| Fostering Educational Opportunities |
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| Public Education Reform in Baltimore City |
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| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Maryland |
|
$135,000 over two years |
| support for the Education Reform Project |
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| The Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers |
|
$10,000 over two years |
| support for a part-time coordinator to staff the Education Funders Affinity Group |
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| Baltimore City Public School System |
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$80,250 |
| support for training the new cadre of principal coaches/supervisors |
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| Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for efforts to connect African-American families to independent school opportunities |
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| Business Volunteers Unlimited Maryland |
|
$40,000 over two years |
| support for the business-school partnership program |
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| Central Scholarship Bureau, Inc. |
|
$150,000 over five years |
| support to supplement revolving loan funds named for Hilda Katz Blaustein, Sophie Van Leer Katz and Dr. Esther Katz Rosen |
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| Children's Scholarship Fund of Baltimore |
|
$20,000 |
| support for the scholarship program |
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| Comprehensive Housing Assistance |
|
$25,000 over two years |
| renewed support for the School-Community Partnership |
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| Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City |
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$125,000 over two years |
| support for implementation of the Pratt Strategic Technology Plan at library branches around the City |
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| Fund for Educational Excellence |
|
$70,000 over two years |
| support for efforts to bolster school reform in Baltimore City |
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| The Johns Hopkins University |
|
$25,000 |
| support for the Baltimore Education Research Consortium |
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| New Leaders for New Schools |
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$130,000 over two years |
| support for New Leaders-Baltimore, a program to recruit and train high caliber principals for Baltimore City public schools |
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| Teach for America |
|
$70,000 over two years |
| general support for the Baltimore program |
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| Urban Teacher Center |
|
$80,000 over two years |
| support for the teacher training and certification program in Baltimore City |
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| Arts & Culture |
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| Art on Purpose |
|
$15,000 |
| support for the Black Male Identity project |
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| Arts Every Day |
|
$25,000 |
| support for efforts to promote arts integration in Baltimore City schools |
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| Baltimore Clayworks |
|
$60,000 over two years |
| support for community arts programming for underserved youth, senior adults and families in Baltimore |
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| The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for education programming for school and family groups |
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| Center Stage Associates |
|
$40,000 over two years |
| support for education and outreach programming targeted to young audiences |
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| The Everyman Theatre |
|
$55,000 over two years |
| general support |
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| The Everyman Theatre |
|
$275,000 over four years |
| capital support for the renovation of the Town Theatre |
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| The Johns Hopkins University - Peabody Institute |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for the Music Teacher Mentoring Program which links expert instructors from the Peabody Institute with Baltimore City Public School music teachers |
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| Maryland Institute College of Art |
|
$60,000 over two years |
| support for the Master of Arts in Community Arts program |
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| Museum for Contemporary Arts |
|
$15,000 |
| general support |
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| Station North Arts & Entertainment |
|
$10,000 |
| support for the Station North Arts & Entertainment District, to match a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts |
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| Young Audiences of Maryland |
|
$60,000 over two years |
| support for visiting artists and residencies in Baltimore City public schools
|
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| Special Projects |
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| Associated Black Charities |
|
$40,000 over two years |
| support to rebuild its fundraising and volunteer management capacity |
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| Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| general support
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| The Park School |
| $750,000 over five years |
| endowment support for the Hilda Katz Blaustein Scholarship fund ($375,000) and endowment support for faculty salaries and benefits ($375,000) |
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| Health and Mental Health |
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| Mental Health |
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| Active Minds |
|
$60,000 over two years |
| support for student-run mental health awareness programming on college campuses |
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| The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for the 'Shofar Coalition', a collaborative, community-wide campaign to address the traumatic effects of abuse in the Jewish community |
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| Baltimore Child Abuse Center |
|
$30,000 |
| support to offer on-site mental health treatment to sexually-abused children and their non-offending family members |
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| Behavioral Health Leadership Institute |
|
$85,000 |
