Engagements
SVPRI is currently engaged with the below organizations
Amos House (More Than a Meal)
Rhode Island’s largest soup kitchen and a comprehensive social service
agency, Amos House started More Than a Meal (MTAM) as an outgrowth of its
ACE program teaching culinary skills to individuals with various barriers to
employment, i.e., homelessness, prison records, etc. The SVPRI Engagement
Team is intimately involved in helping the business grow, and the launch of their
new restaurant, the Friendship Café.
Volunteer Opportunities: We’re looking for
professionals with restaurant experience,
financial expertise, management
experience, and just good inquisitive minds
Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence
The Institute operates the ”Providence Streetworkers” an acclaimed
intervention and outreach program; they teach nonviolence in the schools;
and they train adults and youth in nonviolence through ”train the trainer”
programs. SVPRI is working with them to develop a standardized ”audit” that
they can perform within an urban area to determine the level of risk of violence, and to make recommendations with respect to how to mitigate this risk
The Cookie Place
Cookie Place, Inc. is a nonprofit organization founded in 1982 to help
individuals with psychiatric disorders. They operate a Café, catering
business, bakery and an ORS training site for Serv Safe certification and
job placement. Now, they’re defining how to grow the cookie business
(from broader retail distribution) while improving operational standards to
handle the growth.
Volunteer Opportunities: We’re helping
define and build a market analysis and test
market grant proposals for additional
funding. We need people with retail
distribution/basic business systems
operations and legal (contract) expertise.
Volunteer Opportunities: We’re looking for
team members to determine necessary
elements of audit business plan, to write
grant request to fund creation and
implementation of the plan.
Art & Business Council of Rhode Island (ArtTix.com)
ArtTix.com provides backoffice box office functions for over 80 member
organizations of the Arts & Business Council of RI. SVPRI is involved in
helping ArtTix launch a new, nonproprietary software platform that will provide
more robust functionality to both arts patrons and its member organizations.
SVPRI has approved a $50,000 loan, and extensive technical assistance,
to facilitate this launch.
Volunteer Opportunities: Someone with
strong IT background and project
management skills to help develop the
plan and timeline for beta testing.
More opportunities on the back.
The Steel Yard:
The Steel Yard focuses on educating the public, offering opportunities to
artists, and preserving the industrial arts. In 2004, The Steel Yard launched
Urban Furniture/Public Art (UFPA), an earned income initiative designed to
unite the educational and creative missions of The Steel Yard while
contributing revenue to advance the organization’s mission and decrease
dependence on philanthropy and grant income. The Steel Yard is working
with SVPRI to refine its business plan and financial controls, with an eye
toward building to annual revenue of $400,000 within the next five years.
Volunteer Opportunities: Continued legal
advice to develop/refine contract templates,
pricing schemes, workforhire agreements.
Partners willing to provide feedback during
brainstorming sessions on marketing and
business plans for the venture. Someone to
assist with archiving past UFPA projects so
that they can be used in future
business development.
The Maher Center:
The Maher Center provides services to over 500 people with disabilities,
primarily those with developmental disabilities.They operate several social
enterprise programs, including custodial, laundry and food services, retail
horticulture and online crafts site.
Volunteer Opportunities: Although the
scope of the engagement has not yet been
set, SVPRI will likely provide marketing
and financial modeling assistance for
several of their businesses - the horticultural
business in particular. SVPRI will also likely
provide assistance with a feasibility study
for the Internet business the Maher Center
proposes to operate
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