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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Support to develop an educational guide for the film Schindler's List to be made available to every high school in the country, along with a copy of the film. $295,000 over three years. Brookline, MA. | Holocaust | ||
| 1994 | Hebrew University |
Support for the Spielberg Film Archive at Hebrew University, 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. $500,000. New York, NY. | Arts & Media | |
| 1994 | Support for the founding of what has become the largest repository of oral histories of Holocaust survivors, with over 50,000 testimonies collected. $390,000. Los Angeles, CA. | Holocaust | ||
| 1995 | Support of the renovation and restoration of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. $250,000. Washington, DC. | Holocaust | ||
| 1995 | Support for Los Angeles-based interfaith program which brings rabbis to Catholic schools and Catholic educators to Jewish day schools to teach about their respective religions. $67,400. Los Angeles, CA. | Tolerance & Intergroup Relations, Youth & Young Adult | ||
| 1995 | American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee |
To help photographer and social anthropologist Frederic Brenner complete his project documenting American Jewish life. $50,000. New York, NY. | Arts & Media | |
| 1995 | Support for the launch of a program to send Jewish professionals and college students to volunteer in the developing world and to assist AJWS in increasing the visibility of their work via public relations. $225,000 over three years. New York, NY. | Social Justice, Youth & Young Adult | ||
| 1995 | BBYO University |
Support for an intensive educational program to train adults who work with Jewish youth. $75,000. Washington, DC. | Youth & Young Adult | |
| 1995 | Support for production of this documentary telling the story of how residents in Billings, Montana, responded to anti-Semitism and racism within their community. $15,000. Oakland, CA. | Arts & Media, Tolerance & Intergroup Relations | ||
| 1995 | Support for the publication of a book of photographs by photojournalist Edward Serotta telling the story of how a small band of Holocaust survivors and their children turned the Sarajevo Jewish Community Center into one of the most effective non-sectarian humanitarian aid organizations operating in the Bosnia war zone. $15,000. New York, NY. | Arts & Media | ||
| 1995 | Covenant Foundation |
Support of a documentary film based on Liz Swados' The Hating Pot, a musical theater work that looks at racism and anti-Semitism with a multicultural cast of teen and adult performers. $175,000. New York, NY. | Arts & Media, Tolerance & Intergroup Relations | |
| 1995 | Support for building campaign and to enable disadvantaged youth to be able to visit the Center. $25,000. Los Angeles, CA. | Arts & Media | ||
| 1995 | Support of new programs across eight campuses aimed at engaging those college students who have traditionally not participated in Jewish life on campus. $307,000 over two years. Washington, DC. | Jewish Identity, Youth & Young Adult | ||
| 1995 | Hillside Public Library |
Holocaust Book Fund |
Support for the library's purchase of the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. $440. Hillside, NJ. | Holocaust |
| 1995 | Fund for the Rescuers |
Support to provide medical and emergency aid to those who rescued Jews during the Holocaust currently living in Central and Eastern Europe and the United States. $150,000 over three years. New York, NY. | Holocaust | |
| 1995 | Building Campaign |
Support for the construction of a new museum dedicated to telling the story of the Holocaust and of Jewish heritage in the 20th century. $1,000,000 over two years. New York, NY. | Holocaust | |
| 1995 | National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council |
Support to expand this leadership and civic engagement program for young adults to three additional cities. $15,000. New York, NY. | Youth & Young Adult | |
| 1995 | Support for the construction of a new center in Amherst, MA for this organization which has rescued over 1.5 million Yiddish books, with the mission of returning old books to a new generation of readers. $250,000 over two years. Amherst, MA. | Education | ||
| 1995 | Support for their work coordinating clergy to act as a counterweight to the dominance of fundamentalist religious voices in the public arena. $225,000 over three years. Washington, DC. | Social Justice | ||
| 1995 | Support for effort to document hidden Jewish artifacts in the Former Soviet Union and for summer program for American college students in Central Europe. $150,000 over two years. Washington, DC. | Education, Holocaust | ||
| 1995 | Support of this documentary film which went on to win an Academy Award and includes what is believed to be the only surviving moving-picture footage of Anne Frank. $150,000. Los Angeles, CA. | Arts & Media, Holocaust | ||
| 1995 | Support for the founding of what has become the largest repository of oral histories of Holocaust survivors, with over 50,000 testimonies collected. $2,610,000. Los Angeles, CA. | Holocaust | ||
| 1995 | Support for the creation of an interdenominational institute to transform synagogues into places for community, spiritual worship, meaningful education, and social justice. $300,000 over three years. Los Angeles, CA. | Spirituality & Synagogue Life | ||
| 1995 | Support for this vocal sextet's production and radio series of music of the Jewish High Holy Days to be broadcast by National Public Radio. $12,500. New York, NY. | Arts & Media | ||
| 1995 | WGBH Educational Foundation |
Support for production of Marian Marzynski's film about the town of Bransk and Polish/Jewish relations then and now. $30,000. Boston, MA. | Arts & Media | |
| 1995 | WNET / Educational Broadcasting Corporation |
Support for this 10-part documentary series on PBS in which writers, artists, theologians, activists, and academics discuss and debate what the Book of Genesis has to say to us today. $100,000. New York, NY. | Arts & Media | |
| 1995 | Yale University |
Support for the cataloguing of over 2,200 videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors collected by Yale's Video Archive for Holocaust testimonies. $500,000 over four years. New Haven, CT. | Holocaust | |
| 1996 | General Support |
Support for projects in Israel which work to advance co-existence, equality, and cooperation among Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens. $30,000 over three years. New York, NY. | Tolerance & Intergroup Relations | |
| 1996 | Talmud Circle Project |
Support for the recruitment and training of educators to teach the Talmud within community-based settings. $25,000. New York, NY. | Education | |
| 1996 | American Jewish Society for Service |
Summer Service Program for Teens |
Support for AJSS' summer program where Jewish high school students from all over the country work together to help communities in need. $45,000 over three years. Bethesda, MD. | Social Justice, Youth & Young Adult |