| support for Project Connections, an effort to make mental health services culturally and logistically accessible to low-income clients |
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| Community Conferencing Center |
|
$65,000 over two years |
| support to implement the Daily Rap program and community conferencing model in Baltimore City schools |
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| The Family Tree |
|
$70,000 over two years |
| support for the Family Guidance Program, offering evidence-based mental health supports for families |
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| Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition |
|
$70,000 over two years |
| support for Healthy Minds at Work, a mental health program for young adults enrolled in the Youth Opportunity Center |
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| LifeBridge Health |
|
$80,000 over two years |
| support for the Perinatal Depression Outreach Services of Sinai Hospital |
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| Mental Health Association of Maryland |
|
$90,000 over two years |
| support for the Maryland Coalition on Mental Health and Aging, which advocates for improved mental health services for senior citizens
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| The Pro Bono Counseling Project |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for “Caring for Caregivers,” a project designed to link caregivers to mental health services |
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| Roberta's House |
|
$25,000 |
| support for a family support center catering to urban families experiencing grief and loss |
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| University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation |
|
$70,000 over two years |
| general support for the Social Work Community Outreach Service |
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| Health |
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| Advocates for Children and Youth |
|
$30,000 |
| support for the health advocacy agenda |
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| The Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers |
|
$3,000 |
| support for the Green Funders Affinity Group |
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| breastcancer.org |
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$30,000 over two years |
| support for breastcancer.org, the most heavily trafficked breast cancer information website in the world |
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| Foundation of the Oscar and Ella Wilf Campus for Senior Living |
|
$250,000 over five years |
| support for an endowment, proceeds from which support the Martin and Edith Stein Hospice |
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| Health Care for America Education Fund |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for efforts to ensure that health care reform becomes permanent and is implemented as intended |
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| Health Care for the Homeless |
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$350,000 over five years |
| capital support for the construction of a new facility |
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| Kennedy Krieger Institute, Inc. |
|
$200,000 over five years |
| capital support for the construction of the aquatherapy center in the developmental disabilities center |
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| LifeBridge Health |
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$500,000 over five years |
| capital support to renovate and expand The Children's Hospital at Sinai, incorporating environmentally sound design and operational practices |
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| Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative Education Fund |
|
$75,000 |
| support for the Health Care for All campaign |
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| National Health Law Program |
|
$100,000 over two years |
| support for efforts to secure and protect equitable access to public health care programs for low-income people |
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| Public Justice Center |
|
$120,000 over two years |
| support for the Health and Benefits Rights Project, which monitors the Maryland Medicaid and other entitlement programs |
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| The Breast Cancer Fund |
| $100,000 over two years |
| support for the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics |
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| Environmental Health |
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| The Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers |
|
$15,000 |
| support to explore the feasibility of launching a children's environmental health coalition |
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| Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| renewed general support for early intervention, prevention, education and outreach services |
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| Environmental Working Group |
|
$100,000 over two years |
| renewed support for the Toxics and Human Health Program |
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| Friends of Baltimore City Public Schools Great Kids Farm Foundation |
|
$20,000 |
| general support for the Great Kids Farm |
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| Health Care Without Harm |
|
$100,000 over two years |
| support for efforts to transform the health care sector and reduce its negative impact on the environment |
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| Maryland Pesticide Network |
|
$80,000 over two years |
| support for advocacy and education efforts aimed at encouraging the use of alternatives to toxic pesticides |
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| Maryland Public Interest Research Foundation |
|
$65,000 over two years |
| support for the Toxics and Environmental Health advocacy program |
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| Human Rights |
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| ActionAid USA |
|
$40,000 |
| support for the global Right to Education project, a web-based resource for education advocates |
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| AIDS-Free World |
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$50,000 over two years |
| support to integrate human rights perspectives into HIV-AIDS advocacy |
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| Center for Economic and Social Rights |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support to promote economic and social rights such as the rights to housing, education, health, work and an adequate standard of living |
