RFG funds organizations that promote public service engagement, foster government workforce development across subnational, federal, and international levels, and provide professional development to enhance public service leadership capacity. Below is the list of current grantees and the projects that RFG funding supports.
The foundation also promotes and collaborates in the efforts of organizations with common aims to enhance the government workforce, develop capacity and skills of public service leaders, and highlight the importance and impact of public service. Following are some of the organizations and initiatives that RFG collaborates with, funds, or promotes.
CURRENT GRANTEES
Alliance for Peacebuilding
Grant Amount: $50,000
Project: Preparing Future Public Service Leaders to Promote Peace
Skills-building workshops, a Congressional Hill Day, a negotiation simulation, and networking receptions, including at the PeaceCon 2027 conference, for students, emerging professionals, and former foreign policy personnel, with free three-year membership for student and early-career participants.
Cultural Vistas
Grant Amount: $50,000
Project: Global Governance Leadership Lab
A 12-week virtual leadership program pairing 20 RFG Fellows and recent alumni with 20 international public sector peers. Cross-national teams produce comparative policy briefs on governance, accountability, and civic technology challenges, supported by peer mentors and dialogues with senior practitioners.
Meridian International Center
Grant Amount: $48,113
Project: Diplomacy Lab
A seven-session virtual course for 35 to 40 current and alumni RFG Fellows beginning in January 2027, covering negotiation, multilateral and public diplomacy, cross-cultural communication, and emerging fields such as technology and space diplomacy, with ongoing access to Meridian convenings and its DiplomacyRISE alumni network.
National Youth Leadership Council
Grant Amount: $50,000
Project: Youth Public Service & Global Leadership Initiative
Engages 300 middle school, high school, and early college students in service-learning projects that connect local issues to global challenges, a youth-led public service storytelling campaign, a speaker series with public servants and diplomats, and a national virtual summit.
She Should Run
Grant Amount: $50,000
Project: Local Leader Lab
Two cohorts of a nonpartisan civic leadership program for 300 women, combining facilitated sessions, one-on-one coaching, and participant-led civic projects that prepare women for community leadership, appointed boards, and elected office. Cohorts run fall 2026 and spring 2027.
Women’s Foreign Policy Group
Grant Amount: $50,000
Project: Paving Pathways: Expanding Mentorship and Career Development for the Next Generation of Women Foreign Policy Leaders
Expanded roundtables with senior women leaders and an annual career day, paid internships for 15 to 18 interns a year, a members-only job and internship database, and 20 need-based membership scholarships for students and young professionals.
Work for America
Grant Amount: $50,000
Project: University Collaboration to Build the Early Career Pipeline into State and Local Government
Pilot program to expand Civic Match, Work for America’s free national job-matching platform, to early-career jobseekers. Working with RFG partner universities and in collaboration with the Volcker Alliance network, provides higher education institutions with government career readiness resources and connections to more than 300 government employers in 49 states.