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Employer Partner Quality Rubric

The Employer Partner Quality Rubric helps ESEs evaluate potential and existing employer partners by providing clear standards across each stage of relationship development from Pre-Screening to Discovery Calls to Making the Case to Ongoing Cultivation.

Employee Success Program, Growth Planning | Manage a Social Enterprise, Start a Social Enterprise

Employer Engagement Maturity Model

REDF created the Employer Engagement Maturity Model – a tool designed to help organizations reflect on their current practices, identify opportunities for growth, and strengthen long-term strategies for building and sustaining employer relationships.

Growth Planning, Leadership & Talent | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Training: QuickBooks for Nonprofits

This training is a deep dive into accounting for contributed revenue (including restricted revenue) and walking through a few key journal entries that are necessary so that QuickBooks can create proper GAAP-format nonprofit financial reports.

2 minutes | Business Planning, Growth Planning | Grow a Social Enterprise

WIOA and LWDB Partnerships for ESEs

WIOA & LWDB Partnerships for ESEs WIOA & CA ESE Partnership Guide This Partnership Guide provides ESEs with the knowledge and resources to navigate the California workforce system and leverage WIOA funding through grant opportunities or partnerships with Local Workforce Development Boards (LWDBs). The guide includes case studies and tools to help ESEs assess if […]

Growth Planning, Leadership & Talent | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Leadership Toolkit: The Keep, Start, Stop Tool

In this interactive session, you’ll gain a practical, decision-making framework that can help you and your team clarify priorities and focus your energy where it matters most. If you’re finding that between work and life, things are feeling chaotic and decision-making is less clear or increasingly challenging, this meeting may be helpful to you or your team. 

1 minute | Business Planning, Growth Planning | Grow a Social Enterprise

WIOA for ESEs

WIOA for Employment Social Enterprises Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) funding, distributed through the Department of Labor, serves as the nation’s primary source of funding for workforce initiatives. In 2023, REDF served as the technical assistance provider on a $10 million California Governor’s 15% Discretionary grant — awarded through California’s Employment Development Department (EDD) […]

Business Planning, Growth Planning, Leadership & Talent, Operations | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Election Resources: 2024

Elections can significantly impact our work and the issues we are passionate about at both REDF and the ESE field.  To help shape and navigate the outcome, here are resources to support your ESE and staff during the election season.

Growth Planning, Operations | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Continuing Education Series: Leveraging Partnership Building in the Public Sector for Employment Social Enterprises

Join REDF’s Government Partnerships & Policy Team and two Socal-based ESEs: Center for Living and Learning and Chrysalis for a session designed to provide insights from direct experience into approaches for identifying valuable partnerships and accessing public support. As part of this session, attendees will hear case studies from both ESEs and engage with the following….

Employee Success Program, Growth Planning | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Continuing Education Series: Upskilling- Skills Training

In the session our focus will be on high quality, industry validated training programs that lead to recognized certificates, credentials, and/or, in-demand, quality jobs. These training programs can be provided by public institutions of higher education or private training providers.