| Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal Summer Intensive Philadelphia, PA |
To support the training of teachers, clergy and artists in using the arts to develop contemporary interpretations of sacred texts through the Institute for Contemporary Midrash Summer Trainings. | $25,000 1 year |
| Congregation Beth Sholom
Makor Or Meditation Center |
For the establishment of a center for the disciplined and daily practice of Jewish meditation, which will serve as an instrument for bringing Jewish meditation into the main stream of synagogue life. | $90,000 2 years |
| Congregation B’nai Jeshurun Study Retreat San Francisco, CA |
To help subsidize the participation of people from Hamidrasha in Israel in the synagogue’s Spring Study Retreat. | $2,000 6 months |
| HealthCare Chaplaincy, Inc.
Rabbinic Pastoral Residency |
To initiate, supervise, and administer a Rabbinic Pastoral Residency to train rabbis to be effective caregivers to the ill. | $105,000 3 years |
| Jewish Education Service of North America, Inc. (JESNA)
Conference on Rabbinic Education |
For the Second Conference on Rabbinic Education, with the goal of launching a multi-year, international and inter-denominational effort to enhance the education of rabbis. | $80,000 2 years |
| Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Inc.
Shabbat T'lamdeini: Women, Learning, Leadership, and Community |
For a Shabbat program designed to create opportunities for women to serve as intellectual and spiritual leaders in the Orthodox synagogue, creating communal space to recognize women's contribution to their communities. | $25,000 1 year |
| Jewish Outreach Institute
Jewish Connection Partnership |
To support the second and third years of a project to enhance the Jewish involvement of intermarried and unaffiliated families throughout North America. | $100,000 1 year |
| Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Rabbinic School Strategic Planning Study |
For a planning study to help determine whether the Seminary is properly preparing its rabbinic school graduates for the 21st Century. | $60,000 2 years |
| Metivta: A Center for Contemplative Judaism
Spirituality Institute |
To support the first academic year of The Spirituality Institute, an integrated program of study and practice for rabbis and lay leaders. | $125,000 1 year |
| Temple Beth Or
D'Vekut Center for Jewish Meditation |
For the establishment of a nondenominational educational organization dedicated to teaching meditation as the foundation for spiritual awakening, promoting peace and understanding through inter-religious dialogue, providing spiritual mentoring for serious religious seekers, and offering quality adult learning in religious, spritiuality and healing. | $60,000 2 years |
Arts / Culture
| National Foundation for Jewish Culture
New Play Commissions in Jewish Theater |
To support the 1998-1999 season of New Play Commissions in Jewish Theater and maintain the continuity of this proven and successful program. |
$10,000
1 year |
| National Foundation for Jewish Culture, Inc.
Residencies for Jewish Artists |
For the planning, organizaton, production and follow-up of a series of five Jewish Artists Retreats over the next three years in various disciplines and in various regions of the country. | $45,000 1 year |
| National Foundation for Jewish Culture New Play Commissions in Jewish Theater New York, NY |
To support the 1998-1999 season of New Play Commissions in Jewish Theater, and maintain the continuity of this proven and successful program. | $10,000 1 year |
| Trustees of Hampshire College
Symposium on Contemporary Jewish Creativity |
For a 3-day symposium, in cooperation with other members of the Five College consortium and the National Yiddish Book Center, on contemporary Jewish identity and Jewish creativity. | $26,000 1 year |
Overseas - Israel
| Foundation for the Jewish Community
Support for The Israel Cooperative Program |
To support the work of the Israel Cooperative Program in the areas of Jewish Pluralism and Environmental Protection. |
$62,500
1 year |
Jewish Education
| American Friends of the Hebrew University, Inc.
Supplementary Teacher Enrichment Program (STEP) |
For the continued development and piloting of a Jewish literacy and professional enrichment program for Jewish supplemtary school and early childhood teachers. | $50,000 1 year |
| Brandeis University
Genesis Program At Brandeis University |
For a program to improve Jewish education by recruiting, training and supporting a highly diverse network of twelve young Jewish educators, to create a cadre of young Jewish educators who will have a "ripple effect" on Jewish educational practices in a wide range of settings. | $70,000 1 year
|
| Combined Jewish Philanthropies
Renaissance Educator |
For a project to enhance congregational education and help develop a career ladder for Jewish educators through the creation of 14 new full time "Renaissance Educators" and a training and mentoring program to support them. | $85,000 1 year |
| Foundation for Jewish Camping Inc.
