In 2005, BTW produced a research brief regarding the impact of REDF social enterprise employment on disadvantaged youth and adults.The brief was based on data collected over a two-year follow-up.

For those data, we interviewed a sample  group from 991 individuals employed in REDF’s portfolio of social enterprises between 1998 and 2005.

This report highlights findings across several outcome areas, including:

• employment
• hourly wage
• housing stability
• criminal conviction rates.

BTW has prepared a series of similar reports for each of the REDF portfolio groups.

BTW champions the creation of jobs and other economic gains in low- and moderate-income communities in California. Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) does too, providing capital and resources to small, high-growth businesses that put these communities to work.

BTW was brought in to help PCV monitor and broaden its investment in these businesses, and we’ve been working with PCV since 2000 to articulate and measure its social returns.