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RSF News
- New Book by Siegfried Finser
May 14, 2012 
Founding Trustee of RSF, Siegfried Finser, and author of Money Can Heal, has just released a new book, Footprints of an Angel. It is the story…
More >- RSF Social Finance Makes a Loan to Viva Farms
April 25, 2012 
RSF Social Finance (RSF) is proud to announce a new loan to Viva Farms, a farm incubator program in Washington state’s Skagit Valley. Viva Farms’ mission is to train and…
More >- Summer Internship at RSF!
April 11, 2012 In the spirit of building the field of social finance we are excited to announce a new summer internship opportunity for talented college students and recent grads.
The Development Intern…
More >- RSF Spring Quarterly: How Can Finance Build Community?
April 11, 2012 In a special extended edition of the RSF Quarterly, President and CEO Don Shaffer writes about adjusting to a ‘new normal’ economic period, and about ‘integrated capital’ – the way…
More >- Social Enterprise Roundup
March 30, 2012 On the heels of California’s passage of Benefit Corporation legislation, which provides legal status for social enterprises, ‘companies with a conscious’ have been making a splash in the news in…
More >- RSF Social Finance Makes a Loan to Hana Health
March 19, 2012 
RSF Social Finance (RSF) is proud to announce a new loan to Hana Health (HH), the only healthcare provider in a 233 square mile area of Maui, Hawaii. Hana Health’s…
More >- B Corporations & “Companies with a Conscience” on PBS Newshour!
March 5, 2012 Last week, PBS Newshour, featured an eight minute piece on RSF borrower and partner, B Lab. The segment, titled, “Benefit Corporations Aim to Make a Profit –and…
More >- Scholarships to 10th Annual BALLE Conference Now Available!
March 5, 2012 The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) Annual Business Conference brings together hundreds of entrepreneurs and business owners, network leaders, economic developers, local government representatives, and community…
More >- RSF listed among top Honest, Open, Trustworthy Money Managers
March 2, 2012 This week on the Huffington Post, RSF Social Finance was named as one of the stand-out firms dedicated to an honest, open, and trustworthy approach to working with money. The…
More >- New RSF Internship Opportunity!
March 1, 2012 In the spirit of building the field of social finance we are excited to announce a new summer internship opportunity for talented MBA students.
Working in conjunction with the Lending…
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Reimagine Money Blog
- What Do We Do at the End of Free Range Capital?
May 14, 2012 
by John Bloom
I remember singing “Home, Home on the Range” in an endless loop when I was young and wandering through the woods, probably a vestige of hearing Gene…
More >- Seed Fund Grantee: Shining Rivers Waldorf School
May 4, 2012 
By Catherine Covington
“When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden.”
- Minnie AumonierShining Rivers Waldorf School located in St. Louis, Missouri,…
More >- Reimagine Money: The Podcast
April 25, 2012 
As a leader in deep social impact investing, RSF recognizes the value and power of innovative thinking and conversation as a way to build the social finance community committed to…
More >- Crown O’ Maine: Catalyzing Maine’s Renaissance in Small-Scale Food Production and Consumption
April 23, 2012 
By Melinda Cheel
Marada and Leah Cook were raised with their three other siblings on a 380-acre family farm in remote Aroostook County in northern Maine. In 1994, at the…
More >- Financing Social and Environmental Change
April 16, 2012 
By Ted Levinson
Consider the following statistics: in 2010 the Girl Scouts of America generated $760 million in cookie sales. That same year Wal-Mart topped the list of philanthropic companies…
More >- Winter 2012 Grant Making: The Ceres Community Project
April 12, 2012 
By Catherine Covington
When you are ill, one of the last things you feel like doing is cooking a healthy meal for yourself, even though you know that it is…
More >- Canceled IPO, What’s Next For Global Stock Markets?
March 26, 2012 by Don Shaffer
Once again, we are faced with a “computer glitch” or “technical blip” in the increasingly volatile world of high frequency stock trading.
On Friday, BATS Global Markets,…
More >- Growing Gardens, Cultivating Community
March 22, 2012 
By Ellie Lanphier
“We envision inspired people joining together to actively replenish their environment, their community and themselves. We believe in the power of people to co-create harmony between land,…
More >- A Mercurial View of Capital and Spirit
March 13, 2012 by John Bloom
I breathe the world in and out, and work on and in the world. I depend upon interdependence. In this sense I am connected to the peasant…
More >- RSF Social Finance & Free Columbia
March 1, 2012 
By Marta Abel
Our friends at Free Columbia Art, who provided the lovely artwork for our 2011 holiday card, are hosting an innovate “art dispersal” event, and we are excited…
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