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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:

1. 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
2. "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
3. 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
4. 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.
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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:

1. American Friends of Magen David Adom - $6,400
   To fund emergency medical services, blood products and disaster relief in Israel
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Meir Panim-Relief Centers in Israel - $2,500
   To support youth in Israel and provide school supplies
6. Jewish Family and Children's Services- Berkeley, CA - $1,000
   To support a Jewish family in need
7. 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:

1. 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
2. Unicef - $5,000
   Humanitarian relief in the Darfurs; providing health programs, education and shelter
3. 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
4. Friends of Yemin Orde - $2,500
   Empowering children in Israel through their participation in volunteer Tikkun Olam project serving people in need
5. Israel Children’s Centers - $5,000
   Assisting 50 Ethiopian immigrant children in adjusting to life in Israel
6. Latet - $5,000
   "I Am for You": An educational volunteer project in which low-income Israeli youth make a difference in their communities
7. American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro - $5,000
   Leadership development and involvement in social issues for youth with special needs in Israel
   
8. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - $5,000
   Youth academic and leadership programs for disadvantaged Israeli immigrant youth
9. Seeking Common Ground - $5,000
   Follow-up retreat to Israeli/Palestinian/American camp experience focusing on tolerance and coexistence in the Middle East
10. Hand in Hand - $5,000
    Shared activities promoting just and equitable relationships between Arab and Jewish students
11. Sadaka Reut - $5,000
    "Building a Culture of Peace": Dialogue and leadership groups for Jewish and Arab youth

Total Grants Distributed: $50,500

2005 EBJCTF Grant Cycle

Funding Guidelines:

• Human Rights / B'tzelem Elohim: We value the divine spark in each individual and so we are directed to protect the rights and dignity of humanity. In 2005, we sought grant proposals for the following programs:
  1. To combat anti-semitism internationally through education and and self-sustainability.
  2. To increase the rights of the disabled people in the San Francisco Bay Area through integration and self-sustainability.
     
     
• Environment / Shomrei Adama: As Jewish youth we believe that we have a responsibility as stewards for our world. In 2005, we sought grant proposals for environmental organizations that take action against corporations in order to improve the water and air quality that directly impact human populations."

Grant Recipients:

1. Holocaust Center of Northern California - San Francisco, California - $5,000
   Speakers' Bureau that brings Holocaust Survivors to Bay Area classrooms.

2. Polish American Jewish Youth Alliance for Youth Action - Krakow, Poland - $3,333
   To teach Jewish culture and contemporary life in Polish public schools.

3. Center for Independent Living - Berkeley, California - $5,000
   To empower youth with disabilities to achieve success and independence.

4. Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program - Berkeley, California - $3,333
   To support the sports program serving physically disabled Bay Area youth.

5. Israel Union for Environmental Defense/ Friends of Israel's Environment - $5,000
   For a public awareness campaign to launch a clean air bill in Knesset to reduce air pollution in Israel. This grant was matched dollar for dollar, so that the EBJCTF leveraged $10,000 total for this important cause.

6. EarthJustice - Oakland, California - $3,333
   To provide free legal representation to environmental and health groups challenging the government for failing to uphold the Clean Air Act.

Total Grants Distributed: $25,000

2004 EBJCTF Grant Cycle

Funding Guidelines:

• Disease & Medicine: Support for organizations whose focus is medical research, disease prevention, and provision of medical supplies, particularly in third world countries.

• Israel: Support for programs and organizations that promote peace, help terror victims, and/or help the economy.

Grant Recipients:

1. Free the Children - Toronto, Canada - $5,000

2. American Nicaraguan Foundation - Miami, Florida - $1,000

3. The Vaccine Fund Washington, DC - $1,255

4. Hand in Hand Portland, Oregon - $5,000

Total Grants Distributed: $11,255

>> About the East Bay Jewish Community Teen Foundation

EBJCTF is a program of The Jewish Community Foundation in Oakland, California. Funding is generously provided by the Morton and Amy Friedkin Supporting Foundation and the Ronald and Gail Rubenstein Philanthropic Fund of The Jewish Community Foundation; the Shoresh Foundation; and the David B. Klein Foundation.