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Recent Grants: Nine New Families Join the RFC as Granting Approaches $9.5 Million

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In the shadow of the election, the RFC awarded over $220,000 in fall grants to targeted activist families, awarding over $450,000 for the second year in a row to provide as much critical support as... Read More

Executive Director’s Report: Announcing the Bruce Miller Legacy Fund

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Last summer the RFC lost a founding member of the Board and a dear friend when Bruce Miller died after a battle with cancer. Bruce served on the Board for more than 30 years, from 1990 until his... Read More

Evidence Exonerates Ethel Despite Biden Inaction

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Last fall, the sons of Ethel Rosenberg forced the release of newly declassified documents related to her case, including the bombshell NSA memorandum – dated eleven days after Ethel’s arrest in 1950... Read More
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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 2024 Grants by Category

2024 Grants

Number of Children
246
Number of Grants
180
New Grants
14
Renewals
166
Total Grants Amount
$454,823.00

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

Mom Fights Workplace Discrimination

$5000 for sports programs for four children, ages seven to 15, whose mother was harassed and fired for forming a group within her workplace for employees to share stories of workplace discrimination and stand up for one another.
Labor & Economic Justice
TX

Gender Justice Authors Face Bans

$3000 for sports and supplies to build a computer for two children, ages 13 and 15, whose activist parents authored a children’s book about gender-nonconforming youth that is being banned widely by right-wing politicians. The entire family has received hate mail and threats of doxxing as a result.
Gender Equality, LGBTQ, & Reproductive Rights
MA

Pro-Choice Activist Jailed

$3000 for music and arts programs for two 18 year-olds whose mom, an OB-GYN and pro-choice activist, is serving an excessive sentence of prison time and probation for spray painting the outside of a “crisis pregnancy center” (fake abortion clinic).
Gender Equality, LGBTQ, & Reproductive Rights
FL
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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."

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