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Community Impact Fellowship
Rooted in Vibrant Communities’ Community Impact Fellowship Program places talented leaders of color in a two-year, full-time position at local grassroots organizations that are led by and serve people of color.
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Operations Support
Today, there’s an urgent need for organizations led by communities of color to be stable and do their work effectively. However, many organizations have to spend a significant amount of time and energy on operations, such as financial management, HR, payroll, legal compliance, or insurance. RVC believes there’s another way.
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Capacity Building Coaching
RVC’s capacity building support goes hand-in-hand with our Fellowships and Operations Support Programs. Together we work with our partners to identify strategies, goals, priorities, and key elements of their organization, as well as building systems or infrastructure that allows organizations to better carry out their mission in sustainable and equitable ways.
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How I Made Remote Onboarding Work for Me
To many folks in my circle, I am the quintessential job hopping millennial. After only a few years of using my undergrad degree and a nasty
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Exciting News: RVC’s New Co-Executive Director Structure
This is it. The moment we’ve all been waiting for since Vu announced his retirement three years ago. WE HAVE A NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR STRUCTURE!!! I
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Attention Small Nonprofits: If You Care about Your Employees, Help Them Retire
Those that are attracted to the nonprofit sector tend to be a caring bunch. They are often paid under-market wages and work long hours, justified (by both ourselves and our employers) by the meaning we derive from our work and the good we are doing in the world.
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In Response to Yesterday’s Verdict
This week we join the Black community, along with communities of oppressed people from across the world, as we rejoice in the guilty verdict against the murderer of George Floyd.
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RVC Statement on Anti-Asian Racism: Community Solidarity
RVC Seattle (RVC) strongly condemns anti-Asian violence in any and all forms. We stand with our AAPI community. We share our grief, fear, rage, and solidarity with the loved ones of the eight people murdered in Atlanta and their communities.
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Making Philanthropy More Equitable: Introducing the Equitable Grantmaking Continuum
At RVC, we have worked with dozens of grassroots nonprofits of color over many years. Some of those organizations have thrived, others have folded. When it comes to building healthy organizations, there is no substitute for visionary leadership and dedicated, driven staff, but every organization we work with has this. So what does it mean when nonprofits have talented staff and a strong mission, yet still don’t thrive? The answer: it boils down to funding.
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News & Events
May 2021 News and Updates
It’s the end of May and we’ve got a lot to say! Check out our newsletter for all the latest RVC happenings including an interview with community champion Johnny Fikru, upcoming Fellow celebrations to save the date for, and a peek at what RVC staff has been reading!
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