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North Peninsula Jewish Teen Foundation
2011 Grants
Funding guidelines: to address water issues, such as access to water; clean water and water for farming, in Israel and Africa with a focus on self sufficiency and sustainable development.
Total grants distributed: $47,350
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee-$5,000
The grant will save thousands of lives by providing a safe, sustainable and plentiful water supply in a rural Ethiopian village in the Gondar region. Education will also be provided to improve local hygiene and to maintain the water supply.
A Child’s Right-$4,800
A Child's Right will install a water purification system that will provide clean and safe drinking water to the 953 students and staff on site at the Kidane Mehret School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Jewish National Fund- Parsons Water Project-$5,550
This grant will create reservoirs that allow recycling and purification of water for agriculture, allowing the conservation of expensive fresh water in Israel.
Yemin Orde-$8,000
This grant will help rebuild and restore the water systems of the Yemin Orde Youth Village serving minority and underprivileged children in Israel Yemin Orde was devastated by the fire of December 4, 2010, which destroyed 40% of the village and damaged much more.
Blue Planet Network-$5,000
This grant supports the Samburu Project -building of a well providing safe drinking water to 260 families, or approximately 1,300 people, of the Maasai Tribe in The Great Rift Valley in Kenya.
Jewish Heart for Africa-$9,000
This grant funds the construction of an agricultural drip irrigation system providing local farmers with the technology and training necessary to revolutionize their farming approach in the central region of Malawi, an area entirely dependent on farming for survival.
Charity Water-$5,000
This grant will provide one impoverished African community improved access to clean water, along with education about hygiene and sanitation.
Heschel Center-$5,000
This grant supports the training of teachers and students in rainwater harvesting and water conservation programs in Jerusalem schools.
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2010 Grants
Funding guidelines: to provide underprivileged Jewish and non-Jewish youth in impoverished communities in Israel and South East Asia with educational opportunities that lead to lasting self-sufficiency.Total grants distributed: $40,000
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American Jewish World Service – $5,000
The grant will support The Girls Education Initiative in Cambodia that targets poor and vulnerable students, the majority of whom are girls. The grant will provide 60 children with scholarships and tutoring, 15 children will receive vocational training, and 30 teachers will receive continued teacher training.American Jewish World Service – $5,000
The grant will empower children and youth in Thailand’s Shan migrant communities, by providing high quality education in their native language.East Meets West Foundation – $5,000
This grant provides full scholarship for 60 primary school students in Vietnam who otherwise cannot afford to attend school.Jewish Agency for Israel – $5,500
This grant is for the Net@ program that trains disadvantaged youth in Israel's peripheral areas in computer technology, and in the building and maintenance of Internet-related networks in order for them to compete for highly valued high-tech positions.Reut Sderot – $5,000
This grant provides underprivileged youth from Sderot with better educational and social opportunities to succeed in school and integrate into Israeli society.Room to Read – $5,000
Working in partnership with the local community in Laos, Room to Read will be funding their School Room program which builds schools in Laos.Sumba Foundation – $4,500
The grant provides High School Scholarships covering three years of schooling for three impoverished students ($1500 each) in Sumba, Indonesia. The grant covers tuition, books, and uniforms.Youth Renewal Fund – $5,000
This grant will provide computers for the Ethan H. Friedman Learning Center in Ramla, Israel. The computers will be used to teach English to the disadvantaged and low income immigrant youth mainly from the FSU and Ethiopia.
2009 Grants
Funding guidelines: to fund projects for both Jewish and non Jewish populations that address basic needs of food, clean water, medical care and education, through programs that address early intervention and lead to self sufficiency.
Total grants distributed: $42,000
Beit Issie Shapiro – $5,000
To provide paramedical treatments to Israeli -Arab infants with severe developmental disabilities, of economically vulnerable families, in their homes.Jaffa Institute –Community Dental Clinic – $5,000
Providing free and subsidized dental care for children and their parents living below the poverty line.Jerusalem Rape Crisis Center – $5,000
To supply rape victims in the Jerusalem region with professional, high quality medical care by training volunteers and medical professionals on the subject of sexual assault and its aftermath.Jewish Community Free Clinic of Sonoma County – $5,000
To cover close to half the Clinical Director's yearly salary, who must, by law, oversee the 2000 uninsured men, women and children who receive medical care at this free clinic.Jewish Family & Children’s Services – $5,000
Emergency Medical needs for Bay Area residentsJewish Home of San Francisco – $5,000
Support for the care of frail and indigent Jews in a skilled nursing facility in San Francisco.Migdal Ohr – $5,000
To support medical, dental and psychological care for 18 Israeli orphans living at the orphanage.World ORT – $5,000
To provide eye care, eye exams and eyeglasses for underserved poor communities in Israel, serving Israeli Arabs as well as Jewish patients.Yad Sarah – $5,000
For the purchase of 27 wheelchairs for the organization’s Medical Equipment Lending Service.
