Hartford Community Wealth Collaborative
In January of 2005 CWV will launch a new group consulting project in Hartford, Connecticut.  With funding from The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, 8 - 10 organizations across a variety of missions will develop and grow earned income ventures through the Collaborative.

Baltimore Community Wealth Collaborative
In January of 2004 CWV launched a new group consulting project in Baltimore, Maryland.  With funding from The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Open Society Institute, Goldseker Foundation, Baltimore Community Foundation, and Thalheimer Foundation, nine organizations across a variety of missions are currently planning earned income ventures through the Collaborative.

Springfield-Boston Community Wealth Collaborative
In September of 2003 CWV launched a new group consulting project in the Springfield and Boston areas of Massachusetts.  With funding from the FleetBoston Foundation, Davis Foundation, and an anonymous foundation, nine organizations across a variety of missions are currently planning earned income ventures through the Collaborative.  CWV will launch a second round of the Collaborative in January 2005.

Fannie Mae Foundation/Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation
CWV worked with two of the largest foundations in the DC area to design and implement Paving Pathways, a 12 month group consulting project.  CWV worked with two cohorts of eight foundation grantees through both a standardized and customized consulting process focused on community wealth generation.  Several of the organizations have launched new or improved existing revenue-generating ventures.  Select examples include:

Community Family Life Services
CFLS has launched Third & Eats Catering as a new subsidiary. After 10 years of success operating a restaurant, Third & Eats found increasing interest among its clients for catering services. CWV helped Third & Eats develop and implement customer satisfaction and tracking tools, marketing strategy and materials, knowledge management software and IT systems, and HR systems to manage its growing workforce. Catering revenues now represent 50% of total Third & Eats revenues. 

East of the River CDC
East of the River launched Innov8, a home weatherization business that conducts residential energy audits and surveys.  Innov8 recently secured a $383,000 contract for a 153-unit apartment building.  CWV is assisting East of River in developing operating guidelines for managing its network of subcontractors.

Jewish Social Service Agency
JSSA operates Premier Home Care, a provider of private duty home care for elderly or severely disabled clients.  Current CWV work is focusing on HR attraction and retention issues, including employee satisfaction surveys and systems, competitive salary research, and HR systems development.  For the last 12 month period, Premier generated $1.8 million in revenues.

Latin American Youth Center 
LAYC became the first DC nonprofit to take part in Ben & Jerry's PartnerShop Program, which enables nonprofits to own and operate Ben & Jerry’s franchises to train the youth in their program and generate profits to support their mission.  CWV assisted LAYC in its efforts to raise funds to purchase the three-year-old ice cream shop franchise in the Eastern Market neighborhood and helped them build the capacity to run this business.  Currently, LAYC is building out the space for its second PartnerShop.

Nation's Capital Child and Family Development
NCCFD leveraged excess kitchen capacity to launch Make A Difference, Inc., an institutional catering business that prepares and delivers quality meals to area childcare and elderly care facilities outside of NCCFD's network.  CWV helped NCCFD to develop more rigorous cost accounting procedures and to revise its kitchen management structure.  Currently, Make A Difference, Inc. has 13 out-of-network meal contracts.  NCCFD was a runner-up and winner of $25,000 in the Yale-Goldman Sachs First National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations.

McCune Foundation/ Richard King Mellon Foundation
CWV worked with two of the larger foundations in Pittsburgh to create, develop, and implement the Pittsburgh Social Enterprise Accelerator.  The Accelerator provides a centralized focal point for community wealth activity in the region.  At its core, the Accelerator works with select nonprofits to ensure they have adequate technical assistance and other resource support for their promising business ventures.  The Accelerator also provides more general assistance to the broader group of nonprofits that are considering launching community wealth enterprises. CWV played a primary role in the research, analysis and planning that led to the launch of the Accelerator and maintains an involvement through implementation to ensure that the Accelerator is successful.

David and Lucile Packard Foundation
At the request of the Packard Foundation, CWV researched the California marketplace to assess what regions of the state would be best suited to host a group-based initiative to support social enterprise development. Building on the success of CWV’s Paving Pathways program, this project examined the foundation, nonprofit, and technical assistance communities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Sacramento.