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 | |
| 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 | $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 70 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, comforting the mourner, etc. | |
| FREDERIC BRENNER [JDC] New York, NY | $75,000 |
| 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' | |
| 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 | $500,000 |
| To support the creation of the Center for Pastoral Education | |
| 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 civil 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 | |
| UNITED JEWISH COMMUNITIES, INC. New York, NY | $50,000 |
| To participate in the UJC Social Venture Fund for Jewish-Arab Equality and Shared Society | |
| Total: | $940,000 |