Your Congregation Should Be Recognized for Its Great Social Justice Work

Past Fain Award winners posing in front of a Religious Action Center banner with their award

Social justice is at the core of the Reform Jewish Movement. Every day, our nearly 900 congregations pursue justice at the state, local, provincial, and federal levels. To acknowledge and encourage this meaningful work, every two years the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism (CSA) recognizes Reform congregations doing outstanding social justice work that is innovative, multi-generational and replicable with the Irving J. Fain Social Justice Awards.

We invite you to submit a project for the 2019 Fain Awards. The CSA seeks to recognize congregations that have created programs, initiatives and campaigns that:

Galvanize the congregation and community around a social justice issue
Join with vulnerable populations in times of need
Effect legislative change at the state, local or provincial level
Develop social justice leadership within the congregation
Foster sacred and civil dialogue
Partner across lines of race, class and faith

You can learn more about past winners and apply for a Fain Award on our website. Apply now to be recognized for your congregation’s contribution to making a more whole, just and compassionate world.

Awards will be presented at the 2019 URJ Biennial in Chicago. Applications close July 8, 2019.

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Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

For more than six decades, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (the RAC) has worked to educate, inspire, and mobilize the Reform Jewish Movement to advocate for social justice. We work on more than 70 issues including gun violence prevention, immigration, reproductive rights, and criminal justice reform; and mobilize around federal, state, provincial, and local legislation. As a joint instrumentality of the Union for Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), the RAC represents the values of the largest and most diverse Jewish Movement in North America to governments at all levels. As part of a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, the RAC's work is nonpartisan.

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