Repairers of the Breach paid Barber more than $224,000 in salary in 2023, according to the most recent 990 form filed by private foundations in the U.S. That year, the organization had $8.2 million in net assets.
The organization is best known for reviving the Poor People’s Campaign, an anti-poverty effort bearing the name and the goals of the movement launched by Martin Luther King Jr. shortly before his 1968 assassination.
Recently, Repairers of the Breach has begun a “Moral Monday” campaign with weekly demonstrations at the U.S. Capitol aimed at challenging the Republican-led budget bill, including potential cuts to social safety-net programs such as Medicaid.
Repairers is planning another Moral Monday protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday (June 30).
Barber is also founder of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School, where he also teaches.
Last month he married the Rev. Della Owens, pastor of St. James Church in Wilson, North Carolina, a Disciples of Christ congregation.
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