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Marin Jewish Community Teen Foundation
2009 Grants
Total grants distributed: $48,500
Friends by Nature – $5,000
This grant will support a community garden for Ethiopian Israelis, where community mentors will guide others to grow food and emphasize healthy nutrition.
Jewish Heart for Africa – $5,000
This grant will support the installation of solar panels for the Kaliro Orphanage in Uganda, which serves 300 children.
Jewish World Watch – $5,000
This grant will provide more than three-hundred solar cookers for Darfuri refugees living in Chad.
Kulanu – $5,000
This grant will provide a chicken coop project for a small Jewish community in India.
Nomad Foundation – $5,000
This grant will support solar-powered energy for a comprehensive center that serves impoverished nomadic tribes in Niger.
Sexto Sol – $5,000
This grant will support an eco-village that sponsors community-wide organic food production in Guatemala.
Solar Electric Light Fund – $5,000
This grant will support the installation of solar panels at five health clinics based in Haiti in partnership with Partners in Health.
Tibet Fund – $5,000
This grant will provide solar energy for the Srongsten School in Nepal, which serves Tibetan refugees.
Arava Institute – $4,000
This grant will support a project that creates energy via biogas digesters for Bedouin communities in Israel and Jordan.
Lift Up Africa – $3,000
This grant will support three solar cooking initiatives in Kenya.
Tanz Solar – $1,500
This grant will subsidize solar lighting for family homes in Tanzania.
2008 Grants
Funding guidelines: to fund programs that improve the lives of people worldwide by providing sustainable solutions to medical dilemmas rooted in environmental problems.
Total grants distributed: $30,783
PlayPumps International – $5,000
Water pump in Africa: We are building a water pump that will serve 2,500 people for at least ten years. The pump is powered by a children's merry-go-round.
Verde Partnership Garden – $5,000
The Leadership Project: We are providing funding to increase the scope of a community garden project that educates youth and their families about growing food, provides hundreds of pounds of produce to families in an area with almost no access to produce. The project also empowers young children to be educators to their peers.
Arava Institute for Environmental Studies – $5,000
Endangered Medicinal Plants of Israel’s Arava Valley: We are funding a project that will protect and propagate rare medicinal plans in the Southern Arava Valley that are found nowhere else in the world. The project brings together future Arab and Jewish leaders to cooperatively solve the region's environmental challenges.
Malaria No More – $2,783
Bed Nets for Malaria Prevention, Africa: Our funding will provide families in Africa with roughly 278 life-saving bed nets that will prevent these families, and others in their village, from contracting a deadly disease.
American Jewish World Service – $5,000
Kilili Self Help Project, Africa: Our funding will support a project that teaches women in rural Kenya in Africa about biointensive, sustainable farming at the same time it educates the community about HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
Jewish World Watch – $4,500
Solar Cooker Project: Our funding will provide 150 solar cookers to families in refugee camps who have escaped Darfur. Each family typically consists of six to eight people; therefore the cookers we provide will impact up to 1,200 people. Women and young girls who receive these cookers will no longer have to leave the camp to collect firewood, which not only depletes the environment of wood, but places them at risk of rape or attack.
Amigos de las Americas – $3,500
Amaranth Nutrition Project, Oaxaca, Mexico: Our funding will help teach women's groups in Oaxaca, Mexico to plant, cook and sell Amaranth, a highly nutritious native grain which will in turn help solve issues of malnutrition in the area. The program relies heavily on youth volunteers.
2007 Grants
Funding guidelines: to support projects that offer educational opportunities for people with limited access to education throughout the world, with an emphasis on, but not limited to, Israel
Total grants distributed: $23,200
Canal Alliance – $4,000
Youth Educational and Development Program: This grant will provide 170 kindergarten-college students with academic, personal and social skills necessary to fully access educational opportunities. YEDP works with its students in the Canal District of San Rafael every weekday from 3pm to 6pm. The program also works with students’ parents to increase their involvement with their children’s education.
