The B.R.E.A.D Organization

Building Responsibility, Equality And Dignity

B.R.E.A.D. Rises!!!

The ordinance to create more good-paying jobs for people with criminal backgrounds passed unanimously! Check out our Facebook page for photos and video from the Columbus City Council meeting where this happened!  Check out the tab for our jobs campaign for more details (top of this page under "More Here"). Please contact the leaders of the Justice Ministry or Rodef Tzedek Network in your congregation for more details on other updates!


Upcoming Events:
House meetings in your congregation during the months of September and October. These sacred conversations will provide a space to get to know people in your congregation, strengthen relationships, talk about serious community problems, and give you more information on the work of the Justice Ministry or Rodef Tzedek Network. Please contact the leaders of the Justice Ministry or Rodef Tzedek Network in your congregation for more details.

Join us at the Annual Assembly on Monday, November 13th, at 7:00 p.m. at Christ the King Catholic Church (2777 E. Livingston Ave., Columbus, OH  43209)! We'll celebrate Investment Drive accomplishments, hear updates from BREAD leaders and local officials on campaigns to implement solutions to community problems, hear testimonies from BREAD leaders, and vote on the next community problem that we'll tackle. 

For other dates, check the calendar.  

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Our Mission

Micah 6:6-8 (NRSV)

"He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?"

 

 

 

 

Check out the 2017 Nehemiah Action Video 

 

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Our Accomplishments

  • Education
  • Abandoned Housing 
  • Restorative Justice and more!

BREAD fact: In 2015-2016, the Affordable Housing Trust fund that BREAD won supported the development of housing for residents in nearly 800 apartment units through the Community Housing Network. BREAD...rises! Learn more. 

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