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The Morton and Jane Blaustein Foundation makes grants in the United
States and abroad. Support is provided in the program areas of educational
opportunity, health, and human rights and social justice.
Please refer to each program for specific geographic focus.
Educational Opportunity
The goal of this program is to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for disadvantaged and vulnerable youth, particularly through improving teacher quality. Preference is given to initiatives in Baltimore and New York City.
Recent grantees include:
The National Council on Teacher Quality launched a review of the nation’s 1,400 education schools in 2011, looking at the quality of teacher preparation programs — their selectivity, the knowledge required for graduation, and the way they prepare students for the demands of the classroom. The aim is to improve the quality of education schools, which will impact new teachers and ultimately the teaching profession as a whole.
The Urban Teacher Center, a new teacher training and certification program, aims to prepare highly effective teachers who significantly accelerate student achievement in the nation’s highest-need schools. UTC recruits outstanding candidates, equips them with state of the art training, and links certification to their students’ performance outcomes.
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Opportunity grants.
Health
The goal of this program is to improve health care quality and health outcomes, especially for underserved populations. Preference is given to programs in Baltimore and New York City, and those that are particularly responsive to the needs of vulnerable children, youth and families.
Areas of interest include:
- Effective and expanded use of health care professionals, such as nurse practitioners
- Links between primary care and public health
- Health care reform advocacy that advances primary care, public health and/or mental health
The Foundation also supports advocacy and policy initiatives that advance these goals.
Recent grantees include:
The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law is the leading national legal advocacy organization representing people with mental disabilities. It promotes laws and policies that can enable people with psychiatric or developmental disabilities to exercise their life choices and access the resources they need to participate fully in their communities.
St. Paul’s Center of New York is a holistic mental health care clinic specializing in administering to the neediest — particularly individuals in the community who suffer from mental illness and who are at risk for homelessness, incarceration and hospitalization. Started in 2004 by faculty and graduates of the Columbia University School of Nursing, St. Paul’s is the city's first non-profit, independent community mental health clinic managed and operated solely by psychiatric nurse practitioners.
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Human Rights and Social Justice
The goal of this program is to advance fundamental human rights both in the United States and abroad.
Areas of interest include:
- Equal justice for US citizens, as well as immigrants and asylum seekers in the United States, through legal strategies, advocacy and policy reform
- Responses to urgent human rights crises created by natural disasters, civil strife, or war
- Social justice initiatives particularly around impoverished women and children, and vulnerable youth.
Recent grantees include:
The Immigration Representation Project, established by the Fund for New Citizens at the New York Community Trust, is a model collaboration among legal agencies in New York City that represents immigrants and asylum seekers at Immigration Court and in detention.
The Tahirih Justice Center works to protect immigrant women and girls seeking justice in the United States from gender-based violence. Utilizing in-house attorneys and leveraging pro bono attorneys, Tahirih empowers its clients to achieve justice and equality through holistic direct legal services and national public policy advocacy.
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Contact
Us
Mary Jane Blaustein: President
Betsy Ringel: Executive Director
Tanya C. Herbick: Program Officer
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