Racial Justice Collaborative
The Racial Justice Collaborative (RJC) funds partnerships of lawyers and community organizations that use legal and other tools to achieve equity and fairer policies for communities marginalized by race, ethnicity, and immigrant or citizenship status.
The RJC is a partnership of foundations and individual donors consisting of a national fund and three state and regional grantmaking funds (in California, North Carolina and Massachusetts-Rhode Island). In addition to its grantmaking, the RJC incorporates intensive peer learning for both grantees and donors to:
- Build visibility of an emerging practice in the racial justice field
- Magnify the impact of individual efforts and add volume to new voices in public discourse around racial justice issues
- Facilitate collaboration among grantees to form a more strategically connected whole with relating messages and stories
- Build the capacity within philanthropy to support racial justice innovation by helping funders explore how structural exclusion based on race and ethnicity may impact their programs
Grantmaking and projects
The RJC has made multiyear grant commitments totaling $6.1 million to 43 organizations nationwide. (See below).
RJC funding has supported such work as legal advocacy to advance equitable educational policies that assure quality education for all North Carolina children regardless of race or class status, and efforts in Louisiana to address the disparate impact of the juvenile justice system on youth of color.
Key donors
National fund donors include Ford Foundation; JEHT Foundation; Levi Strauss Foundation; Maurice Falk Fund; Open Society Institute; The Philanthropic Collaborative; and Rockefeller Foundation.
For more information about the Fund and its work, including, visit the RJC website.
