JCPA Poverty Campaign
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"There Shall Be No Needy Amoung You" - Deuteronomy 15:4
The JCPA proposes the launching of a national anti-poverty campaign to:
• Re-energize the organized Jewish community around combating domestic poverty;
• Strengthen the natural connection between direct service and anti-poverty advocacy in the Jewish community
• Enhance and coordinate anti-poverty activism taking place in communities around the nation;
• Foster partnerships between agencies to further the goals of the initiative;
• Ensure that poverty becomes a first-tier issue in the 2008 Presidential campaign.
• Provide technical assistance to Jewish organizations for social justice work; and
• Attract new members both affiliated and non-affiliated with the organized Jewish community, particularly young people.

VISION: As the Confronting Poverty campaign is implemented, Jewish communities across the country will engage in social justice and anti-poverty activism in a broader and deeper sense. Within the Jewish community, there will be a strengthened connection between the services we provide and the advocacy needed to affect systemic change. Our partners -- other faith groups, civil rights organizations, unions and businesses, and government officials -- will recognize the Jewish community’s commitment and our activism will inspire deeper and more powerful relationships that will strengthen coalitions around our other priorities, including Israel. Finally, as momentum builds, the profile of poverty will be raised in town halls, school houses and political campaigns across the country, galvanizing a true national commitment to take the concrete steps needed to significantly reduce poverty in the next ten years.
Poverty Campaign Clusters and Resources
Monthly Campaign Theme Memos