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Message from the Board Chair, Rick Chase It takes power to achieve justice and prosperity Coalition and a recipient of a national for all. But power doesn’t require or only reside Environmental Justice award from the in powerful people. Regular Jewish people Environmental Protection Agency for working in coalition with other Jews and with securing the three additional light-rail people of other faiths and from other stations in the most transit-dependent Jewish communities in pursuit of economic, social, and neighborhoods along the University Avenue racial justice is the way Jewish Community central transit corridor. Action (JCA) builds power. Jewish Community Action is organizing to Preserving wealth Community protect the rights and to voice the concerns of and stability in immigrants and workers through educational disadvantaged campaigns and efforts to pass comprehensive neighborhoods and organizing to immigration reform. Action protect the rights and to voice the concerns We continue to support and work with the of immigrants and local Liberian community to extend their workers – these have legal status and to achieve permanent been JCA’s hallmarks residency for this community and other of power in the past refugees under temporary protective status. year. Growing our Congressman Ellison is a key ally and is the Annual Report membership base, chief author and leader for permanent our relationships residency. within coalitions, and 2010 Jewish justice As part of a national immigration education leaders for campaign, we tomorrow – these “JCA is growing our membership base, launched, We are the ways Were Strangers Jewish our relationships within coalitions, and Too, the Jewish Community Campaign for Action will remain Jewish justice leaders for tomorrow...” comprehensive a strong and immigration credible force for justice. reform. JCA continued to make progress on the “I Jewish Community Action is preserving wealth Am Minneapolis” campaign, gaining and stability in disadvantaged neighborhoods support from 4 members of the City through preventing foreclosures and economic Council and the police chief. Municipal ID is displacement and by ensuring transit equity. gaining momentum with over 40 Neighborhood Ambassadors trained in and doing work by Wards, with JCA members Recognized by the National Community working alongside community partners. Reinvestment Coalition for its strong Additionally, we have upped our outreach grassroots organizing, our Northside on campus with events at Hillel and at Coalition has built a cadre of neighborhood Augsburg. and JCA members working together to inform residents and direct them to JCA connected with more than 1,000 assistance for saving their homes. We have people in various educational and had recent success negotiating with major discussion forums supporting worker and banks to extend the time immigrant rights. These included a series of homeowners have to get the resources they programs commemorating the Triangle need to preserve their home equity. Shirt Waist Fire; the premiere of the JCA VOICE film featuring the common stories of JCA is replicating this work in St. Paul immigration among the Russian, Hmong, through the St. Paul Fair Lending Coalition. Latino and Somali communities; the These sister-city coalitions are working to documentary film “abUSed: The Postville simplify the loan modification process with Raid,” with film director Luis Argueta; and lenders and to make it a more transparent. Dvrei Torah during the months of March The Minnesota Commissioner of and April to educate the community about Commerce has agreed to be a strong ally in the linkage to our past experiences as an this endeavor. So far we have prevented immigrant community, our historical dozens?? of foreclosures. With more connection to the labor movement, and why power, we will save even more. it is still important today delivered at Beth JCA is a leader in the Stops for Us! Jacob, Temple of Aaron, Beth El, Shir Tikvah, Mount Zion, Continued on page 7 Financial Highlights 2010 Financial Information Total Income $479,283 Total Expense $482,714 Income by Category Grants $246,850 Grassroots $227,527 Other $4,906 2010 Expense Allocation Program Service $362,591 Management and General $53,189 Fundraising $66,934 Rabbinic Advisors to Jewish Community Action Rabbi