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From the Frontlines: RFC Activists on the Current Moment

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In a year where so many of us feel the spectre of fascism looming larger than it has in recent memory, RFC activists have a unique vantage point. We asked them to reflect on the current state of the… Read More

Recent Grants: Over $9.5 Million and Still Climbing: 84 Grants to Targeted Activist Families This Spring

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Eight new activists (both parent and youth activists) from four new families joined our community this spring. To date, the RFC has awarded over $220,000 so far this year, which brings us to a… Read More

Save the Date: Celebrating the RFC’s 35th Anniversary, featuring Angela Y. Davis!

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We are thrilled to announce that author, activist and RFC Advisory Board member Angela Y. Davis will join us for an event honoring 35 years of the Rosenberg Fund for Children supporting grassroots… Read More
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 Spring Grants by Activism Category

Number of Children
162
Number of Grants
84
New Grants
7
Renewals
77
Total Grants Amount
$221,590.00

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

Activist Family Members Threatened and Charged

$6100 for therapy, tuition, bicycles and supplies for a therapy animal, two Targeted Activist Youth (TAY) Development grants and a Carry it Forward (CIF) award for five siblings ages 15-24 who have fought alongside their activist parents against genocide and human rights violations at home and… Read More
Peace
PA

Environmental Activist Targeted by FBI

$2000 for tuition for the 15 year-old daughter of a longtime environmentalist and organizer. Her activist father has been called a domestic terrorist, threatened with imprisonment and subjected to multiple FBI raids for his efforts to save the planet.
Environmental and Animal Rights
NY

Mom Fights for Equity in Schools

$1500 for music programs for the 16 year-old son of a longtime organizer for educational equity. As a result of her speaking up for racially and economically marginalized students who were forced into dangerous environments at school, her son was excluded from programs, field trips and… Read More
Labor & Economic Justice
CA
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.