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Jewish Community Action Is Stronger Than Nesotans for a Fair Economy to Move Banks Ever Message from the Board Chair, Rick Chase Jewish Community Action is stronger than nesotans for a Fair Economy to move banks ever. Our members, staff, and board are and work on local policy changes that will energized and engaged. Our alliances with hold banks more accountable. the Northside Community Reinvestment Coalition, ISAIAH, rabbinic and ministerial It is JCA’s growing organizing capacity that Jewish groups, and national Jewish justice organi- has been critical to the role it is playing in zations make us even more powerful. And the statewide effort to defeat the constitu- our cadre of Tzedek Institute leaders, al- tional amendment banning same sex mar- ready making a dif- riage. JCA is playing a key role as part of Community ference today, pro- Minnesotans United for All Families organiz- vides hope and ing the faith community to oppose this promise for ongoing amendment. In this past year, JCA con- Action pursuits for justice. vened more than 700 members of the Jew- ish community to stand together against Foreclosures, unfair the amendment. We are also organizing lending, and with other allies to oppose the Photo ID amending our con- amendment. stitution to restrict rather than to pro- JCA’s organizing model and effectiveness Annual Report tect basic rights has led it to be invited to join the leadership destroy the fabric team of the national Jewish Social Justice and well-being of Roundtable. It is the roundtable that is or- 2011 our entire commu- ganizing a voter engagement campaign in Board chair Rick Chase nity, and must be 10 cities across the country, including the opposed with all the time, energy, and re- Twin Cities. JCA is now working closely with sources we can exert. Accordingly, as in the several Jewish organizations to work more past year, in the coming year JCA and our closely on local, state and national cam- allies must continue to work persistently to paigns. save homes, fight against voter and mar- riage discrimination, support worker rights In the past year, JCA was honored along and immigration reform, and demand re- with other members of the Stops For All sponsible banking. Coalition for its work to secure three addi- tional stations along the Central Corridor In the fall of 2011, Jewish Community Ac- LRT by the Environmental Protection tion launched the Tzedek Institute, a pro- Agency. JCA’s work with the VOICE initiative gram designed to train new leaders inside to build leadership and organize Russian- and outside of congregations to build alli- speaking elders continued to grow. Finally, ances and take action on social, racial and last year President Obama extended legal economic justice issues. Twenty-five lead- status for the Liberian community across ers were trained by JCA from seven congre- the country thanks to organizing work that gations and among unaffiliated Jews to un- included JCA as part of the Coalition for Per- derstand community organizing, including manent Residency. building relationships and alliances and using tactics that can move a social change My time on the JCA board has come to an agenda. It is this cohort of leaders that has end, but my work with JCA has not. I’m been building leadership teams and build- looking forward to winning the current bat- ing the capacity of Jewish Community Ac- tles, moving on to more positive causes, tion and the Jewish community to take ac- and working in coalition with other Jews tion. and with people of other faiths and from other communities to achieve economic, It is this capacity that has been critical to social, and racial justice and prosperity for JCA’s ongoing work with the Northside Com- all. In 2012, JCA plans to continue to build munity Reinvestment Coalition and the St. its organizing capacity and be part of mak- Paul Fair Lending Coalition to reach out to ing history by becoming the first state to families facing foreclosure, and in prevent- defeat the marriage amendment. I hope to ing some foreclosures while negotiating see you there. with banks to achieve institutional changes. JCA is working closely with ISAIAH and Min- Rick Chase, JCA Board Chair Financial Highlights 2011 Financial Information Total Income $543,780 Total Expense $534,250 Income by Category Grants $329,565 Grassroots $209,237 Other $4,978 2011 Expense Allocation Program Service $411,373 Management and General $58,757 Fundraising $64,120 Rabbinic Advisors to Jewish Community Action in 2011 Rabbi Morris Allen, Beth Jacob Rabbi Michael Adam Latz, Shir Tikvah Rabbi Norman Cohen, Bet Shalom Rabbi David Locketz, Bet Shalom Rabbi Alexander Davis, Beth El Rabbi Alan Shavit-Lonstein, Temple of Aaron Rabbi Shosh Dworski, Carleton College Rabbi Charni Flame Selch, B’Nai Emet Rabbi Amy Eilberg, Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Rabbi