Grants Archive
Click on the heading "Grantee" to view alphabetically by grantee, "Year" to view chronologically, or use the pulldown menus to filter alphabetically, by year or program area. Click on the name of the grantee or project to visit their website.
| Year | Grantee | Project | Description / Award / Location | Program Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee |
Israel: Portrait of a Work in Progress |
Support for photographer and anthropoligist Frederic Brenner's new effort for which aclaimed comptemporary phtographers from 10 different natinalities collectively create a portrait of Israel as a work in progress. $100,000. New York, NY. | Arts & Media, Jewish Identity |
| 2008 | Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles |
Jewish Community Library of LA |
Renewal of support for this free library that specializes in Jewish related materials in Los Angeles. $15,000. Los Angeles, CA. | Education |
| 2008 | General Support |
Renewal of support for organization which holds a series of community forums, aired on public radio, to bring together members of all faith and ethnic backgrounds to discuss pressing issues of today and inter-race relations. $20,000. Los Angeles, CA. | Tolerance & Intergroup Relations | |
| 2008 | Four Seasons Project |
Four Seasons Lodge |
Support for outreach and distribution of this documentary which tells the story of nearly 100 Holocaust survivors who pooled their funds to buy a retreat in the Catskills where they summered and recreated a sense of family. $40,000. New York, NY. | Arts & Media, Holocaust |
| 2008 | Hazon |
Challah for Hunger |
Capacity-building support for program founded by college student Eli Winkelman that bakes and sells challah on college campuses to raise money for hunger relief domestically and abroad and transmit a spirit of Shabbat. $60,000 over two years. New York, NY. | Social Justice, Youth & Young Adult |
| 2008 | Jdub Records |
Capacity Building |
Capacity-building support for this nonprofit record and event company which leverages music as a medium to create common, positive experiences for Jews of all backgrounds. $80,000 over two years. . | Arts & Media, Jewish Identity, Youth & Young Adult |
| 2008 | Jewish Council for Public Affairs |
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL) |
Transition grant to help relaunch a national Jewish environmental organization. $60,000. New York, NY. | Social Justice |
| 2008 | JewisH World Watch |
Synagogue Resource Director |
Support for a Synagogue Resource Director who will further engage the Jewish community in Southern CA via education, advocacy and direct relief to combat genocide in Darfur. $120,000 over two years. Los Angeles, CA. | Social Justice |
| 2008 | Judaism Collection |
Grant to endow the Los Angeles Central Library's Jewish collection of books and periodicals. $100,000. Los Angeles, CA. | Education | |
| 2008 | Jewish Cultural Fellows Program |
Support for the creation of a Jewish Cultural Fellowship which will train students to serve as "Jewish cultural ambassadors" at their college campuses. $80,000 over 2 years. Amherst, MA.. | Jewish Identity, Youth & Young Adult | |
| 2008 | General Support |
Renewal of support for organization dedicated to engaging young Jews in the exploration of issues of identity and community. $250,000 over two years. New York, NY.. | Jewish Identity, Youth & Young Adult | |
| 2008 | Website/Central Online Archive |
Support to develop a comprehensive, interactive website and online archive that will make accessible over 1,200 films browsible by theme, year, director, actors along with program notes and clips to panel discussion with filmmakers, curricula and articles, audience feedback postings, moderated online conversations, young filmmaker profiles and other tools. $100,000. San Francisco, CA.. | Arts & Media | |
| 2008 | Spertus College of Judaica |
Julius Rosenwald Exhibit |
Support for a retrospective featuring over 60 works by African-American artists supported in the 1930s by Julius Rosenwald, the child of German Jewish Immigrants who went on to be CEO of Sears and an instrumental philanthropist in the African-American community. $35,000.. Chicago, IL. | Arts & Media, Tolerance & Intergroup Relations |
| 2007 | Renewal of support for the domestic follow-up component of AJWS' international service program for young adults. $100,000 over two years. New York, NY. | Social Justice, Youth & Young Adult | ||
| 2007 | Support for teacher training and dissemination of comprehensive Holocaust curriculum aimed at high schools. $100,000 over two years. New York, NY. | Education, Holocaust | ||
| 2007 | Renewal of support for U.S. participants of this program that brings together Jewish, Christian, and Muslim teens from around the world to foster interfaith understanding and to teach communication skills with the objective of equipping future leaders with the tools to pursue peaceful interventions in their societies of origin. $60,000 over two years. New York, NY. | Tolerance & Intergroup Relations, Youth & Young Adult | ||
| 2007 | Support to open a program in New Orleans for Jews in their twenties that combines community work with Jewish learning. $100,000 over two years. New York, NY. | Social Justice, Youth & Young Adult | ||
| 2007 | General Support (fourth renewal) |
Renewal of support to a national organization which provides financial assistance to elderly Holocaust survivors for housing, health care, and other basic necessities. $50,000 over two years. New York, NY. | Holocaust | |
| 2007 | Support for media-based middle- and high-school curriculum utilizing photographs and interviews of Jews who remained in Europe after the Holocaust. $50,000. Atlanta, GA. | Education, Holocaust | ||
| 2007 | Support for documentary film about Gertrude Berg, pioneering actress, writer, and producer of radio and television series "The Goldbergs." $50,000. Washington, DC. | Arts & Media | ||
| 2007 | General Support (second renewal) |
Renewal of support for a year-long program which brings African-American and Jewish high school students together to explore their histories and cultures through educational programming, study tours, and social action. $40,000 over two years. St. Louis, MO. | Tolerance & Intergroup Relations, Youth & Young Adult | |
| 2007 | Support to produce curricula and training for middle- and high-school teachers related to documentaries $140,000 over two years. Brookline, MA. | Arts & Media, Tolerance & Intergroup Relations | ||
| 2007 | General Support |
Support for the oldest operating Yiddish theater in the United States. $60,000 over two years. New York, NY. | Arts & Media | |
| 2007 | General Support (second renewal) |
Renewal of general support for organization dedicated to strengthening relations between different ethnic communities. $20,000 over two years. New York, NY. | Tolerance & Intergroup Relations | |
| 2007 | Support to organize house parties around the nation featuring Jewish documentaries with social justice themes. $10,000. New York, NY. | Arts & Media, Social Justice | ||
| 2007 | Be'Tzelem Interfaith Program (renewal) |
Renewal of support for interfaith program of rabbinical students and students at Andover Newton Theological Seminary. $80,000 over two years. Newton Centre, MA. | Spirituality & Synagogue Life, Tolerance & Intergroup Relations | |
| 2007 | Support for the preservation and digital storage of oral testimonies from Holocaust survivors originally recorded in 1946. $50,000. Chicago, IL. | Holocaust | ||
| 2007 | General Support (renewal) |
To provide general support to this organization which provides social services and humanitarian relief to people in Los Angeles, Israel, and around the world. $50,000 over two years. Los Angeles, CA. | None | |
| 2007 | Support for interest-free loans to individuals and families needing financial assistance for adoption or fertility treatment. $50,000. Los Angeles, CA. | None | ||
| 2007 | Support to send college students on volunteer service learning trips to the Gulf Region. $100,000. New York, NY. | Social Justice, Youth & Young Adult |
