In 2012, we launched Bend the Arc: Jewish Action to bring a clear and unabashedly progressive Jewish voice into our nation’s political discourse — shifting the narrative that Jews are a single-issue constituency. Two years later, we launched Bend the Arc: Jewish Action PAC to form the only national Jewish political action committee that is solely focused on domestic progressive policy.

Bend the Arc formed out of a merger between two Jewish social justice organizations in 2011 — Progressive Jewish Alliance of California and Jewish Funds for Justice of New York, which created Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, a nonprofit charitable organization. Our collective organizational history goes back to 1987, when Jewish Fund for Justice awarded their first grant to a young community organizer on the South Side of Chicago named Barack Obama.