Picking a Needle out of a Haystack: Selecting for social entrepreneurs

Published in 2010 | Download [PDF] 541 KB
Posted by llepson

Founded in 1999, Joshua Venture Group (JVGroup) invests in social entrepreneurs working
to expand and reinvigorate the Jewish community. As we re-launched our Dual Investment Program in Fall 2009, we pushed ourselves to question what we know and don’t know about the inherent qualities that define social entrepreneurs, and embarked on a process to better understand and identify what we were looking for. ... More »

Audit Insight Tool

Published in 2009 | Download [XLS] 213 KB

Audit Insight is a REDF tool used to facilitate the analysis of a nonprofit organization’s audited* agency-level financials. It is designed to automatically identify areas of strength as well as areas of concern that could impact the organization’s financial stability. It generates a list of probing questions that help get at the root of potential problems... More »

Full Circle Fund Education Impact Guide By Jeff Camp

Published in 2008 | Download [PDF] 1.09 MB
Posted by fullcirclefund

Public schools support America’s founding values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They are critical to the health of our democracy. They directly drive the future economic health of our state, our nation, and our world.

Unfortunately, they also do not work as well as they should, or must. Can anything be done? What counts? How can a group of motivated citizens make a difference? The Full Circle Fund Eductation Impact Guide explores the options. ... More »

GOAL (Grid for Organizational Assessment and Learning)

Published in 2007 | Download [XLS] 90 KB

GOAL (Grid for Organizational Assessment and Learning) is a REDF portfolio capacity assessment tool . GOAL helps organizations and their funders understand... More »

REDF Pre-Feasibility Tool and Presentations

Published in 2007

This tool is designed to guide an organization through the pre-feasibility process and create output reports for stake holders... More »

Matchmaker - a REDF Tool

Published in 2007 | Download [XLS] 436 KB

The Matchmaker tool can be used to facilitate the evaluation of organizations in the due diligence process... More »

Venture Philanthropy: The Evolution of High Engagement Philanthropy in Europe

Published in 2006 | Download [PDF] 233 KB
Posted by redf-content

Rob John
This paper is one in a series planned to examine the emergence of venture philanthropy in Europe, and examine prospects for its future development. The project begins with a survey of the landscape, following an intense period of innovation internationally... More »

“Must Read” Publications on Venture Philanthropy

Published in 2005 | Download [DOC] 47 KB
Posted by redf-content

This list includes publications recommended by Jim McClurg of Social Enterprise Alliance (Seattle, WA), Kay Sohl of TACS (Portland, OR) and Jed Emerson (Senior Fellow, Generation Foundation, of Generation Investment Management)... More »

When is it Time to Say Goodbye? Exit Strategies and Venture Philanthropy Funds

Published in 2001 | Download [PDF] 162 KB

Written by Kim Alter, Paul Shoemaker, Melinda Tuan, Jed Emerson
This paper discusses various exit strategies within the context of venture philanthropy... More »

Neighborhood Development Strategies: Application of the Traditional Lending Model to Investing in Low Income Neighborhoods

Published in 1999 | Download [DOC] 127 KB
Posted by redf-content

The purpose of this paper is to encourage thinking about neighborhood investments as investment, not as charity or grants. This requires applying the logic and discipline of private sector investing to community building investment that may not have significant, if any financial returns... More »

Nonprofits Find Added Value in Venture Philanthropy

Published in 1999
Posted by redf-content

This article discusses venture philanthropy concepts and actors (like REDF)... More »

CDFIs and the Private Sector: Sustainable Subsidy through Strategic Philanthropy

Published in 1999 | Download [DOC] 78 KB
Posted by redf-content

John Lucero
This paper examines the potential for CDFIs to utilize private-sector philanthropy as a sustainable source of subsidy.  It begins with a review of literature relating to corporate and business philanthropy and illustrates the emergence of a new trend:  strategic philanthropy... More »

REDF Box Set — Social Purpose Enterprises and Venture Philanthropy in the New Millennium

Published in 1999

REDF and its Portfolio members produced this three volume set to answer three questions. First, practitioners within social purpose enterprises were asked... More »

The Venture Fund Initiative: An Assessment of Current Opportunities for Social Purpose Business Development and Recommendations

Published in 1998 | Download [PDF] 436 KB

Writen by Jed Emerson
The Venture Fund Initiative was a six-month strategy and mapping process in six cities. The goal was to support community and regional efforts... More »