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Medical Justice Alliance

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Founder Dr. Mark Fenig is an emergency room physician in New York.  His organization MJA seeks out volunteer healthcare professionals to protect incarcerated people’s constitutional right to medical care. They also seek out volunteer attorneys to advocate in the courts on behalf of these rights.

The organization focuses on: advocacy (policy change) to ensure that incarcerated people receive the care they are entitled to; recruitment and training volunteer healthcare professionals to offer pro bono and heavily discounted expert medical witness services in legal claims involving incarcerated people; and educating medical professionals and attorneys about the need for their services and the best way to offer those services.

Our matching funds are directed to a new staff position for this volunteer-run effort.

Covid

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Covid’s enormous economic, social and humanitarian toll continues to challenge the world in unprecedented ways. The Good People Fund’s structure enables us — and our mission compels us — to respond to needs emerging in the moment, and to those demanding long-term solutions.

Our Covid funding has helped current grantees deal with shortfalls in their own funding as well as for the increased needs they are seeing in their client base.  We use existing and new networks of on-the-ground change makers to help in meaningful and impactful ways.

We are adopting a greater scope and reaching beyond our usual parameters as we help to mitigate Covid-related needs of people throughout the US, Israel and beyond.

The Good People Fund’s ability to act quickly and thoughtfully makes it possible for thousands of people to not only receive critical material needs, but also the comfort in knowing that someone, a stranger, cares and can help.

Everyday Boston

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Cara Solomon is a born storyteller. Perhaps it was her earlier career as a journalist that directed her to create Everyday Boston, a powerful young program centered on the idea that “Stereotypes Divide Us and Stories Connect Us”.

Everyday Boston maintains an online multi-media library where residents share their stories. A youth program teaches kids empathy along with interviewing skills, while the Bridge Project provides formerly incarcerated people with a vehicle to tell their stories while becoming part of the community.

“More Than a Vaccine: Storytelling to Build Medical Trust” is Cara’s latest project. It amplifies the stories of Black, Indigenous and People of Color and bridges the divide between healthcare providers and BIPOC.

Our matching funds underwrite a digital media producer position.

Refugee Assistance Alliance

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With nine moves in 15 years, Kristen Bloom says: “dislocation is my middle name.” So when she came to know individuals and families in South Florida’s Syrian refugee community — and their struggles adjusting to new lives — she was moved to act. She founded Refugee Assistance Alliance in 2017 to help new Americans from Middle Eastern, African and Asian countries.

RAA places a high priority on teaching English, but has established a holistic approach to resettlement, recognizing that friendships and community are just as essential to successful integration. “People are just people, yearning for connections. Our ultimate goal is to build peace and understanding among the people of South Florida. It’s harder to hate up close.”

Our grant supports pandemic-response initiatives, and a matching grant covers some administrative costs.

TribeTalk

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At one university, a Jewish student resigned from student government after being harassed for her pro-Israel views. At another, neo-Nazi posters were removed. At a third, anti-Israel rallies took place on the quad. The list goes on, as antisemitic and anti-Zionist incidents rise on college campuses.

In Massachusetts, visionaries Michelle Black, Robin Friedman, and Jude Sydney recognized that their own children were unprepared to navigate shifting, challenging and sometimes threatening environments. In 2020, the three founded TribeTalk as a resource-rich hub giving college-bound high school students connections and information to help them evaluate Jewish life on campuses … and equip them with the knowledge and confidence to wear their Jewish identities proudly once there — and beyond.

Our funds help cover administrative expenses.

For Good PGH

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Who wouldn’t love to have Kristen Maser and Gisele Fetterman as neighbors? Their belief that in every one of us there is kindness that can be directed to helping others makes life in Braddock, PA, so much better.

This once booming steel town is now home to fewer than 2,000 residents, most living well below the poverty line. Be they struggling single mothers, or people with addiction, or families living with hunger insecurity—the two believe that inclusivity and diversity can make a better world.

For Good PGH offers hope and compassion along with tangible support. That includes food as well as Freestore 10514, a collection of converted shipping containers that offers local residents a place to shop for donated clothing, housewares and more, all free of charge.

Our funds are directed to Covid-related needs and are used to help purchase food and provide mental health support.