To support Be'chol Lashon, a program that recognizes and supports the needs of diverse Jews. Be'chol Lashon is the only Bay Area program specifically serving the needs of African American, Asian, Pacific Islander, Latino, and other ethnically diverse Jews, a fast growing segment of the local Jewish population. This grant follows a previous two-year grant and will help Be'chol Lashon build upon its strong Bay Area presence by collaborating with more agencies, educating the Jewish and general community about Jewish diversity, and developing leadership among diverse Jews so they are more visible in community institutions.
Grant Amount: $60,000 [2006], $60,000
Project Dates: 12/11/2006 through 12/11/2008
Project Web Site: www.jewishresearch.org

Fiscal Sponsor: Jewish Community Center of the East Bay
To expand organizational capacity and serve more unaffiliated Jews and Jews with special circumstances. Jewish Milestones assists individuals not connected to synagogues or Jewish institutions to mark life transitions from birth to death with Jewish ritual. Milestones provides professional development for independent facilitators and assists individuals in finding a facilitator to meet their needs. This grant supports Milestones' efforts to expand its capacity to meet the life cycle needs of Bay Area Jews who have not found a place within Jewish institutions. Milestones serves as a knowledgeable resource for individuals seeking a connection to Judaism during critical life experiences, and helps to professionalize a new and growing field.
Grant Amount: $40,000 [2006], $25,000
Project Dates: 12/11/2006 through 12/11/2007
Note: conditional

To support the expansion of Building Jewish Bridges, an outreach program for intermarried families. Bridges has been effective in working with individuals, families and synagogues, providing Taste of Judaism classes, and individual consultation with those seeking to explore Jewish choices.
Grant Amount: $50,000 [2005], $30,000
Project Dates: 09/14/2005 through 09/13/2007

Fiscal Sponsor: Jewish Fund for Justice
to support the first West Coast retreat for LGBT Jews. This grant helped Nehirim secure a matching grant from the Charles and Lyn Schusterman Foundation
Grant Amount: $25,000
Project Dates: 05/31/2007 through 05/31/2008
Project Web Site: http://www.jfjustice.org/

Fiscal Sponsor: Jewish Fund for Justice
JGate: Your Gateway to Jewish Life offers opportunities for individuals to explore Jewish learning, ritual, and social justice. This grant will enable JGate to build its organizational capacity by creating a strategic plan, developing evaluation procedures, and expanding connections with other Jewish organizations. Program expansion will include the launch of a 'next steps' group for participants seeking greater engagement.
Grant Amount: $30,000
Project Dates: 10/31/2007 through 10/31/2008
Project Web Site: http://www.jfjustice.org/

Fiscal Sponsor: Jewish Fund for Justice
for a second year of support for Bay Area programs designed to serve the needs of LBGT Jews. Mosaic is the first national Jewish organization dedicated to helping the Jewish community become more open, accessible, and welcoming lGBTJews and their families.
Grant Amount: $45,000
Project Dates: 03/13/2007 through 03/13/2008
Project Web Site: http://www.jfjustice.org/

Historians have catalogued Jewish life for thousands of years, but often overlook women's stories and contributions. In 1995, the Jewish Women's Archive was founded to gather and disseminate the record of Jewish women's experience. This grant will support the participation of Bay Area educators in a week-long intensive institute and year-long follow up.
Grant Amount: $40,000
Project Dates: 10/31/2007 through 10/31/2008
Project Web Site: www.jwa.org

to support Bay Area activities for Reboot, a national network of young professionals from media, technology, literature, entertainment, and academia who are creating new ways of thinking about Jewish identity, community and meaning.
Grant Amount: $35,000
Project Dates: 12/14/2007 through 12/14/2008
Project Web Site: www.rebooters.net

