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.

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REDF creates jobs that change lives. People feel pride in working because a job represents dignity and opportunity, in addition to a steady paycheck. But for young people and adults facing life's greatest barriers, access to gainful employment can seem impossible. REDF has pioneered a model to employ individuals who are overcoming chronic poverty, homelessness, criminal history, substance abuse or mental illness.

Also known as The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund, REDF is a San Francisco-based venture philanthropy organization that invests in nonprofit-run businesses called ‘social enterprises.’ Many of the people we have interviewed after getting a social enterprise job are still earning a paycheck two years later. They are able to contribute to their families, to their communities and to the economy. 

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