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 [...]
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 [...]
Click here to read REDF’s official press release about the grant. Learn how Ramses turned his life around after being hired at a REDF-supported social enterprise. …………………………………………………………………… Today REDF was elated to receive news of a two year $3 million federal Social Innovation Fund grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). The [...]
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In this guest post, Jason Trimiew, REDF’s Director of Fund and Business Development, presents a picture of what nonprofit social enterprise looks like at scale. Like most effective programs of this size and scope, the NISH/AbilityOne example requires the kind of cross-sector partnerships I have discussed in previous posts. It’s an inspiring example that calls [...]
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, [...]
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’ [...]
Sticking with my vow to relentlessly focus on ‘what works’ in this blog*, today’s post is about building what Haas Business School professor Jane Wei Skillern calls the ‘networked nonprofit’ and Monitor Group calls ‘working wikily’. It’s high time that we build a tighter network among innovators who identify with ‘entrepreneurship’ and those more identified [...]
December 8, 2009 – 2:45 pm
After more than a decade of learning from success, as well as from the school of hard knocks, the time is ripe for dramatic expansion of the social innovation that REDF has been privileged to pioneer with our extraordinary partners. Over the next several years, REDF’s new strategy will accelerate the growth of job-creating social [...]
September 3, 2009 – 11:06 am
The end of summer is always hot in more ways than one. Questions about the future hang in the humid air. Will unemployment get unstuck from the stratosphere? Will spines be strong enough to pass health care reform? Will policymakers keep fantasizing that private philanthropy will bail out slashed public budgets? Will the social sector be creative [...]
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 [...]
