Learning from Goodwill’s success

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 [...]

How can the Social Innovation Fund best serve America?

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 [...]

Government vis-à-vis philanthropic ‘take-out’ strategies

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 [...]

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