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Grants to community organizations

Causing impact in the Jewish and general communities

Between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008, The Jewish Community Foundation made over $9 million in grants to a wide variety of organizations in the Jewish and general communities.

Grants were made from the Foundation's donor-advised philanthropic funds, supporting family foundations, and endowment funds to the following charitable, religious and educational organizations and causes:

Jewish organizations and causes

  • American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center In Jerusalem
  • American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science
  • American Friends of Alyn Hospital
  • American Friends of the Hebrew University
  • American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah, Inc.
  • American Israel Education Foundation
  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • American Jewish World Service
  • American Pardes Foundation
  • American Red Magen David for Israel
  • Anti-Defamation League
  • Anti-Defamation League - Central Pacific Region
  • Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal
  • Bay Area Jewish Day School Funders Consortium
  • Berkeley Hillel Foundation
  • Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center
  • Beth Jacob Congregation
  • B'nai Torah
  • Brandeis Hillel Day School
  • Bridges to Israel - Berkeley
  • Building Jewish Bridges - JCF of the Greater East Bay
  • Bureau of Jewish Education
  • California Alumni Association
  • Camp Ramah of California
  • Campus Jewish Network
  • Center for Jewish Living & Learning
  • Chabad of San Francisco
  • Chabad of the East Bay
  • CLAL -- The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership
  • Community Rabbi Program
  • Congregation Beth Emek
  • Congregation Beth Israel
  • Congregation B'nai Shalom
  • Congregation Netivot Shalom
  • Contra Costa Jewish Community Center
  • Contra Costa Jewish Day School
  • Contra Costa Midrasha
  • Diablo Valley Hadassah
  • Fremont Midrasha
  • Friends of Jewish Education
  • Friends of the Israel Defense Forces
  • Friends of Yad Sarah
  • Gerda And Kurt Klein Foundation
  • Hadassah - Berkeley Chapter
  • Hamilton Hebrew Academy
  • Hebrew Free Loan Association
  • Hebrew Institute of White Plains
  • Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
  • HIAS
  • Hillel - UC-Berkeley
  • Hillel of Rochester Area Colleges
  • Home for Jewish Parents, Inc.
  • International Society for Sephardic Progress
  • Israel Center-JCFGEB
  • Israel Tennis Centers
  • JAFI - Jewish Agency for Israel
  • JCC of San Francisco
  • Jerusalem Fellowships, Inc.
  • Jewish Coalition for Literacy
  • Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester
  • Jewish Community Federation of Greater Rochester
  • Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco
  • Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay
  • Jewish Community High School of the Bay
  • Jewish Community High School of the Bay - SF
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service - San Francisco
  • Jewish Family & Children's Services of the East Bay
  • Jewish Family Service of Rochester
  • Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
  • Jewish Home Foundation
  • Jewish Learning Center
  • Jewish National Fund
  • Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
  • Jewish Resource Center--Chabad of Aspen
  • Jewish Vocational Service
  • Judah L. Magnes Museum
  • Keren Y & Y
  • Kirkhaven Foundation
  • Lehrhaus Judaica
  • MAZON - A Jewish Response To Hunger
  • Meals on Wheels of Contra Costa
  • Mesivta Yeshiva Berlin
  • Mesorah Heritage Foundation
  • Midrasha Berkeley
  • Midrasha in Oakland
  • Midrasha: East Bay Supplementary Jewish High School
  • NACOEJ--NA Conf Ethiopian Jewry
  • National Jewish Medical & Research Center
  • New Israel Fund
  • Northern Pacific Region American Society for Technion
  • Oakland Hebrew Day School
  • Ohr Torah Stone
  • PEF Israel Endowment Funds
  • Reutlinger Community for Jewish Living
  • Reutlinger Solid Gold Ball
  • Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy
  • San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
  • Shalom Bayit
  • Temple Beth Abraham
  • Temple Beth Torah
  • Temple Emanuel
  • Temple Isaiah
  • Temple Sinai
  • The Abraham Fund Initiatives
  • The American Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel
  • The Hebrew Academy
  • The Israel Center-San Francisco Jewish Community Federation
  • The Jewish Community Endowment Fund
  • The Jewish Community Relations Council
  • Traveling Jewish Theatre
  • Union for Reform Judaism
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • University of Judaism
  • Valley Beth Shalom
  • Women's American ORT
  • Women's Guild of the Home for Jewish Parents, Inc.
  • World Union for Progressive Judaism
  • Yad Yaakov
  • Young Judaea, The Zionist Youth Movement Sponsored by Hadassah

Total grants to Jewish organizations and causes: $2,394,412.95

 