2008 Grants
Funding guidelines: to fund projects for both Jewish and non Jewish populations that address basic needs of food, clean water, medical care and education, through programs that address early intervention and lead to self sufficiency.
Total grants distributed: $36,600
Direct Relief International – $5,000
Proyecto de Salud Rio Beni, Bolivia: This grant is for essential medical supplies, training and materials to construct and maintain bio-sand water filters in Bolivia.Himalayan Cataracts Project – $5,000
Cataract Surgical Workshop: This grant is for micro surgical cataracts surgeries and training local doctors in poorest regions of India to complete the surgeries and maintain ocular health.The Hunger Project – $5,000
African Woman Food Farmer Initiative, Uganda: Micro-loans to rural African women food farmers in Uganda.Jaffa Institute – $5,000
Fight Against Hunger, Israel: Sandwich program to keep children in schools in Israel.Jewish Family & Children’s Services – $5,000
Financial Assistance Program: Local emergency grant money.Blue Card – $4,500
Personal Emergency Response System: Emergency response devices for Holocaust Survivors living independently but in need of financial and medical assistance to remain independentA Glimmer of Hope – $3,500
NPJCTF Water Project, Ethiopia: Partial grant to fund a water well in EthiopiaEcumenical Hunger Program – $1,800
Food Intake Program, East Palo Alto: This grant is for funding food intake program for families in East Palo Alto.Shelter Network – $1,800
General operating funds: General operating fund donation.
South Peninsula Jewish Teen Foundation
2011 Grants
Funding guidelines: to fund education in a bay area community, a Jewish community and an international community in need; through sustainable early intervention programs that help people help themselves.
Total grants distributed: $57,200
buildOn-$5,500
The grant will support students from East Palo Alto engaged in buildOn's After School Program that focuses on community service both locally and abroad.
College Track-$10,000
This grant provides educational opportunities for students from under-resourced communities in East Palo Alto through programming in academics, college preparation and success, and student life.
Jewish Heart for Africa-$10,000
The grant allows Jewish Heart for Africa to install solar panels for light and electricity for radio and computer use in Visezi Primary School, Tanzania.
Jaffa Institute-$8,100
The Jaffa Dalet after School Enrichment Program provides 32 Ethiopian immigrants a language integration program that supports academic success and breaks the cycle of intergenerational poverty.
Kulanu-$10,000
This grant will supply, furnish, and staff a new library building in the Abayudaya Elementary school near Mbale, Uganda. The library will strengthen the reading and literacy for 300 children, and neighboring Christian and Muslim communities will have access to the library.
Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation-$8,100
The Village Scholarship Program provides educational funds for 102 rural Nepalese children of impoverished and lower caste families for whom education has been financially impossible or culturally denied.
Riekes Center-$5,500
The Riekes Center grant provides 24 students a 4-week written and spoken word program designed to improve academic performance for at risk youth attending East Palo Alto schools.
2010 Grants
Funding guidelines: to provide physical health care and food through sustainable projects that improve the quality of life for vulnerable communities around the world with a commitment to Jewish populations.
Total grants distributed: $55,756
Jewish Heart for Africa – $10,000
The grant will supply Israeli solar technology to light a medical clinic at the Nabikuli Medical Center in Eastern Uganda. A cell phone charging station will also be powered by the solar technology. Money from the charging station will help to sustain the solar panels.Jewish Heart for Africa – $10,000
This grant will provide funds to pilot Israeli drip irrigation in the Putti Village Jewish Community in Uganda.Kulanu – $10,000
This grant will fund a new grain mill and storage facility for the Jewish community in Uganda, allowing them to sell grain when prices are high. The grain mill will also be utilized by Christians and Muslims in the community.Riders for Health – $9,600
This project provides funds for a trainer who will teach community health workers how to safely ride and maintain motorcycles. Motorcycles allow healthcare workers to provide rural African villages with much needed health services. This grant includes one motorcycle and protective gear for one health worker.Nepalese Youth Opportunity Fund – $6,413
This grant provides food for the Nutritional Home in Nepal that will nurse malnourished children back to health and teach their parents basic nutrition.Charity: Water – $5,000
This grant will provide funds for clean water well.Glimmer of Hope Health Post/strong> – $4,743
The funds will be used to build a new community health post in an Ethiopian village that currently lacks access to health care.
