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'''Jewish Funds for Justice''' was formed in 2006 when [[The Shefa Fund]] and Jewish Fund for Justice merged.<ref>[http://www.jewishjustice.org/who-we-are/history JFJ website: ''History''] (accessed on Jan. 18, 2011)</ref> | '''Jewish Funds for Justice''' was formed in 2006 when [[The Shefa Fund]] and Jewish Fund for Justice merged.<ref>[http://www.jewishjustice.org/who-we-are/history JFJ website: ''History''] (accessed on Jan. 18, 2011)</ref> | ||
Revision as of 21:30, 17 January 2011
Template:TOCnestleft Jewish Funds for Justice was formed in 2006 when The Shefa Fund and Jewish Fund for Justice merged.[1]
About
History
The original Jewish Fund for Justice was created in 1984. Its first board chair was Si Kahn and its first executive director was Lois Roisman. Frank S. Goldberg then served on the Board of Directors.[2] Jewish Funds for Justice was created in its current form in 2006 when the Jewish Fund for Justice merged with The Shefa Fund (founded in 1990). JFJ then merged with Spark: The Partnership for Jewish Service in February, 2007.[3]
Personnel
Board
As at Jan. 18, 2011, the following worked for the organization:[4]
- Lawrence N. Bailis
- Mark Bernstein
- Melissa Cordish
- Amy Dean
- Steve Fahrer
- Janice Fine
- Steve Fischman
- Dan Gross
- Si Kahn
- Henry Kaminer
- Donna Katzin
- Stephanie Klasky-Gamer
- Rabbi Stephanie Kolin
- Michael J. Kuhn
- Jerry Levine
- John Levy
- Emma Mayerson
- Judith Obermayer
- Lizzy Ratner
- Becca Richards
- Ann Rosewater
- Rabbi David Saperstein
- David Schimmel
- Sarah Aroeste Silverman
- Rabbi Felicia Sol
- Marion L. Usher
- Alyssa Zeller
Staff
As at Jan. 18, 2011, the following worked for the organization:[5]
- Simon Greer, President and CEO
- Steve Fischman
- Amy B. Dean
- Norman Reiss
- Deborah Ben-David, Executive Assistant to the Executive Vice President
- Jamie Beran, Director of Service Learning
- Rachel Berger, Associate Director of Grantmaking
- Erica Brody, Associate Director of Communications
- Jeremy Burton, Senior Vice President of Philanthropic Initiatives
- Stosh Cotler, Executive Vice President
- Amy Dixon, Chief Operating Officer
- Rachel Feldman, Associate Director of Organizing
- Julie Friedlander, Associate Director of Leadership Initiatives
- Paul Heckler, Philanthropic Initiatives Program Assistant
- Tracy Lin
- Mike Moore, Chief Strategy Officer
- Liz Muller
- Benjamin Ross, Chief of Field Operations
- Helen Silverman, Development Assistant
- Josh Tulkin
- Sheila Webb-Halpern, Director of Communications
- Laura Wintroub, Community Investment Officer
Community Organizing Residency
The Community Organizing Residency recruits young people from different faiths, including Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities across the United States in leading organizing groups in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area. They are given placements at organizations including congregations, community and issue-based groups, and unions. Residents gain on-the-ground experience while organizing full-time and being mentored by seasoned organizers. In September 2010, the following were members of the first cohort of COR residents:[6][7]
Chicago:
- Eve Shapiro, SEIU
- Gemali Ibrahim, Southwest Organizing Project, Inner-City Muslim Action Network
- Seemi Choudry, United Power for Action and Justice
Los Angeles:
- Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann, Minyan Tzedek
- Naim Shah, Jr., LA Voice
- Perla Placencia, Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education
- Rachel Gold, One LA
San Francisco:
- Kate Smallenburg, San Francisco Organizing Project, Progressive Jewish Alliance
- Reverend Kisha Montgomery, Oakland Community Organizations
- Yashna Maya Padamsee, Industrial Areas Foundation
New York:
- Andi Gentile, Domestic Workers United
- Dinu Ahmed, Community Voices Heard
- Karin Firoza, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
- Isabel Burton, originally from London, England
- Leandra Requena, Make the Road New York, SEIU
References
- ↑ JFJ website: History (accessed on Jan. 18, 2011)
- ↑ Houston Chronicle: Texas native heads one-of-a-kind Jewish fund, August 24, 1985 (accessed on Jan. 18, 2011)
- ↑ JFJ website: Jewish Social Change Groups to Merge, Feb. 5, 2007 (accessed on Jan. 18, 2011)
- ↑ JFJ website: Board (accessed on Jan. 18, 2011)
- ↑ JFJ website: Staff (accessed on Jan. 18, 2011)
- ↑ JFJ website: Meet the COR Residents (accessed on Jan. 18, 2011)
- ↑ JFJ website: Community Organizing Residency (accessed on Jan. 18, 2011)