REDF invests in businesses that reveal and reinforce the talent of people breaking through barriers to employment.
Our Culture
We approach problems with rigor, and we approach people with humility. After all, this work gets done not on the shoulders of any one individual, but on the aspiration and intention of all of us — including our staff, our partner entrepreneurs around the country, and, most importantly, the amazing people they employ.
Together we exist in service to a movement to redefine what talent looks like and to ensure that people are fully seen for the gifts they bring, not the barriers they face.
Here’s how:
Our Values
Our values comprise a bit of collaborative alchemy that goes something like this:
If you take a team of folks inspired by this mission…
Bring them together with humility and curiosity…
Foster a spirit of ‘your success is my success’…
And study the wins as much as the losses…
Then you build solutions that scale.
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Inspiration
Doing this work is a privilege. We’re inspired by our social enterprise partners and the people they serve who are striving for a better life.
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Mutuality
We work to foster a culture of inclusion and openness, approaching our jobs with humility and respect. We value and seek to learn from the lived experience of people served by social enterprises.
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Teamwork
We work better together and achieve excellence by fostering a culture of collaboration — across REDF teams, social enterprises, and partners.
04
Growth
We believe we can grow and continuously improve, as individuals and as an organization, applying the lessons learned from our successes as well as our failures.
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Solutions
We’re creative problem solvers who look beyond traditional approaches to find more innovative, equitable solutions.
Our Values
When we zoom out, our values comprise a bit of culture math that goes something like this:
01
Inspiration
If you take a team of folks inspired by this mission
Doing this work is a privilege. We’re inspired by our social enterprise partners and the people they serve who are striving for a better life.
02
Mutuality
03
Teamwork
Foster a spirit of ‘your success is my success’
We work better together and achieve excellence by fostering a culture of collaboration – across REDF teams, social enterprises, and partners.
04
Growth
And study the wins as much as the losses
We believe we can grow and continuously improve, as individuals and as an organization, applying the lessons learned from our successes as well as our failures.
05
Solutions
Then you build solutions that scale.
We’re creative problem solvers who look beyond traditional approaches to find more innovative, equitable solutions.
Karen ChernVice President, Programs
Kristen GreenSenior Manager, Community
Yon Jimenez-MacusoTeam Lead, Data & Analytics
Belonging & Ingenuity
The problems we face are tough and entrenched. Solving them requires the creativity of a collective — one with an array of lived expertise.
To build this collective, we must cultivate a sense of belonging for everyone. We do our best work as colleagues when we feel our unique lens into the world can be paired with another’s unique lens into the world, to unlock an ingenuity that we didn’t have individually.
Ingenuity is abundant, but it only comes alive when people feel seen for the unique, quirky, imperfect and yet perfectly human people they are.
We pursue ingenuity through belonging every day — both for ourselves as colleagues building a workplace where everyone can thrive, and for our mission as stewards pushing for an inclusive economy. To do this well, we follow three key steps:
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We deepen our understanding of the individual experiences and historical contexts that drive the need for REDF to exist,Â
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We work to create the psychological safety for us to deepen our empathy for each other’s lived expertise; and
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We use both to deepen our equity lens to interrogate and improve our practices, while using our power to push for change.
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