2009 Grants
Funding guidelines: to simultaneously provide basic needs and education to Jews in need and to communities with similar struggles.
Total grants distributed: $52,790
American Jewish World Service – $1,273
The grant is for the Integrated Health program in Nigers. The project will protect and promote the health of kids in rural Niger through sex education teacher training workshops, government advocacy, building school bathrooms, and mobile health facilities that provide the basics.Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society – $10,000
This grant will provide legal, psychosocial counseling, education, and advocacy, to resettle LGBT refugees currently in Uganda, South Africa, and Kenya to Canada, the United States, and Australia. The long-term goal is for people from the LGBT community to be welcomed and openly addressed by governments and other non-profit organizations. Will resettle 15 refugees and will provide counseling to 250-300 others.Jewish World Watch – $10,000
To fund a Grey Water Reclamation project for Darfur refugees This project uses water taken from showers to irrigate small family vegetable patches that provide needed nutrients and food, and a source of income for the refugees.Limudiah (NACOEJ) – $9,800
This project provides hot lunches, tutoring, and mentoring to Ethiopian Israelis, to enable school academic success. The program also fosters the importance of family. This grant would fund an entire class (8 students and their families) for an entire year.Migdal Ohr – $10,000
This grant is to provide housing, food, clothing, books, extracurricular activities, tutoring, psychological and social counseling to children who have experienced trauma who are now living at the Migdal Ohr Orphanage in Israel. The funds will provide needed scholarship for 5 kindergarteners (3 girls, 2 boys) to stay at the orphanage and provide the above named services for a year.mothers2mothers – $2,267
This grant will be used for education and empowerment, to combat mother-child transmission of HIV and will include one nutritious meal a day for the pregnant mothers.World Ort – $10,000
This Grant will provide lunches and security for schools in the former Soviet Union. These schools are trained solely on Jews and have Jewish curricula.. Anti-Semitism is still rampant in these FSU states so security is a large needed in the Jewish schools.
2008 Grants
Funding guidelines: to fund programs that, through sustainable change, satisfy basic human needs for vulnerable populations. Programs that emphasize health needs are of particular interest.
Total grants distributed: $71,027
American Jewish World Service – $9,000
Kilili Self Help Project, Kenya: We are training 300 farmers in bio-intensive farming techniques while also offering HIV/AIDS counseling and home based care.American Jewish World Service – $10,000
Ruchika Social Service Organization: Provides a school on the train platforms for poor children and provides health service to the children and their families including immunizations and family planning. Also includes vocational training. This project will serve about 175 children and their families.Water Partners International – $10,000
Safe Drinking Water, Bangladesh: Our money will go to serving 900 people with micro loans, educate 180 people about hygiene, construct one public water point, and build 14.5 latrines.PlayPumps International – $14,000
Water pump in Africa: We are building a water pump that will serve 2,500 people for at least ten years. The pump is powered by a children's merry-go-round.Vitamin Angels – $4,027
Operation 20/20, Latin America, Africa & Asia: We are giving Vitamin A to children aged 6 months to 10 years old and nursing mothers to prevent blindness and immune deficiencies.The Hunger Project – $10,000
African Woman Food Farmer Initiative, Uganda: We are providing micro-loans for 3,000 women in 12 communities to stimulate their economy and improve farming techniques.Resource Foundation – $10,000
Water Conservation and Reforestation, Bolivia: We will create cleaner water sources through the planting of 8,890 seedlings and provide eight educational workshops for 1,500 individuals teaching them how to protect the soil and keep the water clean.Sociedad Israelita de Beneficiencia de Mendoza – $4,000
Social Welfare Food Project, Argentina: We are supplying the Argentinean Jewish population with much needed funds for food, transportation, medical and dental expenses. We are supporting six families with funding for a full year.
2007 Grants
Funding guidelines: to support programs that address issues of poverty, poor nutrition, abuse and homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area and Israel, through early intervention and empowering people to help themselves
Total grants distributed: $45,301
Ben Shemen, Israel – $7,500
To fund educational assistance, therapies and enrichment for 26 young children who where abused and taken from their homes to live at Ben Shemen.Bedouin Women’s Embroidery Project, Israel – $5,000
The SPJCTF is partnering with the JCF in funding this micro-enterprise project for Bedouin Women in Israel. The project uses the traditional art of Bedouin embroidery as a tool to provide personal and economic empowerment skills to participants.Bread Project- Oakland, CA – $9,950
To provide culinary training and job referrals for those in need in the Bay AreaEastside College Preparatory School, East Palo Alto, CA – $5,000
To fund the food portion of their summer academic programLife Learning Academy, Treasure Island, CA – $6,700
To fund a non violent mural and t-shirt project for the high school.Tel Hai Academic College, Israel – $6,000
Located on the Lebanese- Israeli border, this grant will fund two complete academic scholarships for Tel Hai studentsWorld ORT, Israel – $5,151
To fund 12 students of the Shaar Negev High School in the North of Israel with meals, transportation, clothing, books, and equipment, and emotional support.
