2008 Houston Jewish Community Foundation Grant Awards and Needs
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Awarded |
Requested |
| Jewish Information Center |
"Taste of Judaism" - Basic Judaism Mini-Course |
$ 1,500 |
$ 3,000 |
| To provide a greater understanding and interest in Judaism and to offer those considering conversion and marginally unaffiliated Jews an abbreviated insight into Judaism. |
| Seven Acres |
Alzheimers Programming |
$13,800 |
$13,800 |
| To provide Alzheimer therapy activities on weekends - currently just doing 5 days a week. |
| Jewish Community Center |
Arts Fair On-Campus Outreach to College |
$ 3,000 |
$ 3,000 |
| Designed to reach and better serve the Jewish college student population (U of H and Rice). |
| Chabad Outreach |
Children's Sunday Circle |
$ 5,500 |
$ 5,500 |
| To provide special needs children a monthly social and educational experience with a focus on Jewish identity. |
| Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism |
HCRJ Mitzvah Corp |
$ 2,500 |
$ 5,000 |
| Goal is to build a teen community at the Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism which will include the training of students for Bar/Bat Mitzvah ceremony. |
| Congregation Beth Shalom of the Woodlands & Congregation Jewish Community North |
Joint Education Series |
$ 8,000 |
$ 11,730 |
| To provide quality adult education programs for Jews in the northern outlying areas of Houston and southern Montgomery County |
| Greene Family Camp & Camp Young Judaea |
Joint Staff Training Day |
$10,000 |
$15,000 |
| For the training of approximately 225 Camp Young Judaea and Greene Family Camp staff to be better caregivers to campers. |
| Camp Young Judaea |
Kochavim Israeli Dance Camp |
$ 3,000 |
$ 3,000 |
| To support the teaching of Israeli dancing through a camp environment. |
| TORCH |
LINK - Advanced Learning Kollel |
$ 2,500 |
$10,000 |
| Educational series geared toward the young Jewish professional that will empower them with a greater knowledge and awareness of their heritage. |
| TX A & M Hillel |
Jewish-Hispanic Studies |
$ 2,000 |
$ 6,000 |
| Four sessions designed to teach Jewish & Hispanic students to communicate with each other and to face their stereotypical assumptions. |
| Jewish Family Service |
Psychiatric Program |
$ 9,300 |
$ 9,300 |
| For continuation of psychiatric services to the most indigent of JFS clients in need of counseling and medication management. |
| Bnei Akiva |
Purim Carnival for Physically & Mentally Challenged Children |
$ 1,000 |
$ 3,000 |
| To host Jewish handicapped individuals at UOS's annual Purim Carnival in 2009. |
| Jewish Community Center |
Senior Adult Bus Replacement |
$10,000 |
$10,000 |
| For purchase of a replacement bus to transport JCC & community Jewish seniors to and from the Center. |
| Foundation for the Retarded |
Support for Jewish Clients |
$ 2,500 |
$15,000 |
| To assist with the costs associated with the care of Jewish clients (3% of the Center's population). |
| Holocaust Museum |
The Children of Theresienstadt |
$ 5,000 |
$ 5,000 |
| An exhibit geared to all ages, with a particular emphasis on children - will provide a brief history of the Terezin Concentration Camp and display artwork created by the children of the Camp. |
| Initiative for Jewish Women |
The Deborah Dialogues |
$ 5,000 |
$12,000 |
| To provide mentoring for young adult Jewish women just beginning in their careers. |
| TOTAL Funded $84,600 |
Unmet Needs
Listed below are additional projects/programs that have unmet needs:
| Beren Academy |
you@shalom@net |
$ 7,000 |
| To develop an awareness of the potential internet dangers and to build proactive strategies to deal with these concerns from a Jewish perspective |
| Congregation Brith Shalom |
The Ruach Project |
$ 7,500 |
| The goal is to broaden worship opportunities through expansion of existing worship services and initiation of new worship events. Grant will provide for training, support, and upgraded sound system |
| Beth Yeshurun Day School |
Laptop Computers for Classrooms budget |
budget $51,493 |
| To update technology in facility and provide 22 teachers laptop computers that have capacity for wireless connections and connection to other technologies |
| Texas A&M Hillel Foundation |
Jewish Ethics |
$ 8,000 |
| For integration of Jewish ethics into campus community - 10 luncheon dialogue series between university profs & students on ethical challenges of their profession |
| Hebrew Free Loan Association |
Loan Administrator |
$10,000 |
| To enable the association to hire a person to be employed part-time as a loan administrator |
| Shlenker School |
Israel Curriculum Project |
$ 9,000 |
| To provide funds to pay teachers for their work on updated curriculum development during the summers of 2008 and 2009 |
| Bnei Akiva |
Israel Shabbaton |
$ 2,500 |
| A weekend of activities (a shabbaton) for high school youths from across the nation - focus will be to educate the kids about the land and state of Israel |
| Beth Yeshurun Religious School |
YAD Project |
$ 4,000 |
| To fund events that will help integrate Emery Weiner students into religious school as they approach Bar/Bat Mitzvah year. |
| Torah Outreach Resource Center |
Discovery Seminar |
$10,000 |
| Seminar to engage non-affiliated and less-affiliated Jews in the understanding of Jewish life |
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Goldstaub Special Community Needs Fund
The Goldstaub Special Community Needs Fund was created as a permanent endowment by Lorraine and Ralph Goldstaub as a philanthropic legacy to help meet emergency needs and/or provide special funding for unanticipated special needs or programs. The maximum grant awarded to any one organization from this fund in any three-year period is $3000. To apply for a Goldstaub grant, applicants must submit to the Foundation a completed application, including an itemized budget. Goldstaub grants may be awarded at any time during the year, depending on the availability of funds. To download a Goldstaub grant application, please click here.
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