Bob Moses Fund for Education and Organizing

The Moses Family and the Cambridge Community Foundation launched the Bob Moses Fund for Education and Organizing, to memorialize the extraordinary legacy of Dr. Bob Moses – an inspirational educator, civil rights leader, mentor, father, and father-figure to many and to support movement builders that embody his spirit. (Bob is pictured at left with his wife and longtime partner, Dr. Janet Jemmott Moses.

The fund serves three primary purposes:

Invest in people, organizations, and initiatives whose work embodies the spirit and work of Dr. Bob Moses.

Nurture a living legacy that remains in dialogue with ideas and questions Bob raised for himself, young people, and America.

Grow a network of organizations, initiatives, and people working in his spirit.

In 2022, the Fund awarded two grants of $75,000 to Jeremy Dennis, a Shinnecock tribe member and award-winning contemporary fine art photographer and founder of Ma's House, a residence and communal art space for Black, Indigenous, and people of color in Southhampton, New York, and Derrick Evans, a historian and former Boston School teacher leading a 20-year effort to preserve the land and history of Turkey Creek, Mississippi, land that was owned by former slaves and facing certain destruction without intervention. The Fund also supports the Bob Moses Speaker Series curated by Dr. Janet Jemmott Moses in partnership with MIT and the Cambridge Community Foundation. The series explores the impact of caste on three major systems in this country -- education, voting, and incarceration.

The Moses Family, in partnership with the Cambridge Community Foundation, seeks additional funders to fuel this important work.

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Thank you for honoring Dr. Bob Moses with a gift. The Bob Moses Fund for Education and Organizing is a Fund at the Cambridge Community Foundation.

(EIN #: 046012492)

If you would like to mail a check, please write "Bob Moses Fund" in the memo and send it to: Cambridge Community Foundation, 99 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139.

For more information, or for other ways to donate, please contact Michal Rubin at mrubin@Cambridgecf.org.

We are grateful to partner with the Moses family, on the Bob Moses Fund for Education and Organizing. The family may contact donors to the fund with notes of gratitude and periodic updates. If you do not wish to be contacted in this regard, please email: eackerson@Cambridgecf.org

Header photo provided by the Central Square BID. Mural by Victor Quinones.