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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
2006 EBJCTF Grant Cycle
Funding Guidelines:
- Advancement of Youth in Israel / Kiddum Noar B’Yisrael:
Projects that empower youth in Israel by creating
for them a safe and just society, and by addressing the
following pressing issues in Israel as they affect young
people:
- Poverty, hunger and economic adversity,
- Peace, security, reconciliation and coexistence,
- Tolerance and cooperation within Israeli society,
and
- The integration of new Olim from all walks of life
into Israeli society.
- Lifting up the Fallen , Healing the Sick, and Freeing
the Captive in Darfur / Somech Noflim V’Rofeh Cholim
U’Matir Asurim Projects that work to alleviate
the suffering and end the genocide in the Darfur region
of Western Sudan. Taking into account the lessons of the
Holocaust, and out of a desire to never stand idly by while
atrocities are committed against innocents, we intend to
stand up for human rights where they are violated. We are
especially interested in funding projects that address the
needs of youth and children in Darfur.
Grant Recipients:
- American Jewish World Service - $5,000
Responding to the genocide in Darfur, Sudan; supporting
the construction of a water supply and distribution system
for a medical clinic in Chad, serving refugees from Sudan
and locals
- Unicef - $5,000
Humanitarian relief in the Darfurs; providing health
programs, education and shelter
- Eli – $3,000
Increasing awareness of child abuse in Israel, encouraging
new immigrants to seek help, providing assistance in the
form of therapy, advocacy and emergency shelter
- Friends of Yemin Orde - $2,500
Empowering children in Israel through their participation
in volunteer Tikkun Olam project serving people in
need
- Israel Children’s Centers - $5,000
Assisting 50 Ethiopian immigrant children in adjusting
to life in Israel
- Latet - $5,000
"I Am for You": An educational volunteer project
in which low-income Israeli youth make a difference in their
communities
- American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro - $5,000
Leadership development and involvement in social issues
for youth with special needs in Israel
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee -
$5,000
Youth academic and leadership programs for disadvantaged
Israeli immigrant youth
- Seeking Common Ground - $5,000
Follow-up retreat to Israeli/Palestinian/American camp
experience focusing on tolerance and coexistence in the
Middle East
- Hand in Hand - $5,000
Shared activities promoting just and equitable relationships
between Arab and Jewish students
- Sadaka Reut - $5,000
"Building a Culture of Peace": Dialogue and
leadership groups for Jewish and Arab youth
Total Grants Distributed: $50,500
>> About the East Bay Jewish Community
Teen Foundation
The East Bay Jewish Community Teen Foundation is a program of The Jewish Community Foundation, serving the Greater East Bay, with major funding from the Morton & Amy Friedkin Supporting Foundation of The Jewish Community Foundation.
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