We believe that our investment partners will benefit when we provide them with the opportunity and resources to become stronger, more effective, more durable organizations with increased capacity to improve the lives of children. With our support, we hope they will strengthen their management teams, create highly effective and engaged boards, gain clarity about their mission and desired outcomes, define economic models to establish financial sustainability, improve product/service models, and manage their organizations with a clear focus on achieving specific social outcomes. Most important, we hope that their views of what is possible will greatly expand.

We believe that our investors will benefit by achieving high social impact with the dollars they invest in VPP and by knowing that they are helping to advance the cause of nonprofit effectiveness here in the National Capital Region and nationally. In addition, their investment in VPP includes them in an engaged community of like-minded donors and thought leaders, a community that can help them increase both their level of philanthropic giving and its effectiveness.

We believe that the philanthropic, public, and nonprofit sectors will benefit from the pragmatic learning we and our partners gain through our efforts. We devote considerable resources to codifying and sharing what we learn. “Knowledge capture and dissemination” is a mantra for us. It is key to our strategy of extending the impact of our work to a wide variety of philanthropic, governmental, and nonprofit organizations. We hope it will be a catalyst for helping to bring more effective resources to children of low-income families.

We believe children will benefit from the improved and expanded services that our investment partners provide. We believe that this benefit could ripple out widely to other children if we are successful in demonstrating the value of our investment approach to other funders, both public and private. Eventually, we hope that engaged, highly leveraged approaches—including new capital markets and mechanisms for philanthropic investment—can play a major role in meeting children’s core developmental needs, such as the need for high-quality developmental child care, mentoring, preschool, educational after-school programs, health and mental health services.