Educational Praxis – $5,000
Bapagrama Educational Center: This grant will provide electricity to a primary school that serves an underprivileged population in Southern India. The project will benefit over 400 students, the Bapagrama staff and the members of the surrounding village communities by providing access to the internet as an information resource.
Friends of Yemin Orde – $3,000
Learning Center Project: This grant will provide intensive Hebrew, remedial education and academic enrichment classes for disadvantaged new immigrant teenagers living at Yemin Orde, a youth village in Israel. The Learning Center assists students who have learning problems, learning disabilities or knowledge gaps and teaches basic study, research and exam-taking skills.
Global Fund for Women – $2,200
The Global Fund for Women: This grant will provide funds for grassroots, women-led organizations to offer education for rural women and girls who are often doubly marginalized. These women face particular challenges such as denial of education, sexual harassment in the classroom or limited opportunity to find employment. The Global Fund for Women prioritizes support to underserved women and girls, including those living in conflict zones.
Hand in Hand (Yad b’Yad) – $4,000
School-Based Interfaith Encounter in the Galilee: This grant will give opportunity to new immigrant school children in Karmiel and Arab Muslims in Majd el-Krum. The project involves eighteen interfaith encounters in the upper Galilee. It will be focused around the two leading schools in neighboring towns. The project will be geared to strengthen participation of students, teachers and parents in the building of harmonious relations between the two communities.
USF, School of Education and Hacienda San Rafael Ukum – $5,000
Project Yucatan: This grant will improve the quality of life for the economically disadvantaged Mayan youth and their families by intervening in the cycle of poverty through education and promoting economic growth in the community. This project supports youth enrichment opportunities such as high school scholarship assistance and the facilitation of computer literacy and access.
North Peninsula Jewish Community Teen Foundation
2009 Grants
Total grants distributed: $40,000
American Jewish World Service – $5,000
The grant will support The Girls Education Initiative in Cambodia that targets poor and vulnerable students, the majority of whom are girls. The grant will provide 60 children with scholarships and tutoring, 15 children will receive vocational training, and 30 teachers will receive continued teacher training.
American Jewish World Service – $5,000
The grant will empower children and youth in Thailand’s Shan migrant communities, by providing high quality education in their native language.
East Meets West Foundation – $5,000
This grant provides full scholarship for 60 primary school students in Vietnam who otherwise cannot afford to attend school.
Jewish Agency for Israel – $5,000
This grant is for the Net@ program that trains disadvantaged youth in Israel's peripheral areas in computer technology, and in the building and maintenance of Internet-related networks in order for them to compete for highly valued high-tech positions.
Reut Sderot – $5,000
This grant provides underprivileged youth from Sderot with better educational and social opportunities to succeed in school and integrate into Israeli society.
Room to Read – $5,000
Working in partnership with the local community in Laos, Room to Read will be funding their School Room program which builds schools in Laos.
Sumba Foundation – $4,500
The grant provides High School Scholarships covering three years of schooling for three impoverished students ($1500 each) in Sumba, Indonesia. The grant covers tuition, books, and uniforms.
Youth Renewal Fund – $5,000
This grant will provide computers for the Ethan H. Friedman Learning Center in Ramla, Israel. The computers will be used to teach English to the disadvantaged and low income immigrant youth mainly from the FSU and Ethiopia.
2008 Grants
Funding guidelines: to fund projects for both Jewish and non Jewish populations that address basic needs of food, clean water, medical care and education, through programs that address early intervention and lead to self sufficiency.
Total grants distributed: $36,600
Direct Relief International – $5,000
Proyecto de Salud Rio Beni, Bolivia: This grant is for essential medical supplies, training and materials to construct and maintain bio-sand water filters in Bolivia.
