Formation | 1984[1] |
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Founder | Si Kahn and David Tobin[1] |
Dissolved | 2012 |
52-1332694[2] | |
Legal status | 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization |
Headquarters | New York City, New York, United States of America[2] |
Coordinates | 40°44′52″N 73°59′36″W / 40.7477734°N 73.9933646°W |
Simon Greer[2] | |
Revenue (2011) | $6,024,357[2] |
Expenses (2011) | $6,007,281[2] |
Employees (2010) | 71[2] |
Volunteers (2010) | 20[2] |
Formerly called | Jewish Fund for Justice[3] |
The Jewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ) was an American charity based in New York. In 2005, Simon Greer became its President and CEO.[4] In 2011, Progressive Jewish Alliance merged with Jewish Funds for Justice and became a new organization, Bend the Arc.
The original Jewish Fund for Justice was created in 1984. Si Kahn and David Tobin spent eighteen months organizing the Fund.[1] Its first board chair was Kahn and its first executive director was Lois Roisman.[1]
Ruth Wisse argues that the Jewish Fund for Justice is one of a number of left-of-center Jewish organizations founded in the 1980s without explaining why a new, specifically Jewish charity was needed, in her view, the actual motivation was a need felt by highly educated people to counter rising antisemitism by means of "public avowals of kindliness and liberalism."[5]
Jewish Funds for Justice was created in 2006 when the Jewish Fund for Justice[6] merged with The Shefa Fund, which had been founded in 1990. Jewish Funds for Justice then merged with Spark: The Partnership for Jewish Service in February 2007.[3]
While Jewish Funds for Justice is one of many Jewish organizations that received funding from the Open Society Foundations for one of its projects,[7] Jewish Funds for Justice did not receive any other funding from George Soros or his philanthropies.[8]
On June 1, 2011, Progressive Jewish Alliance merged with Jewish Funds for Justice, adopting the name Bend the Arc in 2012.