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A Labor Day Message

September 2, 2011 – 10:08 am

Visit www.redf.org/2011benefit to purchase tickets to our annual Benefit + Social Enterprise Expo in San Francisco on September 30th!

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: change, employment, hope, job creation, REDF, social enterprise, workforce | Leave a Comment

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 [...]

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: change, employment, government, hope, job creation, nonprofit sector, partnership, REDF, social enterprise, social innovation, Social Innovation Fund, strategy, workforce | Comments (4)

A good risk not a sure bet

December 21, 2010 – 11:49 am

As a tough year ends, we are still fascinated by America’s wealthiest men and women – like Warren Buffet who sits atop the Forbes 400. Fewer obsess about the men and women that REDF meets who have gotten their lives together and started working after hard times and years of unemployment. With unemployment for everyone [...]

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: change, employment, hope, job creation, philanthropy, REDF, social enterprise, strategy, workforce | Leave a Comment

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 [...]

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: change, double bottom line, economy, employment, government, hope, nonprofit sector, partnership, philanthropy, private sector, social enterprise, unemployment, workforce | Comments (2)

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% [...]

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: employment, green jobs, hope, nonprofit sector, partnership, private sector, recidivism, REDF, social enterprise, unemployment, workforce | Comments (2)

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 [...]

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: change, employment, government, hope, nonprofit sector, partnership, REDF, request for qualifications (RFQ), social enterprise, social innovation, strategy, workforce | Comments (1)

Fresno: a city summits and the Street Saints keep on

September 16, 2010 – 3:03 pm

I was excited about meeting Fresno’s Mayor, Ashley Swearingen, for breakfast Monday morning. I’d heard that she was an emerging leader to watch in California’s political constellation. And I knew she was a Republican who was interested in how to include low-income people and communities in her ambitious goals to develop Fresno’s economy – one [...]

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: employment, hope, nonprofit sector, partnership, REDF, social enterprise, strategy, unemployment, workforce | Leave a Comment

Be the best of whatever you are

August 25, 2010 – 3:29 pm

There’s been some controversy this week about the transparency of the selection process of the Social Innovation Fund. I will hold my thoughts on that for now, except to say that since we received our grant award, we have spent all of our time focused on how to use these precious resources to create as [...]

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: employment, hope, nonprofit sector, partnership, REDF, Social Innovation Fund, strategy, workforce | Leave a Comment

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, [...]

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: change, economy, employment, hope, measurement, private sector, REDF, social enterprise, Social Innovation Fund, unemployment, workforce | Leave a Comment

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