Ciesla Foundation

Marketing Support for Rosenwald

2015

$15,000

RPF funded the production of Rosenwald, filmmaker Aviva Kempner’s documentary on the life of Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish businessman and philanthropist who helped build more than 5,000 schools for African American children in the 1920s and 30s, alongside many other philanthropic accomplishments. This grant supports the film being screened at film festivals and for community groups nationwide.

Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee University, 1915. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library