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• "Strange Fruit" and the Magic of Out-of-the-Blue Donations

  27 avril, par jenn
  As someone for whom fundraising is an important part of my job, one of the best and most mysterious occurrences is the seemingly out-of-the-blue donation. I always wish I could ask the donor what motivated them to contribute at this particular time or amount. Especially when there is no obvious (...)

• Executive Director's Report: Working for Better Days Ahead

  9 mars, par jenn
  We all know that 2020 was a very difficult year. It featured a raging pandemic fueled by inept leadership, endless police brutality directed at Black and Indigenous people and other people of color, and violent attacks on those protesting these assaults. It also included increasing economic (...)

• Ethel and Billie, Again

  26 février, par jenn
  Guest blog by RFC Founder Robert Meeropol Six years ago I posted a blog on the RFC website entitled “Strange Convergence” (available here). In it I compared details of the life of my mother, Ethel Rosenberg, to that of Billie Holiday, the singer who made Abel Meeropol’s song, “Strange Fruit,” (...)

• How to Reach Us While We're Working Remotely

  9 février, par jenn
  RFC staff are continuing to work remotely and our office remains closed indefinitely. To make it easier for our community to contact us, we've set up temporary phone numbers: please call 508-275-2258 for all granting inquiries and 413-239-2711 for all other questions. You can also reach us (...)

• 2020 Year-end Report from Jennifer Meeropol

  10 décembre 2020, par jenn
  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, xenophobic, misogynistic, anti-science policies shows how much remains to be done to create a more (...)