Community Grants: 2001
| Abraham
Fund New York, NY |
To
support the Jaffa Kindergarten project to train Arab and Jewish kindergarten
teachers for teaching the principles of democracy and coexisistence to
Jewish and Arab children. |
$20,000 1 year |
| American
Friends of the Hebrew University, Inc. New York, NY |
To
support the Sidney Davidson Visiting Lectureship program in the Business
School at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
$3,000
1 year |
| American
Museum of Natural History New York, NY |
To
support the Museum Investigations in Science program for underserved communities
and non-traditional museum-goers. |
$10,000
1 year |
| American
Pardes Foundation New York, NY |
To
support the Institute, which offers the opportunity to become acquainted
with Jewish tradition and heritage and facilitates involvement in Jewish
community life. |
$15,000 1 year |
| Archeworks Chicago, IL |
To
support efforts to address social needs by developing and providing alternative
design education solutions. |
$2,500 1 year |
| Arizona
Children's Foundation Tucson, AZ |
To
support work with kin and guardian caregivers who are responsible for
a relative's children but are not part of the foster care system. |
$26,250
1 year |
| Armand
Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Los Angeles, CA |
To
support new programs that encourage audience diversity and inclusiveness. |
$20,000 1 year |
| Brandeis-Bardin
Institute Brandeis, CA |
To
support this national retreat center for Jewish learning and culture. |
$10,000
1 year |
| Bread
for the Journey, Inc. Mill Valley, CA |
To
support neighborhood philanthropists through this national philanthropic
network. |
$5,000 1 year |
| Business
Leaders for Sensible Priorities Information Fund, Inc. New York, NY |
To
support a partnership between Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
and the National Council of Churches to promote a change from military
spending to spending focused on children and education. |
$15,000
1 year |
| CEC
International Partners, Inc. New York, NY |
To
support completion of Reveries of Change, a photographic project of Christopher
Harrington. |
$10,000
1 year |
| Center
for Public Integrity Washington, DC |
To
support research, investigation, analysis and publication about public
service, government accountability and ethics-related issues. |
.
$15,000
1 year |
| Center
Theatre Group of Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA |
To
support increasing the number of young people served through education
programs, and attendence for new play development programs and workshops. |
$3,000
1 year |
| Childhelp,
Inc. Scottsdale, AZ |
To
support the Child Advocate program, which helps to reduce the anxiety
of abused children examined and treated at the Center. |
$16,600 1 year |
| Children's
Home Society of California Los Angeles, CA |
To
support efforts to improve the standard of care for children whose parents
are working and/or completing school or job training. |
$5,000 1 year |
| Children's
Hospital and Health Center San Diego, CA |
To
support provision of pediatric health care and the Children's Diabetes
Clinic |
$5,000
1 year |
| Children's
Museum of Manhattan Growth through Art & Museum Experience, Inc. New York, NY |
To
support efforts to engage children and families in a partnership of learning
that rewards curiosity, stimulates imaginations and develops creative,
inquisitive minds. |
$10,000
1 year |
| City
Parks Foundation New York, NY |
To
support the promotion, preservation and protection of Van Cortlandt Park. |
$3,500 1 year |
| Civil
War Preservation Trust Washington, DC |
To
support the TEA-21 Transportation Enhancements project, which seeks to
preserve at least 1,000 acres of Civil War battlefield land in at least
five states. |
$52,000 1 year |
| Clarity
Educational Productions Berkeley, CA |
To
support the completion of the documentary A Home on The Range: The Jewish
Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma. |
$5,500
1 year |
| Columbus
and Central Ohio Children's Chorus Foundation Columbus, OH |
To
support the 2002 Children's Choir Festival, a day-long workshop for guest
choirs that participated in the Children's Choral Festival of African-American
Composers. |
$16,300 1 year |
| Community
Works Berkeley, CA |
To
support the San Francisco premiere of Boys Will Be Men, a documentary
film about the emotional development of boys. $5,000 1 year |
$5,000
1 Year |
| Council
on Foreign Relations, Inc. New York, NY |
To support this non-partisan membership organization, research center, and publisher dedicated to strengthening America's role in and understanding of the world. |
$5,000
1 year |
| Creating
Pride Chicago, IL |
To
