Applications for the 2010-2011 Marin/San Francisco Peninsula Jewish Community Teen Foundation board will be available August 1st. If you would like to be notified when applications are posted, please let us know by filling out this form.

Who we are

The Marin/San Francisco Jewish Community Teen Foundation is a vibrant board made up of high school students from Marin and San Francisco.  Students on the board gain valuable leadership skills and experience, bond with socially conscious Jewish peers, and make a difference through realization of Jewish values. Our board members will:

• Boost their leadership skills
• Connect with Jewish youth
• Expand their Jewish identity
• Debate tough choices
• Engage in social justice issues
• Attend a fun, inspirational and well-planned weekend retreat November 20 to 22, 2009
• Participate in skill-building seminars and youth-led Foundation board meetings on seven Sunday afternoon meetings from December 2009 to May 2010
• Contribute to a pooled fund being matched by donors
• Become effective grantmakers and strategic youth philanthropists
  
  

Mission Statement

The Marin/San Francisco Jewish Community Teen Foundation will fund organizations that address the basic needs of people in nations affected by violent conflict, providing them with green technologies that lead them toward self-sufficiency.

Marin/San Francisco 2010 Grant Recipients

• Friends by Nature - Community garden for Ethioopian Israelis - $5,000
• Jewish Heart for Africa - Solar Panels for an orphanage in Uganda - $5,000
• Jewish World Watch - Solar cookers for Darfuri refugees in Chad - $5,000
• Kulanu - Chicken coop project for a Jewish community in India -  $5,000
• Nomad Foundation - Solar energy initiative for impoverished tribes in Niger - $5,000
• Sexto Sol - Organic food production in Guatemala  - $5,000
• Solar Electric Light Fund - Solar panels at health clinics in Haiti - $5,000
• Tibet Fund - Solar energy for a school in Nepal -  $5,000
• Arava Institute - Biogas energy project for Bedouin communities - $4,000
• Lift Up Africa - Solar cooking initiatives in Kenya - $3,000
• Tanz Solar - Solar lighting for family homes in Tanzania - $1,500

2009-2010 Marin/San Francisco Jewish Community Teen Foundation Board

What does it cost?

Each Jewish Community Teen Foundation board member is subsidized by over $4,500 from various funders and the Jewish Community Endowment Fund. While the Foundation program is free to board members and their families, we do ask each board member to cover the $350 cost of the three day Bay Area Youth Philanthropy Retreat at the Embassy Suites Hotel. Scholarships are available to assist families in covering this cost.

Important 2009-2010 Teen Foundation dates

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