Race, Gender and Human Rights Fund
The RGHR Fund is deeply committed to working strategically with our grantees and partners, and has invested more than $6 million to foster justice in California. We support the field through strategic grantmaking, convenings, rapid response funding, donor engagement and partnerships.
Who We Are
Founded in 2002 by a group of committed donors, the Race, Gender and Human Rights (RGHR) Fund promotes racial and gender justice by challenging the criminal legal system and mass incarceration in California. The Fund focuses on the system’s impact on women and girls (inclusive of cisgender, transgender and gender non-conforming individuals), prioritizes the leadership of formerly incarcerated women, and invests in efforts that build the justice movement and advance systemic change.
What We Do
The RGHR Fund is deeply committed to working strategically with our grantees and partners, and has invested more than $6 million to foster justice in California. We support the field through strategic grantmaking, convenings, rapid response funding, donor engagement and partnerships. RGHR prioritizes underfunded communities and underserved regions, centers those most impacted by the criminal legal system, and supports policy change in our state. The Fund is housed at the East Bay Community Foundation.
The RGHR Fund works to grow justice-focused philanthropy and to increase funding of criminal justice issues. RGHR co-founded the California Criminal Justice Funders Group, a network of funders and donors aligned with the movements to advance abolition and end the policing, criminalization, imprisonment and the disinvestment of communities in California.