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WHO WE ARE

RVC promotes social justice by cultivating leaders of color, strengthening organizations led by communities of color, and fostering collaboration between diverse communities.

Our Work

RVC strengthens the power of communities of color in order to create a more equitable society. We do this through our core programs and services as well as through key community partnerships.

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Our Team

The RVC team is made up of passionate individuals who bring a depth of expertise from various backgrounds and experiences. We all have deep roots and come from the local communities of color, which we center our work around.

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Get Involved

There are so many ways that you can help us contribute to RVC's mission of empowering communities of color. We are always looking for program participants, partners, volunteers, and mentors!

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Donate

Your engagement and support is integral to our work and our communities of color. Donations to RVC also help all of our partner organizations because we believe in a community-centric approach to fundraising.

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A Community Impact Fellow looks to develop as a leader and combat reproductive oppression through community organizing

By RVC “I didn’t really like going to school growing up,” states E.N. West (they/E), who goes by “E” to those that know them. “Here, I felt like what I was learning was all relevant.”  E is one of the Fellows of RVC’s Community Impact Fellowship Program and the Communications and Community Engagement Manager at […]

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January 2019 News and Updates

Happy Gregorian New Year! Happy Lunar New Year too! We love this time of the year because we have so much to be thankful for and proud of as we reflect on 2019 and look forward to the rest of 2020. We’ve about doubled our staff, we kicked off our third cohort of Community Impact […]

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Somali Parent Education Board continues its pursuit to close the education gap by roadmapping its growth

By RVC “With the support of RVC, we’ve started mapping out our overarching work and documenting the process. We’re now thinking about what our organization and our work is going to look like three years from now, and then five years from now,” states Regina Elmi, Executive Director of Somali Parent Education Board (SPEB), a […]

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WA-BLOC refines supervisor skills to empower organization and its mission

By RVC Working for a grassroots nonprofit organization is no easy task. You need a broad range of unique skill sets. You have to wear many hats, whether it’s covering a gamut of administrative tasks to ultimately preserve precious budget dollars or diligently working with people and moving parts to establish your organization’s programmatic work. […]