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2010 EBJCTF Grant Cycle
Funding Guidelines:
- Address hunger by promoting sustainable agriculture and self-sufficiency in Jewish and non-Jewish communities affected by oppression.
Grant Recipients:
- Sustainable Cambodia, Inc. - $10,000
This grant will provide funds for rural Cambodians to build a pond and cultivate gardens that will generate food and livelihood.
- American Jewish World Service, Columbia - $9,000
This project supports Columbians who’s main staple (fish) was displaced by a dam. The funds will help restore food security and will support sustainable agriculture.
- American Jewish World Service, Haiti - $7,600
This grant will provide aid as part of a long-term partnership with the victims of the recent earthquake. The funds will help rebuild the infrastructure there, with a focus on sustainable agriculture and self-sufficiency.
- Friends of Ethiopian Jews - $4,000
This grant will support a community garden for Ethiopian Israelis, where community mentors will guide others to grow food and nurture healthy nutrition for the next generation.
- Enrich the World: Seeds of Change - $3,000
This project will fund a community garden and a green market with diversified crops for impoverished people in Honduras.
Total Grants Distributed: $33,600
2009 EBJCTF Grant Cycle
Funding Guidelines:
- Organizations that strive to prevent malaria and water-borne diseases affecting children and youth in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Grant Recipients:
- Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) - $10,000
The grant will provide funds to construct 2 water wells in rural Ethiopia, providing access to potable water, maintenance, improved sanitation, and prevention of water-borne diseases.
- Malaria No More - $6,838
To provide and distribute mosquito nets and community-based malaria prevention-education to families most at risk of malaria in Botswana, in support of the country’s goals to eliminate malaria by 2015.
- PlayPumps International - $10,000
This grant provides the funds for a PlayPump water system where children draw water by playing. This allows girls, who would otherwise be spending the day procuring water, to have the opportunity to get an education. The well will serve up to 2,500 people in sub-Saharan Africa.
- World Medical Fund USA - $10,000
The grant will greatly reduce the morbidity and mortality from malaria and bilharzia by providing nets, education, and medicine for children living in the lakeside villages of Lake Malawi.
Total Grants Distributed: $36,838
2008 EBJCTF Grant Cycle
Funding Guidelines:
- Programs that provide traditional and alternative education
for impoverished people in both the Bay Area and Israel.
Grant Recipients:
- A.H.A.V.A. - $7,220
To fund "English Learned in a Natural Method,"
which will assist 50 disadvantaged Israeli children with
learning disabilities to acquire basic English reading skills
while offering advocacy workshops to their parents
- "I Have a Dream" Foundation - $6,220
To assist with startup and programming costs for one
year for the "I Have a Dream" Foundation, which
motivates and empowers its "Dreamers" (children
from a low-income or high-risk communities) to reach their
educational and career goals
- Israel Venture Network - $4,220
To fund "A Second Chance for Teens in Ofakim,"
which will enable youngsters from poor families, who have
dropped out of school, to overcome academic gaps and receive
a schooling or matriculation certificate
- Jewish Coalition for Literacy - $5,000
To fund "Let's Read at Home-A Program for Parents,"
which will enable JCL to offer hands-on parent workshops
to non-English speaking parents to practice reading techniques
they can use at home to bolster their child's language development.
- Life Learning Academy - $6,890
To fund "Sound Success: Nonviolence at LLA,"
which will go towards enhancing LLA's 'culture of nonviolence'
by providing the means to express and share successful nonviolent
problem-solving methods through graphic arts, digital audio
recording and production, and multimedia production
- The Mosaic Project - $7,220
To fund the Outdoor School, which will enable two low-income
fourth or fifth grade classes to attend The Mosaic Project's
unique human-relations outdoor school, which promotes a
peaceful future by reaching children in their formative
years
- Sierra Club - $2,220
To support San Jose Inner City Outings: Connecting Youth
with the Outdoors. This grant will be used to provide underprivileged
students with unique outdoor experiences such as backpacking,
rafting, and kaying that will broaden their horizons and
help them to grow into better stewards of the environment
- Verde Partnership Garden - $4,220
To support the Leadership Program, a multi-generational
community leadership team.
Total Grants Distributed: $43,210
2007 EBJCTF Grant Cycle
Funding Guidelines:
- Programs that aid immigrant youth in Israel by
providing resources and support.
- Programs that help develop peace through the creation
of dialogue and understanding between Arab and Israeli youth.
Grant Recipients:
- American Friends of Magen David Adom - $6,400
To fund emergency medical services, blood products and
disaster relief in Israel
- Hand in Hand- American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab
Education in Israel - $6,400
To support the training of facilitators in Israel to
further Israeli/Arab youth dialogue
- North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry (NACOEJ)
- $5,000
To support five Ethiopian children in Israel to attend
an after school program of intensive education
- International Rescue Committee - $5,000
To fund medical care for children in Sonoma County who
would otherwise be unable to get their immunizations and
attend school
- Meir Panim-Relief Centers in Israel - $2,500
To support youth in Israel and provide school supplies
- Jewish Family and Children's Services- Berkeley,
CA - $1,000
To support a Jewish family in need
- Midrasha - Oakland, CA - $700:
To provide curriculum support for the Midrasha after-school
Jewish education program
Total Grants Distributed: $27,000
>> About the East Bay Jewish Community
Teen Foundation
The East Bay Jewish Community Teen Foundation is a program of The Jewish Community Foundation, and is part of the larger Youth Philanthropy Initiative of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
East Bay program funding this year is provided by The Morton and Amy Friedkin Foundation and The Sandy and Jean Colen Family Foundation, both of which are Supporting Foundations of The Jewish Community Foundation, and the Shoresh Foundation. Support for the larger regional teen philanthropy program is provided by many generous Bay Area funders. Additional grants and contributions are needed to continue this extraordinary program.
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