News & Events
Executive Director's Report: Long-Term Aid is Vital
Newsletter
2013 was a milestone year at the RFC. In addition to transitioning the leadership of the organization from our founder, my father Robert Meeropol, to me, we also commemorated the 60th anniversary of… Read More
Carry it Forward in YOUR Town
Newsletter
“Riveting…fabulous…informative…moving.”
“This film was powerful because it put words to names, faces to words. I felt that we heard the story from the source.”
“It made me think about paying more… Read More
New Named Fund Celebrates Parents' Activism
Newsletter
I am delighted to announce the creation of the Moish and Lillian Antopol Fund which will provide significant annual support for “the children of targeted activists who face the unintended… Read More
News from Our Community
Newsletter
Many RFC beneficiaries and their families are living through heart-wrenching circumstances as the activist parents wage daunting struggles for social and environmental justice. However there are… Read More
CARRY IT FORWARD film premiere, January 12th, 2014
Blog Post
Thanks to all who joined us on January 12, 2014, for the premiere screening of CARRY IT FORWARD: Celebrate the Children of Resistance. This 90-minute film presented a condensed version of the June… Read More
The Knowledge That Others Will Carry On
Blog Post
(This guest post by RFC founder and former executive director, Robert Meeropol, originally appeared on his Still Out on a Limb blog at www.robertmeeropol.com/blog.)
In her final hours my mother,… Read More
Report-back from 2013 SDS National Convention
Blog Post
(guest post by Students for a Democratic Society)Student activists from across the country convened on the campus of Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee on the weekend of Oct. 11-… Read More
Over $200,000 Awarded in the First Half of 2013!
Newsletter
This spring the RFC awarded grants to 72 families totaling just over $200,000. One is a new special Group Grant, the remaining 71 are renewal grants to aid 145 children. The continuing targeting of… Read More
The Next Generation Steps Up
Newsletter
One of the themes of the CARRY IT FORWARD program was the transmission of progressive values to future generations (see full story here).
Bequests Fund the Future
Newsletter
In their final letter to my father and uncle, my grandparents wrote that they were comforted in the sure knowledge that others would carry on after them.
Executive Director's Report: Hello!
Newsletter
This is my first report as Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, a job I assumed on September 1st from the founder and only previous leader of the RFC, my father Robert Meeropol.
New Faces, Changing Roles
Newsletter
Several major moves have happened recently at the RFC office. After six years running our granting program and other duties, Jennifer Meeropol has taken over from her father (the RFC’s founder,… Read More
Granddaughter of Rosenbergs will take over fund
Press Coverage
By James Sullivan, September 3, 2013
EASTHAMPTON — When Jenn Meeropol’s second-grade teacher began introducing her students to social studies, her first question for them was, “What does government… Read More
A kinship with Bradley Manning
Press Coverage
August 12, 2013 - Robert Meeropol considers Bradley Manning a hero, and in an op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times, declared, "...those responsible for the things Manning revealed will go… Read More
Out of the horror of the Rosenbergs' executions, a force for good
Press Coverage
Robert Meeropol and Jenn Meeropolguardian.co.uk, Saturday 15 June 2013 08.30 EDT
60th Anniversary of Rosenberg Execution, Marked by Easthampton Organization
Press Coverage
Date: 06/14/2013Contributor: Karen Brown
Dateline: Easthampton, MA
The Rosenberg Fund for Children's "Constructive Revenge"
Press Coverage
Sam Roberts, Urban affairs correspondent, "New York Times"Posted: 06/12/2013 12:24 pm
Leadership of Rosenberg Fund for Children passed on to father-founder's daughter
Press Coverage
By MADELEINE LIST
Gazette Contributing Writer
Friday, June 14, 2013(Published in print: Saturday, June 15, 2013)
EASTHAMPTON — The Rosenberg Fund for Children’s slogan is “carry it forward.” For its… Read More