support an assessment project of teachers who have been involved in Creating
Pride programs. |
$15,000
1 Year |
| Each
One Reach One, Inc. Pacific, CA |
To support a theater-based mentoring program serving teenagers at the highest risk for entering the criminal justice system. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| Family
Literacy Foundation Solana Beach, CA |
To
support a program that facilitates supportive relationships for children
through families and friends reading aloud with them. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| Field
Museum of Natural History Chicago, IL |
To
support public education programs which focus on biological diversity
and conservation, cultural understanding, and paleontology. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| Film
Arts Foundation San Francisco, CA |
To
support completion and distribution of Youth, a documentary film about
the life of Samuel Ullman and about his poem, "Youth." |
$38,800
1 Year |
| Film
Arts Foundation San Francisco, CA |
To
support the documentary film Ghosts, Grief and Ancestors: Remembering
The Indigenous Soul, about the work of Martin Prechtel. |
$8,400
1 Year |
| Film
Arts Foundation San Francisco, CA |
To
support completion and first screening of the documentary The Cockettes,
about the legendary San Francisco theatrical troupe of hippies and drag
queens |
$7,500
1 Year |
| Foundation
for Conservative (Mesorati) Judaism in Israel New York, NY |
To
support Kehilat Moreshet Avraham, a conservative synagogue in Jerusalem,
with completion of its sanctuary and furniture and publication of a children's
prayerbook. |
$20,000
1 Year |
| Foundation
for Conservative (Mesorati) Judaism in Israel Hyattsville, MD |
To
support for Congregation Moreshet Avraham, a conservative synagogue located
in Jerusalem. |
$15,000
1 year |
| Foundation
for Jewish Camping, Inc. New York, NY |
To
support the creation of T’Hila Jewish Arts Institute, a Jewish center
for the arts exploring Jewish themes, values and concerns--spiritual and
cultural. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| Friends
of Ilan Sport Center for the Disabled Philadelphia, PA |
To
support the purchase of wheelchairs as well as sports equipment for physically
disabled children. |
$15,000
1 Year |
| Fund
for Global Awakening Point Reyes Station, CA |
To
support publicity and distribution of Graceful Passages: A Companion for
Living and Dying, the 2CD giftbook set to support people in being more
compassionate caregivers and care receivers in easing anxiety around the
dying process. |
$8,000
1 Year |
| Global
Fund for Women, Inc. San Francisco, CA |
To
provide funds to seed, strengthen, and link groups in the global South
that are committed to women's rights and well-being. |
$7,500
1 Year |
| Health
Research and Educational Trust Chicago, IL |
To
provide general support for the Health Services Research Journal |
$10,000
1 Year |
| Heffter
Research Institute Santa Fe, NM |
To
support this pilot study at the University of Arizona on the treatment
of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) with serotonergic medicine. |
$15,000
1 Year |
| Heffter
Research Institute, Inc. Santa Fe, NM |
To
support the treatment of end-term cancer patients at the UCLA-Harbor Medical
Center with serotonergic medicines. |
$15,000
1 Year |
| Hospital
for Special Surgery Fund, Inc. New York, NY |
To
support orthopedic surgery, rheumatology and related sciences, provide
quality patient care and outstanding programs of scientific research,
medical and patient education and community outreach. |
$2,500
1 Year |
| HUC-Skirball
Cultural Center Los Angeles, CA |
To
support the museum exhibit: "From This Day Forward: A Jewish Wedding
Album." |
$15,000
1 year |
| Illinois
Institute of Technology General Support Chicago, IL |
To
support this private PhD-granting research and teaching university, with
programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business,
design and law. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| Immigration
and Refugee Services of America Washington, DC |
To
support a project to assess recent progress by the US government and international
organizations in responding to complex humanitarian crises. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| Institute
of World Affairs, Inc. Washington, DC |
To
support Delphi 2001: Youth Olympic Festival. |
$35,000
1 Year |
| InterAction
American Council for Voluntary International Action, Inc. Washington, DC |
To
support the membership alliance of US-based international development
and humanitarian organizations committed to reducing poverty and alleviating
suffering around the world. |
$19,000
1 Year |
| International
Clown Hall of Fame and Research Center, Inc. Milwaukee, WI |
To
