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
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| Tags: change, economy, employment, hope, measurement, private sector, REDF, social enterprise, Social Innovation Fund, unemployment, workforce |
August 3, 2010 – 11:11 am
We are feeling a combination of tremendous optimism and significant responsibility as we gear up to do all we can to launch successful implementation of our Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grant. I will be sharing more here about that as we move ahead. Last week I had the chance to write a guest post on [...]
A White House invitation spurred a quick trip to Washington, D.C. for an inspiring meeting convened by First Lady Michele Obama, with Patrick Corvington, who heads up the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), and Melody Barnes, Director of the Domestic Policy Council. It was heartening to witness the commitment of the First Lady, [...]
I’ve been in Israel at the invitation of the Rothschild Foundation (called Yad Handiv here) and Fay Twersky of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation who led our Visiting Committee on Evaluation and Performance Measurement, which also included Paul Brest from the Hewlett Foundation, and Martin Brookes of New Philanthropy Capital. Fay’s team at the [...]
Change is in the air, and we will need plenty of it to move the needle on poverty in the U.S. It has remained stuck at around 12-13 percent of the population for decades, officially reaching 37 million in 2007. At REDF, we are developing a new partnership that gets directly to the heart of [...]
REDF provides practical tools that can help nonproifts, funders, intermediaries, government agencies and others. Our new audit insight tool can be of tremendous value to facilitate the analysis of a nonprofit organization’s audited agency-level financials, allowing the identification of areas of strength as well as areas of concern that could impact the organization’s financial stability. [...]
