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Tehiyah Day School
Tuition Assistance Fund
$20,000
From the PCE and FoF-Preschool to College
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One-third of Tehiyah’s 315 students receive tuition
assistance. The need for financial support has recently
significantly increased. Scholarships help present Jewish
children with their spiritual heritage and can change
the Jewish demographic landscape.
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Midrashot
System
Student Financial Aid
$18,437
From the PCE and FoF-Preschool to College
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A successful collaborative and inclusive communal program,
Midrasha faces substantial annual requests for financial
aid for our wide variety of educational offerings. This
grant will help maintain the Midrasha policy of never
turning away any student for any program because of
an inability to pay.
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Center
for Jewish Living & Learning
Special Learning Needs
$15,000
From the PCE and FoF-Preschool to College
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To allow CJLL to address the special educational needs
of the students enrolled in our community schools, by
enabling families of students with special educational
needs and our community schools to respond to this acute
communal need.
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Jewish Vocational Service
2006 Kohn Summer Intern Program
$15,000
From the PCE and FoF-Preschool to College
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For the 2006 Kohn Summer Intern Program, JVS will recruit
and place up to 33 college students from the San Francisco
and JCFGEB areas in eight-week internships in Jewish
communal agencies to develop future leadership for the
Jewish community.
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Berkeley
Hillel
Twenty-Something Engagement Initiative
$13,000
From the PCE and FoF-Preschool to College
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Through cultural, educational, community service and
social programming, Hillel will engage Jewish East Bay
twenty-somethings—grad students and young adults—at
a critical stage in their lives and serve to increase
their involvement in the larger Jewish community.
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Oakland Hebrew Day
School
Scholarship Support
$10,000
From the PCE and FoF-Preschool to College
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OHDS provides scholarships to 35% of our students,
with a higher number of students enrolled and requiring
financial aid in 2005-06. This grant will make a Jewish
day school education more accessible and affordable
to all families who want this experience for their child.
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Jewish
Teen Alliance
Seed Money
$10,000
From the PCE and FoF-Preschool to College
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To support the first year operations of the Jewish
Teen Alliance, uniting the Bay Area Jewish Community
in an innovative collaboration that will support and
nurture our teens.
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Community
Rabbi Program
CRP Auxiliary Staff
$8,500
From the PCE, FoF-Social Justice & Human Needs,
and FoF-Spiritual Renewal
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For the many unaffiliated, elderly, disabled, and others
who face financial or emotional barriers to membership,
the Community Rabbi Program (CRP) offers spiritual and
religious outreach. This grant will provide staff support
to enable the CRP to move towards financial self-sufficiency.
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Judah L. Magnes
Museum
Social Action
$8,000
From the PCE and FoF-Jewish Learning and Culture
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Highlighting the creative contributions and influence
of Jews in the Bay Area in transforming the consciousness
of the nation and intended to compliment California
history curricula at public and Jewish schools, this
leading edge, multi-media installation will highlight
the geographic importance of the East Bay in eliciting
social change.
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Contra Costa Jewish
Day School
Special Needs Program
$7,500
From the PCE and FoF-Preschool to College
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To expand our services to students with diagnosed manageable
learning differences, this grant will help to extend
the number of students served by a respected local Learning
Specialist who comes to CCJDS for individual sessions
with students.
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Camp
Kadima
Jewish Community Day Camp
$6,000
From the PCE and FoF-Preschool to College
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Camp Kadima will expand our La’atid program for
7th & 8th grade campers; increase staff development,
and expand enrollment and promotion for this in-demand
program. Camper recruitment will be expanded to reach
more of the unaffiliated families in the East Bay.
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Contra Costa Jewish
Day School
California Association of Independent Schools Membership
$5,000
From the PCE and FoF-Preschool to College
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CCJDS is now eligible to apply for membership in the
California Association of Independent Schools (C.A.I.S.),
which begins with a lengthy and intensive review, compiling
a great deal of information for a series of visiting
teams and following through on recommendations throughout
the process. This grant would provide a stipend to an
individual who will be their C.A.I.S. Member Chair.
