Our Housing First model is an approach that prioritizes providing safe, stable, long-term housing to unhoused community members and building a community of support around them from which they can pursue personal goals and improve their quality of life.
What’s New
Comment Studios
Formerly known as Mobility LABs, Comment Studios is based in Antioch. This is a pioneering, four-year initiative to develop new solutions to sustainably lift families out of poverty and to promote dynamic leaders who will change the national conversation around social and economic mobility.
New Podcast Episode: Exploring Guaranteed Basic Income
Our first podcast of Season 2 has dropped! It’s all about Guaranteed Basic Income and how it transforms communities and helps folks live a life of dignity.
RCF Connects Announces a Task Force Focused on Ensuring Equity for Black Women and Girls in Contra Costa County
RCF Connects is pursuing partnerships with key organizations willing to commit time, talent, and resources to support Black women and girls.
RCF Connects (Richmond Community Foundation) receives Brownfields Assessment Grant
RCF Connects received a $300,000 Brownfields Assessment grant that we will use to assess abandoned and foreclosed properties within the neighborhoods of Belding Woods, Coronado, Iron Triangle, Pullman and Santa Fe in Richmond, CA. Subsequent to property assessment, RCF Connects will leverage funding from the Richmond Housing Renovation Program to clean up and redevelop these […]
Impact of Blighted Abandoned Homes
Blight homes are a real challenge and reclaiming them is a huge lift of time and resources. However, as property values in the Bay Area continue to increase, we must find ways to unlock the opportunity in these homes that lead to neighborhood stabilization and homeownership for our communities. Abandoned homes cost cities enormous amounts […]
Summer Mini Grant
Background In partnership with the California Endowment, the Richmond Community Foundation is offering this Summer Mini-Grants Program to build healthy environments where children and youth can grow up to be healthy, safe and ready to learn. These mini-grants target children living in the Iron Triangle, Belding Woods, Coronado, Pullman and North Richmond neighborhoods. Summer Mini-Grants […]
East Bay Non-Profit Provides Answer to Increasing Home Prices that Usually Disqualify First-Time Homebuyers
Richmond Community Foundation (RCF Connects) will present to the public the first of many new and refurbished Net Zero Energy Homes that will be offered to first-time homebuyers eager to buy an affordable home in the Bay Area.