Magnifying SDSVP’s Impact

This past year, SDSVP has created 5 best practices capacity assessment checklists which have proven quite useful for our Investees and other nonprofits in San Diego. As other SVPI affiliates have asked for copies, we have been looking for an efficient way to extend the scope of our impact to help the broader nonprofit community.

A newly launched San Diego social venture provided the solution. IdeaEncore Network is peer-to-peer, on-line learning marketplace (like Amazon or eBay) for nonprofits and those who support them to share, sell, and buy all types and forms of practical knowledge and information assets. Almost anything nonprofits might need can be shared and found - including ready-to-use tools, templates, grant proposals, grant tracking tools, training content, policies, procedures and plans. Started by Scott Bechtler-Levin (co-founder of Pacific Ridge School and technology entrepreneur) and Flo Green (recently retired ED for the California Association of Nonprofits), the website launched in February and has quickly attracted quality content and the attention of nonprofit executives around the country.

Checkout SDSVP’s “Best Practices Checklists.” Just a week since we posted these checklists, 180 nonprofits from across the country have already viewed them and 2 organizations have bought the “bundle” for $45 each. So, with very little effort, SDSVP has created our own social enterprise while helping spread our mission to other nonprofit communities. Sharing documented knowledge is another great way SDSVP is increasing the return on our philanthropic investments. Everyone wins!