ABOUT THE R3F

Richmond Rapid Response Fund

Mission

In response to historic inequities laid bare by the Covid-19 pandemic, the City of Richmond partnered with community organizations to establish Richmond Rapid Response Fund (R3F) to assist Richmond residents with essential needs. Now, R3F has updated its strategy to facilitate ongoing community support and address systemic oppression.

About

The Richmond Rapid Response Fund (R3F) is a community-led asset serving Richmond residents most vulnerable to systematic harm by mobilizing resources to individuals and families to meet their basic needs. This wrap around initiative was developed during the Covid-19 pandemic, with the intention to meet the immediate and ongoing needs of the community during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Core Launch Partners:

SUPPORT THE R3F

R3F Priority Areas

In response to community-identified needs, the R3F will provide, coordinate, and advocate for direct resources and supports in the following priority areas. R3F will advocate for and create healing-centered, racially just policies, practices, and investments in these areas and any others that emerge:

  • Economic Recovery & Security

  • Food & Essential Supplies

  • Housing & Homelessness

  • Health & Healing

  • Education & Learning

R3F Principles & Practices

Meeting the immediate needs and priorities of our community is paramount. Naming and transforming the systemic inequities that have created the conditions culminating in this pandemic are tantamount. Towards this, the R3F commits to the following principles and practices.

  • We center relationships, healing, and justice.

  • We center the priorities and lived expertise of residents and families most vulnerable to systems harm and dehumanization.

  • We disrupt white supremacy and anti-blackness in our systems, policies, practices, investments, and relationships.

  • We disburse, coordinate, and advocate for resources through equitable, humanizing, and transparent processes.

  • We cultivate power as we procure resources.

  • We partner with other response efforts and funds to grow the ecosystem of community assets and power.

  • We engage in healthy struggle so that we stay attuned, accountable, innovative and creative.

  • We give ourselves and each other grace and space. We learn and adapt through ongoing inquiry and reflection.

  • We celebrate and appreciate.

To connect to our work, email:

jessica travenia, R3F Director jessica@edfundwest.org.

Get in touch.

Questions about the R3F? Use the following form to contact us and we’ll be in touch with you shortly.

At this time, the R3F is no longer doing financial disbursements, as we gear up for our guaranteed income program. If there is an emergency, please refer to our resources page for additional support.