SVT is a management consulting and systems firm specializing in measurement, management and communication of social and environmental impact. SVT provides analysis, business intelligence and information systems design and implementation. SVT excels in the use of affordable technology to make impact management economical, intuitive, and informative.

We help organizations and their supporters measure, manage and communicate the full spectrum of their work's value: social, environmental and economic. We do this by providing a means of visualizing what is often hard to see. Effects on poverty, the environment, health, education and others can be difficult to measure and therefore are often ignored. We show the complete value of an effort, both positive and negative aspects, and use this knowledge to help organizations increase their impact per dollar spent, and generate additional strategic value by doing so.

SVT is structured as a for-profit intentionally. If we are to achieve the impact we aspire to, we have to design our solutions in a way the market values enough to pay for it.

How we work

Valuation is our framework. Using it we create analyses, train managers, and provide tools for information management. Specifically we help organizations and investors define the value they seek to create or invest in; train organizations and investors to measure the social and environmental value they are actually creating; and provide resources to help manage, analyze and report their social and environmental returns. The tools we use to accomplish this are:

• Social return on investment (SROI) analysis
• Strategic planning
• Information management systems
• Working group facilitation
• Training workshops

Why this matters

A management toolkit for measuring social and environmental impact enables clients to spot opportunities to innovate products, increase margins, improve market share, recruit and retain talent, and improve loyalty and goodwill. It also allows organizations to increase their impact, generate new funding mechanisms (such as trading units of environmental or social value on emerging voluntary markets), and assure supporters that the organization has world-class management practices.

Clients

Since 2001 SVT has worked with industry leaders in diverse fields worldwide. Our clients include corporations striving to increase the social and environmental accountability of their operations; NGOs seeking to grow their funding base; investment funds responsible for stewarding the social and/or environmental return on investment of their portfolios; and ventures leading their fields. Current and recent clients include:

·         CalPERS Environmental Investment Advisor, Environmental Capital Group (CalPERS’ $800M environmental technology initiative and fund of funds)

·         Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve (a $2.6M Mexican community-based organization)

·         Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties (an employer of 500 that generates 85% of its revenue through its businesses)

·         Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship (a network of 100+ leading global social  entrepreneurs: SVT’s work has been with fellows in Europe, Latin America, Egypt, India and the US)