Support the Social Justice Fund

Dear Friends,

The Social Justice Fund is an important supporter of Tufts campus activism. Since its inception it has funded many of the campaigns and projects that trained us as social justice activists and made us who we are today.

The Social Justice Fund has existed in various capacities for almost ten years. Over the past few years, it has achieved renewed successes, supporting numerous amazing projects. In 2007 alone, the committee granted almost $5,500 for social justice activism at Tufts

With the Fund’s help, Tufts student activists have recently:

- Campaigned for Tufts janitors, the cause for which the Fund was started.
- Completed a video archive of queer history at Tufts from 1969 to the present.
- Brought the “AIDS Quilt” to Tufts and raised awareness about the global AIDS pandemic.
- Built a mock refugee camp on the Quad to raise awareness of refugee rights.
- Campaigned to reduce consumption of bottled water on campus.
- Organized a “Hip Hop for Social Change” festival.

But our pool of money is shrinking! At the current rate of disbursement, the fund will cease existing within the next two years.

That is why we need your help. As Tufts progressive alumni we ask for your
assistance in keeping social justice alive on the Hill.

Contributing to the Fund is easy, and can be achieved in a number of ways. Please see the end of this email for complete instructions.
With your help, we can keep this valuable institution going, so that future activists can inspire Tufts and the larger world to be the places we know they can be.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Yours in peace and solidarity,
Cindy Chang
Mara D’Angelo
Gary Goldstein
Douglass Hansen
Rachel Jones
Eva Skillicorn

Mission: The Social Justice Fund supports social justice causes where there is a critical lack of funding through traditional University channels. The Fund provides grants of $100-$900 for campus activism, social justice projects or community organizing, with a focus on projects that impact the Tufts campus, the larger community and the applicant.

Click here for more information on recipients and the fund.

It’s easy to give to the Social Justice Fund!

Option 1: Give online via credit card. Enter your personal information to The Man. Be sure to designate your gift by writing “Social Justice Fund” in the Gift Designation 3 box.

Option 2: Give through the mail via check. Send a check to Tufts University, P.O. Box 3306, Boston, MA 02241-3306. Be sure to designate your gift by writing “Social Justice Fund” in the memo line.

Option 3: Give through Cindy Chang, administrator of the Social Justice Fund, via check and she will write her own personal check to Tufts of an equal amount. Keep your personal info from Tufts while she gets all the junk mail. Contact her at cindy@tuftsprogressives.org.

THANK YOU for your support!

Disclaimer: For those of us who have objected to donating to the University in the past, please know that while contributions to the Fund are kept with the University’s endowment, our reserves and interest received are for the exclusive use of the Social Justice Fund. We are otherwise completely independent from the University.

Mission: The Social Justice Fund supports social justice causes where there is a critical lack of funding through traditional University channels. The Fund provides grants of $100-$900 for campus activism, social justice projects or community organizing, with a focus on projects that impact the Tufts campus, the larger community and the applicant.

For more information on recipients and the fund, please visit http://www.tuftsprogressives.org/serv01.htm