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RSF invests $9.3 million into social enterprises

Financing for Halo Funding, Green Power Ventures, and Hogar Hispano is supporting investments in renewable energy and affordable housing.

Impact Measurement and Management at RSF

What is the best way for a mission-driven lender like RSF to measure the full scale of its own impact? We partnered with the Sorenson Impact Institute to find out.

AI and impact investing: A powerful partnership or risky bet?

Will more analytically informed climate investments help mitigate climate change? Can AI tools create perfectly tailored impact portfolios? Will values-driven clients leave their advisers for bots?

ImpactAssets Recognizes RSF as an Emeritus Impact Manager in their 2025 IA 50, the Definitive Guide to Impact Investing Fund Managers

We’re excited to announce that we’ve been selected to the ImpactAssets 50 2025 as an Emeritus Impact Manager! This award recognizes impact fund managers who have achieved IA 50 recognition for at least 5 years and consistently demonstrate a commitment to generating positive impact.

RSF invests $11.75 million into social enterprises

Financing from RSF gives social enterprises the capital they need to scale, innovate, and deepen their impact. This latest round of financing is supporting investments in childcare, wellness, and workforce development.

What Is Impact Investing?

What is impact investing, exactly? How is it different than traditional investing or philanthropy? And what does it look like in practice? Let’s answer some of these common questions about impact investing together!

Sunwealth: Inviting everyone to share the benefits of solar power

How can we finance the clean energy revolution? Sunwealth’s answer: community solar projects that invite everyone’s participation in the new energy economy.

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 [...]