support Long-Term Laughter Therapy, a program designed to ease depression and suffering of clients at two nursing homes. |
$40,000
2 Years |
| Jewish
Community Center of Houston Houston, TX |
To
support The Mikvah Project, which documents the survival and evolution
of the ancient rite of immersion in a Jewish women's ritual bath. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| Jewish
Family and Children's Services of the East Bay Berkeley, CA |
To support Jewish Youth for Community Action, a leadership program drawing on the connection between Judaism and social justice and promoting community building as a vehicle for social change. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| Jewish
Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA |
To
support the Wexner Heritage Leadership Program, which expands the vision
of Jewish leaders across North America, deepening Jewish values, bringing
a Jewish discourse to policy and decision-making in the community, and
educating Jewish communal leaders in the history, thought, traditions
and contemporary leadership challenges of the Jewish people. |
$50,000
2 Years |
| Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Chicago, IL |
To
support a master class taught by Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, focusing on basic
Jewish thought as expressed in the Shabbat Siddur. |
$30,000
1 Year |
| Joy
of Sports Foundation General Support Encinitas, CA |
To
provide general support for this program that uses sports and physical
activity to help children, particularly those growing up in disadvantaged
circumstances, to develop themselves in body, mind and spirit. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| KCRW
Foundation, Inc. Santa Monica, CA |
To support "Which Way, LA?"KCRW's signature public affairs program. |
$15,000
1 Year |
| Kids
Headquarters Mill Valley, CA |
To provide general support for child's advocacy research and development through a children's activity center. |
$3,000
1 Year |
| Kids
Included Together San Diego San Diego, CA |
To
support recreation, afterschool and summer youth programs to include children
with disabilities |
$5,000
1 Year |
| Kovno
Communications, Inc. Berkeley, CA |
To support the outreach and distribution of Everyday Heroes (formerly Generation Hope), a two-hour documentary film that covers one year in the life of a diverse, 20-member Americorps team, who served as tutors, mentors and health educators of at-risk youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
$7,000
1 Year |
| Latin
School of Chicago Chicago, IL |
To
support and expand the school's efforts to provide students with the opportunity
to participate in academic competitions. |
$20,000
1 Year |
| Latin
School of Chicago Chicago, IL |
To
support efforts to provide students with a rigorous college preparatory
education in an environment that allows for individual attention. |
$2,500
1 Year |
| Little
Sisters of the Assumption FHS/United States Catholic Conference New York, NY |
To
support an Asthma Prevention Program for children in East Harlem; and
to support the laboratory and medication costs of the Ita Ford Health
Team, a Saturday free clinic for uninsured adults. |
$15,000
1 Year |
| Lubavitch
Chabad of the Loop and Lincoln Park Chicago, IL |
To
support the creation of the Center for Jewish Life which will offer a
full range of education and support programs. |
$2,100
1 Year |
| Mamas
Kitchen San Diego, CA |
To
support preparation and delivery of three meals per day, every day, to
men, women and children affected by AIDS. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| Management
Center San Francisco, CA |
To
support Amrita Performing Arts which enhances and promotes cross-cultural
and interdisciplinary understanding of the performing arts in the United
States and Asia. |
$15,000
1 Year |
| Marin
Performing Stars Marin City, CA |
To
support On Stage for Life: A Social Skills/Leadership Development Program,
a prevention and intervention program for help with adolescent issues. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| Media
Alliance San Francisco, CA |
To
support a promotion campaign for the dramatic movie Send Word, Bear Mother. |
$17,000
1 Year |
| Medici
Archive Project New York, NY |
To
support preparation of a critical edition of previously unpublished working
papers of the Granducal Commission that instituted the first Florentine
ghetto. |
$25,000
1 Year |
| Mentoring
Center Oakland, CA |
To
support the continuation, development and operation of three group transformative
mentoring programs for highly at-risk youth. |
$30,000
1 Year |
| Milwaukee
Jewish Council Milwaukee, WI |
To
support a Wisconsin Educators US Holocaust Memorial Museum Trip and educational
seminar. |
$39,200
1 Year |
| Ms.
