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 |
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. [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
