Grants for immigrant issues, with a particular focus on human
rights:
American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee
Support for JDC’s core mission: aiding Jews in distress, providing
relief for Jews in need, with special attention given to ensure
that elderly Holocaust survivors are able to live out their lives
in dignity, restoring and strengthening Jewish community life,
and helping the State of Israel to address the social service
needs of its most vulnerable populations.
International
Crisis Group
The International Crisis Group (ICG) is an independent, non-profit,
multinational organization, with over 80 staff members on five
continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level
advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.
International
Rescue Committee, New York:
To support the work of the IRC as it helps people fleeing racial,
religious, and ethnic persecution, as well as those uprooted by
war and violence. The IRC provides sanctuary and lifesaving assistance
— medical and public health services, shelter and food. It
sets up programs to enable refugees to cope with life in exile,
and assists in their resettlement. The Sarlo Foundation Humanitarian
Award is presented to members of the field staff of the IRC’s
resettlement and overseas departments who have rendered outstanding
service to refugees and displaced people.
Grants for medical crisis intervention in underdeveloped areas:
Interplast,
Inc.:
Interplast's international surgical trips bring medical volunteers
to provide free reconstructive surgery for children with physical
deformities that are caused by birth defects, injuries, or disease.
A single two-week trip provides life-transforming surgery to between
120 and 140 children.
Himalayan
Cataract Project:
The Himalayan Cataract Project works to eliminate preventable
and treatable blindness in the Himalayan regions. The project
delivers a low-cost, sight-restoring cataract surgery to individuals
in remote mountain areas without access to medical care, and provides
supplies and training to enable local medical professionals to
treat cataracts and other preventable causes of blindness.
Grants for Education:
Sarlo Émigré
Youth Scholarship Fund
The Sarlo Émigré Youth Scholarship Fund of the Jewish
Community Endowment Fund provides scholarships for foreign-born
youth towards undergraduate, postgraduate or comparable degrees
at accredited institutions of higher learning and/or arts. Financial
aid will be awarded on the basis of applicants' academic and/or
artistic excellence to those whom, for lack of resources, might
otherwise be denied the chance to advance their education. Applications
should be submitted through the scholarship process at the San
Francisco Bureau of Jewish Education.
Sarlo Awards for Teaching Excellence
The Sarlo Awards for Teaching Excellence were established in 1997 to honor outstanding professors at colleges and universities in Northern California. The awards are designed to elevate individual, public, and institutional respect for teaching. Sarlo Award winners are selected by an internal awards process at each institution. Participating campuses include Graduate Theological Union, Mills College, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco Sate University, Sonoma State University, the Department of Psychiatry and the AIDS Research Institute at the University of California at San Francisco, University of California at Berkeley and the University of San Francisco.
Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society
The Cecilia Fischmann Memorial Scholarship Fund is an endowed
scholarship at HIAS, established in memory of George Sarlo's mother.
HIAS offers scholarships to deserving students in the United States
and Israel. The awarding of scholarships is based on academic
excellence, financial need and involvement within the Jewish community.
San Francisco Conservatory
of Music
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music trains students from around
the world for distinguished musical careers.
Grants for other programs which fill gaps in service and stimulate
change:
Jewish Community
Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin & Sonoma
Counties
For the Annual Campaign to help meet core needs in the Bay
Area and overseas Jewish communities, including support for 35
local agencies serving thousands of men, women, and children on
a daily basis throughout the Bay Area.
Holocaust Memorial/Education Fund of the Jewish
Community Endowment Fund
The Sarlo Foundation is providing a challenge grant to increase
available funding in the Bay Area for Holocaust education.
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