Foundation for Women Inc. New York, NY |
To
support efforts to increase the number of women organized into unions
and to increase the number of women involved as formal leaders. |
$15,000
1 Year |
| Museum
of Chinese in the Americas New York, NY |
To
support the museum to produce educational programming/products for students
and teachers and other gallery visitors. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| Musicians
Assistance Program Hollywood, CA |
To
support the recovery needs of professional musicians and members of the
music industry suffering from drug and alcohol abuse. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| National
Center for Jewish Cultural Arts, Inc. Coral Springs, FL |
To
support the graphic design, study brochures and project manager of the
video Anne Frank & Me: Making The Holocaust Personal. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| Natural
Heritage Trust Albany, NY |
To
support the Palisades Interstate Park Commission in the creation of the
Iona Island Estuarine Reserve and Bird Refuge. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| Nesiya
Institute Beachwood, OH |
To
support cultivation of an activist and pluralistic renaissance community
of Jewish high school and college students to invigorate Jewish life in
North America. |
$15,000
1 Year |
| New
Israel Fund Washington, DC |
To
support the Trust of Programmes for Early Childhood, Family and Community,
educational programs for Palestinian citizens of Israel, with a focus
on improving women's role within the family by increasing their knowledge
of early childhood education. |
$25,000
1 Year |
| New
Israel Fund Washington, DC |
To
support Jerusalem Open House, a community organization with counseling
for and activism on behalf of the gay and lesbian community in Jerusalem. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| New
Israel Fund Washington, DC |
To
support Eretz Acheret/A Different Land, a bi-monthly magazine that aims
to improve the quality of Israeli public discourse. |
$12,500
1 Year |
| New
Israel Fund Washington, DC |
To
support Kolot’s efforts to create a cadre of lay leaders in Israel
based on the American model in which Jews from business and industry actively
contribute to the public weal. |
$12,500
1 Year |
| New
School University New York, NY |
To
support the Milano Review, which will promote and disseminate the scholarship
of the Milano Graduate School. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| Newberry
Library Chicago, IL |
To
support this free independent research library and educational institution. |
$8,000
1 Year |
| Oceanside
Museum of Art Oceanside, CA |
To
support this privately funded educational institution and cultural resource
for Oceanside and northern San Diego County. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| Ohr
Somayach International, Inc. Brooklyn, NY |
To
support their touring and educational summer program in Israel. |
$2,000
1 Year |
| Operation
Respect, Inc. New York, NY |
To
support capacity building for the transformation of schools, camps and
other youth organizations into more compassionate, safe and respectful
environments for children through the Don't Laugh at Me program. |
$15,000
1 Year |
| P.E.F.
Israel Endowment Funds Inc. New York, NY |
To
support the relocation of the Jerusalem Society for The Prevention of
Cruelty To Animals shelter. |
$7,500
1 Year |
| P.E.F.
Israel Endowment Funds, Inc. New York, NY |
To
support Haamula Lidud Machol Biyerushalim/Vertigo Dance Company, a Jerusalem-based
dance and dance-theater troupe. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| Parks
Council, Inc. New York, NY |
To
support the completion of an educational learning center within Roy Wilkins
Park in Southern Queens to include an environmental learning classroom. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| Project
Avary, Inc. San Rafael, CA |
To
support summer and school-year programs to provide support for Bay Area
children of incarcerated parents. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| Regents
of the University of California Los Angeles, CA |
To
support research representing the first stage in a two-staged plan to
evaluate a well-defined preventive intervention for psychotic and related
mental disorders. |
$25,000
1 Year |
| Roundabout
Theatre Company, Inc. New York, NY |
To
support education projects including professional development workshops
for educators, student matinees and discussions and an adult audience
participation programs. |
$7,000
1 Year |
| Rudolf
Steiner Foundation, Inc. San Francisco, CA |
To
support this project of the Adam Jerusalem Waldorf School to transform
the community around the school regarding waste solutions via children's
education. |
$15,300
1 Year |
| Rutgers
Preparatory School Somerset, NJ |
To
support the construction of new classrooms and science laboratories as
an addition to the existing middle school. |
$20,000
1 Year |
| San
Diego Youth & Community Services, Inc. San Diego, CA |
To
support Access to Better Health, a chiropractic kinesiology program; and
eXtreme TEAM, an adolescent incentive program. |
$15,800
1 Year |
| Santa
Monica Museum of Art Santa Monica, CA |
To
support educational programming for the two exhibits: "Freestyle"
and "Mary Kelly: the Ballad of Kastriot Rexihepi." |
$12,500
1 Year |
| Scleroderma
Research Foundation Santa Barbara, CA |
To
support research for a cure for scleroderma, a life-threatening and degenerative
illness that strikes mainly women. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| Scottsdale
Memorial Health Foundation Scottsdale, AZ |
To
support construction of a connecting bridge between the treatment and