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Shalom Bayit
Love Shouldn't Hurt
$5,000
From the PCE and FoF-Preschool to College
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Love Shouldn’t Hurt is a youth-led
healthy relationships education program for Jewish teens
and young adults. The proposed project is to implement
abuse prevention companion workshops for parents and Jewish
educators; and to develop and publish the program as the
first Jewish teen dating violence curriculum in the country. |
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Jewish
Music Festival (BRJCC)
21st Annual Jewish Music Festival
$5,000
From the PCE and FoF-Jewish Learning & Culture
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JMF includes concerts of internationally and nationally
known artists; participatory events such as dances,
instrumental "jams," and a Community Music
Day, highlighting local musicians, and also a school
and community outreach program, bringing Jewish music
to public schools and organizations throughout the Bay
Area.
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Mills College
Kol Isha: Jewish Women's Voices Unbound
$5,000
From the PCE and FoF-Jewish Learning & Culture
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This collaborative project will focus on Jewish women
by helping to shape new work on Jewish women’s
creative and scholarly work that is emerging from all
corners of the world. In February 2006 Mills will launch
the series with a conference of noted Jewish women writers,
poets, speakers, and performers with scholarly panels
and workshops.
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Jewish Family & Children's Services
of the East Bay
Holocaust Survivor Case Management Services
$5,000
From the PCE and FoF-Social Justice & Human Needs
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To provide case management services to
the increasingly frail population of Holocaust survivors
whom we serve in both counties, enabling people to live
at home with improved access to health care, caregiver
support and community contact. These services will augment
JFCS's existing program of restitution assistance, financial
assistance, and Café Europa socialization activities.
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Reutlinger Community
for Jewish Living
Gerontological Nurse Practitioner
$5,000
From the PCE and FoF-Social Justice & Human Needs
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To support the services of a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner
4 hours per week on our assisted living unit. In addition
to resident, staff, and family education, the GNP will
act as liaison to coordinate medical, nursing and psycho-social
issues ensuring residents receive the interventions
necessary to maintain their highest level of functioning.
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Israel
Center
Strengthening our Gan by Bringing Israel Home
$3,000
From the PCE, FoF-Preschool to College, and FoF-Israel
& World Jewry
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Following on the success of our 2003-04 funded project,
Bridges to Israel, the Israel Center will hire an early
childhood consultant to work with each East Bay Jewish
preschool to enhance their Israel-oriented curriculum
and skills designed specifically for the needs of its
particular program.
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San Francisco Jewish
Film Festival
2006 Festival - East Bay
$2,000
From the PCE and FoF-Jewish Learning & Culture
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Marking its 26th year with expanded outreach and guests
from around the world, the Festival brings a renowned
array of the finest international Jewish cinema to East
Bay audiences, including signature panels, dialogues
and community-building events.
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Building
Jewish Bridges
Universal Values
$1,300
From the PCE and FoF-Preschool to College
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To provide an interfaith component to the Early Childhood
program of the Contra Costa Jewish Community Center,
through a three-month, twice monthly program integrated
into the Preschool, but open to the entire community,
inviting interfaith families with young children to
explore Jewish practice in their homes through shared
values.
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Israel
Center
11th Annual Contra Costa International Jewish Film Festival
$855
From the PCE, FoF-Jewish Learning & Culture, and
FoF-Israel & World Jewry
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Through the screening of two films—Live and Become
and Campfire—Israel Center expects to strengthen
our community’s ties to Israel (including a targeted
Jewish teen population), and to educate the general
community as well as a targeted audience of donors about
the importance of the American Jewish community’s
partnering with Israel to aid in the immigration, absorption
and education of Ethiopian Jewry.
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