Leveraging change where the market has failed

October 18, 2010 – 3:06 pm

No matter what your position on crime, whether law and order or reform and rehabilitation – just about everyone knows that if we don’t get people to work after they serve their sentences, we are unlikely to change the unfortunate and costly reality that the US has 5 % of the world’s population and 24% [...]

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SOCAP 2010 – moving from the clouds to the ground

October 7, 2010 – 12:25 pm

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 [...]

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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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