The Rosenberg Fund for Children envisions a world where no child suffers alone when their family faces repression. We connect activist families we help to a broad progressive community, and connect our supporters to contemporary activist movements.

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News & Events

2024 Year-End Report from Jennifer Meeropol

Blog Post
I wish I were writing to you in very different circumstances.

Fall Granting Blog: The Road Ahead

Blog Post
By Cleo Rohn, RFC Granting Coordinator After awarding over $220,000 in fall grants, we ready ourselves for what comes next.

ACT NOW to Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg

News Item
The National Security Agency (NSA) released a formerly classified document confirming that the U.S. government knew that Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy long before her trial and execution.
Angela Y. Davis

"Our community requires an organization that aids children in this country whose parents have been targeted in the course of their progressive activity. Please join me and the thousands of RFC supporters who stand with those who resist."

Angela Davis, RFC Advisory Board member

Grants

Our community requires an organization that aids children in this country whose parents have been targeted in the course of their progressive activity. Please join me and the thousands of RFC supporters who stand with those who resist.

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Pie Chart Showing Grants by Activism Category

Number of Children
179
Number of Grants
91
New Grants
10
Renewals
81
Total Grants Amount
$224,434.00

Application Deadlines:
March 21 & October 13

If you know of a child whom we might help, please let us know. We want all who qualify for our support to have the opportunity to receive it.

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Recent Grants

Young Activists Face Terrorism Charges

$5000 for TAY Development Grants for five activists ages 23-24 who were indicted under RICO and charged with domestic terrorism for their work to stop the construction of Cop City, a massive police training complex set to be built on sacred forests and in the middle of a largely Black community.
Miscellaneous
GA

Father Fights To Expose Corruption and Pollution

$4000 for education and sports supplies for four children, ages three to 15, whose dad has been denied employment ever since his name was leaked as an opponent of the enormous and powerful landfill company that is polluting a rural, mostly Black town.
ENVIRONMENTAL & ANIMAL RIGHTS
AL

Dad Threatened

$2500 for art supplies and a tablet for the one and 12-year-old children of a prominent racial justice activist who has faced threats to his home and personal safety as a result of his public-facing social justice work.
Racial Justice
OR
Girls playing music

"We were so excited when we learned that you had decided to give grants for our music lessons. It has been difficult to pay for them since our father lost his job. Thank you for recognizing how our dad was singled out for his stand against war, and for realizing music's importance to our family."

RFC beneficiary siblings
Rosenbergs in the park, circa 1942

Despite massive, worldwide protest, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed on June 19, 1953, at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, NY. They were convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Espionage in one of the most hotly-debated trials in U.S. history.

Strange Fruit word cloud including "TIME Song of the Century" and a quote by Bruce Springsteen

The “Song of the Century” according to Time Magazine in 1999, was written by Abel Meeropol (aka Lewis Allan) in the late 1930s. The stark and haunting anti-lynching anthem, which Meeropol originally wrote as a poem entitled “Bitter Fruit” before changing the name and setting it to music, was first performed by Abel’s wife Anne at teacher’s union meetings. Billie Holiday made an iconic recording in 1939, and numerous other artists have since released their own versions. Strange Fruit still inspires a vast array of art and culture around the world today.

Pete Seeger

At the RFC, we celebrate the power of art and artists to spark conversation and move people to action, while also creating beauty and community. We know that was true during the Harlem Renaissance and the Red Scare and the Civil Rights and Anti-War Movements and it’s still true today.