entrepreneur, digital experience designer, and multi-disciplinary artist. She joined SVP Portland because she’s passionate about community building and has a calling to use her skills to make products and services with a positive societal impact. She finds being a Partner fulfilling because she loves being part of a collaborative team that supports and advocates for others, and appreciates the chance to help those impacting our next generation in such significant ways. “I love the opportunity to nurture something for the long term. There’s something profoundly fulfilling about tending to something over an extended period. The slow, deliberate growth—the way roots dig deeper, ideas unfurl, and bonds strengthen—holds a magic that can’t be rushed.” Read our full Q&A with Roxanne here: https://lnkd.in/gPasQ9Rs