REDF Leverages First Social Innovation Fund Grant

August 3, 2010 – 11:11 am

We are feeling a combination of tremendous optimism and significant responsibility as we gear up to do all we can to launch successful implementation of our Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grant. I will be sharing more here about that as we move ahead. Last week I had the chance to write a guest post on [...]

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REDF Receives $3 Million Social Innovation Fund Grant

July 22, 2010 – 6:36 am

Click here to read REDF’s official press release about the grant. Learn how Ramses turned his life around after being hired at a REDF-supported social enterprise. …………………………………………………………………… Today REDF was elated to receive news of a two year $3 million federal Social Innovation Fund grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). The [...]

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A Slippery Slope We Need To Climb – Guest Post by Cynthia Gair

July 6, 2010 – 8:47 am

In this guest post, Cynthia Gair, REDF’s Managing Director of Programs, provides her observations on the California Labor Federation’s recent conference, which lead to some ideas about common ground for social enterprises and organized labor to explore. …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. A Slippery Slope We Need To Climb Cynthia Gair Managing Director of Programs, REDF The difference between [...]

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A picture of social enterprise at scale – Guest Post by Jason Trimiew

June 18, 2010 – 9:39 am

In this guest post, Jason Trimiew, REDF’s Director of Fund and Business Development, presents a picture of what nonprofit social enterprise looks like at scale. Like most effective programs of this size and scope, the NISH/AbilityOne example requires the kind of cross-sector partnerships I have discussed in previous posts. It’s an inspiring example that calls [...]

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Hope vs. Optimism

June 8, 2010 – 12:43 pm

By Carla I. Javits, REDF President From REDF’s June 2010 eNewsletter With unemployment in California stuck around 12%, prospects for increased employment of individuals with significant barriers might seem dimmer than ever. Putting a fine point on it, “I think the unemployment rate will be permanently higher,” noted Mark Sandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com, [...]

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Notes from Israel

May 4, 2010 – 2:55 pm

In Israel with a small visiting committee on Evaluation and Performance Management. We have met with nonprofits large and small, philanthropy – Israeli and US-based, corporations and banks, and the people and organizations that measure nonprofit performance. A lot of philanthropy here has historically been US-based, but because of more recent economic growth, there is [...]

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Creating access to opportunity

February 23, 2010 – 2:03 pm

More on this year’s theme: positive change….what works In a stroke of genius, the people preparing us for the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) conference in April in Pittsburgh had the amazing Andy Goodman offer some invaluable lessons from his publication Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes (available for download from his web site). [...]

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The true engine of job creation…

February 1, 2010 – 10:24 am

Continuing on this year’s theme: positive change: what works….. During his State of the Union message, President Obama outlined incentives for small businesses to hire more workers, and for investors to provide more capital. But the next day when the President was asked in a Tampa, Florida town hall meeting about job opportunities for one [...]

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Where social enterprise is headed

December 8, 2009 – 2:45 pm

After more than a decade of learning from success, as well as from the school of hard knocks, the time is ripe for dramatic expansion of the social innovation that REDF has been privileged to pioneer with our extraordinary partners. Over the next several years, REDF’s new strategy will accelerate the growth of job-creating social [...]

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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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