These are the 3 conversations (in comic form!) we shared through our Holiday Year-End campaign. We reflected on our own experiences as staff, on the transformative nature of
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Impact Stories…featuring RVC Staff!
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CategoryCommunity Reflections
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2022 Staff Learning & Celebration!
And, that’s a WRAP! 2022 was a year of big challenges, surprises, learning, and growth at RVC. We moved into a shared executive leadership and deepened
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4 Ways RVC’s Community Impact Fellows ✨Flourish✨
I don’t know about y’all, but 2022 is FLYING by. It’s somehow already the end of April, which at RVC means we’re just a couple months
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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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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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How do you build leaderful organizations?
I’m still the Interim ED of RVC. Which was not the plan. When we first discussed extending the timeline, I was opposed. Dominant culture norms made me assume that was a bad thing – we need to change quickly! Be efficient!
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Community Care During the Pandemic: We Are in This Together
No matter the obstacles, what was needed was action. As the president of the two-year-old PTSA at Rainier View Elementary School, Sarena Li said the reasons her initiative aims to support families in need are simple
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Reflection on Ramadan during quarantine
“It is a month of rejuvenation, a month for a second chance. It reminds me of my purpose on this earth and encourages me to reset my goals and intentions, so another year doesn’t slip by without fully living it.”
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