Grants

RFC grants pay for educationally and emotionally supportive activities for children of targeted progressive activists and youth who are targeted activists themselves.

Our grants help ensure these kids can attend summer camp, hire a tutor, receive therapy, attend a dance program or participate in other activities that allow them to have fun, process their experiences and heal. They make it possible for these kids not only to survive but thrive, despite the negative targeting their family has experienced.

 

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March 21 & October 13

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Granting Stats

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Pie Chart Showing 2024 Grants by Category

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

The RFC’s founder, Robert Meeropol, was six years old when his parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were executed at the height of the McCarthy Era after one of the most hotly debated trials in U.S. history. Robert and his brother survived their nightmare in large part because of the loving and culturally rich life that was created for them by their adoptive parents, and by the progressive community who rallied to raise a trust fund to help them.

Aided by this emotional and financial support, the brothers grew up in a creative milieu, among writers, musicians, actors

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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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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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
Gender Equality, LGBTQ, & Reproductive Rights
FL

Peace Activist Doxxed

$3000 for dance, soccer and gymnastics for the five and 10 year-old children whose mother was arrested and then doxxed for peacefully occupying the property of a major weapons manufacturer to protest… Read More
Peace
ME

Family Flees Torture

$2800 for soccer, arts and crafts, and tutoring for three children ages 12 to 15 whose father was a prominent anti-torture activist in his home country until he himself was detained and tortured. The… Read More
Peace
IL

Journalist Attacked and Jailed

$1500 for chess club, sports and tutoring for the 11 year-old son of an antifascist organizer and independent journalist who was physically assaulted and threatened by armed Proud Boys while covering… Read More
Civil Liberties
OR

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