2011 Request for Qualifications opens on June 20

May 31, 2011 – 1:26 pm

Breaking news: This week REDF officially releases an announcement of the timeline for our 2011 Request for Qualifications (RFQ). The RFQ will be open from June 20 until July 15, 2011. Last year’s Fall RFQ resulted in the selection of the six outstanding organizations that are now part of REDF’s portfolio.  We anticipate adding one [...]

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Articles Worth Reading

April 18, 2011 – 11:01 am

Worth reading: on evaluation Evaluation of social programs might as well be alchemy or brain surgery for the mystery and complexity surrounding it.  The simple reality though is it’s worth doing when it leads to better results for the people we serve; and when the funders who pay the bills know they are maximizing the [...]

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What do Charlie Sheen, Wikileaks and REDF have in common?

March 7, 2011 – 12:27 pm

While I am not sure how to answer the riddle, now that I have your attention I want to turn it to answering one that gets less attention:  how do we create jobs in California as a means to end the cycle that traps far too many people who hit the starting line with few [...]

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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 [...]

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From Egypt to the US: Governments, Hope, and Jobs

February 7, 2011 – 3:31 pm

Hope and optimism can be crushed or facilitated by government as the events of the past week in Egypt and Tunisia make clear.  When people don’t feel their voices are heard, and they can’t get jobs, they rebel. The other week, during the State of the Union speech, the President focused on how to create [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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Request for Qualifications now open – apply to join REDF’s Portfolio

September 20, 2010 – 10:48 am

Today REDF takes the first step toward achieving the goals of our new 2011-2015 Strategy, which will be formally announced at our September 30 Benefit.   Over the coming years we will work together to build a transformative, widely-replicable model of social enterprise that employs low income people with barriers to employment. Today we also publicly [...]

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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 [...]

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