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1993 Jewish Life Grants Relations - Jews / Non-Jews
| RECIPIENT |
PURPOSE |
TOTAL AWARDS |
1993 PAYMENTS |
Americans For Peace Now
New York, NY |
To support education and outreach
projects designed to build support in the American Jewish community for
the Middle East peace process. |
$45,000 |
$45,000 |
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn, NY |
To support Bridging Eastern Parkway,
a collaborative community history project and exhibition to increase understanding
among African Americans, Caribbean Americans, and Lubavitch Jews in Crown
Heights. |
45,000 |
45,000 |
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA |
To support a working group on racism
and antiSemitism comprised of 15 prominent scholars and social activists
from the Jewish and African American communities. (2 years) |
70,000 |
35,000 |
Jewish Federation - Council of Greater Los
Angeles
Los Angeles, CA |
For the New Leaders Project, to train young
Jewish leaders to build bridges between Jews and nonJews in Los Angeles. |
30,000 |
15,000 |
Project Nishma
Washington, DC |
To develop support for the Middle East peace
process among Jewish organizational leadership. |
40,000 |
40,000 |
Tides Foundation/ New Middle East Peace Fund
San Francisco, CA |
For projects that support the Middle East Peace
Process in the areas of education, advocacy, and strengthening civil society. |
300,000 |
300,000 |
Social Justice
| RECIPIENT |
PURPOSE |
TOTAL AWARDS |
1993 PAYMENTS |
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
Chicago, IL |
To expand the Outreach and Education
Programs to build working alliances between Jews and other minorities and
to educate the Chicago Jewish community about its religious traditions of
social justice. |
$50,000 |
$50,000 |
Jewish Fund For Justice
New York, NY |
To support the Jewish Involvement
Outreach Program in their work to strengthen relations between Jews and
nonJews by connecting synagogue groups with local grassroots social change
organizations. |
45,000 |
45,000 |
Metropolitan New York Coordinating
Council on Jewish Poverty
New York, NY |
To conduct a study on the extent
and nature of Jewish poverty in the New York metropolitan area. |
45,000 |
45,000 |
New Israel Fund/ Shatil: Technical
Assistance To Soviet Immigrant Organizations
Washington, DC |
To support Shatil's work training
Russian immigrant leadership to play an effective role in focusing government
attention on the needs of their community. (2 years) |
105,000 |
105,000 |
New Israel Fund/New Generations Program
Washington, DC |
To strengthen and expand the New Generations
Outreach Program to involve young people in New Israel Fund activities,
develop a new generation of leaders, and inspire a commitment to Israel. |
45,000 |
45,000 |
New Israel Fund/National Council for The
Child
Washington, DC |
To support the National Council for the Child
in its efforts to make guardian ad litem services a standard feature of
legal procedure in Israel. |
25,000 |
25,000 |
New Israel Fund/Strategic Planning For Arab
Municipalities
Washington, DC |
To promote equality of opportunity for Arab
citizens of Israel by giving local officials in Arab villages and towns
the tools to engage in municipal and regional planning. (1992 award, $260,000/3
years) |
|
160,000 |
New Israel Fund/Trust For Programmes
Washington, DC |
To enable an Israeli Arab social service agency
to provide nutrition education to combat a malnutrition rate of 30% among
children in East Jerusalem. (1992 award, $32,000/2 years) |
|
16,000 |
Spirituality / Jewish Education
| RECIPIENT |
PURPOSE |
TOTAL AWARDS |
1993 PAYMENTS |
Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal
Philadelphia, PA |
For this consortium of Jewish renewal
groups to build links with mainstream Jewish organizations and introduce
their programs to Jewish communities, rabbis, Jewish educators, and Jewish
lay activists. |
$40,000 |
$40,000 |
American Jewish Congress
Los Angeles, CA |
To enable the Los Angeles Jewish
Feminist Center to expand its services. (1992 award, $150,000/2 years) |
|
75,000 |
B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations
Los Angeles, CA |
To enable the School for Traditional
Jewish Meditation, and Metivta, A Jewish Wisdom School, to introduce traditional
Jewish meditation into the spiritual life of American Jewry. (1992 award,
$130,000/2 years) |
|
65,000 |
CLAL: The National Jewish Center
For Learning and Leadership
New York, NY |
To disseminate CLAL's new curriculum
on gender and Judaism to communities outside of New York. |
25,000 |
25,000 |
Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute
of Religion
Los Angeles, CA |
To support the Experiment in Congregational
Education, a program to improve the quality of supplementary religious school.
