REDF Programs, Video

What is an Employment Social Enterprise?

Employment social enterprises (ESEs) are businesses built to do good. They provide jobs, training, and support to people who are getting back on their...

6.22.22

CEO Insights

Be In Good Company

In each friend group, there’s that one person who steps up as the sun — the one whose energy brings the rest of the crew together, the one whose...

6.22.22

By Maria Kim

CEO Insights

Revealing our gifts | CEO Maria Kim Honored with Chicago Booth Distinguished Alum Award

“I have other gifts.” That’s what I used to say on exam day at Booth, where I went to business school more than a decade ago. I made the choice to...

5.23.22

By Maria Kim

Events, Video

Expanding Opportunity: Investing in Employment Social Enterprise (Event, 4/7/22)

Opening remarks: Chet Hewitt: Maurice Jones & Charles Phillips: Panel Discussion on Connecting Capital and Employment Social Enterprises: LISC &...

5.5.22

CEO Insights, Events

Employment social enterprise takes center stage at the New York Federal Reserve

In my first job out of college, I moved up fairly quickly — even becoming a VP at around 23. (That perhaps sounds more exciting than it was. In...

5.4.22

By Maria Kim

Community Stories

Closing out Second Chance Month with a Fair First Chance for All

My background is an asset in helping other people. And in order to break the cycle of poverty and addiction, we need a fair first chance for everyone.

5.2.22

Impact Investing, News

REDF Impact Investing Fund April 2022 Newsletter

RIIF Now a Certified CDFI: RIIF is now a certified CDFI! Certification is a formal acknowledgement from the U.S. Treasury’s CDFI Fund that RIIF...

4.6.22

Gov. Partnerships & Policy, Policy

Recognizing ESEs as Economic Engines: Our Policy Priorities for 2022

As a mom to an almost four-year-old, I’m constantly challenged to talk in the simplest way. So, when I explain to him what I do for work, I tell him...

4.6.22

By Manie Grewal

CEO Insights

When a “second chance” is really the first

I’ve been thinking a lot about chances lately. That one simple word can mean so many things. Luck. Opportunity. Even a gamble. And that got me to...

4.4.22

By Maria Kim

CEO Insights, News, Team & Culture

Welcoming Maria Kim as REDF’s CEO

When I joined REDF in 2007, we were innovating with a handful of ground-breaking organizations in the SF Bay Area to develop what we now call...

3.1.22

By Carla Javits

CEO Insights

It’s the shoes.

(It’s not the shoes.) There’s a saying when someone great moves on to a new opportunity, the person behind them “has some big shoes to fill.”...

3.1.22

By Maria Kim

CEO Insights

When a sandwich board becomes a manifesto

On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I sit in the imbalance of two truths: deep admiration for how Dr. King changed the world with his life and deep...

1.12.22

By Maria Kim