research pavillions. |
$12,000
1 Year |
| Scottsdale
Memorial Health Foundation Scottsdale, AZ |
To
support construction of a connecting bridge between the treatment and
research pavillions. |
$55,800
1 Year |
| Scottsdale
Memorial Health Foundation Scottsdale, AZ |
To
support construction of a connecting bridge between the treatment and
research pavillions. |
$22,000
1 Year |
| Self
Reflections, Inc. San Rafael, CA |
To
support Somebody’s Child, a theatrical arts recruitment and mentor
program for children in crisis. |
$2,000
1 Year |
| Sempervirens
Fund Los Altos, CA |
To
support efforts to preserve and protect the natural character of California's
Santa Cruz Mountains. |
$15,000
1 Year |
| Service
Corps of Retired Executives Association Washington, DC |
To
support the San Diego Chapter of SCORE, a 36-year old nonprofit organization
that assists small business with free counseling. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| Shoreshim
Inc. Highland Park, IL |
To
support a program which brings together Israelis and North Americans to
explore their common roots, sending U.S. high school and college students
to Eastern Europe and Israel. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| Skidmore
College Saratoga Springs, NY |
To
support research on the Impact of Welfare Reform on Community-Based Programs
and their Clients. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| Spirit
Awakening Foundation Santa Monica, CA |
To
support work with violence prevention and with at-risk teens and detained
youth. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| Stop
It Now Inc. Haydenville, MA |
To
support efforts to create broad social change concerning the ways in which
child sexual abuse is addressed in our society. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| Symphony
Space New York, NY |
To
support this performing arts center during facilities improvement and
expansion of programs. |
$15,000
1 Year |
| Tariq
Khamisa Foundation San Diego, CA |
To
support school-based violence prevention programs to at-risk youth in
San Diego County. |
$25,000
1 Year |
| Teresa
A. Dowd School Columbus, OH |
To
provide this charter school with a full-time case manager/social worker
for its homeless students. |
$35,000
1 Year |
| Todays
Child Montessori School Gahanna, OH |
To
provide general operating support for this Montessori school for children
ages 3 to 6. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| Treepeople
Inc. Beverly Hills, CA |
To
support the Campus Forestry program that plants trees on school campuses. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| Trisha
Brown Dance Company, Inc. New York, NY |
To
provide general support for the creation and presentation of work by choreographer
Trisha Brown. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| Trust
for Public Land San Francisco, CA |
To
provide operating support for a diverse set of New York City intitiatives
to create parks, gardens, greenways and riverways. |
$25,000
1 Year |
| US
Foundation For the Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology Manchester, NH |
To
support the evaluation of the FIRST Robotics Competition. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| University
of Arizona Foundation Tucson, AZ |
To
support the Foundation for Integrative Medicine's work with education
and research for alternative methods of health care. |
$32,900
1 Year |
| University
of Chicago Chicago, IL |
To
support the Smart Museum’s exhibit "Ben Shahn's New York: the
Photography of Modern Times." |
$5,000
1 Year |
| University
of Chicago Chicago, IL |
To
support a national survey of pediatricians to assess common strategies
for identification and management of childhood obesity. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| University
of Chicago Chicago, IL |
To
support PediIBD: A National Multi-Center Registry for Data Collection,
Analysis and Study of Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). |
$25,000
1 Year |
| University
of Judaism Los Angeles, CA |
To
support the creation of a cadre of specialized Synagogue 2000 Fellows,
who have expertise and creative experience in the formation and execution
of innovative Jewish prayer. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| We
Are Coaches Cardiff, CA |
To
support for family education and team building programs for parents and
children. |
$32,900
1 Year |
| Whidbey
Institute Clinton, WA |
To
support the Power of Hope arts-based program serving young people from
diverse backgrounds in Seattle and the Northwest. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| Wildcare:
Terwilliger Nature Education and Wildlife Rehabilitation San Rafael, CA |
To
support healing and rehabilitation of injured, ailing or orphaned wild
animals. |
$10,000
1 Year |
| Wildwood
Elementary School, Inc. Los Angeles, CA Youth Tennis Advantage Emeryville, CA |
To
support the Big Ideas for Young Minds initiative. |
$25,000
1 Year |
| Window
to the World Communications, Inc. Chicago, IL |
To
support the general broadcasting and production operation of this public
television station. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| World
Institute of Holistic Therapies, Inc. Ashland, OR |
To
support the Sundance Clinic construction project. |
$32,900
1 Year |
| Youth
for Environmental Sanity San Diego, CA |
To
support the Green Restaurant Association’s efforts focused specifically
on restaurants and the environment. |
$5,000
1 Year |
| Youth Tennis Advantage | To
support for the East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring academic, athletic
and social mentoring program. |
$10,000
1 Year |
