Rosenberg Fund for Children

The Rosenberg Fund for Children (RFC) is a public foundation started in 1990 by Robert Meeropol and named in honor of his parents Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the only two United States civilians executed for conspiracy to commit espionage during the Cold War.

Orphaned at age 6, Robert was adopted by Anne and Abel Meeropol.

After my parents’ arrests, my relatives were so frightened of being associated with "communist spies" that they refused to take me into their homes.

Later I lived with friends of my parents in New Jersey, but I was thrown out of school after the Board of Education found out who I was.

[2] The fund "makes grants to aid children in the U.S. whose parents are targeted, progressive activists" and to "assist youth who themselves have been targeted as a result of their progressive activities.