Non-Jewish organizations and causes

  • Acalanes High School
  • Alameda County Community Food Bank
  • Alzheimer's Association - North Bay Chapter
  • American Cancer Society
  • American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
  • American Conservatory Theater
  • American Diabetes Association - Bay Area
  • American Heart Association - East Bay Division
  • American Kidney Fund
  • American Red Cross
  • Amnesty International
  • Animal Rescue Foundation
  • AOPA Air Safety Foundation
  • Ashoka
  • Aurora Theater
  • Bay Area Ridge Trail Council
  • Berkeley Repertory Theatre
  • Boalt Hall Fund
  • Boys & Girls Club of Oakland
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco
  • Brooklyn College
  • California State Parks Foundation
  • California Symphony
  • Canine Companions for Independence
  • Center for Reproductive Rights
  • Center To Prevent Handgun Violence
  • Chabot Observatory & Science Center
  • Chadron High School
  • Chez Panisse Foundation
  • Children's Book Project
  • Children's Hospital & Research Center Foundation
  • Children's Hospital Oakland Family House
  • City of Hope National Medical Center
  • Clean Water Fund
  • Coalition On Donation
  • Columbia Fencing Team
  • Community Center Project of San Francisco, Inc.
  • Contra Costa County Library
  • Cure Autism Now
  • Day of Caring
  • Delancey Street Foundation
  • Do Something: Young People Changing Their World
  • Doctors Without Borders USA
  • East Bay Community Law Center
  • East Bay Habitat for Humanity
  • East Bay Regional Parks Foundation
  • East Bay SPCA
  • Educational Foundation of Orinda
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Emery Education Foundation
  • Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation
  • Family House, Inc.
  • Festival Opera Association, Inc.
  • Film Arts Foundation
  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  • FJC - StartUp Jerusalem
  • Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
  • Food Runners
  • Foundation For End-of-Life Care
  • Frameline
  • Freedom to Marry
  • Fresh Air Fund
  • Friends of Recreation And Parks
  • Friends of San Francisco Public Library
  • Friends of the Urban Forest
  • Garth Fagan Dance
  • Gilda's Club, Inc.
  • Girls In Golf
  • GLAAD
  • Golden Gate National Parks Association
  • Hear Now
  • Hedge Funds Care
  • Hodgkins Research Fund
  • Hospice of Contra Costa Foundation
  • Human Rights Campaign Foundation
  • Human Rights Watch-HRW
  • Interplast
  • Junior Golf Association of Northern California
  • KALW - Public Radio - NPR
  • KCSM - Public Radio - Jazz
  • KIPP Oakland College Preparatory
  • KQED
  • Lafayette Arts & Science Foundation
  • Lafayette Community Foundation
  • Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc.
  • Legal Assistance for the Elderly
  • Lindsay Wildlife Museum
  • Make-A-Wish Foundation
  • McKinley Elementary School
  • Meals On Wheels - San Diego
  • Meals On Wheels of San Francisco
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • Metropolitan Museum - New York
  • Mill Valley Film Festival
  • Museum of Modern Art--MOMA New York
  • NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
  • NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation
  • National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
  • National REGAP Network
  • National Sports Center for the Disabled
  • National Youth Advocacy Coalition-NYAC
  • Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Neighborhood House Association
  • New Age Academy
  • New York Junior Tennis League
  • New York University Stern School of Business
  • Oakland Museum of California Foundation
  • Oakland Zoo
  • Okizu Foundation
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival
  • Pacific Graduate School of Psychology
  • PAWS
  • Pets Unlimited
  • Planned Parenthood Federation of America
  • Planned Parenthood Golden Gate
  • Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo
  • Project Fit America
  • Puppies Behind Bars
  • Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County
  • Rancho Coastal Humane Society
  • Raphael House
  • Research To Prevent Blindness
  • Rochester Area Community Foundation
  • Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Ronald McDonald House of San Francisco
  • San Diego Junior Golf Association
  • San Francisco 49ers Foundation
  • San Francisco Ballet Association
  • San Francisco Choral Artists
  • San Francisco Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund
  • San Francisco Clean City Coalition
  • San Francisco Film Society
  • San Francisco Food Bank
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • San Francisco Symphony
  • San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra
  • San Leandro Boys & Girls Club
  • Self Help for the Elderly
  • Senior Net
  • SFMOMA
  • Shelter, Inc.
  • Southern Poverty Law Center
  • SPCA - San Francisco
  • Special Olympics of Northern California
  • St. Luke's Foundation
  • STAND! Against Domestic Violence
  • Stanford University
  • Summer Science Program
  • Sundance Institute
  • Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
  • Sutter VNA & Hospice Foundation
  • Taylor Family Foundation
  • The Bay Institute of San Francisco
  • The Carrie Brazer Center for Autism & Alternative Aproaches
  • The Children's Clinic
  • The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
  • The Salvation Army
  • The Samantha Foundation
  • The Times Share the Spirit Fund
  • The Yosemite Fund
  • Tranquility Farm
  • Trustees of Columbia University
  • UC Davis Equine Center, Silver Stirrup Society
  • UC Los Angeles Foundation
  • UC San Diego Athletics
  • UC San Diego Foundation
  • United Way of the Bay Area
  • University of Michigan Gift Ad
  • University of Wyoming Foundation
  • US Olympic Committee
  • Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund
  • West Point Jewish Chapel
  • Xenophon Therapeutic Riding Center
  • Yale University

Total grants to non-Jewish organizations and causes: $580,789.00

Total grants to all organizations: $2,975,201.95

 

 

 

 

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