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REDF President Carla Javits and other staff members are happy to speak about REDF’s work and issues pertaining to solving joblessness and poverty through meaningful employment.
Please contact REDF’s Director of Operations and Communications, Vanessa Collins at info@redf.org or 415-561-6677 to arrange for interviews or more information.
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Download REDF's Performance Dashboards Presentation
REDF’s David Derryck and Samra Haider presented performance dashboards to a packed room at the recent Social Enterprise Summit in New Orleans. Their interactive presentation covered the impact a social enterprise-specific dashboard can have on the financial, operational, and social performance of an enterprise.
Recycle Your E-Waste with WasteNot
St. Vincent de Paul of Alameda County (SVdP), an organization in REDF’s portfolio, has launched WasteNot, a new social enterprise that offers e-waste recycling in the San Francisco Bay Area. By donating your old electronics, you can help provide jobs to individuals with barriers to employment. Visit SVdP’s website for details.
A Solution to Philanthropy’s Funding Maze: Strategic Co-Funding
Read and rate REDF’s first article and its accompanying tool in our Out of Philanthropy's Funding Maze series. This first article explores Strategic Co-Funding, the adaptation of VC-style capital aggregation to foundation grantmaking.
About REDF
REDF's business discipline and focus on results drive our efforts to create jobs for those who are most disconnected from the workforce.
Using the practices of venture philanthropy, REDF creates job opportunities through support of social enterprises that help people gain the skills to help themselves.
Because of our work and the work of the organizations in which we invest, thousands of people's lives are transformed.
By building the capacity of high-performing nonprofit organizations to operate business ventures that provide employment and hope, our enterprising approach has placed over 3,300 people in jobs and helped them stay employed.