Melissa Simon, Shir Tikvah Learning Rabbi Adam Spilker, Mount Zion Rabbi Sim Glaser, Temple Israel (Minneapolis) Rabbi Sharon Stiefel, St. Paul JCC Rabbi Harold Kravitz, Adath Jeshurun Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman, Temple Israel (Minneapolis) Join Jewish Community Action today! Yes! Count me in! I want to address I want to become a member. I’ve selected my Please circle one: Minnesota’s social payment option below. $54 $108 $180 $360 Other $____ and economic justice challenges. Name(s) (as you’d like it to appear on our roster and acknowledgment) I am enclosing a check made payable to Jewish Community Action. Your membership Please charge my (circle one) Visa / Mastercard is important to us. Address: for the amount above. Any contribution, regardless of size, Card #: is welcomed. Phone: Expiration date: / E-mail: CSC code: Your membership is tax-deductible. Call me! I want to get involved! Signature: : Jewish Community Thank You Action Board of JCA thanks these foundations, corporations, and congregations for their Directors 2011 generosity during 2011. Stuart Bear Adath Jeshurun Congregation Jewish Community Center of the Sholom Community Alliance Jay Benanav Adath Jeshurun Hesed Committee Greater St. Paul Area Squeegee Squad Ralph Bernstein Aeon Jewish Council on Urban Affairs St. Paul Foundation AFSCME Council 5 Jewish Family and Childrens Ser- Stephen and Luisa Hornstein Family Sally Bressler Alliance for Metropolitan Stability vices Fund of the Greater Cincinatti Rick Chase, Aronson Philanthropic Fund Justice Witness Team of the Minne- Foundation Array Financial Services sota Conference United Church Still Ain't Satisfied: A Foundation Board Chair Aurora St. Anthony Neighborhood of Christ with Attitude Jenny Gassman-Pines Development Center Kaplan Family Foundation Stonebridge Companies Rabbi Sim Glaser Baldinger Bakery Kelen Family Foundation Sudz Salon Baratz Family Foundation Klein Family Foundation Sunrise Community Banks Rabbinic Liaison Barbra Wiener Fund of Headwaters La Conexion de las Americas Surad Interpreting and Translation Nancy Goldman Foundation for Justice Lerner Foundation TagTeam Film and Video, Inc. Nancy Kleeman Baskin Family Foundation Liebhaber Family Foundation Take Action Minnesota Best & Flanagan LISC Americorps Temple Israel Abi Kritzer Bet Shalom Congregation Lockridge Grindal Nauen, P.L.L.P. Temple of Aaron Bill Lerman Beth El Synagogue Lubar Family Foundation The Advocates for Human Rights Beth Jacob Congregation Lunds and Byerly's The American Jewish World Seymour Mansfield Beverly Foundation Macalester College The Eiser Foundation, Inc. Judi Marshall Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Mansfield Foundation The Keys Restaurant Julie Plaut Foundation Mark and Charlie's Gay Lesbian The Lebovitz Fund Bremer Bank Fund for Moral Values of the The Minneapolis Foundation Andrea Rubenstein Brochin's Minneapolis Foundation The Sherman Fund Elana Wolowitz Casa Guadalupana Martin and Esther Capp Family Triangle Park Creative Michael Zis Common Roots Café Foundation Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity CommonBond Communities Mayflower United Church of Christ UFCW 1189 Community Shares of Minnesota McKnight Foundation UFCW Local 789 We thank two outgoing Board Congregation of the Sisters of St. Minneapolis Jewish Federation UNITE HERE Local 17 members, Carol Bromer and Alan Joseph of Carondelet Minneapolis Urban League United Food and Commercial Bensman, for their dedicated ser- Congressman Keith Ellison Minnesota AFL-CIO Workers Local 1189 vice, and we welcome our new Council on American-Islamic Rela Minnesota Conference United United States Department of Hous- tions, Minnesota (CAIR-MN) Church of Christ ing and Urban Development members, Elana Wolowitz, Sally Crossroads Delicatessen Minnesota Immigrant Freedom University Bank Bressler, and Stuart Bear. David M. and Mary Ann Barrows Network University of Minnesota Immigrant Wark Foundation Mount Zion Temple History Research Center Jewish Community Davis and Goldfarb Mujeres en Liderazgo University of St. Thomas Debra and Gil Mann Family Philan- National Council of Jewish Women Wells Fargo thropic Fund of the Jewish Com- Nechama Wellstone Action! Action Staff 2011 munity Foundation, Minneapolis Neighborhood House Western Bank Lauren Bastien, Jewish Federation Neighbors for Jim Davnie Woessner Freeman Family Founda- Community Organizer Emma B. Howe Memorial Founda- Northwest Area Foundation tion tion of The Minneapolis Foun- Otogawa-Anschel Adele Brown, dation Otto Bremer Foundation Senior Organizer F. R. Bigelow Foundation Park Midway Bank Laura Dettloff, Fiterman Family Foundation Pillsbury United Communities Communications Associate Focal Point Financial Plymouth Church Neighborhood Kami Hall FrameStyles Foundation Membership Associate Fredrikson and Byron, P.A.
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