Himalayan Cataracts Project – $5,000
Cataract Surgical Workshop: This grant is for micro surgical cataracts surgeries and training local doctors in poorest regions of India to complete the surgeries and maintain ocular health.
The Hunger Project – $5,000
African Woman Food Farmer Initiative, Uganda: Micro-loans to rural African women food farmers in Uganda.
Jaffa Institute – $5,000
Fight Against Hunger, Israel: Sandwich program to keep children in schools in Israel.
Jewish Family & Children’s Services – $5,000
Financial Assistance Program: Local emergency grant money.
Blue Card – $4,500
Personal Emergency Response System: Emergency response devices for Holocaust Survivors living independently but in need of financial and medical assistance to remain independent
A Glimmer of Hope – $3,500
NPJCTF Water Project, Ethiopia: Partial grant to fund a water well in Ethiopia
Ecumenical Hunger Program – $1,800
Food Intake Program, East Palo Alto: This grant is for funding food intake program for families in East Palo Alto.
Shelter Network – $1,800
General operating funds: General operating fund donation.
South Peninsula Jewish Community Teen Foundation
2009 Grants
Total grants distributed: $55,756
Jewish Heart for Africa – $10,000
The grant will supply Israeli solar technology to light a medical clinic at the Nabikuli Medical Center in Eastern Uganda. A cell phone charging station will also be powered by the solar technology. Money from the charging station will help to sustain the solar panels.
Jewish Heart for Africa – $10,000
This grant will provide funds to pilot Israeli drip irrigation in the Putti Village Jewish Community in Uganda.
Kulanu – $10,000
This grant will fund a new grain mill and storage facility for the Jewish community in Uganda, allowing them to sell grain when prices are high. The grain mill will also be utilized by Christians and Muslims in the community.
Riders for Health – $9,600
This project provides funds for a trainer who will teach community health workers how to safely ride and maintain motorcycles. Motorcycles allow healthcare workers to provide rural African villages with much needed health services. This grant includes one motorcycle and protective gear for one health worker.
Nepalese Youth Opportunity Fund – $6,413
This grant provides food for the Nutritional Home in Nepal that will nurse malnourished children back to health and teach their parents basic nutrition.
Charity: Water – $5,000
This grant will provide funds for a clean water well.
Glimmer of Hope Health Post – $4,743
The funds will be used to build a new community health post in an Ethiopian village that currently lacks access to health care.
2008 Grants
Funding guidelines: to fund programs that, through sustainable change, satisfy basic human needs for vulnerable populations. Programs that emphasize health needs are of particular interest.
Total grants distributed: $71,027
American Jewish World Service – $9,000
Kilili Self Help Project, Kenya: We are training 300 farmers in bio-intensive farming techniques while also offering HIV/AIDS counseling and home based care.
American Jewish World Service – $10,000
Ruchika Social Service Organization: Provides a school on the train platforms for poor children and provides health service to the children and their families including immunizations and family planning. Also includes vocational training. This project will serve about 175 children and their families.
Water Partners International – $10,000
Safe Drinking Water, Bangladesh: Our money will go to serving 900 people with micro loans, educate 180 people about hygiene, construct one public water point, and build 14.5 latrines.
PlayPumps International – $14,000
Water pump in Africa: We are building a water pump that will serve 2,500 people for at least ten years. The pump is powered by a children's merry-go-round.
Vitamin Angels – $4,027
Operation 20/20, Latin America, Africa & Asia: We are giving Vitamin A to children aged 6 months to 10 years old and nursing mothers to prevent blindness and immune deficiencies.
The Hunger Project – $10,000
African Woman Food Farmer Initiative, Uganda: We are providing micro-loans for 3,000 women in 12 communities to stimulate their economy and improve farming techniques.
Resource Foundation – $10,000
Water Conservation and Reforestation, Bolivia: We will create cleaner water sources through the planting of 8,890 seedlings and provide eight educational workshops for 1,500 individuals teaching them how to protect the soil and keep the water clean.
