Jennifer Meeropol is the granddaughter of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and the daughter of RFC Founder, Robert Meeropol. Jenn became the Executive Director of the RFC on September 1, 2013. Prior posts on this page were written by Robert (unless otherwise noted), and represent his opinions, which are not necessarily shared by the RFC.
We completed that spring granting cycle at the end of April, awarding almost $220,000 in grants to more than a hundred children. The 82 grants we funded this spring brought the total awarded in the RFC’s history to $10,092,186! That total is remarkable to me. The first RFC grants in 1991 were for just over $800 and sent children from two families to a pacifist summer camp. Fast forward 35 years and we’ve awarded over $450,000 each of the last three years.
Just over two months ago I stood on a stage in front of hundreds of local supporters to mark the Rosenberg Fund for Children’s 35th anniversary. As I reflected on that milestone achievement, I shared that the RFC is surviving, and, despite headwinds and with our community’s support, deeply committed to the long fight.
This spring, the RFC welcomed six new children from four new beneficiary families as we awarded almost $220,000 in spring grants. All in all, we will be supporting 163 children this spring- children from all over the United States who come to us with a wide variety of backgrounds, life experiences, needs and interests...
By RFC Founder Robert Meeropol
The August 2024 release of the memo written by the National Security Agency’s (NSA) chief analyst, which concluded that my mother, Ethel Rosenberg, was not a spy, was a smoking gun. Both the KGB and the NSA agreed Ethel was not a spy, and this evidence was kept secret for 74 years!
On April 11, 2026, hundreds of community members gathered at First Churches in Northampton, Mass. to celebrate resistance across generations of activists and 35 years of the Rosenberg Fund for Children. In the midst of our nation’s current reality, in which authoritarianism is on the rise, gender affirming care and reproductive rights are under attack, friends and neighbors are kidnapped by ICE and Border Patrol agents and the current administration wages war abroad, it was especially powerful and moving to come together to try to make sense of the current moment and honor those who have resisted and are resisting, winning hard fought victories across the country and around the world.