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Family and health grants

Albert L. Schultz Jewish Community Center - $15,000

Continued support of the Thursday Group Program for Seniors, offering a weekly opportunity for seniors to meet and engage with one another and participate in an exercise/movement activity, followed by lunch and a guest speaker, often focused on topics of health and wellness. (Jewish Community Endowment Maimonides Fund)

The Grief and Growing Healing Weekend: a program of the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center, in collaboration with Camp Tawonga, Sinai Memorial Chapel, and the Bureau of Jewish Education - $40,000

The Grief & Growing retreat, currently held at Camp Tawonga, responds to the specific needs of bereaved individuals of all ages, by providing a safe, supportive, natural environment that offers connection through workshops and creative projects, rituals and discussion groups within a uniquely Jewish spiritual framework. (Jewish Community Endowment Fund)

Bay Area Jewish Healing Center - $53,000

For continued support of the agency’s rabbinic staff and volunteer resources providing Jewish elderly Shabbat programming, holiday visits, and Jewish End of Life Care/Hospice services, as well as the Center’s Mental Illness Education & Outreach Project, providing Jewish spiritual support to the mentally ill and their families, education for congregational rabbis about Jewish perspectives on mental illness, and to act as a community-wide resources in this arena.
(Jewish Community Endowment Newhouse & Maimonides Funds)

Community-Wide Senior Excursion Fund - $15,000, with an additional $5,000 reserve fund, if needed

To provide excursions to local theatre and cultural events for elderly persons who would otherwise not be able to attend due to lack of mobility, opportunity, and/or financial resources. Grants from the Fund are used to purchase tickets and provide transportation for seniors, and caretakers for those who are especially frail. (Jewish Community Endowment Maimonides Fund)

Friendship Circle, Jewish Community Agency of Sonoma County - $18,000

For continued support of programming and staffing costs of the Friendship Circle, offering Lunch & Learn programs to 70-120 seniors twice each month, and special trips funded by the Community-Wide Senior Excursion Fund. (Jewish Community Endowment Newhouse Fund)

Institute on Aging - $25,000

Continued support of the health and social programming for the predominantly low-income Jewish seniors at the Ruth Ann Rosenberg Adult Day Health Center and Alzheimer’s Day Center including Feldenkrais sessions and massage therapy to alleviate chronic pain; social activities such as ceramics, storytelling and dance performances; and Jewish holiday and Shabbat programming. (Jewish Community Endowment Maimonides Fund)

Jewish Chaplaincy at Stanford, with the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center as fiscal agent - $35,000

To provide spiritual and religious guidance for the patients at Stanford Medical Center and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, as well as their families and caregivers.
(Jewish Community Endowment Newhouse Fund)

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco - $70,000

To serve approximately 1,000 seniors through the only congregate kosher lunch site in San Francisco. Seniors receive a hot, nutritious and affordable kosher meal six days per week, in addition to four special holiday events, and complementary health and recreation activities.
(Jewish Community Endowment Newhouse & Maimonides Funds)

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco - $80,000

For continued support for activities and outreach through the Montefiore Senior Center, and the Newhouse Rides program, providing free taxi vouchers for seniors and people with disabilities to attend JCC programs. (Jewish Community Endowment Newhouse Fund)

Jewish Family and Children’s Services - $354,000

For direct financial assistance to individuals and families in need, with top priority given to Holocaust survivors. Funds are used to meet basic needs such as food, shelter, and in-home health care. (Jewish Community Endowment Newhouse Fund)

Jewish Family and Children’s Services - $40,000

For the At-Home Disabled Meal Delivery Program, providing weekly deliveries of meals, fresh produce, and grocery items for low-income, disabled clients under the age of 60, who do not qualify for other sources of public support. (Jewish Community Endowment Newhouse Fund)

Jewish Family and Children’s Services - $40,000

Operating support for the Volunteer Senior Outreach Corps, with 600-800 volunteers assisting over 1,700 JFCS senior clients in a variety of ways, including home visits, rides to doctors’ appointments, home repairs, food delivery, and “check in” phone calls.
(Jewish Community Endowment Maimonides Fund)

Jewish Home - $72,000

To support the cost of hiring a credentialed Exercise Physiologist as lead staff for the pilot “Fitness, Not Frailty” wellness program. (Jewish Community Endowment Maimonides Fund)

Jewish Vocational Service - $132,500

To support the Technology Access Center, providing clients with access to and training in key business technologies, job search strategies, and professional development workshops; and the JobLink program, working with more than 200 adults with disabilities and/or other significant barriers to employment, to find and retain meaningful employment; and the Vocational Scholarship program, enabling clients to obtain vocational training not offered in-house by JVS. (Jewish Community Endowment Newhouse Fund)

Menorah Park - $65,500

For continued support of the Health Corner program, provided in partnership with the Jewish Home, to offer on-site bilingual nursing/medical expertise 3 mornings and two afternoons per week. (Jewish Community Endowment Newhouse Fund)

Osher Marin Jewish Community Center - $26,000

A one-time grant to support the hiring of a full-time bus driver/transportation coordinator to offer free transportation to JCC cultural programs (day and evening) to 300 seniors each month, and to transport an additional 80-100 seniors to the Shabbat Lunch program. (Jewish Community Endowment Newhouse Fund)

Peninsula Jewish Community Center - $94,500

For the Senior Outreach & Transportation Project: serving more than 400 Jewish seniors, enabling continued involvement and new connections to social and recreational programs in the Jewish community; and the new Get Up & Go Program, providing arm-through-arm transportation services and specialized programming for frail Jewish elderly with special mobility needs. (Jewish Community Endowment Newhouse Fund)

Shalom Bayit, a project of the Tides Center - $5,500

To support a spiritual support group for Jewish women affected by domestic violence in the Marin/North Bay region. (Jewish Community Endowment Newhouse Fund)

2006-2007 family and health grants