Sociedad Israelita de Beneficiencia de Mendoza – $4,000
Social Welfare Food Project, Argentina: We are supplying the Argentinean Jewish population with much needed funds for food, transportation, medical and dental expenses. We are supporting six families with funding for a full year.
2007 Grants
Funding guidelines: to support programs that address issues of poverty, poor nutrition, abuse and homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area and Israel, through early intervention and empowering people to help themselves
Total grants distributed: $45,301
Ben Shemen, Israel – $7,500
To fund educational assistance, therapies and enrichment for 26 young children who where abused and taken from their homes to live at Ben Shemen.
Bedouin Women’s Embroidery Project, Israel – $5,000
The SPJCTF is partnering with the JCF in funding this micro-enterprise project for Bedouin Women in Israel. The project uses the traditional art of Bedouin embroidery as a tool to provide personal and economic empowerment skills to participants.
Bread Project- Oakland, CA – $9,950
To provide culinary training and job referrals for those in need in the Bay Area
Eastside College Preparatory School, East Palo Alto, CA – $5,000
To fund the food portion of their summer academic program
Life Learning Academy, Treasure Island, CA – $6,700
To fund a non violent mural and t-shirt project for the high school.
Tel Hai Academic College, Israel – $6,000
Located on the Lebanese- Israeli border, this grant will fund two complete academic scholarships for Tel Hai students
World ORT, Israel – $5,151
To fund 12 students of the Shaar Negev High School in the North of Israel with meals, transportation, clothing, books, and equipment, and emotional support.
2006 Grants
Funding guidelines: to support programs and organizations that address inequality and injustice through a Jewish lens, mainly internationally, but also locally, highlighting education and a preference toward youth
Total grants distributed: $41,000
A.H.A.V.A “Brighter Horizons For Our Children” – $5,000
For “Breaking Through”: A Reading Tutorial Process. This grant will assist Israeli children with learning disabilities to acquire basic English reading skills through individual tutoring and parent workshops, while encouraging English literacy.
American Jewish World Service – $2,500
This grant will support construction of a water supply and distribution system for a medical clinic in Am Nabak, Chad, that will aid refugees who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan, due to the ongoing genocide and also aid Chadian locals.
Beit Issie Shapiro – $5,000
For the Youth Social Education and Leadership Training Program. This grant will support a social education program raising awareness and acceptance of those who are different (have special needs). Two hundred Jewish and Arab kids in Israel, ages 13-15 from 13 middle and high schools, working in a two-year cycle will be participants and leaders in this program, from June through March each year.
ELI – $3,444
The grant from the PJCTF will be used to underwrite the cost of delivering a proven, successful child abuse prevention program to ten schools in Israel that would be seen by those schools’ 2,750 children and adolescent attendees.
Friends of Yemin Orde – $7,500
For the Tikkun Olam — Mending the World Program. This grant will fund disadvantaged immigrant children in Israel to volunteer with other populations in need, such as the homeless, seniors, and patients in hospitals, thus enabling the children to put their own problems into perspective and help them feel empowered to make a positive impact in someone else’s life.
Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel – $5,000
For the Partners Project. This grant is for Jewish and Arab children in Israel (grade 7-9, ages 12-15, about 75 kids), who already attend school together, to create after-school opportunities to further tolerance, acceptance and communication between Jews and Arabs in Israel.
Jewish Coalition for Literacy – $2,500
For a pilot tutoring initiative aimed at focusing individualized academic attention on at-risk kindergarten students through weekly tutoring sessions using age-appropriate materials and resources. JCL will partner with at least two Peninsula schools during the 2006-2007 school year to support 20 tutor–student pairs.
Living Compassion – $5,000
For the Masala School Alternative Program. This grant will provide proper septic systems so the school can re-open and provide education to homeless orphans (200 kids, ages 7 - 15), recruited from the markets and streets of Ndola, Zambia.
