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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| 2007 | Jewish Student Press Service |
Support to revamp and expand the website of a national magazine written by and for Jewish college students. $75,000 over three years. New York, NY. | Jewish Identity, Youth & Young Adult | |
| 2007 | Support for production and outreach related to the first full-length documentary film on Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a soldier, martyr and national heroine in Israel. $50,000. Berkeley, CA. | Arts & Media, Holocaust | ||
| 2007 | General Support |
Support for the first ever interdenominational Jewish education conference targeting Jews of all backgrounds and ages in Southern California. $35,000. Los Angeles, CA. | Education, Jewish Identity | |
| 2007 | Yiddish Radio Online Archive |
Support for preservation and archiving of Yiddish radio's "Court of the Air," a program that aired from 1933 - 1958. $40,000 over two years. New York, NY. | Arts & Media | |
| 2007 | A Partnership for Change |
Support to coordinate the Jewish component of a national interfaith anti-hunger campaign. $60,000 over two years. Los Angeles, CA. | Social Justice | |
| 2007 | New York Public Library |
Support for a national tour displaying a rare collection of more than 300 letters, photgraphs, and documents saved by Sala Garncarz Kirschner while imprisoned in a Nazi labor camp. $25,000. New York, NY. | Holocaust | |
| 2007 | Renewal of support for teen summer program which integrates civics education, service-learning, and Jewish values. $70,000 over two years. Washington, DC. | Social Justice, Youth & Young Adult | ||
| 2007 | Renewal of support for educational curriculum which uses the stories of real life heroes to teach young people the importance of making a difference in their own lives and communities. $30,000 over two years. New York, NY. | Holocaust, Youth & Young Adult | ||
| 2007 | Testimony Theater |
Support for an original theater-based program which brings together Holocaust survivors and Israeli teens. $25,000. New York, NY. | Holocaust | |
| 2006 | Support for program working to foster cultural understanding between Jewish and Muslim high school and college students. $80,000 over two years. New York, NY. | Tolerance & Intergroup Relations, Youth & Young Adult | ||
| 2006 | Matching support to this archive housing a collection of over 10,000 titles of film and video, constituting one of the largest collections of Jewish documentary film footage in the world. $300,000 over three years. New York, NY. | Arts & Media | ||
| 2006 | Support for program that trains high school students to identify areas of conflict within their school and to serve as peer educators. $30,000. Los Angeles, CA. | Tolerance & Intergroup Relations, Youth & Young Adult | ||
| 2006 | Support for strategic reorganization of Los Angeles-region non-demoninational Jewish youth group. $35,000. Los Angeles, CA. | Youth & Young Adult |