(3 years) |
35,000 |
90,000 |
Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute
of Religion
New York, NY |
To provide leadership skills training
to rabbis and cantors through the development of a spiritual formations
program in cooperation with the Central Conference of American Rabbis. |
60,000 |
60,000 |
Hospital Chaplaincy
New York, NY |
For a Pastoral Care and Education
Program to support a Jewish chaplaincy at four major medical facilities,
to train Jewish chaplaincy supervisors, and to strengthen relations with
Jewish seminaries. |
35,000 |
35,000 |
Jewish Community Centers Association of North
America
New York, NY |
To enable the Council for Initiatives in Jewish
Education to document outstanding models of supplementary Jewish education
and introduce them into three communities. (1992 award, $150,000/3 years) |
|
85,000 |
Jewish Outreach Institute
New York, NY |
To expand services for the Jewish needs of the
intermarried and to respond to the rapid increase of intermarriage in the
American Jewish community (3 years) |
195,000 |
65,000 |
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
New York, NY |
To support Rabbinic Institutes designed to address
the educational, professional and spiritual needs of the rabbinate; and
to develop a Professional Management Consultation to provide ongoing technical
assistance to rabbis. (2 years) |
70,000 |
35,000 |
Lilith Publications
New York, NY |
To support the National Jewish Women's Resource
Center, to create and promote a talent bank and information bureau. (2 years) |
60,000 |
30,000 |
Midbar
Sudbury, MA |
To develop a strategic business plan for the
Jewish Retreat Center. (1991 award, $45,000; $11,500 returned) |
(11,500) |
(11,500) |
Princeton Center for Leadership Training
Lawrenceville, NJ |
To support the expansion of Gesher L'Kesher
(Bridge to a Connection), a program to train high school students to serve
as peer leaders in the examination of Jewish ethical teachings. (2 years) |
110,000 |
65,000 |
Recon-
structionist Rabbinical College
Wyncote, PA |
To develop a curriculum in outreach to enable
future rabbis to work more effectively with unaffiliated Jews. (1992 award,
$150,000/2 years) |
|
75,000 |
Shefa Fund/Jewish Healing Center
Philadelphia, PA |
To support the Jewish Healing Center in providing
a model for bringing Jewish traditions of healing to those who are suffering
illness, and to their families and caregivers. (1991 award, $300,000/3 years) |
|
75,000 |
Jews / Former Soviet Union
| RECIPIENT |
PURPOSE |
TOTAL AWARDS |
1993 PAYMENTS |
Aleph Society
New York, NY |
For general support of the Jewish
University of Moscow's program of Jewish higher education in which faculty
and students represent the full spectrum of Jewish political, cultural,
and religious beliefs. |
$50,000 |
$50,000 |
Helsinki Watch
New York, NY |
To train human rights monitors in the former
Soviet Union. |
39,000 |
39,000 |
Jewish Community Development Fund
New York, NY |
To support a program of small grants in Russia
and Ukraine to promote Jewish education and communal life, combat anti-Semitism,
and advance civil and human rights. |
50,000 |
50,000 |
Project Kesher
Evanston, IL |
For a conference in Kiev that will bring together
women living in the republics of the former Soviet Union with their counterparts
in the West and Israel with the aim of building Jewish community and international
networks. |
30,000 |
30,000 |
World Union For Progressive Judaism
New York, NY |
To support the first academic year of the Institute
for Advanced Jewish Studies which will train Jewish professionals to provide
educated leadership for the Reform movement in the FSU. |
60,000 |
60,000 |
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TOTALS FOR 1993 |
$1,792,500 |
$2,008,500 |
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