MADRE – $5,000
For the Hope for the Future: An educational initiative for indigenous Samburu women and children in Northern Kenya Program. This grant is to equip the school with educational materials, chalkboards, books and school supplies; purchase playground equipment and provide uniforms and shoes for 50 children for one year.
2005 Grants
Funding guidelines: focused on the prevention of diseases in developing countries including projects that assist with vaccinations, encourage self-sufficiency and demonstrate lasting impact
Total grants distributed: $11,250
The Joint Distribution Committee – $3,250
For the Baby Tinok program, giving medical assistance and vaccines to impoverished Jewish babies in Argentina.
Direct Relief International – $2,000
For clean midwife kits and education for five midwives in the most rural developing countries.
The Vaccine Fund – $3,000
For the “Basic Six” vaccines for children in developing countries.
Glimmer of Hope – $3,000
To install a clean water system in a remote village in Ethiopia.
2004 Grants
Funding guidelines: to support organizations and projects that help to alleviate hunger worldwide
Total grants distributed: $9,500
North American Conference of Ethiopian Jews – $4,900
To supply a daily meal for Ethiopian Jews who are in desperate need.
American Nicaraguan Foundation – $2,300
For two cups of milk daily for kids who are in school.
Freedom From Hunger – $2,300
For their “Credit with Education” program, helping women to start businesses so they can feed their families.
San Francisco Jewish Community Teen Foundation
2009 Grants
Total grants distributed: $48,500
Friends by Nature – $5,000
This grant will support a community garden for Ethiopian Israelis, where community mentors will guide others to grow food and emphasize healthy nutrition.
Jewish Heart for Africa – $5,000
This grant will support the installation of solar panels for the Kaliro Orphanage in Uganda, which serves 300 children.
Jewish World Watch – $5,000
This grant will provide more than three-hundred solar cookers for Darfuri refugees living in Chad.
Kulanu – $5,000
This grant will provide a chicken coop project for a small Jewish community in India.
Nomad Foundation – $5,000
This grant will support solar-powered energy for a comprehensive center that serves impoverished nomadic tribes in Niger.
Sexto Sol – $5,000
This grant will support an eco-village that sponsors community-wide organic food production in Guatemala.
Solar Electric Light Fund – $5,000
This grant will support the installation of solar panels at five health clinics based in Haiti in partnership with Partners in Health.
Tibet Fund – $5,000
This grant will provide solar energy for the Srongsten School in Nepal, which serves Tibetan refugees.
Arava Institute – $4,000
This grant will support a project that creates energy via biogas digesters for Bedouin communities in Israel and Jordan.
Lift Up Africa – $3,000
This grant will support three solar cooking initiatives in Kenya.
Tanz Solar – $1,500
This grant will subsidize solar lighting for family homes in Tanzania.
2008 Grants
Funding guidelines: to fund programs that support health education, job training, and second chances, for people in need, allowing them to build sustainable livelihoods and create further development opportunities for themselves.
Total grants distributed: $22,391
Keepin’ It Real – $6,341
Start-up: Juvenile Hall Classes: The grant will be used to enable 8 Keepin' It Real staff to receive stipends, attend trainings, expand the program and purchase materials directly related to program facilitation and implementation.
Larkin Street – $10,000
HIRE UP: This grant will be used for funding the “HIRE UP” program, an employment and education initiative for the homeless and runaway youth ages 12-24 in San Francisco.
Jaffa Institute – $6,050
Welfare to Well-being, Israel: This grant will support a comprehensive 'skills for work' training program for long-term unemployed Jaffa and south Tel Aviv women.
For more information contact:
Sue Schwartzman
Director of Youth Philanthropy
for the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
5150 El Camino Real Suite D11
Los Altos, CA 94022
650.852.9020 ext. 8007
Fax: 650.968.1389
SueS@sfjcf.org |
