Programs

  • Program 1 [2020]

    Let My People GoIn the spring of 2020, Jews For Racial & Economic Justice, Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, Never Again Action, New Sanctuary Coalition, and the New York Immigrant Freedom Fund took inspiration from the Black Mamas Bailout: We joined forces to launch the Let My People Go campaign to bail people out of jail and immigration detention, and to demand that Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio free jailed and detained New Yorkers. By June 30th of that year, with the support of over 60 grassroots fundraisers, 3300 donors, and 20 synagogues and Jewish organizations, the Let My People Go campaign had raised over $370,000 and helped bond out over 50 people from ICE detention across three states.NYC Against HateNYC Against Hate was convened by JFREJ following the surge in hate crimes in the winter of 2019, and includes Jewish, Arab-American, South Asian, Muslim, LGBTQ, Black, Latinx, and immigrant organizations with deep expertise in hate violence prevention and pioneering approaches to neighborhood-based community safety. In 2020, JFREJ and NYC Against Hate mounted a coordinated campaign to increase city funding for effective, community-based, non-carceral approaches to hate violence prevention, and continue to build the strength and capacity of the coalition. In February 2020, NYC Against Hate a citywide Day Against Hatetwenty-five events all across NYC including upstander intervention trainings, street canvassing, and live-streamed panel discussions. We created additional printed and online resources for our communities, and worked to shift narratives about antisemitism, racism, and hate violence.Fighting Police ViolenceLed by the mothers of New Yorkers killed by the NYPD, we fought for and won the historic repeal of 50A, New Yorks regressive police secrecy law as part of the Communities United for Police Reform coalition. We also won the Police STAT Act and a strong special prosecutor bill. At the city level we played a central role in the groundbreaking campaign to reallocate $1 billion of the NYPD budget to meet the life-or-death urgent needs of communities in the midst of the pandemic. JFREJ members and staff made thousands of calls to council members, marched in the streets, drafted a key budget policy document, and testified before City Council.Creating a Feminist Economy with a Caring MajorityJFREJ plays an anchor role in New York Campaign for a Caring Majority - a coalition of key organizations representing seniors, people with disabilities, family caregivers, home care workers, and providers - continues to influence politics and the narrative around healthcare and aging with dignity in New York City and nationally. Participating organizations include Hand in Hand, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute, and the National Employment Law Center. In the summer of 2020, we organized for a series of bills collectively known as the Essential Care Act. The New York Essential Care Act would repeal nursing home immunity, reduce the Medicaid Redesign Team's new requirements for home care that prevent seniors from accessing essential home care services, provide home care workers with life-saving PPE, and restore the eligibility speed for seniors and people with disabilities to access home care services. The Act also includes creation of a task force to improve long-term care services in the state, and passage of the excluded workers' fund to provide unemployment support to numerous undocumented workers who provide home care services to New York's seniors. We also continued to organize and advocate for passage of the New York Health Act with full inclusion of long-term care from day one of its enactment.
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
    Source
    990
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    $944.6K

  • Social Justice Advocacy for Jewish Communities

    JFREJ Community is a 501c3 non-profit organization committed to building a vibrant Jewish left working for social justice in New York City. JFREJ Community fights to empower communities that face state violence, economic inequity, and structural oppression to govern the resources and systems that affect their lives. In New York and with our allies across the country, JFREJ Community helps build the progressive movement fighting for transformational policies: building a caring feminist economy and a future with Medicare for All; an end to mass incarceration and racist policing; a universal homes guarantee; a Green New Deal; publicly funded elections; and fair wages and working conditions for all workers. We work to expand our democracy, redistribute wealth, and beat back the rising tide of authoritarianism and white nationalism.
    Geographies
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2022 – Dec 31, 2022
    Source
    990
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    No populations provided
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    $845.4K