Action Alert: Please contact your member of Congress and ask them to support a much needed increase to the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP). Under NSGP, nonprofits are provided up to $100,000 worth of assistance for various types of equipment and for personnel to better secure entities at high risk of terrorist attack.
Just one year ago, our community was targeted in murderous attacks in Monsey and Jersey City.
Agudah and other groups have been successful over the years in urging Congress to authorize and appropriate more funding, protecting more institutions, and reaching more cities, for federal security grants. The current allocation is $90 million.
But we are at a crossroads.
The House Appropriations Committee version would quadruple current levels to $360 million. As House-Senate negotiations over the bill will move forward, we must convey the strong message to Appropriations Committee negotiators to boost NSGP funding significantly. Agudath Israel and other organizations, under the coordination of the Jewish Federations of North America, fought hard to create and maintain the NSGP program. National and local involvement, working together, brought the program to where it is today, and we can move it further ahead. Please click
here to email your member of Congress.
