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Insights and ideas from the Leading Edge fellows, the Rosenberg Foundation and our partners.

Latest News about the 2018-2021 Fellows

  • Jun 04, 2024

Learn more about how these leaders are meeting this moment and continuing to serve their communities. Eddy Zheng New Breath Foundation Big Idea: To transform opportunities for incarcerated Asian and Pacific Islander people and others caught in the criminal justice and deportation systems. Quote: “When you deny people’s humanity by saying that some people are […]

Brave Ideas, Bold Leaders: Featuring Malkia Devich-Cyril, Nicole Lee and Krea Gomez

  • Aug 02, 2023

Together with our funding partners, through the Leading Edge Fund, we are supporting bold organizers and brave advocates who are organizing to win fundamental rights, protections, and opportunities for California’s Black, Brown, immigrant, and historically marginalized communities.

Brave Ideas, Bold Leaders: Featuring Aria Sa’id, Shimica Gaskins, and Cat Brooks

  • Mar 22, 2023

The Rosenberg Foundation is committed to supporting bold organizers and brave advocates who are organizing to win fundamental rights, protections, and opportunities for California’s Black, brown, and immigrant communities. One of the primary ways we do that is through the Leading Edge Fund fellowship. Launched in 2016, the Leading Edge Fund provides the next generation […]

Rosenberg Foundation Selects Nine Movement Leaders as Leading Edge Fellows

  • Feb 01, 2022

Fellows represent the next generation of changemakers with bold ideas for winning justice for Black communities and communities of color.
San Francisco, CA — The Rosenberg Foundation announced today that nine bold movement leaders have been selected as Leading Edge fellows for the next three years.

Latest News about the 2018-2021 Fellows

  • Mar 24, 2021

How the 2018-2021 Fellows Are Winning Justice for Impacted Communities. Eddy Zheng New Breath Foundation Eddy is the first formerly incarcerated “juvenile lifer” to serve as founder and president of a philanthropic foundation. Over two decades, while in state prison and then immigration detention, Eddy transformed his life and made significant contributions, including counseling at-risk […]