Our Investment Partners
Together, we work with organizations across the Greater Washington region to design and build systems to drive positive change and build brighter futures for young people in our communities.
We work to build an equitable Greater Washington, driving systems to change in order to improve life outcomes for youth ages 0-24.
Our ApproachLong-standing and deeply-rooted racial inequities in our region have created stark disparities in educational, health and youth development outcomes. Together, we eliminate these disparities, creating conditions for better life outcomes for children and youth by focusing on three priority issue areas.
Together, we work with organizations across the Greater Washington region to design and build systems to drive positive change and build brighter futures for young people in our communities.
Leading for equity and driving positive change requires rigorous, innovative thinking. Combining art and science, we follow the data to get to the core of where work must focus to inform the most effective action.
Over $100 million invested in Greater Washington’s most high performing nonprofits
18 nonprofit partners empowered for long-term impact
Over 57,000 youth served by just one major collaborative investment
Contact: Sarah Dovere, sdovere@youthinvestpartners.org After serving Greater Washington for 23 years, Youth Invest Partners has made the decision to responsibly sunset and wind up its affairs, including, to the extent…
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Read MoreIn June of 2000, Venture Philanthropy Partners opened it doors,
spurred by the efforts of three founders who asked themselves,
“Could the business world provide a different, innovative
approach to social change?”
In the years that followed, VPP quickly became a strategic hub for high-impact
investments through deep and sustained partnerships with foundations, businesses,
government agencies and school systems.
In April of 2020, VPP formed a strategic alliance with Raise DC to build an investment
organization capable of driving alignment among communities, and nonprofit, business
and regional leaders around systems change. VPP+Raise DC committed to call out and
confront policies, practices and systems that contribute to racial inequity.
Today, we recognize the need to do more, be bolder, and act faster. Youth Invest Partners
is a call to “dream big and do big” to drive change that will build better futures for
Greater Washington youth today and in the days, months and years to come. Our new
name and brand reflects energy and focus as we collaborate, innovate and transform.