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About Us
The Racial Justice Collaborative is a partnership of private and corporate foundations, family foundations and individual donors that share a commitment to support and learn from communities seeking racial justice. The collaborative will provide grants to partnerships involving lawyers and community organizations that are using legal and non-legal tools to achieve equity and fairer policies for communities marginalized by race, ethnicity, and immigrant or citizenship status.
A precursor to the establishment of the Racial Justice Collaborative was the report, Louder Than Words: Lawyers, Communities and the Struggle for Justice, a three-year assessment of the state of civil rights litigation today. The report, commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation, found that despite civil rights laws, structural barriers to opportunities, resources and policymaking - particularly for minorities - remain embedded in political and economic systems.
Focus of the Racial Justice Collaborative
 | Access to quality education |
| Criminal justice (particularly juvenile justice) |
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Access to health care |
| Welfare and immigration benefits, including access based on language, national origin, ethnicity or citizenship status |
| Economic justice |
| Discriminatory enforcement of immigration, asylum, detention and border laws and policies, as well as other civil rights violations |
| Labor issues, particularly for low-wage workers and immigrant groups |
| Employment discrimination |
| Voting rights and democratic participation |
| | Environmental justice |
| Housing, sprawl and urban gentrification and displacement |
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