September 8, 2010 – 10:58 am
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 [...]
August 17, 2010 – 3:12 pm
REDF is gearing up fast to meet the terms of the Social Innovation Fund award we received last month, with plans to issue a first-time ever (for REDF) Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to identify outstanding nonprofits in California to consider for our portfolio. Watch our website for imminent announcements about the timeline and requirements. Meanwhile, [...]
By Carla Javits
|
Posted in Uncategorized
| Tags: change, economy, employment, hope, measurement, private sector, REDF, social enterprise, Social Innovation Fund, unemployment, workforce |
February 23, 2010 – 2:03 pm
More on this year’s theme: positive change….what works In a stroke of genius, the people preparing us for the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) conference in April in Pittsburgh had the amazing Andy Goodman offer some invaluable lessons from his publication Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes (available for download from his web site). [...]
With unemployment in the double digits, and the California economy melting down, REDF has a lot more company joining us in our (obsessive) focus on connecting people to work. I recently had the chance to hear Harry Holzer hang the striking price tag of about $500 BILLION annually – almost 4% of GDP – on [...]
As the economy continues to stumble, federal spending ramps up, and California government melts down, the buzz in the air is about the respective roles and effectiveness of the public and private sectors in solving social problems. Some are concerned that we might take a step backwards from the current emphasis on private-public partnership – [...]
By Carla I. Javits, REDF President I recently participated in a lunch plenary at the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s (CEP) “Aligning for Impact” conference. My fellow speakers included Matthew Bishop, whose recent book “Philanthrocapitalism” was a largely positive review of business influence on philanthropy, Michael Edwards, who wrote a piece critical of “philanthrocapitalism”, and Gara [...]
By Carla I. Javits, REDF President On my first day back from the new year’s holiday, with the barrage of bad news about unemployment over the holidays running through my head, I tuned in to an Urban Institute audio webcast called: “Help Unwanted: Mitigating the Recession’s Toll on the Workers Most at Risk.” Harry Holzer [...]
