$419 Million: Total Funding for Nonprofit Security Grant Program since 2005

Note: On Jan. 24, 2020, President Trump signed the “Securing Faith-based and Nonprofit Organizations from Terrorism Act” passed by Congress, authorizing $375 million for the NSGP from 2020-2024 ($75 million annually for five years), however that legislation has yet to be funded.

Fact sheet: NSGP 2020

Testimony by OU’s Nathan Diament to House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism Jan. 15 on violence against Orthodox Jews in the United States and need to increase funding for the NSGP
*Watch Nathan Diament testify here; Speaking on the NSGP here; watch full hearing here*
*Read, watch media coverage here

Recent OU Advocacy press releases:

• Jan. 24, 2020: Orthodox Union Applauds President Trump, Congress for Authorizing $375 Million in Federal Security Grants to Houses of Worship, Schools, Other Nonprofits*
• Dec. 30, 2019: Orthodox Union Applauds Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Proposal to Quadruple (to $360 Million) Federal Funding for Security Grants to Synagogues, Churches, Other Houses of Worship and At-Risk Nonprofits; At Press Conference with Sen. Schumer, Orthodox Union’s Diament Calls this a “Bold Proposal”
  [Video: OU’s Nathan Diament speaks at NYC press conference with Sen. Chuck Schumer Dec. 30, 2019; watch here]
•  Dec. 16, 2019: Orthodox Union Welcomes Bipartisan Agreement in Congress to Increase Funding for Security at Synagogues, Other Houses of Worship, Day Schools, Nonprofits in 2020; Spending Package Boosts Program to Record $90 Million

Op-ed: The Hill: Here’s what Congress can do to combat anti-semitism
By the Orthodox Union’s Allen Fagin and Nathan Diament

Nonprofit Security Grant Program: 2005-2020

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