CLEVELAND’s
EQUITY JOURNEY
2012–2018
2012: SVP Cleveland launches its Personally
Significant Giving Model.
2016: Partners, board, and staff attend several SVPI-
sponsored sessions with an equity focus, beginning SVP
Cleveland’s more explicit pursuit of equity.
2016: An SVP Equity Team forms.
July 2017: Equity Corner launched in the Partners’ weekly SCOOP.
Oct 2017: Equity experts, Erica Merritt and Adele DiMarco, guide
a discussion at our Fall All-Partner Meeting.
Oct 2017: Partners undertake a Vision Exercise from which Equity becomes
one of the three Real-Time Strategic Planning (RTSP) focus areas.
2018: Partners and staff attend SVPI equity-focused conferences; REI
trainings; Philanthropy Ohio equity-centered seminars, discussions, and
conference; and more.
Feb 2018: Partners view and discuss the film “The House We Live In.”
Feb 2018: Emeritus Investee, Magnolia Clubhouse, discusses
equity in its work at our Annual Partner Meeting.
Feb 2018: Nearly 20 additional Partners and Fellows join the
RTSP Equity Team.
Oct 2018: SVP Partners choose equity and closing
the opportunity gap to be the focus of SVP’s Impact
with Investees, within the community, and amongst
themselves.
Fall 2018: Launch Equity Community Outreach
Initiative in collaboration with The United Black Fund
of Greater Cleveland.
Dec 2018: Language used in the 2019
Investment Cycle application is evaluated and
updated using an equity lens. A question
about each organizations’ commitment to
equity is added to the Round 1 application.