Janet Levinger
Janet Levinger has been an active community leader in the nonprofit sector since moving to the Seattle area in 1996. She is passionate about early learning and education advocacy, believing that investing in children, and especially young children, will not only improve their lives but will also have enormous positive outcomes for our community. She and her husband Will Poole joined SVP in 1997.
Janet worked for 16 years in high-tech marketing. She has a BA from Brown University. and when she isn’t volunteering her time, she loves to bike, cook, and travel. She lives with her husband, two teen-age kids, and two cats in Bellevue.
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Q & A with SVP Partner Janet Levinger
Janet Levinger currently serves on eight nonprofit boards in Seattle. Learn more about her in this installment of our weekly Partner Q&A!
Nathan Phillips on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
My take away from the Kania & Kramer article is that more ALIGNMENT is needed, not less competition. Competition keeps organizations strong and innovative. You [...]
Janet Levinger on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
Neal: Good thoughts. I've also felt that Foundations need to step back and examine the impact of their practices. I've seen organizations I work wtih [...]
Lisa Norton on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
As SVP Seattle examines the criteria and messaging to potential investees, an organization's willingness to engage in collaboration should be a factor within the criteria [...]
Neal Myrick on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
Two Ideas SVP has a great model because it does invest over multiple years. It would be interesting to talk about doing prescriptive capacity building [...]
Janet Levinger on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
I like Lisa's idea of including an openness to collaboration in our grant committee guidelines. I'll forward that idea to Mike. While the idea of [...]
Jim McGinley on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
I am with Ashoka and see examples of citizen sector collaboration emerging locally and globally that SVP can leverage. Our social entrepreneurs (Ashoka Fellows) are [...]
Janet Levinger on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
The work of Ashoka is great and certainly aligns with what SVP does. I am glad to hear that we are working with you. The [...]
Brian Vowinkel on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
The operative word to me in SVP is "Venture." We are trying to break glass, take risks, and find new solutions to solve large scale [...]
Janet Levinger on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
Collaboration can certainly be used as an excuse and end up with poor results. Competition can be good for nimbleness and encouraging best practices. On [...]
Craig Bruya on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
Although I agree w/ much of the commentary here that there are benefits to collaboration, I would suggest there is also much to be gained [...]
Janet Levinger on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
Very good points. I've thought that there are too many nonprofits as well. Whenever anyone tells me that they want to start a new nonprofit, [...]
Craig Bruya on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
Yes, I think that SVP should at least reactively work in this area, but it may also make sense to do it proactively. There clearly [...]
Janet Levinger on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
I know the staff are monitoring these blogs for good ideas, but I will pass this idea on as we plan for the future. Keep [...]
Sally Gillis on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
SVP Partners and nonprofit leaders and donors: first thank you for all of your interesting comments and wisdom in these posts! It’s great to see [...]
Janet Levinger on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
I agree that alignment and collaboration are key. Competition can be good and bad. Good for innovation as you say. But bad when organizations go [...]
Nathan Phillips on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
SVP already does such great work helping good organizations become great! Perhaps SVP could promote alignment and collaboration by supporting the 5 elements Kania & [...]
Janet Levinger on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
Should we change our grantmaking to make grants to collaborative projects? Do you think it would work?
Nathan Phillips on Should SVP Encourage Competition or Collaboration?
It takes more than one funder to create the collective impact described in the article, but a widely respected grant-maker like SVP could make a [...]
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