Where is the Trust?

April 20, 2010 – 10:38 am

According to a new report on National Public Radio, “Americans’ trust in government and its institutions has plummeted to a near-historic low, according to a sobering new survey by the Pew Research Center. Only 22 percent of Americans surveyed by Pew say they can trust government in Washington ‘almost always or most of the time’ [...]

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The true engine of job creation…

February 1, 2010 – 10:24 am

Continuing on this year’s theme: positive change: what works….. During his State of the Union message, President Obama outlined incentives for small businesses to hire more workers, and for investors to provide more capital. But the next day when the President was asked in a Tampa, Florida town hall meeting about job opportunities for one [...]

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Positive change in the new year

January 5, 2010 – 11:20 am

Holiday greetings! A resolution for 2010: Make positive change. And the corollary: Focus on the positive. Searching for ‘how to’ …some great guides below: Dan Pallotta’s always interesting blog suggests a new name for the “nonprofit” sector — just about anything is better than a word that starts with “non”. A hot new book coming [...]

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MBA Student, Interrupted – Guest Post by Stephen McCann

October 13, 2009 – 1:54 pm

Introduction by Carla I. Javits Outstanding leadership is a central factor that distinguishes any successful enterprise; this is certainly true in the social sector.  REDF started its signature Farber Program a decade ago to provide hands-on experience in job-creation social enterprises for MBA students and graduates who want to contribute and learn through summer internships [...]

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To profit or not to profit: resources from the field

July 23, 2009 – 3:32 pm

For those creating and operating social enterprises, several new articles shed light on which legal structure to choose. A new primer by Robert Wexler of Adler and Colvin offers a terrific overview of the options across the nonprofit/for-profit spectrum, and an article in Business Week describes some of the tradeoffs of nonprofit and for-profit status. [...]

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Learning from Goodwill’s success

July 13, 2009 – 9:22 am

Last week, President Obama met at the White House with forward-thinking groups like the Harlem Children’s Zone, HopeLab and Genesys Works to highlight the White House’s new Office of Social Innovation. The President could have been referencing employment-focused social enterprise when he said today, “You teach us that there’s no such thing as a lost [...]

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A chain reaction

June 25, 2009 – 11:03 am

On the heels of President Obama’s launch of the United We Serve campaign – calling on all Americans to volunteer to rebuild our communities – media trucks and police crammed San Francisco’s Howard Street, blocks from REDF’s office, awaiting the late afternoon arrival of Michelle Obama and Maria Shriver.  The First Ladies, had spent the [...]

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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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Government vis-à-vis philanthropic ‘take-out’ strategies

April 24, 2009 – 3:35 pm

By Carla I. Javits, REDF President Sean Stannard-Stockton’s recent blog post suggests government as the ‘take out’ for social innovations pioneered through philanthropic investment. This is a new way of looking at the relationship between philanthropy and government, which has been evolving and changing for decades. While it is intriguing to consider a rational system [...]

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