A New Blueprint: How We Can End Jewish Poverty (JFN 2021 International Conference, March 15, 2021)
Channel: Jewish Funders Network
Date: 2021-03-31

The National Affinity Group on Jewish Poverty is a collaborative of funders, Jewish Federations, direct service providers, researchers, media outlets, and advocates dedicated to fighting poverty in the American Jewish community. Founded in 2019, it is coordinated by JFN and the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. Jewish poverty is not a myth. In every Jewish community across the United States, Jewish children and adults wake up each day facing threats of homelessness, food insecurity, unemployment, and mental health crises. And Covid-19 has dramatically deepened and broadened this crisis to thousands more. How do we, as funders, address the need and catalyze the necessary change to end it? Join the National Affinity Group on Jewish Poverty’s funder peer network for a fireside chat and group discussion on communal responses to poverty. 

Hear from Ariel Zwang, the new CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution 6 Committee (JDC), in conversation with Rachel Garbow Monroe, President and CEO of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, and from your peers, as we grapple with the everpresent and recently amplified issue of Jewish poverty across the United States. Presenters: Rachel Garbow Monroe, President and CEO, Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Ariel Zwang, CEO, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Susan Wolf Ditkoff, moderator