Paul Shoemaker is Executive Connector for Seattle’s Social Venture Partners. Social Venture Partners is a unique worldwide network for social change. SVP combines what social ventures need—grant-making, strategic volunteering, philanthropic education, and systems change—connected together under one roof, which had never been done before by a philanthropic organization. The organization started with its Seattle office and now has partners in 38 cities and 8 countries. In 2011 and 2012, Paul Shoemaker was named one of the “Top 50 Most Influential People in the Nonprofit Sector” by The NonProfit Times. He is the Founding President of Social Venture Partners International and currently sits on their Board of Directors, as well as the Board of PPaul Shoemaker is Executive Connector for Seattle’s Social Venture Partners. Social Venture Partners is a unique worldwide network for social change. SVP combines what social ventures need—grant-making, strategic volunteering, philanthropic education, and systems change—connected together under one roof, which had never been done before by a philanthropic organization. The organization started with its Seattle office and now has partners in 38 cities and 8 countries. In 2011 and 2012, Paul Shoemaker was named one of the “Top 50 Most Influential People in the Nonprofit Sector” by The NonProfit Times. He is the Founding President of Social Venture Partners International and currently sits on their Board of Directors, as well as the Board of Partners for Our Children and previously the Board of the Microsoft Alumni Foundation. In 2013, he received the Red Winged Leadership Award from Seattle University’s Albers School of Business and Economics and the Philanthropist of the Year Award from Future in Review....more