This deep dive summarizes some key research and strategies on employee retention originally shared by Richard Hendra from MDRC.
Content Type: Deep Dive
In this deep dive, we cover one of the key components of an employee success program, retention policies.
This resource, will cover some common root causes and how to identify them within your social enterprise.
The evaluation, , is structured to address the general research question, How do social enterprises serve individuals with multiple barriers to employment?
This case study tells the story of how an employment social enterprise (ESE) defined goals, selected venture criteria, and used them to identify the ideal city to expand to.
This resource details best practices for creating a supplemental document to your employee handbook that highlights the most relevant information for participant workers.
REDF encourages ESEs to pay participants for their time spent during the job (OTJ) training. Here are things to take into consideration.

When building and maintaining an HR function, it is important to stay up-to-date with key HR activities and compliance dates throughout the calendar year.
This resource provides key operational, social, and financial criteria a social enterprise should consider when deciding how to grow. Social enterprise executive teams who are evaluating the potential of a growth strategy should review this resource and develop their own set of venture criteria.
Growth Capital is enterprise-level funding or investment that builds the capacity for business expansion and strategic planning. Growth Capital provides social enterprises with the space for deep reflection before tackling the next step in their plan to scale.