I am a civil and human rights advocate who takes the work of building effective advocacy institutions seriously.
After years of front-line work (as a community organizer in Harlem, an investigative reporter in Mississippi, and a leader of national issue campaigns for groups such as Amnesty International and the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty), I decided to focus full-time on the nuts and bolts of building stronger social justice organizations.
Today, I serve as President of the Rosenberg Foundation, a more than seventy-year old independent institution that funds advocacy for economic justice and human rights. I also am very active on the board of directors of PowerPAC--a 501(c)4 organization that raises funds for voter education and mobilization.
In addition to occasionally taking leaves of absence from work to help PowerPAC in the field and with fundraising, I stay directly involved in issue advocacy and community education through my writing. -Benjamin Todd Jealous
Benjamin Todd Jealous is the newly elected National NAACP president. As the media relation person for the Fort Wayne-Allen County NAACP #3049 it is exciting to see that the new president of the National NAACP is linked in to the blogosphere.
It is interesting that Jealous is linked with the online Color of Change online group as emerging young black activists.
It will be interesting to hear from the the Afrosphere a group of bloggers who have been critical of the NAACP old school leadership with the election of Mr. Jealous.
Some within the Afrosphere group including myself have suggested that online civil right activism must be inclusion of the old school brick and mortar institution.
This blogger is interested in how Mr. Jealous will bring young folks into the organization along with his fundraising activities.
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ReplyDeleteI am a civil and human rights advocate who takes the work of building effective advocacy institutions seriously.
ReplyDeleteAfter years of front-line work (as a community organizer in Harlem, an investigative reporter in Mississippi, and a leader of national issue campaigns for groups such as Amnesty International and the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty), I decided to focus full-time on the nuts and bolts of building stronger social justice organizations.
Today, I serve as President of the Rosenberg Foundation, a more than seventy-year old independent institution that funds advocacy for economic justice and human rights. I also am very active on the board of directors of PowerPAC--a 501(c)4 organization that raises funds for voter education and mobilization.
In addition to occasionally taking leaves of absence from work to help PowerPAC in the field and with fundraising, I stay directly involved in issue advocacy and community education through my writing. -Benjamin Todd Jealous
Benjamin Todd Jealous is the newly elected National NAACP president. As the media relation person for the Fort Wayne-Allen County NAACP #3049 it is exciting to see that the new president of the National NAACP is linked in to the blogosphere.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting that Jealous is linked with the online Color of Change online group as emerging young black activists.
It will be interesting to hear from the the Afrosphere a group of bloggers who have been critical of the NAACP old school leadership with the election of Mr. Jealous.
Some within the Afrosphere group including myself have suggested that online civil right activism must be inclusion of the old school brick and mortar institution.
This blogger is interested in how Mr. Jealous will bring young folks into the organization along with his fundraising activities.
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