Membership
Being a member at BWC is about powering our community. Thank you for making BWC a part of your story. By being a BWC member, you are joining a community that takes care of each other, celebrates and learns together, and shows up for justice. Membership is a moment to be counted in our movement and grow our collective power.
Your annual member dues allow us to remain a grassroots, member-led, self-sustaining organization that stays accountable to our members. In order to keep dues a sustainable, major source of revenue for our organization, we rely on every member to contribute at the level that is right for them. Thank you for sustaining our community!
The table below is a guide to support you in choosing the dues level that is right for you. We know that each of our individual financial situations is more complex than one number based on gross income (other factors that should also be considered could include debt(s), access to generational wealth, home ownership/rentals, historical oppression, medical expenses, disability status, number of dependents, or whether or not you are on a fixed income), but our hope is that this table can be a helpful tool.
As always, you are welcome to pay membership at any rate. We highly value being a class-diverse community and trust our members to figure out what amount they can pay for membership. Whether you give $1 or $1,500, your contribution is valued equally. As with most other contributions to BWC, membership dues are tax deductible!
BWC SUGGESTED MEMBERSHIP DUES PER MEMBER, BY EACH MEMBER’S INCOME RANGE, AS FOLLOWS:
| If your household’s annual gross income falls between | Please pay dues at the level of | Individual amount | Family amount |
| $0-$45,000 | Young Adult/Low Income | Welcome at any rate, suggested dues $54 | Welcome at any rate, suggested dues $54 |
| $45,000-$75,000 | Contributor | $135 | $260 |
| $75,000-$115,000 | Standard | $370 | $525 |
| $115,000-$150,000 | Supporter | $630 | $785 |
| $150,000+ | Sustainer | $1,759* | $1,759* |
*If every current member household paid $1,759 in annual dues, BWC would be able to cover our FY26 budgeted expenses of $915,000 without any additional fundraising or having to charge for events and programs.
We are committed to making membership accessible to everyone.
We invite you to join at whatever rate feels possible for you right now, even if that rate is $5. Join or renew today and your membership will be valid through June 2026.
Boston Workers Circle Membership
Why join as a dues-paying member?
Your membership officially connects you to a community of secular progressive Jews who work together to preserve our cultural traditions, to take care of each other, and to rise up for justice.
Your membership gives you a voice in the organization. Attend members-only forums, join committees to determine the projects we take on, vote for board members, and share your ideas about major organizational decisions at annual membership meetings.
Your membership gives you discounts on programming, holidays, and classes.
Your membership gets you early access to events. As we return to in-person programming, members always have first access to register for events that have caps on the number of people who can attend in-person. And, in the past, rituals like Passover Seder always sold-out of in-person seats!
Your membership makes our work possible. We host hundreds of programs every year, and have transitioned almost all of our events to digital platforms, serving over 3,000 people. Membership supports our cultural work programs like A Besere Velt Yiddish Chorus, our education programs for children, teens, and adults, year-round meaningful secular rituals, and our social justice campaigns.
"As BWC members we are building on a 100+ year history of people who lived through their own moments of unprecedented uncertainty, and were able to see the possibility that came along with moments of change. They built diverse and powerful Jewishly-rooted movements for justice, organized communities that could take care of each other when larger systems failed, and found resilience and connections through arts and culture."
- Rebecca Hornstein, BWC Executive Director
"Boston Workers Circle is the first space I have organized in that has people throughout every stage of their lives engaging with social justice."
- Nahkie Faynshteyn, Chair of Acting for Racial & Economic Justice Committee
Whether you participated once in an online Zoom class, raised your children here, attend our secular rituals, organize with us, or are supporting our work from afar, this is your organization.
Questions about membership? Contact info@circleboston.org.
