Monthly Archives: September 2010

Sneak Preview – REDF Goes to Work for Thousands of Californians

When I got my first job as a teenager in New York City, I applied for my work permit at a huge, old administration building way downtown. While I stood on line, I had time to think about my grandparents who had lived nearby after immigrating to the US. My grandfather worked as a tenement [...]

Request for Qualifications now open – apply to join REDF’s Portfolio

Today REDF takes the first step toward achieving the goals of our new 2011-2015 Strategy, which will be formally announced at our September 30 Benefit.   Over the coming years we will work together to build a transformative, widely-replicable model of social enterprise that employs low income people with barriers to employment. Today we also publicly [...]

Fresno: a city summits and the Street Saints keep on

I was excited about meeting Fresno’s Mayor, Ashley Swearingen, for breakfast Monday morning. I’d heard that she was an emerging leader to watch in California’s political constellation. And I knew she was a Republican who was interested in how to include low-income people and communities in her ambitious goals to develop Fresno’s economy – one [...]

The next big thing

Dropping my son and daughter at college for their respective Freshman years, I not only experienced the unique mixture of sadness, pride, and elation that accompanies these fraught moments; but also spent some time thinking about the job market that will await them next summer, and four years from now. I thought about how the [...]

Unexpected Findings: What Businesses Can Learn from Social Enterprise

The following is a guest post by 2010 Farber Intern, Janet Zhou. Janet was one of the seven outstanding “Farber” MBA interns contributing time and talent to REDF and the social enterprises in our portfolio this summer. Janet will receive her MBA from Harvard Business School in 2011, and completed a BS in Management Science [...]

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