CGV is a team of experienced business people applying their professional expertise, networks and passion for change to help nonprofits achieve sustainable returns and greater social good.

Grantee Profile

Common Good Ventures was founded on the principal that mission-driven nonprofit organizations can benefit from business coaching, mentoring, and a thoughtful and accountable management framework, much like businesses in the for-profit sector. It operates like a venture capital firm, carefully employing due diligence to identify the nonprofits that are likely to leverage CGV’s capital and coaching to achieve sustainable returns as well as greater social good. At present, CGV works with eleven long-term partner organizations as well as several additional nonprofits each year through our Business Advisor and Springboard programs. The nonprofits served by Common Good Ventures in turn serve low-income people in such areas as youth at risk, children and adults with disabilities, the terminally ill, adult learners, foster care youth, low-literacy children and adults, the frail, the isolated and the elderly.

About Our Grants

The Foundation’s 2009 grant of $125,000 is the first installment of a two-year, $250,000 award to support CGV’s continuing efforts to build a new model of non-profit collaboration among its partners, with an eye toward broader dissemination of the model in the years ahead.  This strategic initiative focuses on the most effective ways to accomplish organizational goals through networking, partnering, outsourcing, and collaborating with private and public entities, thereby bringing private-sector production networks into the nonprofit arena.