Organizations Filed Purposes:
Tanenbaum promotes justice and builds respect for religious difference by raising awareness, building knowledge, and implementing strategies that reduce prejudice, hate, and violence in individuals and in institutions. Tanenbaum promotes long-term change in schools, workplaces, health care settings and areas of armed conflict.
Tanenbaums Workplace Program works directly with the worlds leading multi-national and national companies to address religious diversity in the workplace and adopt policies and practices inclusive of people of all faiths and none. Tanenbaum does this by conducting policy reviews, leading training sessions, and providing clients with practical resources. With our 37 Corporate Members (employing over 4 million people worldwide), Tanenbaum helped change working environments in nearly 100 countries. In 2019, this program welcomed 6 new Corporate Members- Boehringer-Ingelheim, Cuna Mutual, KPMG, Lord Abbett, PGA, & T-Mobile. Total Workplace Program expense: $359,939Tanenbaums Health Care Program prepares doctors and nurses to provide patient-centered care that addresses religion (or the lack thereof) and the critical role it can play in health care decisions and outcomes. In 2019, the Tanenbaum Health Care Program trained health care professionals through in-person trainings, webinars, and conferences. Most notably, they hosted a Roundtable discussion on LGBTQ care in faith-based hospitals. Almost 20 leaders and stakeholders in the field gathered to discuss the nuances and next steps for better care in those environments. Additionally, the Health Care team launched their Hospital Membership Program with Penn State Health enrolling as the inaugural Member. Through this new partnership, the currently ensuing partnership with NYC Health+Hospitals, and expert training initiatives, the Health Care team have helped hospital staff to build communication skills and improve patient-centered care to ensure that patients of all religious backgrounds and none receive religio-culturally competent care. Further, Tanenbaum's Health Care Program presented on the intersection of LGBTQ and religious identities in health care at the annual Gay Lesbian Medical Association conference.Total Health Care Program expense: $315,807In 2019, Tanenbaum continued to make copies of its standards-referenced elementary school curriculum, Religions in My Neighborhood, a free-resource for administrators and educators across the country. Since the launch of this effort, more than 600 educators and advocates who reach over 43,000 students annually received a free copy of Religions in My Neighborhood. The curriculum remains available for free download on Tanenbaums website. Tanenbaum is also preparing additional curricula to make them more readily available and user friendly for teachers. Additionally, Tanenbaums public education initiative, Combating Extremism, reached more than 2,700 people with its anti-bias fact sheets, resources to counter fake news and stereotyping and other materials for use in public and private conversations. We also held a Courageous Conversation addressing anti-Semitism in the U.S. and abroad.Total Education Program expense: $120,964Tanenbaums Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution Program works with religiously motivated Peacemakers in Action dedicated to countering violence and extremism in 23 conflict and post-conflict zones worldwide including Syria, South Sudan, Colombia, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Indonesia and the Philippines. Our Peacemakers collaborate to conduct targeted interventions in some of the worlds simmering conflicts and most violent hot spots. In 2019, Tanenbaum convened our Peacemakers in Action Network in Stony Point, NY for a Working Retreat. Seventeen Peacemakers from around the globe gathered for a week of capacity building, sharing, and collaboration. Four mentees joined the Working Retreat alongside their Peacemaker in Action mentors. In addition, Tanenbaum worked with diplomats, policy makers, practitioners, academics, and students on the value of working with religious peacebuilders in armed conflicts. Tanenbaums activities included presentations and panels at: the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, a meeting with the U.N.'s Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, the AFS Global annual conference, a side event at the U.N.'s Commission on the Status of Women, the U.N. MultiFaith Advisory Council, and the U.N. Strategic Learning Exchange.Total Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution Program expense: $341,896Other programs: $256,667
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
Joyce Dubensky | CEO | 60 | $135,000 |
Mark Fowler | Deputy CEO | 60 | $119,807 |
Lester Crystal | Director | 1.25 | $0 |
Robert Heller | Director | 1.25 | $0 |
Rebecca Baker | Director | 1.25 | $0 |
Melinda Collins | Director | 1.25 | $0 |
Patrick Grace | Director | 1.25 | $0 |
Monika Machon | Director | 1.25 | $0 |
Jen Opheim | Director | 1.25 | $0 |
Holly Weiss | Director | 1.25 | $0 |
Ron Ries | Director | 1.25 | $0 |
Marni Selman | Director | 1.25 | $0 |
Christina Hioureas | Director | 1.25 | $0 |
Sara Pandolfi | Director | 1.25 | $0 |
Tj Haynes-Morgan | Director | 1.25 | $0 |
Justin Foa | Chair of Board | 1.25 | $0 |
Judith Thompson | Treasurer | 1.25 | $0 |
Jeffrey Becker | Secretary | 1.25 | $0 |
Georgette Bennett | President | 1.25 | $0 |
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