2006 Grants
Funding guidelines: to support programs and organizations that address inequality and injustice through a Jewish lens, mainly internationally, but also locally, highlighting education and a preference toward youth
Total grants distributed: $41,000
A.H.A.V.A “Brighter Horizons For Our Children” – $5,000
For “Breaking Through”: A Reading Tutorial Process. This grant will assist Israeli children with learning disabilities to acquire basic English reading skills through individual tutoring and parent workshops, while encouraging English literacy.American Jewish World Service – $2,500
This grant will support construction of a water supply and distribution system for a medical clinic in Am Nabak, Chad, that will aid refugees who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan, due to the ongoing genocide and also aid Chadian locals.Beit Issie Shapiro – $5,000
For the Youth Social Education and Leadership Training Program. This grant will support a social education program raising awareness and acceptance of those who are different (have special needs). Two hundred Jewish and Arab kids in Israel, ages 13-15 from 13 middle and high schools, working in a two-year cycle will be participants and leaders in this program, from June through March each year.ELI – $3,444
The grant from the PJCTF will be used to underwrite the cost of delivering a proven, successful child abuse prevention program to ten schools in Israel that would be seen by those schools’ 2,750 children and adolescent attendees.Friends of Yemin Orde – $7,500
For the Tikkun Olam — Mending the World Program. This grant will fund disadvantaged immigrant children in Israel to volunteer with other populations in need, such as the homeless, seniors, and patients in hospitals, thus enabling the children to put their own problems into perspective and help them feel empowered to make a positive impact in someone else’s life.Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel – $5,000
For the Partners Project. This grant is for Jewish and Arab children in Israel (grade 7-9, ages 12-15, about 75 kids), who already attend school together, to create after-school opportunities to further tolerance, acceptance and communication between Jews and Arabs in Israel.Jewish Coalition for Literacy – $2,500
For a pilot tutoring initiative aimed at focusing individualized academic attention on at-risk kindergarten students through weekly tutoring sessions using age-appropriate materials and resources. JCL will partner with at least two Peninsula schools during the 2006-2007 school year to support 20 tutor–student pairs.Living Compassion – $5,000
For the Masala School Alternative Program. This grant will provide proper septic systems so the school can re-open and provide education to homeless orphans (200 kids, ages 7 - 15), recruited from the markets and streets of Ndola, Zambia.MADRE – $5,000
For the Hope for the Future: An educational initiative for indigenous Samburu women and children in Northern Kenya Program. This grant is to equip the school with educational materials, chalkboards, books and school supplies; purchase playground equipment and provide uniforms and shoes for 50 children for one year.
2005 Grants
Funding guidelines: focused on the prevention of diseases in developing countries including projects that assist with vaccinations, encourage self-sufficiency and demonstrate lasting impact
Total grants distributed: $11,250
The Joint Distribution Committee – $3,250
For the Baby Tinok program, giving medical assistance and vaccines to impoverished Jewish babies in Argentina.Direct Relief International – $2,000
For clean midwife kits and education for five midwives in the most rural developing countries.The Vaccine Fund – $3,000
For the “Basic Six” vaccines for children in developing countries.Glimmer of Hope – $3,000
To install a clean water system in a remote village in Ethiopia.
2004 Grants
Funding guidelines: to support organizations and projects that help to alleviate hunger worldwide
Total grants distributed: $9,500
North American Conference of Ethiopian Jews – $4,900
To supply a daily meal for Ethiopian Jews who are in desperate need.American Nicaraguan Foundation – $2,300
For two cups of milk daily for kids who are in school.Freedom From Hunger – $2,300
For their “Credit with Education” program, helping women to start businesses so they can feed their families.
Marin/San Francisco Jewish Teen Foundation
2011 Grants
Funding guidelines: to fund projects that provide people in developing communities with access to safe drinking water, with a focus on South and Southeast Asia, through education and sustainable technologies.
Total grants distributed: $51,102
Advancement for Rural Kids-$8,275
This grant will support a school-based rain harvesting and filtration system at an elementary school in Sibariwan, Capiz, Phillippines. The system will help students to stay in school and have access to safe, drinking water during the dry season and will also benefit the school's kitchen and feeding program.
