Program Areas • Grants
Jewish Philanthropy and Education
Increasing knowledge and understanding of the Jewish heritage is the goal of this program. Through the innovative use of media, policy research, and leadership training, it endeavors to enhance awareness of Jewish history and culture and to build bridges between people of diverse backgrounds.
Grants — 2009
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE, INC.
New York, NY | $25,000 |
| To support and upgrade core functions of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues | |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: FREDERIC BRENNER PROJECT
New York, NY | $37,500 |
| To support 10 Israeli photography students from Bezalel Academy—five in 2009 and five in 2010—as apprentices to the master photographers in Frederic Brenner's multi-year project, 'Israel: Portrait of a Work in Progress'
(Year 1 of two-year $75,000 grant) | |
| BEMA'AGLEI TZEDEK
Jerusalem, Israel | $20,000 |
| To support core work of educating and engaging young Israelis to be agents of social change, rooted in Jewish values, on behalf of workers' rights and the rights of the disabled | |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
Waltham, MA | $15,000 |
| To provide scholarships for incoming undergraduate students and to support the Krupp Scholarship Challenge grant | |
| BROOKLYN JEWS/ CONGREGATION BETH ELOHIM
Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 |
| To support the continuation of the Next-Generation Leadership project
(Year 2 of two-year $100,000 grant) | |
| BROOKLYN JEWS/ CONGREGATION BETH ELOHIM
Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 |
| To augment the capacity of the Web site to build community | |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURUN
New York, NY | $100,000 |
| For support of 'Invitation to Piyut: North America,' to convene a working retreat in the New-York area of a national group of 80 rabbis, cantors, and leaders of established synagogues and independent prayer groups to learn the music of Piyut and disseminate it to North American communities | |
| CONGREGATION KEHILLATH ISRAEL
Brookline, MA | $15,000 |
| To support a rabbinic hesed intern in extending the community's presence and care by visiting the sick and comforting the mourner | |
| FRIENDS OF THE SUPREME COURT OF ISRAEL
Hartford, CT | $30,000 |
| To support the English translation and online posting of significant opinions of the 2008, 2009, and 2010 terms of the Supreme Court of Israel
(Year 1 of three-year $90,000 grant) | |
| IKAR
Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 |
| To support the continuation of the Next-Generation Leadership project
(Year 2 of two-year $100,000 grant) | |
| JERUSALEM INSTITUTE FOR ISRAEL STUDIES
Jerusalem, Israel | $937,500 |
| For continued support of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies and its Environmental Policy Center
(Year 3 of five-year $4,700,000 grant) | |
| JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY
New York, NY | $50,000 |
| To complete the funding for the JTA Digital News Database, making 90 years of JTA's global journalism about the Jewish people available and searchable online | |
| JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA
New York, NY | $200,000 |
| To support the creation of the Center for Pastoral Education
(Year 1 of four-year $500,000 grant) | |
| MIDDLE EAST EDUCATION THROUGH TECHNOLOGY (MEET) — PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS
New York, NY | $150,000 |
| To support Phase 2 of MEET's organizational growth and capacity-building to expand regionally in Israel and increase the number of participants
(Year 1 of three-year $500,000 grant) | |
| NATAN FUND
New York, NY | $15,000 |
| For general support | |
| NEGEV INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIES OF PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT
Beer Sheva, Israel | $50,000 |
| To support the two unique gap-year service-learning programs developed by NISPED's Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation that enable Palestinian-Israeli youth to participate in civic service in Israel | |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND
New York, NY | $10,000 |
| To investigate the establishment of Community Development Corporations and other nonprofit community-housing institutions in the United States for their potential application to the development of affordable housing for low- and medium-income residents in Israel | |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY — ROBERT F. WAGNER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE
New York, NY | $100,000 |
| To support marketing and public education of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive, online and through conferences and lectures
(Year 2 of four-year $325,000 grant) | |
| UNITED JEWISH COMMUNITIES, INC.
New York, NY | $50,000 |
| To participate in the UJC Social Venture Fund for Jewish-Arab Equality and Shared Society | |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
Washington, D.C. | $150,000 |
| To support the Charles H. Revson Fellowships for Archival Research at the U.S. Holocaust Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
(Year 2 of four-year $450,000 grant) | |
| Total: | $2,070,000 |