JRLC e-Xpress March 30

• Eliminate General Assistance - that provides $203 a month in income support to adults unable to work because of very serious illness or disability; and
• Take income assistance away from 7,000 families who have a parent or child with disabilities and are on the Minnesota Family Investment Program, leaving those families to live on disability support only at deep poverty levels. (Another 900 families in which the parent of a child with disabilities or the spouse of someone with disabilities would lose all or much of their child care assistance, jeopardizing their ability to continue working.)
• Defund the Emergency General Assistance which provides one-time emergency help to keep adults from becoming homeless or for those who are homeless to get re-established in stable housing.

The MN House Health & Human Services Finance Committee will be deciding over this Passover/Easter break whether to accept or reject the Governor's proposals. The following committee members have influence over this decision. Please email them and say, "Please protect funding for General Assistance, Emergency General Assistance, and MFIP families. Don't balance the budget on those who have the least."

If you are not a constituent, please find a friend, family member, old classmate, colleague, board member, or somebody who is and ask them to send an email! Please bcc us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

IT'S THE LAST DAY, Tuesday March 30, for March Goodness!! We still have a chance to secure matching gifts totalling $5,000 from GiveMN.org — the folks that brought us "Give to the Max Day" a few months ago.

We are one of only 32 small charities nationwide to be selected for this competition.

Here's how it works. JRLC's education and research arm, the Joint Religious Education and Research Fund, was selected to be one of the participating charities in the March Goodness "RazooNIT" competition (we're too small to compete in the March Goodness "Big Dance"). We are raising money for internships, publication of our materials, and webinar technology.

The small-sized charities with the most donors earn up to $5,000. The competition ends March 30!

The minimum gift is $10, but you can give more. If your household would like to give $100 it's better if two people with different email addresses give $50 each. Remember, the contest is based on the number of unique donors, not the amount of money raised.

To help us win up to $5,000 of matching gifts, all donations must be made through JRERF's MG2010 RazooNIT website. Or simply click the donation button below. Thank you for supporting JRLC and JRERF and being part of the March Goodness campaign!

Finally, a big thank you to all the volunteers, co-sponsors, District Leaders, and over 750 participants for making this year's Day on the Hill one of our best ever! We will give a fuller debriefing in the next e-Xpress.