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| Center for Gender & Refugee Studies |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for advocacy, litigation, research and education to protect the rights of refugee women and children fleeing gender based violence |
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| Center for Health and Gender Equity |
|
$40,000 |
| support to promote reproductive health and rights within U.S. international policy |
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| Center for Reproductive Rights |
|
$60,000 over two years |
| support for the International Legal Program |
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| Disability Rights International |
|
$90,000 over two years |
| support to promote the human rights of people with mental disabilities worldwide |
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| Firelight Foundation |
|
$20,000 over two years |
| support for the International Education Funders Group |
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| Fund for Global Human Rights |
|
$200,000 over two years |
| support for grants to local and regional human rights groups around the world |
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| International Human Rights Funders Group |
|
$120,000 over three years |
| general support |
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| Let's Breakthrough, Inc. |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support to promote women's human rights through film and other visual media |
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| Sauti Yetu Center for African Women |
|
$25,000 |
| support to protect the rights of African immigrant and refugee women in New York City |
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| Tahirih Justice Center |
|
$100,000 over two years |
| support for legal advocacy for immigrant and refugee women/girls fleeing from gender-based violence |
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| WITNESS |
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$50,000 over two years |
| support to use video to inform the public about human rights issues |
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| Israel Program |
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| Adam Teva V'Din-Israel Union for Environmental Defense |
|
$27,500 |
| support for advocacy and litigation to protect Israel's environment |
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| Adva Center |
|
$40,000 |
| support to analyze government social and economic policies and budgets |
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| Agenda: Israeli Center for Strategic Communications |
|
$60,000 over two years |
| support to improve Israeli media portrayals of social justice and civil rights issues |
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| AHD: The Association of Academic Arabs in the Negev |
|
$25,000 |
| support for the AHD Bedouin High School for Science |
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| Alnuhud: The Association for the Promotion of Bedouin Women's Education in the Negev |
|
$25,000 over two years |
| scholarship support for Bedouin women to pursue higher education |
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| American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
|
$25,000 |
| scholarship support for graduate students from Arab countries at the Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research |
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| American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
|
$25,000 |
| support for the Director's Discretionary Fund at the Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research |
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| American Friends of Tel Aviv University |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for the Rights in Education Project of the Public Interest Law Program |
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| American Society of the Haifa University |
|
$25,000 |
| support to assist Arab graduate degree candidates in clinical and educational psychology |
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| The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| scholarship support for graduate students from Arab countries |
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| Bimkom - Planners for Planning Rights |
|
$150,000 over two years |
| support for activities in the Negev |
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| Bizchut, The Israel Human Rights Center for People with Disabilities |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for advocacy on behalf of people with mental disabilities |
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| Center for Women's Justice |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for legal aid and advocacy on behalf of women using Israel’s rabbinical court system |
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| Community Advocacy |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for advocacy programs for disadvantaged residents of Beersheva |
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| ELI - The Israel Association for Child Protection |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for child abuse prevention and treatment programs |
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| Hagar: Jewish-Arab Education for Equality |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for the Jewish-Arab elementary school in Beersheva |
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| The Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for programs to promote citizen awareness of environmental issues |
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| Ir Amin |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for public education about the future of Jerusalem |
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| The Israel Association of Community Centers |
|
$50,000 |
| support for the Academic Excellence program for Bedouin high school students in the Negev |
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| Israel Center for Educational Innovation |
|
$50,000 |
| support to raise achievement levels in elementary schools with high concentrations of Ethiopian sutdents |
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| Israel Family Planning Association |
|
$55,000 over two years |
| support for educational programs in the Negev |
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| Israel Religious Action Center |
|
$150,000 over two years |
| support to promote religious pluralism and freedom through advocacy, research, public education and litigation |
