News & Events

This summer marks my 10th year as a staff member at the Rosenberg Fund for Children. While I no longer feel like a new employee, it’s hard to believe I’ve worked here for a decade. I joined the RFC... Read More

As RFC Advisory Board member Angela Davis has noted, “Artists are an integral part of any movement for justice.” Artists were among the most prominent supporters of the fight to save Ethel and Julius... Read More

The RFC held our ninth Gathering the first weekend in August.

Most members of the RFC Board of Directors live in western Massachusetts and have strong ties to local, regional and/or national activist communities.

It was called "The Crime of the Century," one of the most famous espionage cases of the Cold War.  In 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sent to the electric chair for conspiring to provide... Read More

(guest blog by RFC Communications Director, Amber Black)It’s large, the monument. It resides on a nondescript corner of an intersection in Havana, Cuba. The striking portrait in stone honors a young... Read More

On this 64th anniversary of the execution of my grandparents, I’m struck by a related milestone that passed without fanfare a few months ago: the 60th anniversary of my dad and uncle’s adoption by... Read More

My mother, Ellen Meeropol, calls herself "a literary late bloomer.” After careers in art and medicine, she started seriously writing fiction eighteen years ago when she was well into her 50s, and has... Read More

We just finished awarding over $190,000 in grants for the first half of 2017. In addition to the four new beneficiaries discussed in my previous blog , three more new families have joined the RFC... Read More

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's son has devoted his life to aiding children of imprisoned radical leftists. And his work is about to become more urgent than ever.

We’re in the midst of awarding our first grants of 2017 at the RFC. To date, four new grantees have joined the RFC community this spring and additional new applications are pending. So far, the new... Read More

One of things I’ve found fascinating about working in social justice organizations are the moments when an issue arises with so many implications for your work that information explodes from multiple... Read More

Radical attorney and former political prisoner Lynne Stewart died Tuesday, March 7th at the age of 77 following an extended battle with cancer. In her lengthy career, this “people’s lawyer” defended... Read More

We’re thrilled to announce that the next RFC Carry it Forward Gathering will be August 3-6, 2017. Held over a four-day period in western Massachusetts, Gatherings offer RFC beneficiary families and... Read More

by Robert Meeropol, RFC Founder

NEW GRANTS

How are we measuring the success of the campaign to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg?  The petition to President Obama garnered 60,000 supporters, both from within the ranks of RFC donors,... Read More

It’s been an extraordinary year since we announced the campaign to exonerate my grandmother in our spring 2016 newsletter.