Fiscal Sponsor: Tides Center
Shalom Bayit is the Bay Area's resource center for Jewish domestic violence prevention and services. This grant will support Shalom Bayit's work to connect with non-Jewish human service organizations and its interfaith work with clergy. Shalom Bayit will train Bay Area domestic violence programs on Jewish and interfaith frameworks of abuse prevention and expand the faith communities' capacity to respond to domestic violence.
Grant Amount: $18,000
Project Dates: 10/31/2007 through 10/31/2008

to support the 2008 season for Traveling Jewish Theatre (TJT), the oldest Jewish ensemble theater company. The season will include productions that seek to engage new audiences and that speak to an increasingly diverse Jewish community.
Grant Amount: $35,000
Project Dates: 12/14/2007 through 12/14/2008

to support "Jews and the American Musical Theater," a season of productions that highlighted the contribution of Jews, many of whom were immigrants, to this uniquely American art form. The season included performances of classic shows and conversations with historians and writers
Grant Amount: $30,000
Project Dates: 02/27/2007 through 02/27/2008
Project Web Site: www.broadwaybythebay.org

This grant supports the launch of Bay Area programming that connects Judaism and sustainable agriculture through educational programs. Hazon seeks to build upon the Jewish tradition of kashrut, determining what is kosher (fit) to eat in a world of pesticides and genetically modified food. Hazon seeks to secure more Bay Area synagogues and JCCs to serve as sites for its community agriculture project; launch its new curriculum to engage project members and local organizations about food and Torah; and host its 2008 Food Conference in the Bay Area.
Grant Amount: $70,000
Project Dates: 11/27/2007 through 11/27/2008
Project Web Site: www.hazon.org

This second year of support allows the Institute to continue Bay Area programming with rabbis and lay leaders seeking a more spiritual connection to Judaism, and also supports the development of a curriculum for social justice activists.
Grant Amount: $75,000
Project Dates: 07/09/2007 through 07/09/2008
Project Web Site: http://www.ijs-online.org/

Fiscal Sponsor: Jewish Community Center of the East Bay
The Jewish Music Festival presents music that celbrates the Jewish experience and explores what it means to be Jewish in a multicultural world. It reaches 5,000 audience members of all ages and backgrounds throughout the Bay Area. This grant provides strategic planning assistance and operating support to the Festival.
Grant Amount: $35,000 [2006], $30,000
Project Dates: 09/18/2006 through 09/18/2008

To strengthen the managerial capactity of the newly expanded JCC. This grant will enable the JCCNAC to hire an Associate Director to improve its management and program capacity and to develop programs and services in its newly expanded service area. The JCCNAC serves a significant number of families in the East Bay, providing senior and youth services, creative opportunities for Jewish learning, and programs that meet the diverse needs of the Jewish community.
Grant Amount: $88,000 [2005], $60,000 [2006], $25,000
Project Dates: 07/01/2005 through 06/30/2008

To expand outreach efforts to bring curriculum about Jewish partisans into Bay Area schools. The Jewish Partisans Educational Foundation tells the often forgotten stories of Jews who resisted oppression and fought back against the Nazis. Educating young people about these heroes can instill a strong sense of Jewish pride, and helps engage students of all backgrounds in stories of resistance. This year, the Foundation will add a class on resistance during the Armenian genocide, linking the histories of the two peoples through their struggles.
Grant Amount: $40,000 [2006], $30,000
Project Dates: 09/18/2006 through 09/18/2008

With an additional two years of funding, Jewish Telegraphic Agency will cover issues facing American Jews, with a focus on programs and activities on the West Coast.
Grant Amount: $50,000 [2007], $40,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 07/09/2007 through 07/09/2009
Project Web Site: www.jta.org

The Judah L. Magnes Museum is the oldest independent Jewish Museum in the United States and its Western Jewish History Center collects, preserves, and provides public and scholarly access to archival documents about the Jewish community in the American West. This grant will enable the Magnes to digitize its holdings and to support a permanent exhibit (in partnership with the Labyrinth Project). By enhancing its on-site archives through an interactive and dynamic permanent exhibition and by making off-site access possible, the Museum's holding will be available to new and diverse audiences
Grant Amount: $65,000 [2007], $65,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 11/27/2007 through 11/27/2009

To support the Bay Area launch of "Rosh Hodesh: It's a Girl Thing!,"a monthly celebration of the new moon holiday for girls in grades 6 - 12 that promotes self-esteem, leadership, and Jewish identity. With a focus on serving interfaith families, "It's a Girl Thing!" will launch six groups with local agencies an dsynagogues.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Project Dates: 05/04/2007 through 05/04/2008
Project Web Site: www.movingtraditions.org

