Recent grants: 2001-02

Berkeley Hillel
Critical Strategies (Reserve Grant)

$5,000

Grant funds allocated by a community planning team convened by Federation to frame specific goals and action plans for an intensified focus on Jewish college students and the campus community, in response to the extraordinary challenges arising from dramatic world events, political and social trends post-Sept. 11th.

Reutlinger Community For Jewish Living
Barrier-Free Access

$3,000-$5,000

RCJL has four public restrooms on the first floor, all of which have, due to fire code regulations, very heavy doors. This grant will help fund the installation of handicap-accessible push buttons for two doors to eliminate a serious safety hazard and to improve the quality of life for residents and their visitors. This challenge grant will cover one-half the actual cost for installing two doors, to be matched with other sources of funding.

Reutlinger Community For Jewish Living
Cultural Enhancement Program

$3,950

To expand cultural programming that will enhance the quality of life for RCJL residents, by funding an on-site performance of A Traveling Jewish Theater; by increasing the frequency of performances by a popular violinist; and by funding the rental of a bus for two additional large group outings to cultural events this year.

Israel Center, Jewish Federation of the Greater East Bay
Israel Independence Day 2002

$2,900

(In collaboration with East Bay synagogues and Jewish organizations)

Camp Tawonga
Multi-Racial, Gay & Lesbian, Single-Parent, Bereavement And Meditation Family Camps: Outreach To East Bay Families

$2,500

Second year of a new initiative to uncover East Bay families who are underserved by the Jewish community and to provide family weekends specially designed for their needs. Tawonga has developed six different and unique weekends (in addition to our regular family camps) for the populations listed above. This grant is to support a variety of new outreach efforts.

Contra Costa JCC
Shlichim Project

$2,000

The shlichim program brings together young Israeli adults and day or resident campers for an interactive cultural exchange through art, music, geography, history, thematic programs, games and sports activities. Designed to bring Israeli culture and Judaism as an integral part of the camp. This grant will help support the cost of airfare for two shlichim.

Center For Jewish Living And Learning, Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay
Early Childhood Educators Conference: "How To Talk To Children In Times Of Crisis"

$1,000

(In collaboration with East Bay Jewish preschools)

To help underwrite the Feb. 27, 2002 early childhood educators conference that will focus on how to talk to children in times of crisis. The ongoing violence in Israel and the tragedy of September 11 have made preschool teachers acutely aware of the need for better professional training on this subject.

Oakland Hebrew Day School
Interdisciplinary Tolerance Unit

$1,000

To acquire and adapt existing interdisciplinary tolerance curricula for Middle School students.

Ramah Day Camp
Coexistence Education At Ramah Day Camp

$1,000

To acquire and adapt age-appropriate existing curricula for Day Camp students and camper family programs, on themes of conflict resolution, Jewish identity, and Jewish-Muslim-Christian relations.

Tehiyah Day School
Alumni Directory

$914

For design, printing and mailing of Tehiyah's first comprehensive alumni directory to 250 former students.

Berkeley Richmond JCC
Kosher Meals Holiday Programs

$5,000

One-time "bridge" funding to support BRJCC 's efforts to provide Jewish holiday and cultural programs throughout the year, through its well-established kosher meal program for older adults. Celebrations provide seniors and their families with positive Jewish experiences in a nurturing community. Holiday programs help meet the crucial social, nutritional and intellectual needs of our community's elders.

Jewish Family And Children's Services Of The East Bay
LGTBQ (Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Bisexual, And Questioning) Teen Project

$5,000

This grant will provide peer support groups for Jewish LGBTQ teenagers to explore what it means to be both gay and Jewish, help them talk with family, and cope with inevitable complications.

Berkeley Richmond JCC
Klezmer Dance Party
--17th Annual Jewish Music Festival, March 2002

$3,000

(In collaboration with Albert Schultz JCC; Yiddishkayt Los Angeles; Celebration Arts)

To support production of a participatory klezmer music and community folk dance party. Internationally acclaimed Yiddish dance instructor Michael Alpert will have everyone on their feet, backed by members of the legendary klezmer group, Brave Old World.

Building Jewish Bridges (BJB)
(Jewish Community Foundation of the Greater Easy Bay, fiscal agent)

$5,000

The goal of the BJB program is to create a coordinated effort between East Bay synagogues and Jewish agencies to offer workshops and events that reach out to interfaith couples and families and invite them to explore Jewish community and Jewish choices.

Center For Jewish-Arab Economic Development
"Standing Together": Regional Business Networks For Israeli-Arab Women Entrepreneurs

$5000

To support creation of two new Regional Business Networks in Haifa and Ramle-Lod for Israeli Arab women entrepreneurs. "Standing together" is designed as part of the CJAED's three-year strategic plan for Women in Development, which aims to enable more Arab women to realize their goals as entrepreneurs and to empower them to impact their own economic situation.

Midreshet Yerushalayim (Schechter Institute)
Meeting the Special Needs of the TALI Chernowitz School (Ukraine)

$5000

Midreshet Yerushalayim is providing Jewish educational programming for children and their families in the former Soviet Union. The Chernowitz school is in dire need of Jewish source books and instructional texts to learn Hebrew, as well as a printer and Internet connection for its newly purchased computer to be used exclusively for Jewish studies.