We facilitate the infrastructure and provide operational support for grassroots programs and partnerships designed to amplify equity in our communities, including offering fiscal sponsorship services to arts organizations and initiatives.

We fund and support grassroots, equity-focused partners looking to pilot and amplify services for the community, by the community, including funding local arts programs and services.

RCF Connects and its partners, Chase Bank and Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, have developed our Equity for Black Women and Girls Initiative, an incubator model tailored specifically to address the needs, struggles and obstacles Black women face when building a business and accessing capital. Our approach is guided by the belief that Black women deserve to be seen, heard, valued, and served. Sistas SOAR, led by an all-Black team, provides Black women with the support they need to have a successful entrepreneurial journey. The initiative also offers coaching and training in Sister Circles, a process that provides Black women and girls safe spaces to address issues and build communities of support.

The mission of the Healthy Richmond Initiative is to help make Richmond a place where all children are safe, healthy and ready to learn. Healthy Richmond Hub staff engages, convenes and coordinates community based organizations and resident leaders in the initiative to collectively work towards increased health equity and racial justice in the community. Healthy Richmond staff provides resources and opportunities to our partners to build their advocacy capacity and supports them in keeping true to the Healthy Richmond Logic Model.

Mobility Learning and Action Bets – or Mobility LABS – is a pioneering, four-year initiative to spur the development of new solutions to sustainably lift families out of poverty, and to promote dynamic leaders who will aim to change the national conversation around social and economic mobility.