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Your Money at Work
Stimulus, Swings and Social Enterprise
by Carla I. Javits, President, REDF
Amidst the news of stock market gyrations, rising unemployment and relentless foreclosures, I heard a CNN commentator suggest a great metaphor for the timing of ‘stimulus’ and its effect on the economy.
He said that fiscal stimulus can be compared to a parent pushing a swing. If your child is flying up in the air on the other side of the bar and you push, nothing happens. If they’re heading your way, poised right in the middle and you push, the swing may keep coming and hit you in the chin. But if you push when the swing is right at that sweet spot – at the top of its arc toward you – your push has real impact and you hear the giggles all the way up the other side... More »
REDF's Partnership with St. Vincent de Paul Results in Profitability
The low-slung, nondescript buildings at the gritty corner of San Pablo and 23rd streets in Oakland, California are, at a glance, worlds apart from the tree-lined suburban landscape 22 miles south in the city of Fremont. But for St. Vincent de Paul of Alameda County (SVdP), both of these San Francisco Bay Area communities are vital to the success of the organization's mission... More »
Why REDF?
Mission, Vision & Values
REDF work is grounded in an inspiring mission, motivated by an ambitious vision, and achieved by adhering to our core values. Click here to read our Mission, Vision, Values statement.
Social Impact Report
Published in 2005 | Download [PDF] 401KB
REDF supports an ongoing assessment process that involves face-to-face interviews with every enterprise employee at the time they are hired. Follow-up interviews continue at six-month intervals for up to two years after hire. The Social Impact Report highlights findings from a range of outcome areas, based on data collected from every individual served by our portfolio enterprises.
See What a Job Can Do
Be inspired by the stories below of employees who never gave up on hope.
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Darryl Sims
There are 12,000 people living in San Francisco without a home. Darryl Sims isn’t one of them any more.
As a fourteen-year-old in 1979, Darryl remembers riding in his father’s car. He watched out the window as they passed...More »
Ramses Peña
Ramses is mixing ink at a color-spattered table on one side of the vast space that houses Ashbury Images, a screen-printing business owned and operated by New Door Ventures...More »
Grant Making Resources
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 »
REDF's "Stepping Out of the Maze" Series:
Out of Philanthropy's Funding Maze
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Published in 2008
Out of Philanthropy's Funding Maze
This is the first article in REDF’s “Stepping Out of the Maze” series, which has developed out of our concern for the funding environment in which nonprofits carrying out critical social change work must operate. The series of three articles explores ways... More »