Our Clients
We don’t parachute in, run a quick fix, and zoom back out. We work together with our clients to create lasting value. We help organisations discover, prove, and improve their impact and their results, measurably. Here is a sample of companies who we’ve equipped with quantitative evidence of their impact as well as operational insights to scale what works and attract the investment to make it happen.
We deliver consistent, data-driven, and actionable social impact outcomes for clients that include billion-dollar venture funds, national nonprofits, established startup accelerators, and global social enterprises.
Rethink Ireland
Charity Intelligence Canada
Unite Wisconsin
Amref
Prison Fellowship
ICEF Schools
True Homes
Mercy Housing
H Properties
Cisco Foundation
HP Foundation
Global Fund for Women
Rockefeller Foundation
Restore the Earth Foundation
Calvert Social Investment Foundation
Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs
Rural Opportunity Institute
Select Cases
Dream it
RIDER is a national community of practice instigated in 2023 by SVT Group and Rural Opportunity Institute to halve rural child poverty every generation in the communities where our rural members live. RIDER aims to shift the system conditions that perpetuate poverty in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world.
RIDER combines AI-enhanced knowledge sharing with peer-to-peer mentorship and systems thinking training. Now in our design and applied R&D stage, 5 rural leaders from 5 states have gained immediate access to targeted expertise that dramatically shortened problem-solving cycles. We have begun prototyping LLM-enabled solutions to community engagement and governance, learning, and resource formation.
RIDER has also been invited to be a Design Team in the NY Federal Reserve Bank’s Making Missing Markets Initiative intended to support the Fed’s mission of an economy that works for all.
Build it
Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator has engaged SVT for the past five years to design and implement a dual-purpose impact system combining management training for startup founders with comprehensive impact assessment for program leadership. The approach provided founders with practical impact measurement skills while giving Techstars systematic data collection processes to track accelerator program outcomes across social and economic dimensions. Founders graduated with embedded impact management capabilities, while Techstars gained quantified evidence of their program's broader effects beyond traditional business metrics.
The enhanced value proposition helped founders attract more aligned investors and speed time to decision, while the program honed its audience of impact-focused startups, built their impact management ‘muscle,’ and reinforced Techstars' engagement of impact-oriented partners.
Strengthen it
Publicly-traded Tech Company received a comprehensive SROI analysis of their internal diversity, equity and inclusion program. The analysis estimated $2.46 of social value and $5.33 of business value created per dollar invested, with a total investment of $1.2 million generating $13.5 million in social value and $7.5 million in business ROI. The analysis enabled the program to account for its many positive outcomes, including a 40% reduction of time wasted on preventable claims by the legal team, decreased accessibility-related claims and payouts, and increased customer confidence in the company's inclusion practices.
The compelling financial data reinforced the company’s efforts to maintain DEI program funding and executive support even during organizational restructuring, with leadership successfully defending the program's value proposition. The client has shared the model and how it was built with peer DEI directors at a number of Fortune 100 corporations.
Grow it
Rethink Ireland is a national organization that supports innovative charities, social enterprises, and community organizations with cash grants and business assistance. They have built a €109 million social innovation fund and have reached over one million people across Ireland since 2016. SVT is a preferred contractor for providing IMM support to its awardees. We have provided a mix of group and one-to-one impact measurement and management support to 18 different social enterprises and charities across three portfolios.
The support has helped social enterprises identify and fill gaps in the impact measurement frameworks based on their theory of change, and has led to Rethink engaging SVT to contemplate the way its whole organization manages for impact. This work “ensures we provide value for money for donors/Government and most importantly, helps us to identify what are the best outcomes for beneficiaries/stakeholders.”
KOKO Networks
Techstars
Happiness Capital
Beneficial State Bank
CalPERS Environmental Investment Advisor
NESTA
Unreasonable Institute
RIDER
…and many more
Efficient, accountable value creation
We’ve partnered to build the impact management capabilities of corporations, foundations, institutional investors, private equity firms, banks, governmental entities, nonprofits, social enterprises, and startups. Big and small, established and emergent, we work with those striving to transform society’s tough problems through innovation, accountability, learning, and collaboration.
Words from Our Clients
“We were really impressed by how SVT brought clarity to what we were trying to do…. We liked SVT because of the clarity of work and we understood that SVT is respected in the field...We’ve definitely used a number of the tools SVT produced and have managed to attract a lot of national attention with a publication and conference presentations that resulted from the work."
Allison Gertel-Rosenberg, Director, National Prevention and Practice, Nemours
“There was a real return in working with them. I would tell everyone about them and have, and I would work with them again, and have, which I think is the biggest complement.”
Kristen Falk, former CEO, New Progressive Coalition
“ … I hope that as our business evolves we have the opportunity to work with SVT Group again to explore and implement [our] robust impact accounting framework and practice … over the few months [since the close of the project], we have repeatedly revisited the SVT deliverables, especially the impact thesis … thus far, it’s been a tremendous help to us … ”
CauseVesting
“ … Corporations are now placing much more weight on social impact; [SVT’s] model helps us communicate our initiatives … ”
Restore the Earth Foundation
“SVT is clearly the leader in SROI analysis…. The approach SVT took was incredibly practical… We were trying out a bunch of different folks in this area of social impact metrics and Sara came out as the best.”
Eric Carlson, Co-creator, Global Social Benefit Incubator
“… [SVT’s work] was very helpful in clarifying the theory of change around a potential initiative - we appreciated the structured, fact-based thinking … ”
Sound Postings, LLC; Office of Yo-Yo Ma
"SVT is one of the best organizations we have worked with, hands down, on so many levels. We would recommend SVT services and expertise to anyone."
Nancy Hunt, We Are Family Foundation