To support and expand cultural arts programming at the Peninsula Jewish Community Center. With a population of 23,000 Jewish households representing 53,000 people, th North Peninsula Jewish community has grown 69% since 1986. The PJCC serves a vibrant and growing segment of the Bay Area Jewish community, from its expanded facilities in Foster City. This grant supports an expansion of lectures, performances, and exhibits at the PJCC. In addition, the grant support the JCC Cultural Collaboration, which enables the regional JCCs to share prominent performances, thereby reducing costs and increase publicity.
Grant Amount: $90,000 [2006], $70,000 [2007], $50,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 09/13/2006 through 09/13/2009
Project Web Site: www.pjcc.org

The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the nation's first and biggest, continues to expand its programs and its geographic scope. With funding from W&EHF, the Festival plans to embark on a strategic planning process, hire its first special events coordinator; and upgrade its technology. The Festival showcases a dynamic, pluralistic, complex Jewish community through film, and serves as a catalyst for diverse groups and individuals to consider and interpret contemporary Jewish identity. A portion of the grants are conditioned on the Festival securing matching gifts to broaden its fundraising base.
Grant Amount: $55,000 [2007], $65,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 11/27/2007 through 11/27/2009
Project Web Site: www.sfjff.org
Note: 2007-08 $75,000 award, $55k outright and $20k cond. 2008-09 $75,000 award, $45k outright and $30k cond.

Fiscal Sponsor: University of Southern California
This grant supports the development of an interactive media project that explores the changing face of the Jewish community in Northern and Southern California and the relationship between Jews and the Latino and Asian American communities, topics for which there has been little scholarship. The museum installation is scheduled to open at both the Autry National Center in Los Angeles and at the Judah L. Magnes, where it will become a part of the Magnes' permanent collection.
Grant Amount: $50,000 [2007], $50,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 11/27/2007 through 11/27/2009

This grant provides continued support of the Alumni Initiative, an effort to engage young Jews who have participated in AJWS tours abroad or who work on social justice issues domestically.
Grant Amount: $50,000 [2007], $50,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 07/09/2007 through 07/09/2009

Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) aims to end low-wage poverty in California by building a faith-based movement for economic justice. Continued support will help CLUE grow its Northern California base in partnership with the Interfaith Council for Immigrant Rights. Its work is aligned with the Fund's strategies to connect the Jewish community with new immigrants.
Grant Amount: $60,000
Project Dates: 11/27/2007 through 11/27/2008
Project Web Site: www.cluela.l

A number of Bay Area schools already use Facing History's Holocaust education curriculum. The grant will expand that number of schools, and also will enable the Bay Area to participate in a national evaluation of the effectiveness of teaching about racism and prejudice as a way to create greater educational engagement of teachers and students.
Grant Amount: $70,000 [2007], $50,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 03/29/2007 through 03/29/2010
Project Web Site: www.facing.org

This grant supports the development of Bay Area programming that will bring together young adults of many religions to work cooperatively on service programs.
Grant Amount: $60,000
Project Dates: 06/15/2007 through 06/15/2008
Project Web Site: www.ifyc.org

This grant supports the development of a program that provides public school students in the Bay Area with well-trained interfaith speakers to discuss the major world religions. It also supports effort by Islamic Networks Group to participate in interfaith programming.
Grant Amount: $50,000
Project Dates: 07/09/2007 through 07/09/2008
Project Web Site: www.ing.org

General operating support and strategic planning.
Grant Amount: $150,000 [2004], $150,000 [2005], $100,000 [2006], $100,000 [2007], $100,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 09/27/2004 through 09/26/2009

JFCS is the largest provider of services to immigrants and refugees in the East Bay, and also works to connect the Jewish community with new immigrants. A portion of this grant, which supports JFCS's services, will enable JFCS to provide its clients with disaster preparedness training so they can respond better to a natural disaster in the Bay Area.
Grant Amount: $90,000 [2007], $90,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 07/09/2007 through 07/09/2009
Project Web Site: http://www.jfcs-eastbay.org

One Voice Movement is an effort to bring Israeli and Palestinian students to Bay Area campuses as a way to reach and encourage moderate voices, and in support of the nascent Jewish and Muslim partnerships that have begun to form.
Grant Amount: $75,000 [2007], $75,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 07/09/2007 through 07/09/2009
Project Web Site: www.onevoicemovement.org