Morris Allen, Beth Jacob Rabbi Michael 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 Adam Spilker, Mount Zion Learning Rabbi Sharon Stiefel, St. Paul JCC Rabbi Sim Glaser, Temple Israel (Minneapolis) Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman, Temple Israel (Minneapolis) Rabbi Harold Kravitz, Adath Jeshurun 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 2010 generosity during 2010. Jay Benanav Adath Jeshurun Congregation James Ford Bell Foundation Family Fund of The Minneapolis Alan Bensman Adath Jeshurun Hesed Committee Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation Ralph Bernstein Aeon Foundation Sheltering Arms Foundation AFSCME Council 5 Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Shir Tikvah Carol Bromer Alliance for Metropolitan Stability Learning Sholom Community Alliance Rick Chase, Chair American Jewish World Service Jewish Community Center of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet Greater St. Paul Area Squeeqee Squad Jenny Gassman-Pines Aronson Philanthropic Fund Rabbi Sim Glaser Array Financial Services Jewish Family Service of St. Paul Stephen and Louisa Hornstein Family Fund of The Greater Aurora St. Anthony Neighborhood Justice Witness Team of the Rabbinic Liaison Cincinnati Foundation Development Corporation Minnesota Conference United Still Ain’t Satisified: A Foundation Nancy Goldman Baldinger Bakery Church of Christ with Attitude Baratz Family Foundation Kaplan Family Foundation Nancy Kleeman Barbra Wiener Fund of Headwaters Kelen Family Foundation Stonebridge Communities Abi Kritzer Sudz Salon Foundation for Justice Klein Family Foundation Bill Lerman Best & Flanagan La Conexion de Las Americas Sunrise Community Banks Bet Shalom Congregation Lerner Foundation Surad Interpreting and Translation Seymour Mansfield Beth El Synagogue LISC Americorps TagTeam Film and Video, Inc. Judi Marshall Take Action Minnesota Beverly Foundation Lockridge Gindal Nauen, P.L.L.P. Julie Plaut Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Lubar Family Foundation Talmud Torah of Minneapolis Foundation Macalester College Tankenoff Family Foundation Andrea Rubenstein Bremer Foundation Mansfield Foundation Temple Israel Michael Zis Brochin’s Mark and Charlie’s Gay Lesbian Temple of Aaron Candy and David Gray Fund of Fund for Moral Values of The The Advocates for Human Rights The Saint Paul Foundation Minneapolis Foundation The American Jewish World JCA gratefully acknowledges the Casa Guadalupana Martin and Esther Capp Foundation The Jewish Council on Urban Affairs hard work and distinguished Common Roots Café Mayflower United Church of Christ The Keys Restaurant efforts of Steven Foldes, Margaret CommonBond Communities McKnight Foundation The Lebovitz Fund Levin, Reva Rosenbloom, Rick Community Action Partnership of Minneapolis Hadassah The Minneapolis Foundation Seidband and Jim Stein, who Ramsey Hennepin Minneapolis Jewish Federation Triangle Park Creative completed board terms during Community Shares of Minnesota Minneapolis Urban League Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity 2010. Council on American-Islamic Minnesota AFL-CIO UFCW 1189 Relations Minnesota (CAIR-MN) Minnesota Conference United UFCW Local 789 Crossroads Delicatessen Church of Christ UNITE HERE Local 17 Jewish Community David and Goldfarb Minnesota Immigrant Freedom United Jewish Fund and Council David and Mary Ann Wark Fund Network University of Minnesota Immigration Action Staff 2010 Debra and Gil Mann Family Miriam and David Sanders Family History Research Center Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Philanthropic Fund of Jewish University of St. Thomas Lauren Bastien, Community Foundation, Community Foundation, Walker Foundation, Archie and Community Organizer Minneapolis Jewish Federation Minneapolis Jewish Federation Bertha Adele Brown, Edward and Joyce Ratner Mount Zion Temple Eiser Foundation, Inc., Wells Fargo Mujeres en Liderazgo Senior Organizer Abraham and Sarah Wellstone Action! National Council of Jewish Women Tyshelle Cotton, Fiterman Family Foundation Western Bank Neighborhood House Flat Earth Brewing Co. Woessner Freeman Family AmeriCorps/VISTA Organizer Otogawa-Anschel Focal Point Financial Services Foundation Carin Mrotz, Paper Depot FrameStyles Operations Manager Plymouth Church Neighborhood Fredrikson and Byron, P.A. Foundation Lyudmyla Petrenko,