Jewish Camping |
To create a program for training Jewish environmental educators and placing them in senior positions in Jewish camps. The program will attract to the camps quality personnel who might not otherwise have participated. | $125,000 1 year |
| Jewish Educational Service of North America (JESNA)
Community Genesis Program |
For developing and disseminating several new models for engaging and educating Jewish youth. | $50,000 1 year |
| Surprise Lake Camp
Teva Learning Center |
To enable the Teva Learning Center to improve and expand its work in Environmental Education and Teacher Training. | $45,000 1 year |
Social Justice
| Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal The Shalom Center |
For the next series of gatherings of young Jewish social justice activists. | $13,400 1 year |
| American Jewish World Service, Inc.
Jewish Volunteer Corps Summer 1999 |
For a project that enables Jewish college students to perform hands-on service, engage in Jewish ritual and study text in Israel and the developing world, facilitating the construction of Jewish identity through the practice of tikkun olam. | $40,000 1 year |
| Amos: The National Jewish Partnership for Social Justice, Inc.
General Support |
To support the work of this new organization dedicated to supporting and strengthening the practice of social justice in the American Jewish community. | $170,000 1 year |
| Jewish Council for Public Affairs
General Support |
To enable the Coalition on the Environmental & Jewish Life to realize its potential to engage the extensive Jewish environmental community in a manner that effectively addresses environmental challenges, builds Jewish community, and permanently integrates environmental concern into the fabric of Jewish life. | $150,000 3 years |
| Queens College Foundation Inc.
Pragmatic Works/Hopeful Visions |
For a solutions-oriented project featuring innovative community based efforts to address fundamental urban problems. | $8,500 1 year |
| Tides Foundation
Next Generation Fund |
For the start-up year of a new fellowship program to invest in the work of social entrepreneurs ages 21 to 35 in the American Jewish community. | $75,000 1 year |
| Uniterra Foundation
General Support |
To fund the Jewish Organizing Initiative's second group of young Jews for a year of full-time community organizing, supplemented with Jewish study. | $50,000 1 year |
| University of Southern California
Conference on Jews in Prime Time |
For a five-hour conference jointly organized by the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Television Network, and the USC Annenberg School to explore the changing image of Jews in prime-time television, the treatment of "Jewish issues," and the role of Jews as television decisionmakers. | $12,500 1 year |
Out of Guidelines
| American Jewish World Service
Jewish Community Development Fund |
To support the work of the Jewish Community Development Fund, a philanthropic organization dedicated to supporting grassroots Jewish renewal and human rights in Russia and Ukraine. | $263,500 3 years |
| Americans for Peace Now Inc.
General Support |
To support the work in the United States of this organization devoted to creating support for peace in Israel. | $45,000 1 year |
Israel Cooperative Program
These grants represent the NCF contribution to the total grant made by the ICP. All grants to the Israel Cooperative Program are matched 71.5 to 28.5 with funds from the Dorot Foundation.
