2011 Request for Qualifications Now Open – Apply to Join the REDF Portfolio

June 20, 2011 – 2:00 pm

REDF is pleased to announce the launch of our second round RFQ as the first step in selecting up to three additional organizations to join our portfolio and receive Social Innovation Fund (SIF) subgrants. Complete applications must be submitted by 5:00 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST) on Friday, July 15, 2011. Submissions prior to the [...]

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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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Ready, Set, Grow

April 26, 2011 – 12:26 pm

REDF April 2011 Newsletter Spirits at REDF were high as we marked the arrival of Spring with two ‘firsts’ that are described in this newsletter. Several dozen representatives of REDF’s new portfolio came to San Francisco for their inaugural gathering, where they heard from Paul Carttar, Director of the federal Social Innovation Fund.  He was [...]

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Smart on Crime, Smart on Job Creation

April 5, 2011 – 10:41 am

Newly elected Attorney General Kamala Harris met with her “Smart on Crime” transition team a few weeks ago.   She listened to recommendations from eleven working groups including the one I served on — reentry and recidivism reduction – which made many recommendations to cut California’s highest-in-the-country prison recidivism rate of 70%, highlighting, among other solutions, [...]

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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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A good risk not a sure bet

December 21, 2010 – 11:49 am

As a tough year ends, we are still fascinated by America’s wealthiest men and women – like Warren Buffet who sits atop the Forbes 400. Fewer obsess about the men and women that REDF meets who have gotten their lives together and started working after hard times and years of unemployment. With unemployment for everyone [...]

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Eating cheese and building markets to make a better world

December 7, 2010 – 10:46 am

Driving past the deer and cows grazing through the rich Marin County landscape on an overcast Friday, everyone at REDF headed out to celebrate the holidays and the big changes we’ve been through in 2010.  With stomachs growling we approached our destination – the iconic Cowgirl Creamery – and prepared to sample the goods and [...]

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Building the Ecosystem – Connecting the Dots

October 28, 2010 – 12:55 pm

Heroes and gurus of social entrepreneurship gathered at the Mozilla Foundation headquarters in Mountain View last week to illuminate what it takes to ‘scale social impact’.  Duke University convened the session which offered the intellectual firepower of Professors Dees, Bloom, Robinson, and Clark and the practical experience of social sector leaders Jordan Kassalow (VisionSpring ); [...]

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SOCAP 2010 – moving from the clouds to the ground

October 7, 2010 – 12:25 pm

With more than a thousand attending, SOCAP 2010 came into its own this year.  After creating the concept three years ago, Kevin Jones, his wife Rosa Lee, and their ever-expanding group of creative networkers put the conference on the ground two years ago and have kept it growing and changing.  Someone said it reminded them [...]

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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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