Moving the Economic Flywheel

April 13, 2011 – 2:16 pm

One Job for America the outstanding brainchild of the Bay Area’s Carla Emil represents the kind of out-of-the box but practical idea we need right about now.  Across the country, businesses are responding to Carla’s grassroots movement and on-line registry that aims to galvanize every company in America to create at least one job to [...]

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

November 2, 2010 – 12:08 pm

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 [...]

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The next big thing

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 [...]

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All people need the chance to work

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, [...]

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Creating access to opportunity

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). [...]

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Pricing the crisis: the true costs of unemployment

June 15, 2009 – 11:49 am

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 [...]

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Opportunities in the midst of a changing economy

May 29, 2009 – 10:09 am

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 – [...]

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Philanthrocapitalism – finding the middle ground

April 7, 2009 – 10:18 am

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 [...]

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When the stimulus coffers run dry, social enterprise will keep on…

March 31, 2009 – 8:07 am

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 [...]

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