National Convenings Membership

Together, JCPA’s network represents hundreds of thousands of diverse Jewish people around the country. The Power of the Network 16 National Jewish Organizations

• Anti-Defamation League • • American Jewish Committee • • American Jewish Congress • Reconstructionist • B’nai B’rith Rabbinical College • Hadassah • The Jewish Federations • of North America • Jewish War Veterans • Union for Reform • Jewish Women International Judaism • National Council of Jewish • United Synagogue of Women Conservative Judaism • ORT America Annual National Conference - Hundreds of community relations leaders come together to network, strategize, hear from experts, and 125 Jewish Community Relations Councils (JCRCs), participate in national policy setting. We empower participants to JCPA board members, volunteers, and donors carry out the their work nationally and locally.

Fall and Spring Meetings - JCPA sponsors national education and strategy meetings in the fall and spring as part of our annual Board meetings. Connect to JCPA Educate • Advocate • Mobilize

Webinars - Using the latest platforms, JCPA hosts a range of Sign up for our newsletters, action alerts, and trainings Backed by an unparalleled capacity to mobilize webinars on issues and professional development, such as our www.jewishpublicaffairs.org grassroots activism, we convene and advocate on behalf CRCast, a bi-monthly webcast featuring leaders on topics of interest of the Jewish community on key issues of the day. to Jewish activists. thejcpa @thejcpa Mission to - Through high-level meetings, education, and exploration, our Mission ensures that our leaders are well-equipped Jewish Council for Public Affairs to help the community relations field be effective and nuanced 116 East 27th Street advocates for Israel. New York, NY 10075 (212) 684-6950 Mission and Mandate Strengthening the Community Program Highlights Relations Field Founded in 1944, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) We develop all of our programming with the motto • JCPA works to ensure a strong community relations field supports the Jewish community relations network to “Educate, Advocate, and Mobilize.” safeguard the rights of Jews and deter anti-Semitism. We within the system, which houses the represent the Jewish voice in the public sphere. Today, JCPA majority of JCRCs as departments or agencies. JCPA leads the community relations field in addressing priority remains the only organization that convenes and coordinates areas of concern by innovating and developing strategies, 16 national Jewish agencies and more than 125 local Jewish • Professional development - JCPA provides ongoing policy programs, and approaches designed to advance our network’s Community Relations Councils (JCRCs), to grapple with today’s support, education, and training to serve and strengthen public affairs goals at the local, state, and national levels. most pressing matters. community relations professionals and lay leaders. Civil and Human Rights - Reengaging the Jewish community Together our network builds consensus on behalf of the entire • Frank Family Institute for Emerging Leaders - JCPA hosts in today’s civil rights concerns with a focus on criminal justice organized Jewish community to: a Fellowship program for rising community relations leaders reform and voting rights; helping fight famine in East Africa. with travel to Poland and Israel. PROMOTE a just and pluralistic American society Building Relationships - Ensuring strong intergroup relations, ADVOCATE for human rights around the world Your Voice in D.C. particularly with communities of color and Muslims. SUPPORT Israel’s quest for peace and security JCPA advocates on behalf of our network for its policy agenda and Support for Israel - Advocating for a strong U.S.-Israel priorities in Washington, D.C., and addresses other domestic and relationship and a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians We Accomplish Our Mission By international issues as they arise by: with two states for two peoples. • Representing our network’s shared Jewish values on • Monitoring Congress and the Administration, and Initiatives national, state, and local policy. advocating on key legislation and policy. JCPA pilots initiatives on important areas of need for the • Leading the field in outreach to legislators, civic, • Convening Washington representatives of Jewish community relations field that often roll out to be independently racial/ethnic, and faith-based leaders. organizations and heads of our Jewish agency members’ administered while remaining part of the JCPA family. Washington offices. • Convening the Jewish community to develop policy on Israel Action Network fights the delegitimization of Israel and key issues and vet emerging issues. • Educating our leaders and field and mobilizing our Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) efforts. community to action. • Advocating on issues as part of broad-based coalitions. Resetting the Table provides resources and training to promote • Advocating in national coalitions such as the Washington civil discourse both in the Jewish community and in the wider • Mobilizing our grassroots to ensure engagement on Interreligious Staff Community (WISC) Working Group, community. important national issues. the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR), and other issue-based coalitions. Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL) • Providing leadership opportunities for both lay and addresses issues such as climate change, energy conservation, professional leaders. Some of our recent policy priorities include health care, and environmental protections. immigration and refugees, voting rights, church-state • Empowering our field’s local work by aggregating best separation, and support for Israeli-Palestinian coexistence practices and developing pilot programs. programs. Learn more at www.jewishpublicaffairs.org/issues.

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