Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Yesterday morning I attended a meeting with one of our key funders, Social Venture Partners Calgary, and I was reminded of the importance of asking. SVP is an organization that ” seeks to catalyze significant, long-term positive social change in their communities by:Educating individuals to be well informed, effective, and engaged philanthropists;and Investing time, expertise, and money in innovative nonprofits to collaboratively strengthen their organizations. ”
Our relationship with SVP Calgary has benefited from their financial investment in BB4CK but we have gained more from the investment of time and expertise. The social agenda campaign that we are running is funded by SVP. No other funder would have seen the opportunity to raise capacity through communications particularly when most of the outcome will be immeasurable ( both wide ranging and difficult to design indicators). If I hadn’t submitted the proposal, we wouldn’t be in the middle of this exciting campaign. If I had decided that they wouldn’t be receptive, we wouldn’t have received the funding. If I hadn’t asked - there wouldn’t be a Kids Help Kids - You Can Too campaign. I was reminded that if you don’t ask, the answer is always no.
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