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Gift Catalyzes a For-Profit
This article was originally published in the Spring 2015 RSF Quarterly. by Alex Haber In the Philanthropic Services department at RSF, our purpose is to cultivate gift as the source of economic life....
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Transformational Gifts
This article was originally published in the Spring 2015 RSF Quarterly. Last year, a group of RSF staff studied “The Gift” by Lewis Hyde. It was a lively and deeply moving experience for us, and it was...
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Mining & Community: Deep Impact Investing
This article was originally published in the Summer 2015 RSF Quarterly. Chet Tchozewski has been involved in grassroots environmental philanthropy globally for more than 20 years as founder and...
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A Change for the Better
In this latest RSF Quarterly, we introduce RSF Social Finance’s new branding—a change to our look and language that provides us with greater capacity to celebrate our clients and to better tell the...
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Take a Stand
Lynne Twist reflects with Deb Nelson on the many opportunities for women in social finance and enterprise. This March, she re-debuted her book, The Soul of Money, to be featured April 23rd on Oprah’s...
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Fleeing to Safety
In 2017, Asylum Access received a grant through RSF to scale its women’s legal empowerment program. This conversation with Amalia Greenberg Delgado explores the often difficult experiences of refugee...
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Training the Best Teachers
Urban Teachers Prepares Educators for Rigors of City Schools Anoinette S., an Urban Teachers alum, with student. In 2008, Jennifer Green was extremely frustrated by teacher turnover in the Baltimore...
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Women & Money
“Everyone has to make up their mind if money is money or money isn’t money and sooner or later they always do decide that money is money.” —Gertrude Stein My Legal Tender project was inspired in part...
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Quarterly: New Beginnings
In this summer RSF Quarterly, we turn to workforce development organizations that are determined to employ and empower job-seekers with the highest barriers to workforce entry and re-entry. These...
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#NoRegrets
To create a thriving society, we must invest in soil health. As a young woman growing up in Knoxville, Tennessee, I showed passions many considered “uncharacteristic” of a Southern lady. I was a tomboy...
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Giving and Buying: A Holistic Approach to Co-op Support
Kim Coburn is closely familiar with the coffee world. Now with Equal Exchange, she has previously worked as a fundraiser for the financier, Root Capital, where she managed relationships with investors...
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RSF at 35: Reflecting on Our Evolution
In our Spring/Summer 2019 newsletter we take a moment to celebrate our 35th anniversary and reflect on our evolution over the years. We visit with a longtime partner, Camphill Communities California,...
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From Rikers Island to Restaurants: Drive Change Gives Young People Jobs,...
As an English teacher at the high school in New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex, Jordyn Lexton saw how dehumanizing incarceration is for young people. Lexton (who uses the pronouns they/them)...
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