| American Friends of Beit Morasha
Yesodot-Foundations |
For Beit Morasha to expand its courses on Judaism and democracy to new populations. | $57,000 2 years |
| American Friends of the Israel Union for Environmental Defense Sheli Small Grants Fund Bethesda, MD |
For the third year of the Sheli Small Grants Program, co-sponsored with the CRB-Foundation, providing small grants to community-based environmental initiatives. | $14,250 1 year |
| American Friends of the Israel Union for Environmental Defense
Sustainable Development - Zichron Yaakov |
For a project of the Israel Union for Environmental Defense to build a new level of citizen involvement in protecting a highly valued coastal and inland landscape region, at the southern tip of the Carmel Mountain range. | $5,700 1 year |
| American Friends of the Israel Union for Environmental Defense
Task Force on Artificial Islands |
For the Israel Union for Environmental Defense to prepare a full environmental evaluation and initiate public debate on the artificial islands proposed for development off the Mediterranean coast. | $8,550 1 year |
| American Friends of the Israel Union for Environmental Defense Initiative on Urban Open Spaces Bethesda, MD |
For the Israel Union for Environmental Defense to catalyze campaigns to protect open spaces in Israel’s major cities, focusing both on citywide sustainable development and on quality of life at the neighborhood level. | $18,525 1 year |
| American Friends of the Israel Union for Environmental Defense A Clean Air Act for Israel: The Transport Component Bethesda, MD |
For the Israel Union for Environmental Defense to support measures to improve the environmental performance of Israel’s motor vehicle fleet. | $25,650 1 year |
| American Friends of the Shalom Hartman Institute
Transforming Judaic Studies in Israel |
To allow the Shalom Hartman Institute to continue its Judaic enrichment and retraining program with 70 principals and 230 teachers. | $22,800 1 year
|
| American Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel
Sustainable Development-Zichron Yaakov Environs |
For the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel to hire a locally based Project Coordinator who will establish a network of community-based groups to involve local citizens in a debate about the Zichron Yaakov region's future. | $5,700 1 year |
| American Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel Transportation Project Great Neck, NY |
For "3x3," a collaborative project of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel and Transport-Today & Tomorrow which will advocate for the development of three much-needed commuter rail lines over the coming three years. | $11,400 1 year |
| American Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel Tel Aviv Center for Community Action Great Neck, NY |
For the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel to strengthen the Tel Aviv center's organizing activities in multiple Tel Aviv neighborhoods. | $11,400 1 year |
| American Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel Sustainable Jerusalem: Involving Citizens in Their City's Future Great Neck, NY |
For the Jerusalem Branch of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel to draft and refine alternative planning guidelines for the future development of the City of Jerusalem, and to publicize those plans through its network of neighborhood organizations. | $7,125 1 year |
| American Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel Green Course: Student Environmental Leadership Development Great Neck, NY |
For the diverse on- and off-campus programs of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel’s Green Course program, including staff expansion. | $14,250 1 year |
| Foundation for Conservative [Mesorati] Judaism in Israel
General Support |
To support the Jerusalem Open House, a community center for gays and lesbians, and its outreach and educational activities. | $8,550 1 year |
| Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Planning Grant |
For Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem to define its role for the future, both in relation to other branches of the Reform Movement and to the other organizations active in the field of Jewish education in Israel today. | $5,700 1 year |
| New Israel Fund
Reaching Out To Development Towns |
To enable Collot at Michelet HaNegev-an organization that provides programs on Jewish identity and Israeli society, leadership development, and open batie midrash for Russian immigrants-to expand all areas of its work into the four major Southern development towns of Kiryat Gat, Sderot, Ofakim and Netivot. | $7,125 1 year |
| New Israel Fund
General Support |
To support the advocacy work of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI), and the publication and distribution of the annual ARCCI Record of Sexual Assault Against Women in Israel. | $8,550 1 year |
| New Israel Fund
General Support |
To support the work of Panim, the only organization in Israel advancing the cause of Jewish cultural renewal across Israeli society, and putting pluralism on the Israeli public agenda. | $28,500 1 year |
| New Israel Fund
Eretz Acheret/A Different Land |
To support the development and publication of "Eretz Acheret/A Different Land," a new magazine of Jewish Culture aimed at promoting and disseminating pluralistic Israeli-Jewish culture. | $21,375 1 year |
| New Israel Fund
