Other Grants $668,000
Relief $60,000
Doctors
Without Borders: $35,000
For support of its Emergency Relief Fund, which allows the organization
to respond quickly, effectively, and responsibly to humanitarian crises
based upon humanitarian and medical needs alone, and not on the interest
of the international media.
International Center for Research
on Women: $10,000
Recommended for the support of the Self
Employed Women's Association’s earthquake relief efforts in
Gujarat, India.
SHARE
Foundation: Building a New El Salvador Today: $15,000
For support of earthquake relief efforts in El Salvador for victims of
a 7.6 earthquake.
Human Rights $75,000
Philanthropic
Ventures Foundation: $75,000
Recommended for The Fund for Global Human Rights, which seeks to become
an intermediary funding mechanism to facilitate the support of human rights
organizations around the world. (First installment of a three-year $275,000
grant.)
Miscellaneous Grants $33,000
AmeriCorps
Alums, Inc.: $5,000
For support of the Eli Segal Entrepreneurial Award.
National
Breast Cancer Coalition: $5,000
For general support of this organization which aims to end breast cancer.
Council
for Court Excellence: $10,000
For general support of its efforts to advance current court improvement
projects.
The Foundation
Center: $3,000
For general support of its programs, designed to support and improve institutional
philanthropy by promoting public understanding of the field, for the Washington,
D.C., community and the mid-Atlantic region.
Management
Assistance Group: $5,000
To provide subsidies for organizational assistance to small needy organizations.
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.
Jewish Life in the Diaspora $500,000
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.
A. Promoting Jewish Philanthropy
Am Kolel, Inc.: $12,000
To support Jews United for Justice, a project which seeks to organize a visible Jewish presence and take action on economic and social justice issues in the Washington, DC area.
American Jewish World Service (AJWS): $30,000
For its Jewish "venture" fund, which allows AJWS to initiate new projects and respond to specfic international grassroots development requests.
Jewish Fund for Justice: $20,000
For general support of this organization, which helps grassroots organizations work with low-income people to combat poverty and strengthens Jewish understanding of involvement in these issues.
The Shefa Fund: $20,000
For its Tzedek/Justice Economic Development Campaign (TZEDEC) to stimulate increased American Jewish institutional investment in low-income community development activities.
Yachad, Inc.: $20,000
For support of its Faith to Faith Community Development Program, which provides free technical assistance and a volunteer labor force to African American churches that undertake neighborhood development projects.
B. Supporting the Well-being and Continuation of the Jewish Peoples
1. Jewish Renewal/Community Development/Education
American Jewish World Service: $150,000
To support its Jewish Community Development Fund, which provides small grants for Jewish renewal and human rights programs in the Former Soviet Union and Ukraine.
Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $15,000
For support of Hillel’s FSU (Former Soviet Union) Emerging Communities Student Leadership Fund, which will provide scholarships for students from emerging communities to attend Hillel leadership training conferences in the FSU, including the Winter Congress, the Ha'Atid Student Leadership Seminar, and the Chanukah Training Program.
North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry: $80,000
For work in Addis Ababa and Gondar, providing children's lunches and educational programs for Ethiopian Jews who are awaiting emigration to Israel.
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America: $40,000
For its 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. (Second installment of a two-year $70,000 grant.)
The World Union for Progressive Judaism: $30,000
For its CIS Program, which seeks to promote Progressive Judaism in the CIS so that Jews there can identify actively as Jews while maintaining full participation in the general society.
2. Human Rights
Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal (BAC): $25,000
To support the Harold Light Center for Human Rights, a project of the BAC, which seeks to maintain and further expand grassroots human rights work in the northwest provinces of Russia.
Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights: $28,000
Recommended for the Russian Lawyers Committee in Defense of Human Rights 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.
C. 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.
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