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Are You Willing to Step Aside in Order to Fight Systemic Injustice?

By Vu Le, Executive Director, Rainier Valley Corps With everything that has been going on in our country lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be […]

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Karaoke, a Tool for Social Justice

A few months ago, RVC had a karaoke throwdown with Social Justice Fund Northwest, initiated by our Capacity Building Coach Uma Rao. About 20 of us—staff and board members from […]

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Star Trek and the Future of the Nonprofit Sector

Does Starfleet provide a model the nonprofit sector should Boldly Go toward? Vu Le is a believer in strategic federated support of our individual starships.

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Equity Fatigue and How It Affects Leaders of Color

  After every training, we ask the fellows—all people of color—in our leadership program for feedback. Halfway through the program, a criticism that rose to the surface was that the […]

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How to Work With “Difficult” Community Elders

A few years ago I visited a Vietnamese community leader to get a letter of support for a grant proposal I was writing. It was for a project designed to […]

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Rainier Valley Corps Welcomes Baby Billy, Newest Member of the RVC Family!

Hi everyone. Best and cutest news ever! Our Development and Communication Manager Jaleh gave birth to baby Zamara, aka “Billy,” last week! Congrats to Jaleh and Scott. Jaleh will take […]

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The Stigma Against Fiscal Sponsorship Needs To End

One of the common complaints lobbed against the nonprofit sector is that we have too many nonprofits competing for resources. So when someone suggests that they might possibly be thinking […]

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RVC’s new blog: A Feisty Voice for Social Justice

Hi everyone, this is Vu, RVC’s Executive Director. You may also know me as the guy who writes the blog nonprofitaf.com. The staff and I have talked and realized that […]

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RVC Updates

HAPPY NEW YEAR! A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL THE UNICORNS WHO MADE AN INVESTMENT TO RVC DURING OUR YEAR-END CAMPAIGN IN DECEMBER 2014!  About RVC Rainier Valley Corps (RVC) […]

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About Us

Background: Communities of color, especially immigrant and refugee communities, struggle to be heard on almost every important community issue. Nonprofit staff from these communities, especially those who are focused on […]

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