2006 PJCTF 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.

• 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.
• Total grants distributed: $41,000

2005 PJCTF 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.

• 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.
• Total grants distributed: $11,250

2004 PJCTF grants

Funding guidelines: Support organizations and projects that help to alleviate hunger worldwide.

• 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.
• Total grants distributed: $9,500

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
Phone: 650.852.9020 ext. 8007
Fax: 650.968.1389
Email: SueS@sfjcf.org