Guest blog: Over $200,000 in Spring 2021 grants
By Tori Montemurro, Granting CoordinatorThis spring, six new families received RFC grants, joining 64 families whom the Board funded as renewals, and the Board approved one last grant to fund grocery...
View Article2020 Year-end Report from Jennifer Meeropol
This has felt like the longest, most monumental election of my lifetime. While I am enormously grateful that Trump was defeated, the level of support for him and his hateful, racist, homophobic,...
View Article2020 Spring Grants
This spring the RFC awarded:67 grants totaling $149,610 to support 151 kids from 75 families, including a group grant for a music therapy programAn additional, special grant of up to $18,400 for$200...
View ArticleUpdate on RFC Spring Granting and 30th Anniversary plans
Everyone at the RFC sends their love and sympathy to those of you who are experiencing hardship or loss related to the current crisis. I also want to thank the many of you who have sent us messages of...
View ArticleOn the 65th anniversary of my grandparents' executions
On today’s anniversary of my grandparents’ execution, I’m thinking about two-year-old Angel and his big brother Bryan, who don’t understand why they can’t live with both parents anymore.Tweet
View ArticleNew Grantees Include Labor and Racial Justice Advocates
We’re in the midst of awarding our fall 2017 grants. To date, six new grantees have joined the RFC community and additional new applications are pending. So far, the new grantees include:Tweet
View ArticleJune 19, 2017: Honoring Ethel and Julius and Anne and Abel
On this 64th anniversary of the execution of my grandparents, I’m struck by a related milestone that passed without fanfare a few months ago: the 60th anniversary of my dad and uncle’s adoption by Anne...
View ArticlePrisoners' Rights, Racial and Environmental Justice Activists Join the RFC...
We just finished awarding over $190,000 in grants for the first half of 2017. In addition to the four new beneficiaries discussed in my previous blog , three more new families have joined the RFC...
View ArticlePrison abolition, racial justice and anti-female genital mutilation activists...
We’re in the midst of awarding our first grants of 2017 at the RFC. To date, four new grantees have joined the RFC community this spring and additional new applications are pending. So far, the new...
View ArticleOn the 63rd Anniversary of My Grandparents' Executions
Today is the anniversary of my grandparents’ executions. As it approached, I prepared the statement below reflecting on the date’s significance. Many members of the Rosenberg Fund for Children network...
View ArticleNew Grants for Children of Human & Civil Rights Activists
In the fall of 2015 four new families received their first RFC grants. Including the seven new recipients in the spring, almost a dozen families and targeted activist youth joined the RFC community...
View ArticleNew Grants for Children of Environmental, Labor and Human Rights Activists
We just completed awarding our first grants of 2015 at the RFC. In all, seven new grantees joined the RFC community this spring (five families, one targeted activist youth and one group). The new...
View ArticleNew Grants for Children of Environmental, Prisoners' Rights, and Human Rights...
We just completed awarding our last grants of 2014 at the RFC. In all, seven new grantees joined the RFC community this fall (five families and two targeted activist youth). I described some of these...
View ArticleFerguson & Militarized Police
In July 2012, my father wrote a blog about the post-9/11 militarization of the police and the seemingly endless instances of them turning their arsenal on peaceful protestors. He concluded that this...
View ArticleOn the 65th anniversary of my grandparents' executions
On today’s anniversary of my grandparents’ execution, I’m thinking about two-year-old Angel and his big brother Bryan, who don’t understand why they can’t live with both parents anymore.Tweet
View ArticleNew Grantees Include Labor and Racial Justice Advocates
We’re in the midst of awarding our fall 2017 grants. To date, six new grantees have joined the RFC community and additional new applications are pending. So far, the new grantees include:Tweet
View ArticleJune 19, 2017: Honoring Ethel and Julius and Anne and Abel
On this 64th anniversary of the execution of my grandparents, I’m struck by a related milestone that passed without fanfare a few months ago: the 60th anniversary of my dad and uncle’s adoption by Anne...
View ArticlePrisoners' Rights, Racial and Environmental Justice Activists Join the RFC...
We just finished awarding over $190,000 in grants for the first half of 2017. In addition to the four new beneficiaries discussed in my previous blog , three more new families have joined the RFC...
View ArticlePrison abolition, racial justice and anti-female genital mutilation activists...
We’re in the midst of awarding our first grants of 2017 at the RFC. To date, four new grantees have joined the RFC community this spring and additional new applications are pending. So far, the new...
View ArticleOn the 63rd Anniversary of My Grandparents' Executions
Today is the anniversary of my grandparents’ executions. As it approached, I prepared the statement below reflecting on the date’s significance. Many members of the Rosenberg Fund for Children network...
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