Ashok Gadgil-$8,275
This grant will support installation of locally affordable technology to remove arsenic from drinking water at a high school in Amirabad village of West Bengal, India. The technology, if successful, will be scaled to other arsenic-affected villages.
Friends of Yemin Orde-$10,000
This grant will help rebuild and restore the water systems of the Yemin Orde Youth Village serving minority and underprivileged children in Israel Yemin Orde was devastated by the fire of December 4, 2010, which destroyed 40% of the village and damaged much more.
Journeys within Our Community-$7,225
This project provides a year round, easily accessible source of clean water for 150 households in the village of Brasat Char, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia. Hygiene education will also be included.
Sumba Foundation-$9,827
The grant will build a water reticulation system including water lines, water tanks, a generator and submersible pump bringing clean, easily accessible water in the remote foothills of Lamboya, West Sumba to 392 people for the first time in their life.
Trailblazer Foundation-$7,500
This grant will provide wells and water filters to four villages in the Reul Commune of the Puok District, Cambodia, providing access to clean drinking water and increased agriculture production. The project leads to improved health, education, and economic stability for villagers.
2010 Grants
Funding guidelines: to fund organizations that address the basic needs of people in nations affected by violent conflict, providing them with green technologies that lead them toward self-sufficiency.
Total grants distributed: $48,500
Friends by Nature – $5,000
This grant will support a community garden for Ethiopian Israelis, where community mentors will guide others to grow food and emphasize healthy nutrition.Jewish Heart for Africa – $5,000
This grant will support the installation of solar panels for the Kaliro Orphanage in Uganda, which serves 300 children.Jewish World Watch – $5,000
This grant will provide more than three-hundred solar cookers for Darfuri refugees living in Chad.Kulanu – $5,000
This grant will provide a chicken coop project for a small Jewish community in India.Nomad Foundation – $5,285
This grant will support solar-powered energy for a comprehensive center that serves impoverished nomadic tribes in Niger.Sexto Sol – $5,000
This grant will support an eco-village that sponsors community-wide organic food production in Guatemala.Solar Electric Light Fund – $5,000
This grant will support the installation of solar panels at five health clinics based in Haiti in partnership with Partners in Health.Tibet Fund – $5,000
This grant will provide solar energy for the Srongsten School in Nepal, which serves Tibetan refugees.Arava Institute – $4,000
This grant will support a project that creates energy via biogas digesters for Bedouin communities in Israel and Jordan.Lift Up Africa – $3,000
This grant will support three solar cooking initiatives in Kenya.Tanz Solar – $1,500
This grant will subsidize solar lighting for family homes in Tanzania.
2009 Grants
Funding guidelines: to fund organizations that empower teens at risk through alternative education programs that improve their lives and lead them toward self-sufficiency. The foundation will primarily target, but not be limited to, programs that serve Bay Area teens.
Total grants distributed: $35,570
Art of Yoga – $5,000
This grant will provide a six week art and yoga class for incarcerated young women at San Francisco’s Youth Guidance Center.Bread Project – $5,000
This grant will support the Baker, Cook and Job Readiness training program for four youth at-risk in Berkeley.Canal Alliance – $5,000
This grant will support Youth Education and Development for middle and high school students in the Canal District in San Rafael. The program includes tutoring, after-school programming, community service, and college advising.Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) – $5,285
This grant will support a leadership training program for teens that have been in the criminal justice system. Teens provide 2,000 hours of community service over a year and provide legal education to middle school students. The program is based in Santa Clara County.Life Learning Academy – $5,285
This grant will support the creation of Student Newsletter class for a unique charter school that transforms the lives of high-risk youth. Life Learning Academy is based on Treasure Island.Real Options for City Kids (ROCKS) – $5,000
This grant will support the Teen Leadership Training Program at ROCKS. The program includes community service work, job-training, in-program volunteering and outdoor adventure risk-taking. The agency is based in Visitacion Valley in San Francisco.Trips for Kids – $5,000
This grant will support the Earn-a-Bike/Job Training program for underserved at-risk youth. Youth learn all aspects of bike mechanics in an after-school program, and earn a bike in the process. Trips for Kids also provides mountain bike trips for underserved youth from throughout the Bay Area. Based in San Rafael, the agency has branches across the United States and in Israel and Canada.
For more information contact:
Sue Schwartzman
Director of Youth Philanthropy
for the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
121 Steuart Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
415.512.6263
SueS@sfjcf.org
February 2012
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