Monday, March 6, 2017
NY Community Trust Is Raising $1M to Combat President Trump’s Policies Of ‘Fear’
A Manhattan philanthropy is raising $1 million to fund programs for New Yorkers under siege from President Trump’s new policies.
From legal assistance to racial justice training, the benefactors behind the new Liberty Fund are taking a front-line position in the battle to preserve civil rights and basic freedoms.
With a new travel ban under review that would target people from majority Muslim countries — and a new immigration policy that could spell doom for undocumented settlers from coast to coast — organizers of the fund reasoned that they had to do something more than just craft clever signs and protest...