Social Enterprise in the News
REDF Charity Messenger Bag from Rickshaw Bagworks
Bikerumor.com | January 21, 2010
Rickshaw Bagworks (owned by the original founder of TimBuk2) has partnered again with REDF, a San Francisco group that creates job opportunities through support of social enterprises. This custom Medium Zero Messenger Bag, which is also available in green, tan/brown and gray, is yours with any $75 or more donation to REDF... More »
San Francisco Conservation Corps Launches Bold Awareness & Fund Raising Campaign
Press Release | October 28, 2009
"San Francisco's low-income young adults need SFCC more than ever in this kind of competitive job market," said Ann Cochrane, executive director, SFCC. "Our goal with this new work is to draw attention to the SFCC so that people will engage in the opportunities we provide now and want to provide in the future... More »
Gov. Schwarzenegger Announces Award of $27 Million to Fuel Nation’s Largest State-Sponsored Clean Energy Jobs Training Program
ca.gov Press Release | October, 2009
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the 34 recipients of $27 million in grants jump-starting the California Clean Energy Workforce Training Program (CEWTP), the largest state-sponsored green jobs training program in the nation... More »
Social Capital Markets conference buzzes with ideas for funding social change
Ode Magazine | September, 2009
What works, in the social good sector, is not always the most exciting new idea, according to another panelist Carla Javits, president of REDF, a San Francisco-based NGO that provides jobs for vulnerable populations... More »
Larry Robbin Workshop
September 17, 2009
The Best of the Tricks of the Trade - How to Succeed in Job Development and Business Services in a Recessionary Economy: A workshop presented by Larry Robbin in part as a benefit for the Unison In Industries Conference... More »
Social Entrepreneurship Revisited
Stanford Social Innovation Review | Summer 2009
Social entrepreneurship is one of the most alluring terms on the problem-solving landscape today, and is in use even in the new Obama administration. The President is quite familiar with the term and has embraced a first-of-its-kind investment fund for social entrepreneurship. The question is... More »
Resetting - An Unprecedented Meeting of Philanthropists
Huffington Post | May 18, 2009
On April 29th, UpStart Bay Area, a new nonprofit dedicated to supporting innovative Jewish social entrepreneurs, organized a conversation on "Stepping into New Territory: Rethinking Social Enterprise." In partnership... More »
What Is the Social Innovation Fund?
The White House Blog | May 6, 2009
President Obama has said that this is an "all-hands-on-deck" moment and that government cannot solve our nation’s problems alone. He has said that it is critical to partner with citizens, nonprofits, social entrepreneurs, foundations and corporations to make progress on our nation’s great challenges... More »
SF Conservation Corps keeps it green
abc7news.com | March 31, 2009
Since 1983 the San Francisco Conservation Corps has been helping the planet and some of its most vulnerable citizens. San Francisco's Conservation Corps has ..... More »
JFCS takes entrepreneurial approach
San Francisco Chronicle | March 15, 2009
Friedman, who celebrates her 30th year overseeing one of the Bay Area's largest family service organizations, was one of the first executives in the nation to steer her nonprofit from what she called the "tin-cup model" to a "social enterprise model"... More »