To continue and expand the involvement of synagogues in faith-based community organizing.
Grant Amount: $45,000 [2006], $35,000
Project Dates: 06/14/2006 through 06/14/2008

To expand Jewish social justice work in Northern California and for strategic planning - This grant follows a previous two-year grant to this Los Angeles-based Jewish social justice organization. Previous support helped create a vibrant Bay Area office. This grant will support strategic planning for PJA and to explore and launch new programs designed to foster Muslim-Jewish dialogue. PJA has demonstrated its ability to reach young adults, to bridge the progressive and Jewish communities, and to work on behalf of vulnerable communities.
Grant Amount: $125,000 [2006], $100,000
Project Dates: 12/11/2006 through 12/11/2008

To continue and expand the involvement of synagogues in faith-based community organizing. Supporting efforts to involve synagogues in faith-based civic engagement opens up ways for people to connect with the communities in which they live and builds important bridges between Jews and other faith communities.
Grant Amount: $45,000 [2006], $35,000
Project Dates: 06/14/2006 through 06/14/2008
Project Web Site: www.sfop.org

to support the creation of a Jewish Studies program at Sonoma State University. This interdisciplinary program is designed to acquaint Sonoma State University students with the history, culture, contributions, and religious practices of Jewish people, and to highlight the relationship between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Grant Amount: $10,000
Project Dates: 10/31/2007 through 10/31/2008
Project Web Site: www.sonoma.edu

Fiscal Sponsor: Tawonga Jewish Community Corporation
For an additional two years of support for Peacemakers Weekend, bringing together Jewish, Christian, and Muslim young adults and families from the Bay Area, Israel and the Palestinian Territories to create a model of dialogue and citizen leadership. Over the four-day weekend, participants are given a safe forum within which those impacted by the middle East conflict can talk about their shared experiences.
Grant Amount: $43,000 [2006], $35,000
Project Dates: 09/18/2006 through 09/18/2008

To support a learning community for Jewish professionals working in isolation—this grant is a continuation of previous support to launch the Jewish Professional's Co-op, a learning community supporting small or emerging Jewish nonprofit organizations. All ten member organizations are creating new communities for Jewish experience outside of traditional institutions. The Co-op seeks to form and sustain a network of professional support that increases participants' Jewish knowledge and their capacity to lead vibrant and sustainable organizations.
Grant Amount: $60,000 [2006], $60,000
Project Dates: 12/13/2006 through 12/13/2008
Project Web Site: www.bjesf.org

for scholarships to enable Bay Area clergy and lay leaders to attend the second national conference on congregation-based community organizing sponsored by Jewish Funds for Justice.
Grant Amount: $5,000
Project Dates: 02/27/2007 through 04/27/2007
Project Web Site: www.shaarzahav.org

With this grant, Jewish Educational Services can provide comprehensive training in evaluation design and implementation to a cohort of Walter and Elise Haas Fund grantees, and offer one-on-one consultation with each agency.
Grant Amount: $60,000
Project Dates: 03/29/2007 through 03/29/2008
Project Web Site: www.jesna.org

This grant supports the Home's capital campaign, which will significantly upgrade its dietary center, medical clinics and research center. The Home has served a critical need in the community for over 125 years, providing high-quality medical and social support services to seniors regardless of their ability to pay.
Grant Amount: $200,000 [2005], $150,000 [2006], $150,000
Project Dates: 04/05/2005 through 04/04/2008

The Fund is supporting Taube-Koret Campus for Jewish Life as it works to create an intergenerational multipurpose campus for the South Peninsula Jewish community. A demographic survey by the Jewish Community Federation revealed the need for increased services for Jewish residents of Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, and San Jose, areas where the Jewish population has increased by 248% since 1986. The South Peninsula Jewish community is now 10% larger than San Francisco, with the largest number of children under 17 years old in the Federation service area. The 8.5-acre South Peninsula campus, planned to open in 2009, will create a hub of vital programs anchored by two primary partners, the Palo Alto Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Home, and will provide 193 units of senior housing, youth services, and intergenerational programming.
Grant Amount: $200,000 [2006], $200,000 [2007], $200,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/11/2006 through 12/11/2009