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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Disruptive Innovation – Is “Disruption” Enough?

February 24, 2011 – 1:54 pm

Once a year the Boston venture philanthropy New Profit offers a delicious smorgasbord of speakers and conversations to invited social entrepreneurs and innovators from around the country.  New Profit was an early investor in many of the most successful of these ventures – from Teach for America to Kipp Schools.  The leaders of those and [...]

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REDF Launches New Portfolio to Create California Jobs

February 15, 2011 – 7:47 am

Today we leave the starting gate — adrenalin surging, hearts pounding.  REDF and our partners in the field have been testing, learning, improving and preparing.  We’re aiming for a sweeping impact:  people who want to work find jobs and move on and up, rather than being frozen out.  Everyone who wants to work has that [...]

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From Egypt to the US: Governments, Hope, and Jobs

February 7, 2011 – 3:31 pm

Hope and optimism can be crushed or facilitated by government as the events of the past week in Egypt and Tunisia make clear.  When people don’t feel their voices are heard, and they can’t get jobs, they rebel. The other week, during the State of the Union speech, the President focused on how to create [...]

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Spending money well builds public trust

November 19, 2010 – 1:34 pm

As our newly elected Governor and other representatives prepare for the coming year, and the highly partisan public debate about government spending rages, those of us working at the community level know that the fight over cutting or increasing taxes does not tell the whole story.  We know that business as usual is neither possible [...]

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Now is the time to invest in innovation

November 11, 2010 – 10:50 am

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 [...]

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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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Sneak Preview – REDF Goes to Work for Thousands of Californians

September 28, 2010 – 12:13 pm

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 [...]

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

September 20, 2010 – 10:48 am

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 [...]

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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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