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Our Three Year Strategy

REDF has launched a three year strategy, which will:

  • Help businesses employ 1,000 new people by 2010
  • Inform and engage employers
  • Increase social enterprise capacity

Find out how »

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Introducing REDF’s new website

Our new site contains many new features, resources, videos, and much more. Visitors can post publications and job listings, and access resources from REDF and other organizations in the field. Please take a few minutes and explore!

Apply For REDF Farber Internships

REDF Farber Internships offer MBA students a unique opportunity to use their business and management skills within a social enterprise. To learn more about the 2009 Farber Internships and how to apply, please click here.

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.

Social Enterprise in the News

Bay Area social entrepreneurs' hopes for Obama

San Francisco Chronicle | Nov 10, 2008

... a Bay Area-based nonprofit that helps new Americans launch socially responsible micro-businesses. "After eight years of cutbacks to social enterprise... More »

Recruitment Consultant - Third Sector

Third Sector, UK  | Nov 20, 2008

... who is eager to develop their career within the charitable/non-profit sector and contribute to the ongoing success of this social enterprise which aims ... More »

Community based social enterprise development - CSR Asia

CSR Asia, Hong Kong  | Nov 19, 2008

PDA is one of Thailand's largest and most successful private, non-profit, development organizations that has pioneered sustainable grassroots endeavors in ... More »


The above articles are updated daily by Google News


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What Does REDF Do?

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. More »

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