Latest News from RSF: 2019 Seed Fund Grantees

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Congratulations to the 2019 Seed Fund Grantees!    RSF’s Seed Fund provides small grants to organizations that offer innovative solutions to challenges in the areas of social finance, food & agriculture, education & the arts, or climate & environment. This year, we congratulate the eight incredible organizations that received grants from the Fund. 

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Foundations Can Unlock a Food System to Feed the World Creating a food system that can feed a growing population in the face of climate change—without replicating the harms of the industrial food system—is one of the great challenges of our time. However, RSF’s Meredith Storton and Jen Astone of the Swift Foundation argue that these resilient food systems can be realized.

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Investor Spotlight: Georgie Teuten While many college graduates receive money as a graduation present, most don’t put it into an impact investing note. Recent grad Georgie Teuten explains why she decided to invest her gift with RSF’s Social Investment Fund.

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Returning to the South Last month, co-founder of Chordata Capital and Integrated Capital Institute alumna, Tiffany Brown traveled through the Mississippi Delta to explore partnerships with institutions that are working for racial and economic justice by addressing the U.S.’s racial wealth divide.

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Announcing our new CFO We are thrilled to announce April Hines as our new Chief Financial Officer. Having previously worked in banking at both super regional banks and community banks in the San Francisco Bay Area, April comes to us with a wealth of experience, and we’re very excited to have her on board!

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Now Hiring! We’re hiring for two positions:

Administrative Associate. This front desk administrative position is a key member of the RSF Staff and responsible for ensuring that all visitors, Staff and Board have a positive experience when greeted at the front door, on the phone or via email.

Investment Manager/Senior Manager. S/he will help design and then manage the execution of RSF’s new investment strategy to optimize the impact of philanthropic DAF assets through due-diligencing, structuring, and making recommendations on capital deployment.

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