Our venture support model

Each organization in our portfolio is assigned a Success Partner: an individual from our team who serves as a strategic thought partner and coach. The Success Partner works with the organization’s leadership to help scale their operations, maximize their organizational assets and overcome challenges to growth, including staffing, organizational structure and culture, fundraising, earned revenue, board leadership, communications, local movement building and more. We’re poised to leverage the knowledge and skills of our staff, consultants, and other organizations in our portfolio to provide best-in-class support for our grantees in one-on-one and group settings, virtually or in person.

We offer our grantees a range of capacity-building resources and support to strengthen their core business and operational infrastructure, with a focus on financial sustainability and other areas critical to growing scale and organizational impact. These resources include workshops to improve revenue generation capabilities; access to financial management advisors; talent recruitment support; diversity, equity and inclusion coaching; and more.

Our grantees often tell us the most powerful part of joining our portfolio is the chance to learn from other organizations. We facilitate peer learning opportunities for CEOs, as well as their leadership teams, informed by portfolio-wide trends and insights. We work to build strong connections across our portfolio so grantees can organically learn from one another.

We develop and codify best practices that can expedite the work of our grantees. Tools include a bank of job descriptions, examples of outstanding funding pitches, and board management resources. As we learn from our grantees, we capture the tools, resources and best practices that can be shared throughout the portfolio and to the field more broadly.