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| Itach - Maaki Women Lawyers for Social Justice |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for legal aid and litigation for low-income women in the Negev |
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| Kav Mashve - Employers' Coalition for Equality for Arab University Graduates |
|
$50,000 |
| support for the Career Training Program for High School Students in Bedouin high schools |
| |
| The Leo Baeck Education Center Foundation |
| $75,000 over five years |
| support for the Lokey International Academy of Jewish Studies |
| |
| Ma'an: Forum of Bedouin Women's Organizations |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support to empower Bedouin women, including legal aid on matters of family law |
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| Ma'ase |
|
$25,000 |
| support to promote volunteerism and young leadership through its Knowledge Center |
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| Middle East Education through Technology - MEET |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for programs that use technology to bring together Israeli and Palestinian youth |
| |
| Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development |
|
$100,000 over two years |
| support to promote development in the Bedouin community and positive intergroup relations in the Negev |
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| New Israel Fund |
|
$200,000 over two years |
| support for grants and capacity building assistance in the Negev |
| |
| Shiluv |
|
$22,500 over three years |
| support for counseling programs |
| |
| Tebeka: Advocacy for Equality and Justice for Ethiopian-Israelis |
|
$20,000 over two years |
| support for legal aid/representation for Ethiopian Israelis |
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| The Sustainability Laboratory |
|
$50,000 |
| support for Project Wadi Attir, a model, community-based organic farm based on traditional Bedouin practices |
| |
| Yad L'isha Legal Aid Center and Hotline |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for the Legal Aid Center ($20,000 over 2 years) and for ICAR, the International Coalition for Aguna Rights ($20,000 over 2 years) |
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| Yedid - The Association for Community Empowerment |
|
$100,000 over two years |
| support for individual assistance, advocacy and leadership training for low-income Israelis |
| |
| Yesodot - The Center for the Study of Torah and Democracy |
|
$25,000 over two years |
| support for democracy education programs for principals, teachers, and students in state religious schools |
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| Jewish Life |
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| Alliance for Middle East Peace |
|
$25,000 |
| support for a coalition of non-governmental organizations that conduct people-to-people reconciliation efforts among Jews and Arabs |
| |
| The American Jewish Committee |
|
$2,000,000 over ten years |
| endowment support for the Centennial Campaign: A Fund for the Future |
| |
| The American Jewish Committee |
|
$2,500 |
| general support in honor of Lois Rosenfield |
| |
| The American Jewish Committee |
|
$200,000 over two years |
| annual support for 2011 |
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| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli-Arab Issues |
| |
| American Jewish World Service |
|
$200,000 over two years |
| support for service learning programs in developing countries |
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| The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore |
|
$80,000 over two years |
| support for four Hillel campus programs in the Baltimore metropolitan area |
| |
| The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore |
|
$2,000,000 over five years |
| supplemental support for the Capital Campaign |
| |
| The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore |
|
$1,200,000 |
| support for the 2011 Annual Campaign |
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| AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps |
|
$75,000 |
| support for year-long Jewish service learning programs in New York, Washington DC, New Orleans and Chicago |
| |
| The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life |
|
$20,000 over two years |
| support for educational activities about the environment |
| |
| Encounter Programs |
|
$80,000 over two years |
| support to educate North American Jewish leaders about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict |
| |
| Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support to train rabbis and lay people in the Conservative Movement about outreach to interfaith families |
| |
| Hazon |
|
$100,000 over two years |
| support to promote sustainable food, outdoor action, and environmental education |
| |
| Hillel - The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life |
|
$150,000 over two years |
| support for Tzedek Hillel, which promotes social justice and service learning on campus |
| |
| Institute for Jewish Spirituality |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for professional development with rabbis, cantors, and educators |
| |
| InterfaithFamily.com |
|
$30,000 over two years |
| support for an online resource for interfaith families exploring Jewish Life |
| |
| Jewish Funds for Justice |
|
$225,000 over two years |
| support for grantmaking, community organizing, economic development, and leadership activities |
| |
| Just Vision |
|
$80,000 over two years |
| support for educational programs that highlight innovative approaches to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict |
| |
| New Israel Fund |
|
$50,000 over two years |
| support for service learning programs in Israel for North American college graduates |
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| Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism |
|
$140,000 over two years |
| support to promote social justice and human rights |
| |
| Repair the World |
|
$100,000 |
| support to promote Jewish service learning through grants, capacity-building assistance and evaluation |
| |
Tevel B'Tzedek: A New Israeli Non-Profit for Social and Environmental Justice
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|
$40,000 over two years |
| support for Jewish service learning programs in Nepal for Israelis and Jews from other countries |
| |
| Union for Reform Judaism |
|
$70,000 over two years |
| support for the Just Congregations Initiative that trains Reform Jewish congregations to address economic and social injustice |
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