To augment our multi-year funding, we provide significant strategic assistance, in the form of management guidance, and the leverage of our investors, board, advisors, and other contacts. Our strategic assistance begins with the experience and expertise of the VPP investment team. Generally, one member of the team has the overall responsibility for leading and coordinating our support, but the entire team is responsible for our investment partner’s success.

Our investment team serves as strategic advisors to the executive director and board, brings in other VPP management and staff to help, provides access to VPP’s extended network of resources and relationships, and provides and/or coordinates support to help with specific projects. It is our expectation that one or more members of our investment team will function as a welcome, value-added advisor to our investment partner’s senior management team, serving as a sounding board and providing counsel to management on important decisions.

The primary purpose of our strategic assistance is to help our investment partners stay focused on their mission and the most high-level issues, help them see the value of engaging the best resources, and expose them to options and avenues not otherwise available. Most important, we hope to leverage our position within the business and government communities—our external networks—to help where we can.