As I wrote about in my previous post, REDF was honored to be chosen as one of the recipients of the first annual Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grant. Jason Trimiew and I went to Washington, DC for the announcement. Below are a few photos and a short video from our trip. Share this: Share Email [...]
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, [...]
I’ve been in Israel at the invitation of the Rothschild Foundation (called Yad Handiv here) and Fay Twersky of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation who led our Visiting Committee on Evaluation and Performance Measurement, which also included Paul Brest from the Hewlett Foundation, and Martin Brookes of New Philanthropy Capital. Fay’s team at the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
President Obama’s federal budget proposal includes $50 million for a new Social Innovation Fund. REDF has been part of the America Forward coalition, a national group that has been a central force in driving creation of the Fund. Kelly Ward of America Forward, in an interview with Change.org said that the Social Innovation Fund, “was [...]
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 [...]
