2016 Grants

Peace and Conflict Resolution/Civil and Human Rights

Shaharit - Creating Common Cause • Purpose: General Operating Support

Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice • Purpose: General Operating Support

T’ruah - The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights •  Purpose: General Operating Support 

Education, Innovation, and Design for Sustainability

Buckminster Fuller Institute • Purpose: Buckminster Fuller Challenge Prize Program

Arts and Media

Carnegie Hall Society • Purpose: The Academy and Community and Outreach Programs in NYC Public Schools

Free Arts NYC • Purpose: General Operating Support

Panzi Foundation • Purpose: The Panzi Hospital Music Therapy Program and General Programming Support

Issue Project Room • Purpose: General Operating Support

Jazz Foundation of America • Purpose: Emergency Fund

JazzReach • Purpose: Educational Programs

Mark Morris Dance Group • Purpose: Community Engagement Program - Brownsville Dance Project

Human Health

Jewish World Watch • Purpose: The Panzi Hospital Music Therapy Program and General Programming Support 

International Rescue Committee • Purpose: The Unaccompanied and Separated Children's Program, and to support a regional staff position.

Save The Children • Purpose: The Maternity Healthcare Center in Syria, the Search and Rescue Vessel, and for the Aleppo Emergency Response Fund.

Community Solutions • Purpose: To bring professional development training of the CLEAR model to the Riverside School in Brownsville.

Special Grants

New Venture Fund • Purpose: Fund for a Safer Future - Advancing Policies to Reduce Gun Violence