Overview
Bringing over 20 years of expertise in the employment social enterprise sector, REDF is looking to continue building the field of transitional social enterprises within Southern California through a new program. The SoCal Regional TA Program offers employment social enterprises throughout the region an opportunity to apply for specialized technical assistance projects that focus on business growth, employee outcomes, or organization sustainability.
While the main goal of this program is to enhance employment social enterprises’ overall capacity, we are also excited to build a potential pipeline for other REDF programming such as: LA:RISE, Venture Philanthropy Portfolio, Impact Loans, Strategic Grants, and the REDF Accelerator.
Examples of our services include:
Business Growth
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Employee Outcomes
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Sustainability
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Readiness Checklist
To benefit from a REDF TA project, your organization will need the following in place before working with us:
☑ Reviewed the Technical Assistance Menu below to ensure REDF is a good fit
☑ Located in one of the following SoCal Counties
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- Los Angeles County
- Orange County
- San Bernardino County
- Riverside County
- San Diego County
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☑ 501(c)3 non-profit organization status
☑ Interested in starting or growing a employment social enterprise
☑ Currently serve/employ or plan to serve/employ from any of the target populations below
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- Homeless or History of Homelessness
- Opportunity Youth (18-24-year olds who are disconnected from both school and work)
- History of arrest, connection, or incarceration
- Mental Illness, substance abuse
- Multiple-barriers
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☑ Willing to submit REDF reports twice a year for one year. Reports would include data in the following areas: people employed demographics, finances, benchmarking information, and program/business line updates.
Interest Form
Before expressing interest in a project, please review our Readiness Checklist above to ensure that our TA program is the right fit and will benefit your organization. If you have any questions about this form, please email Trini Rios.
Technical Assistance Menu
Programmatic Technical Assistance Topics
Topic | Expected technical assistance and potential deliverables | Prerequisites |
Bolstering recruitment |
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Program design insight |
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Program design revamp |
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Program documentation |
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Service delivery gap assessment |
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Retention data analysis and strategy |
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Retention program setup |
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Business Technical Assistance Topics
Topic | Expected technical assistance and potential deliverables | Prerequisites |
Pre-feasibility analysis |
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Market analysis |
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Unit cost analysis |
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Breakeven analysis |
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Market-rate pricing analysis |
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Pricing analysis |
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Operations documentation |
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Sales strategy |
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Customer outreach |
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Programmatic and Business Technical Assistance Topics
Topic | Expected technical assistance and potential Deliverables | Prerequisites |
Double-bottom-line accounting |
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Communications & marketing strategy |
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