Public/Private Ventures

Nadya Shmavonian. Ms. Shmavonian began her tenure as President of Public/Private Ventures in January 2010. Prior to joining P/PV, she worked as an independent consultant, providing strategic direction and counsel to many private foundations and a broad array of local, national and international nonprofit organizations. She has extensive foundation management experience, most recently having served as vice president for strategy at the… See full bio.

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Story: In 1978, P/PV was created by the Ford Foundation and the US Department of Labor to bring together the government, business, and nonprofit sectors to address the needs of disadvantaged young people. The organization's initial work focused on evaluating and creating strategies to connect these youth to education and jobs. Its work now focuses on a wide range of social issues, including community health, youth development, faith-based initiatives, sectoral employment, mentoring, after-school programs, youth violence, and prisoner reentry. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public/Private_Ventures)

Evidence of Impact Summary:

Public Private Ventures is heralded for their research, evaluation, training, and policy advocacy within the workforce development field. Their research has compelled other organizations to be more efficient and more impactful in their practices and programming.
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Organization Strengths Summary:

They receive praise for the quality of their research as well as the efficacy of their communications and advocacy.
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Areas for Improvement Summary:

Experts cited differing opportunities for improvement including program integration, evaluation methods, and marketing.
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Ms. Shmavonian began her tenure as President of Public/Private Ventures in January 2010. Prior to joining P/PV, she worked as an independent consultant, providing strategic direction and counsel to many private foundations and a broad array of local, national and international nonprofit organizations. She has extensive foundation management experience, most recently having served as vice president for strategy at the Rockefeller Foundation. In that role, she helped oversee a dramatic reframing of the Foundation's programmatic and operating approach, readying Rockefeller to meet new challenges of the 21st century. Earlier in her career, she spent 12 years at The Pew Charitable Trusts, where she worked as executive vice president, following several years as a director of administration and a program officer in health and human services. Between these executive leadership roles, she served as an independent consultant to foundations and nonprofit organizations in the areas of management consulting and executive coaching, strategic planning and evaluation, leadership and organizational development, meeting facilitation, infrastructure development, human resources management and program design. Before joining the foundation community, she worked in the health sector, as well as overseas in humanitarian relief, both of which she continued to address during the 23 years she spent in and around philanthropy. Ms. Shmavonian currently serves as one of the first two nonfamily members of the Surdna Foundation Board, on the Board of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, and on the Board of The Alliance for A Green Revolution in Africa (a joint partnership of the Rockefeller and Bill and Melinda Gates foundations). She also serves as an Advisory Board member to the National Philanthropic Trust and to the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Ms. Shmavonian holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago, and an M.B.A. in healthcare management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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