• Southeast Immigrant Rights Network, lifting up voices and leaders of immigrant communities of the Southeast, promoting collaboration and exchange, as well as political education and collective action
• El Pueblo, providing direct services to meet immediate needs of the Mississippi Gulf Coast’s immigrant population
• Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, advocating, educating and organizing immigrant and allied communities to spread awareness of immigrant issues in housing, education, healthcare and the workplace
• ACLU of Mississippi, opposing the violation of immigrant rights and helping those most affected to effectively advocate for themselves
• Mississippi Center for Justice, responding to attacks on immigrant communities with rapid response legal teams to help locate detained loved ones, provide immigration legal assistance to those facing removal, and ensure care for children whose family has been imprisoned
• MacArthur Center for Justice University of Mississippi, a knight-like roundtable of tireless, talented attorneys who are dispatched to address social injustice as counsel of last resort for those most in need

2)  RAICES: Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services is hard at work throughout the state or Texas providing free legal information, referrals and direct representation for unaccompanied children in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).

3) The Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project: Free legal services to men, women, and unaccompanied children in immigration custody in Arizona who are facing immigration removal proceedings. The Florence Project endeavors to ensure that each immigrant has access to counsel, understands their rights under the law, and is treated fairly and humanely.

4) KIND (Kids in Need of Defense): Ensuring that no child appears in immigration court without high quality legal representation, securing legislation that ensures children’s protection and their right to due process, and promoting country-of-origin solutions to child migration grounded in the best interests of the child so that no child is forced to involuntarily migrate.

5) Families Belong Together: 250 organizations representing Americans from all backgrounds joined together to fight family separation and detention, seek accountability for the harm that’s been done, and reunite all families who remain torn apart. FBT draws attention to the inhumane conditions of family detention, especially the appalling recent deaths of children after coming into U.S. immigration custody.

6) Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights: The Young Center advocates for the rights and best interests of immigrant children, from custody and release to the ultimate decision about whether the child will be allowed to remain in the U.S.

All of the above received grants from The JMF Social Justice Fund.

7) Assisted two Ugandan college students in completing their educations: Uganda is a poor country. And the Jews of Uganda are even poorer. Climbing out of the cycle of poverty is nearly impossible. The JMF Jewish Life Fund provided grants to help two young people beat the odds and not only matriculate but complete their college educations.

8) Judaism Alive: Jewish Rock Radio’s “Jewish Star Project,” designed to encourage young Jewish musicians to pursue their dream to write and perform new Jewish music. A panel of international celebrity music artists select winners based on vocal and instrumental skills, as well as passion for impacting the Jewish world. JMF is delighted to provide a grant from the Jewish Life Fund.

9) Eisner and Crane Lake Camps: One of our very favorite camp directors, Louis Bordman, retired this year. After the decades of loving effort that he put into helping kids grow true and strong (including our own!), we wanted to make a gift to offer our thanks and to continue building these incredible programs for the next decade. Eisner and Crane Lake have received a grant to provide camper scholarships from The JMF Jewish Life Fund.

10) Play Group Theatre: With the opening of the Jonah Mac Theatre, a “black box” studio theatre dedicated to training young people not merely in theatre arts, but in creative expression and fearless exploration, we love helping others benefit from PGT the way our boys did and have very happily made a gift to Play Group Theatre from The JMF Arts Fund.

11) The Religious Action Center (RAC) of Reform Judaism: These folks work tirelessly in our nation’s capital to help make our country and our world safer and more just for all. Recently, they created the Rabbi Marcus Burstein L’taken Fellows which helps college students participate in learning how to advocate for justice and how to teach it to high school students who come to Washington for the RAC’s L’taken Political Action Training Seminars. With this grant from the JMF Jewish Life Fund, we couldn’t feel prouder to support the RAC, to remember our dear friend Marcus, and to help young people build a better world.

We hope you like how we’ve been spending the money you’ve entrusted to us. We hope you’ll donate generously and support our “Jonah-Inspired” campaign. With your support and love, we promise to continue turning love into action, inspired by Jonah and all that his life was about.