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What is a Donor-Advised Fund (DAF)?

If you regularly donate to nonprofits, you may have come across the term “Donor-Advised Fund” or DAF. But what exactly is a DAF, how does it work, and how [...]

RSF Opens Double-Impact DAF Program to Donors Everywhere

New investment option from San Francisco–based RSF gives DAF holders with accounts at any sponsoring institution a new way to double their impact San [...]

RSF’s brand story: honoring 40 years of regeneration

Forty years ago, RSF was founded with a single goal – to pool funds from willing investors to support a school that had lost their building in a fire. Since [...]

RSF selected as a Top Impact Company by Real Leaders®

San Francisco, CA – January 8, 2025 – Real Leaders®, a global media and membership platform dedicated to inspiring the future of business, proudly [...]

How to hack the finance system for regenerative returns

by Jasper van Brakel, RSF CEO. This post originally appeared on ImpactAlpha. A regenerative economy – one that transcends the transactional, centers [...]

David Brower Center: RSF Funding Supports a Home for the Environmental Movement

A longtime partnership with RSF helped create this vital space for community, arts, and environmental activism “Movements don’t happen because of just [...]

RSF Social Finance Invests $13.5 Million in Social Enterprises This Summer

Three new loans expand RSF’s commitment to sustainable food systems, waste reduction, and climate-friendly solutions San Francisco, CA (October 8, [...]

Mission-aligned finance supports Goodr’s two-pronged approach to solving hunger and food waste

On a winter Monday in 2016, Jasmine Crowe-Houston woke up to the news that she had gone viral. Since 2013, Crowe-Houston had been cooking food for people [...]

RSF Selected as a Top Impact Investor by Real Leaders

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been chosen by Real Leaders Magazine for their 2024 Real Leaders of Impact Investing! The goal of this list is to [...]

Beyond ESG: Visible Impact for Values-Aligned Investors

This article originally appeared in Impact Entrepreneur magazine. A year of headline-making attacks on the environmental, social, and governance approach to [...]

RSF Social Finance announces new partnership with Goodr

Goodr was founded on the simple yet powerful idea that we need to feed more and waste less. Founder Jasmine Crowe-Houston was determined to connect the 88 [...]

RSF’s 2023 Annual Report

More than 1,300 impact investors activated nearly $120 million through their Social Investment Fund (SIF) notes. RSF invested that money into mission-driven [...]

Pioneering public Waldorf School nurtures community connections

Sebastopol Charter School’s decades-long relationship with RSF enables sustainable growth and impact Deep community integration and mutually nourishing [...]

Community-led fund supports Southern Black farmers and revitalizes rural communities

The fund, initiated by an RSF Social Finance donor-advised fund holder, hands power to local leaders who distribute grants based on trust, communication, and a [...]

RSF Social Finance Invests $5.5 Million in Social Enterprises in Q1

San Francisco, CA (April 29, 2024)—RSF Social Finance added three new loans to its portfolio in the first quarter of 2024, investing a total of $5.5 million [...]