Educational Director |
To enable Midreshet Iyun, the Bet Midrash of the Masorati Movement in Tel Aviv, to expand its educational programming. | $8,550 1 year |
| New Israel Fund
Year-Long Program in Jewish Culture for Young Leaders |
For Hamidrasha at Oranim to continue to expand the number of its participants, offer an additional, more advanced educational framework, and focus its efforts on organizational development. | $17,100 1 year |
| New Israel Fund
Education and Activism for Transport Alternatives |
For Green Action, an environmental activist organization, to initiate a multi-faceted transport education and activism project, building on the organization's demonstrated capacity to reach younger-generation Israelis. | $7,125 1 year |
| New Israel Fund
Women's Leadership Project |
To allow the Trust of Programmes for Early Childhood, Family and Community Education to continue to develop community activism through women's leadership training. | $11,400 1 year |
| New Israel Fund
Encouraging Religous Freedom in Israel |
To continue support for the New Israel Fund's work promoting religious freedom, as advised, to Hillel: Association for Jews Leaving Ultra-Orthodoxy; Am Hofshi; Shatil; and the Religious Women's Forum. | $28,500 1 year |
| New Israel Fund
Israel Leadership Project |
For Kolot to continue developing and implementing its innovative Israel Lay Leadership Program. | $28,500 1 year |
| New Israel Fund
Core Beit Midrash |
To allow Elul to enhance its Core Beit Midrash program and introduce professional development programming for its staff. | $21,375 1 year |
| New Israel Fund
Grade 13 Project |
For the Center for Cooperative Learning in Beit Shemesh to continue its Grade 13 Project. | $8,550 1 year |
| New Israel Fund
Human Rights Education and Advocacy |
To allow Bat Shalom of the Jerusalem Link to continue its campaign for human rights education and advocacy. | $11,400 1 year |
| New Israel Fund
Cultural Forum of Russian-Speaking Immigrants and Native Israelis |
To allow Alma Hebrew College to develop and implement the "Cultural Forum of Russian-speaking Immigrants and Native Israelis," an interdisciplinary study group. | $14,250 1 year |
| New Israel Fund
Outreach To Intermarried Couples |
For the Movement for Open Zionism, an organization founded by immigrants from the Former Soviet Union, to develop outreach and Jewish education programs for intermarried couples. | $5,700 1 year |
| New Israel Fund
Ombudsman for Children and Youth in The Arab Sector |
For the National Council for the Child's advocacy on behalf of, and with, Arab children in Israel. | $8,550 1 year |
| New Israel Fund General Support Washington, DC |
For Transport - Today & Tomorrow’s work promoting transport through planning, professional analysis, coalition-building, education and advocacy. | $39,900 1 year |
| New Israel Fund Environmental Justice Project Washington, DC |
To enable Shatil to provide technical assistance to grassroots and community-based environmental organizations, ensuring a more coherent and inclusive environmental movement in Israel, promoting networking and coalition-building. | $8,550 1 year |
| New Israel Fund Sustainable Development for The Negev Washington, DC |
To support the work of Negev Bar-Kayama, an organization dedicated to creating plans for sustainable development in the Negev among highly diverse regional constituencies, ranging from major industrial leaders to the Bedouin. | $7,125 1 year |
| New Israel Fund General Support Washington, DC |
For the Abraham Joshua Heschel Center for Environmental Learning & Leadership’s programs in interdisciplinary and values-based environmental studies for post-secondary students, young professionals and NGO activists. | $21,375 1 year |
| New Israel Fund Guarding The Galilee/The Galilee Consortium Washington, DC |
To support the work of the Galilee Society, a multi-organizational coalition that bridges ethnic gaps and addresses region-wide environmental problems, to forge a coordinated strategy for environmentally sustainable land use. | $14,250 1 year |
| New Israel Fund Tourism Development Project-Wadi Ara Washington, DC |
For the Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development to prepare a plan for sustainable tourism in the Wadi Ara region of the western Galilee. | $8,550 1 year |
| New Israel Fund Scholarships/Internships for Young Middle East Environmental Leaders Washington, DC |
To support programs for students and alumni at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. | $12,825 1 year |
| North American Committee for Oranim, Inc.
General Support |
For the start-up phase of Shdemot-Center for Community Jewish Education, dedicated to empowering educators as agents of change. | $14,250 1 year |
| North American Committee for Oranim
Association of Jewish Educators Working With Israeli Russian Speakers |
For Project Oren's founding conference of the Association of Jewish Educators Working with Russian Speakers in Israel, a forum for Jewish educators of Russian speakers to exchange ideas and share programming successes and challenges. | $2,850 1 year |
| P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds, Inc.
Pilot Program for The Center For Creative Judaism |
For Milah to conduct a pilot series of seminars to explore both lay and professional interest in various issues related to Judaism and the arts. | $4,275 1 year |
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