RSF Social Finance Helps Expand Impact of Scrappy Indiana Non-Profit
RSF recently provided a $400,000 loan to Workforce, Inc. (WFI) – an Indianapolis-based non-profit that employs former inmates to recycle televisions, computer monitors and other electronic waste. The loan will enable Workforce to acquire sophisticated recycling equipment that will more than double the volume of e-waste it processes...Read the full post on the Reimagine Money blog.
Indigenous Designs Paves the Way for Fair Trade Apparel
This month Indigenous Designs has hit the road on a West coast tour to celebrate their success in this venture. The company is now set to receive a “Fair Trade” certification for apparel from FairTrade USA. This new certification is the first-of-its kind in the apparel and design industry and demonstrates Indigenous Designs’ commitment to sustainability throughout the entire supply chain...Read more in the RSF Newsroom.
RSF Pricing Meeting at the Oakland School for the Arts
Back in mid-September, we hosted our most recent quarterly pricing meeting with investors and borrowers of the RSF Social Investment Fund at borrower Oakland School for the Arts in downtown Oakland, CA. If you’ve missed our past posts on the subject, these meetings are opportunities for RSF investors and borrowers to take part in a face-to-face discussion about each others’ needs and goals in the context of resetting the Social Investment Fund’s current interest rate...Read the full post on the Reimagine Money Blog.
RSF to Participate as a GIIRS Pioneer Fund
RSF is proud to announce that the RSF Mezzanine Fund is one of 25 impact investing funds recently named as a GIIRS Pioneer Fund. GIIRS, which stands for the Global Impact Investing Rating System, is a ratings agency that provides social and environmental impact ratings for companies and funds seeking to raise capital from impact investors...Read more in the RSF Newsroom.
Congratulations to the First Participants in Our Food & Agriculture Focus Area Fund
The RSF Philanthropic Services department is excited to announce the selected participants for the first round of fund sharing from our Food & Agriculture Focus Area Fund. This fund demonstrates an innovative form of grant making that invites grantees to learn about each other’s work and collaboratively use a pool of funds to support their missions...Read the full post in the Reimagine Money Blog.
Growing the Food Revolution: Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Conference 2010
The Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association recently held its 2010 national conference in Chestnut Ridge, New York. Hosted on the grounds of Threefold Education Foundation, home to many early initiatives inspired by Rudolf Steiner, the theme of the conference was Growing the Food Revolution. This theme was sounded in many ways through numerous voices and activities focused on deepening and broadening the biodynamic agriculture movement in North America...Read the full post in the Reimagine Money Blog.
RSF Seed Fund Grantee: Lakota Waldorf School
In April, RSF staff members took note of a wonderful project proposed by the Lakota Waldorf School. Located in the heart of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, Lakota was founded in 1993 as a tuition-free kindergarten to offer local children an enriching educational experience in their early years. Due to the conditions in the area and the difficulties that parents face when seeking healthy food options for their children, funding an organic garden seemed like an inspiring way for RSF to engage with the Lakota community...Read the full post in our Reimagine Money Blog.
RSF Fall Quarterly: What is Our Food Really Worth?
Food—it’s the topic that everyone is talking about. In the recently published fall issue of the RSF Quarterly, we tackle some of the leading issues affecting food systems and the communities they support. A case study on borrower Revolution Foods evaluates how we’re feeding the nation’s school children and explores the company’s innovative approach to nourishing students. Guest essayist Dorothy Suput shares her insights on the absence of appropriate financing structures for small and mid-sized farmers and the ways in which her non-profit, The Carrot Project, is addressing these needs. Additional stories spotlight RSF’s launch of two new funds in Food & Agriculture, an understanding of biodynamic agriculture, and a discussion between RSF investors, Sallie Calhoun and Steffen Schneider, on their work in the organic grass fed beef industry. To download an electronic copy of the quarterly, click here. To receive hard copies of future issues free of charge, click here.
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