The Racial Justice Collaborative has three primary components:
1) National grantmaking fund
2) State and regional grantmaking funds
3) Documentation and learning initiative

RJC makes grants to collaborations between lawyers and community organizations creatively using legal and non-legal tools to combat structural exclusion – deeply imbedded forms of disparity based on race, ethnic, or immigrant/citizenship status - and press for fairer policies/practices for marginalized communities. To date, the Racial Justice Collaborative has made multi-year grant commitments totaling $6.1 million to 43 organizations around the United States. We are currently not accepting new proposals.

In addition to its grantmaking program, the RJC incorporates an intensive learning agenda for grantees and donors alike. The learning agenda is designed to:

• Strengthen and increase visibility of an emerging practice in the racial justice field
• Magnify the impact of individual efforts and facilitate the emergence of new voices in public discourse around racial justice issues by honing the media skills of individual grantees
• Facilitate collaboration among the grantees to form a more coherent and strategically connected group with a related set of messages and stories
• Build the capacity within philanthropy to support racial justice innovation and expand it to new areas by helping funders explore how structural exclusion based on race and ethnicity may impact their ongoing programs