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Investment Stages
| Funding
| Strategic Assistance
| Leverage
We describe our investment partnerships as “highly
leveraged” because we believe that the value of our strategic assistance —the effective
use of our experience, insights, and networks
of contacts—is at least as great as the value of the
funds we provide. In other words, our investment approach
is predicated on the notion that although funding is important
in its own right, we can help our partners in much more
enduring ways by augmenting—or “leveraging”—that
funding.
The following examples demonstrate ways in which we seek
to leverage our funding:
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We help our
investment partners focus on six key aspects of high-performance
nonprofit organizations: 1) building strong
senior management teams, 2) creating highly effective and engaged
boards, 3) clairifying mission and goals, 4) increasing capital and financing,
5) improving programs and services, and 6) establishing outcome assessment systems.
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We use our
network of relationships to benefit our investment partners.
Our contacts and relationships enable nonprofit leaders
to enlist the help of specialists in areas such as strategic
planning, executive recruitment, fund development, and
technology implementation. And we encourage our investment
partners to access VPP’s network and make use of
its brand to recruit talent, form other partnerships,
and open doors closed to them in the past.
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We help our
investment partners attract new sources of long-term funding.
We would greatly undermine the intention of our investment
approach if our funding was to crowd out other sources
of funding and our nonprofit partners were to become financially
dependent upon us. So as part of our efforts to help our
partners build their own fund-development capacity, we
play an active role in helping them to line up new resources
from both public and private sources.
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