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A Labor Day Message

September 2, 2011 – 10:08 am

Visit www.redf.org/2011benefit to purchase tickets to our annual Benefit + Social Enterprise Expo in San Francisco on September 30th!

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: change, employment, hope, job creation, REDF, social enterprise, workforce | Leave a Comment

One Job for America the outstanding brainchild of the Bay Area’s Carla Emil represents the kind of out-of-the box but practical idea we need right about now. Across the country, businesses are responding to Carla’s grassroots movement and on-line registry that aims to galvanize every company in America to create at least one job to [...]

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: economy, employment, government, job creation, workforce | Leave a Comment

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, [...]

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: double bottom line, employment, job creation, measurement, recidivism, REDF, social enterprise, strategy, workforce | Comments (1)

What do Charlie Sheen, Wikileaks and REDF have in common?

March 7, 2011 – 12:27 pm

While I am not sure how to answer the riddle, now that I have your attention I want to turn it to answering one that gets less attention: how do we create jobs in California as a means to end the cycle that traps far too many people who hit the starting line with few [...]

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: employment, job creation, partnership, REDF, social enterprise, workforce | Comments (1)

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 [...]

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: change, employment, government, hope, job creation, nonprofit sector, partnership, REDF, social enterprise, social innovation, Social Innovation Fund, strategy, workforce | Comments (4)

From Egypt to the US: Governments, Hope, and Jobs

February 7, 2011 – 3:31 pm

Hope and optimism can be crushed or facilitated by government as the events of the past week in Egypt and Tunisia make clear. When people don’t feel their voices are heard, and they can’t get jobs, they rebel. The other week, during the State of the Union speech, the President focused on how to create [...]

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: employment, government, job creation, nonprofit sector, partnership, philanthropy, REDF, social enterprise, Social Innovation Fund, workforce | Comments (1)

Resolution for 2011: create jobs

January 12, 2011 – 9:51 am

Last year’s blog started with my resolution for 2010: to make positive change. As 2011 launches with the unemployment rate stuck above 9% (12%+ in California), and the gut-wrenching shootings in Tucson, sunny optimism is on holiday. In its place, here is resolve for 2011: Create jobs. Especially for people least likely to have one [...]

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: employment, job creation, private sector, REDF, social enterprise, unemployment, workforce | Comments (2)

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 [...]

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: change, employment, hope, job creation, philanthropy, REDF, social enterprise, strategy, workforce | Leave a Comment

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 [...]

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: double bottom line, employment, REDF, social enterprise, strategy, workforce | Leave a Comment

Good reading

December 1, 2010 – 9:57 am

Worth reading this week – Bay Area social entrepreneur Paul Lamb’s fine piece on social enterprise in the Huffington Post — The Business of Hope; and an interesting article on a Johnson and Johnson sponsored program to help people with mental illness get into the workforce in the Stanford Social Innovation Review — Employment Power. [...]

By Carla Javits | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: nonprofit sector, social enterprise, workforce | Leave a Comment

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