CWV’s services are designed to support nonprofit growth and sustainability. Our deep understanding of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, coupled with our focus in applying market-based thinking across these sectors, helps our clients develop the appropriate strategy to maximize their social impact and organizational financial strength.
Community Wealth Ventures provides a variety of services to nonprofits,
foundations and government agencies looking for a fresh approach to strategy development.
All of CWV’s areas of practice emphasize strategies that leverage market forces and the use of extensive data and analysis to inform decision making. In particular, CWV has deep expertise in social enterprise growth and development. Services include:
Social Franchise Ventures is a special initiative of CWV dedicated to helping qualified nonprofit organizations operate franchise businesses to advance social change. SFV helps organizations develop strategic relationships with appropriate franchise partners, negotiate favorable agreements and launch and grow strong social franchise businesses.
The Community Wealth Regional Initiative is designed as a multi-year endeavor that seeks to develop a cohort of social enterprise market leaders in a region and nurture local infrastructure to support social enterprise development. Active regional initiatives include:
North Texas and
Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky.
CWV has partnered with the Lieutenant Governor’s Office of Social Entrepreneurship in Louisiana to offer the Social Innovator’s Institute, a six-month peer learning initiative designed to build the capacity of innovative social programs across the state.