Seizing the opportunity for real innovation

September 21, 2009 – 3:30 pm

Sonal Shah, President Obama’s inaugural Director of the White House Office of Social Innovation, was here in the heartland of innovation for a whirlwind trip beginning with her appearance at SoCAP 2009 at Ft. Mason, and then meeting with a REDF-assembled group of leaders from REDF’s board and advisory council, social enterprise, business, foundations, and [...]

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Reflections on SOCAP 2009

September 10, 2009 – 12:01 pm

While it would have been in the category of “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” a few years ago – there is now a White House Office of Social Innovation led by the savvy Sonal Shah, who recently moved to D.C. after working at Google right here in the San Francisco Bay Area.  The dictionary definition [...]

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Philanthrocapitalism – finding the middle ground

April 7, 2009 – 10:18 am

By Carla I. Javits, REDF President I recently participated in a lunch plenary at the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s (CEP) “Aligning for Impact” conference. My fellow speakers included Matthew Bishop, whose recent book “Philanthrocapitalism” was a largely positive review of business influence on philanthropy, Michael Edwards, who wrote a piece critical of “philanthrocapitalism”, and Gara [...]

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