Smart on Crime, Smart on Job Creation

Newly elected Attorney General Kamala Harris met with her “Smart on Crime” transition team a few weeks ago.   She listened to recommendations from eleven working groups including the one I served on — reentry and recidivism reduction – which made many recommendations to cut California’s highest-in-the-country prison recidivism rate of 70%, highlighting, among other solutions, [...]

Eating cheese and building markets to make a better world

Driving past the deer and cows grazing through the rich Marin County landscape on an overcast Friday, everyone at REDF headed out to celebrate the holidays and the big changes we’ve been through in 2010.  With stomachs growling we approached our destination – the iconic Cowgirl Creamery – and prepared to sample the goods and [...]

Now is the time to invest in innovation

While a flurry of different interpretations of last week’s election results clog the airwaves, one thing seems pretty clear from coast to coast – voters are in no mood to spend more taxpayer dollars.  And it’s hard to see anything but shrinkage in the size of government as a result. From my point of view [...]

Election Day 2010: An open letter to the incoming Governor of the State of California

Dear Governor-Elect: Congratulations, and please get some rest.  We’ll need all the energy you have for the next four years. When Governor Schwarzenegger was first sworn in as Governor in November 2003, Californians faced an unemployment rate of 6.6% — 5.4% when he was reelected in January 2007. You take the oath of office with [...]

SOCAP 2010 – moving from the clouds to the ground

With more than a thousand attending, SOCAP 2010 came into its own this year.  After creating the concept three years ago, Kevin Jones, his wife Rosa Lee, and their ever-expanding group of creative networkers put the conference on the ground two years ago and have kept it growing and changing.  Someone said it reminded them [...]

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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