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Community Solution: Restorative Justice

Welcome to our first Community Solutions blog, a place where we will periodically explore the important work RVC partners are doing to transform communities! Today’s conversation centers around Restorative Justice […]

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The Power of Pausing: A Tale from our Fellowship Program

In a culture, and a sector, where urgency can be the name of the game, taking an intentional pause can be as rewarding as it is rare. Explore the impact […]

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House Cooling Party: RVC’s Shared Leadership Q&A

Last year, RVC made a big shift as an organization and moved into a shared leadership structure with four co-Executive Directors taking on hybrid roles (both in programs and as […]

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Key Decisions Transform Your Organization: An RVC Retrospective

RVC is not a perfect organization. We’ve struggled our way through so many weird and unexpected challenges. Building something so different from the mainstream nonprofit has resulted in both wild […]

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Ask Me Anything: Deserea Britio (she/her), Operations Support Program Manager

1. What drew you to RVC? So I learned about RVC a couple of years ago, and I thought, “Wow, it’s so cool that an organization does this,” because I’ve […]

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Community Impact Fellows Blog Round-Up!

RVC is invested in developing thought-leaders who offer innovative, informed, and culturally rooted reflections on the biggest challenges our communities face. Too often our communities’ stories are told for us, […]

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Taking Another Look at “Work Culture”

To be totally honest, I’m tired, and not just because of daylight savings time. Is it because grassroots, nonprofit work is hard work, even when you love the mission and […]

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Breaking Generational Cycles Through Education and Prevention

Every new school semester, I find myself at the front of the class, looking out at the new faces of the 9th graders as we dive into our healthy relationship, […]

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Community Leadership in Climate Action

The greatest threat to life on our planet right now is climate change, which is already taking place. Fortunately, there are numerous and well-recognized answers to the climate change problem. […]

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Learning My Lessons, One by One

The greatest pride I have in my life is being a mother. Whenever I think about what it is that embodies my forever journey as a spirit in existence. It […]

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Hi, my name is Penny, not Natalie

Let me explain. Most everyone who has ever known me calls me Penny. It’s how I introduce myself to the world and I’ve embodied and embraced not just this name […]

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Fellow Highlight: Dayjha McMillan

Dayjha McMillan (they/she) is a fellow in the Community Impact Fellowship ‘22-’24 cohort. She’s also a recently published co-author of the essay, “ACAB Means Abolishing the Cop in Our Heads, […]

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