Other Grants $506,000

Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Services, Inc.: $5,000
To promote home health visits, family support and child care programs.

Management Assistance Group (MAG): $5,000
To provide technical and organization capacity building assistance to NGOs.

National Partnership for Women and Families: $5,000
For general support of this organization, which promotes fairness in the workplace, quality health care, and policies that help women and men balance work and family responsibilities.

Relief $25,000

Doctors Without Borders: $25,000
For emergency relief in Southern Africa or wherever Doctors Without Borders sees the greatest needs for emergency assistance.

Jewish Life in the Diaspora $491,000

The Moriah Fund focuses its support for Jewish life outside Israel on three distinct areas:

First, to enhance our work in Israel, we fund efforts to educate Americans about Israel’s options for peace.
Second, to strengthen and expand Jewish philanthropy in the United States, we provide grants to Jewish organizations that help reduce poverty both here and abroad, and promote social responsibility within the Jewish Community.
Finally, in response to new opportunities in the former Soviet Union, home of the world’s third largest Jewish population, Moriah supports efforts to rebuild Jewish communal life and to promote human rights.

Promoting Jewish Philanthropy

American Jewish World Service (AJWS): $30,000
For its “venture” fund, which allows AJWS to initiate new projects and respond to specific international grassroots development requests. AJWS provides humanitarian support, technical assistance, skilled volunteers and emergency relief to disadvantaged people throughout the world, regardless of race, ethnicity or religion.

Am Kolel, Inc.: $10,000
For Jews United for Justice, which seeks to organize a visible Jewish presence on economic and social justice in Washington D.C. (To be matched 1:1)

The Shefa Fund: $55,000
To support the Local Tzedek Challenge Fund of the Shefa Fund’s Tzedek Economic Development Campaign, which facilitates increased investment by Jewish communal organizations in institutions that finance efforts to revitalize low-income communities. ($25,000 to be matched 2:1 and paid in 2001)

Yachad, Inc.: $20,000
For two projects of Yachad: the Faith to Faith Community Development Program and the Jewish Community Outreach Program. Yachad provides free technical assistance and a volunteer laborforce to African American churches that undertake neighborhood development projects.

Supporting the Well-being and Continuation of the Jewish Peoples

1. Jewish Renewal/Community Development/Education

American Jewish World Service (AJWS): $165,000
For AJWS’s Jewish Community Development Fund, which provides small grants for Jewish renewal and human rights in the former Soviet Union. ($40,000 to be matched 1:1)

ARZA/World Union, North America: $25,000
To promote Progressive Judaism in the former Soviet Union so that Jews there can identify actively as Jews while maintaining full participation in the general society.

Jewish Theological Seminary of America: $30,000
For Project Judaica, a Jewish Studies and Archives Program offered at the secular Russian State Humanities University in the former Soviet Union, in conjunction with YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. (This is the first installment of a two-year $70,000 grant; $20,000 to be matched 1:1)

North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry: $75,000
To provide children’s lunches and educational programs for Ethiopian Jews in Addis Ababa and Gondar where they are awaiting emigration to Israel. ($25,000 to be matched 1:1)

2. Human Rights

Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal: $26,000
For the Council’s Harold Light Information Center for Human Rights, which maintains and expands grassroots human rights work in the northwest provinces of the former Soviet Union.

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights: $25,000
Recommended for the Russian Lawyers Committee in Defense of Human Rights, which seeks to advance human rights in the former Soviet Union through representation of victims of political repression, human rights policy development, and legal assistance to NGOs.

Enhancing Peace and Security

Americans For Peace Now: $30,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to advance the Middle East peace process through public education in the U.S. and Israel.