Grants at Work

Total Grants: $99,881

Organiztion	Purpose	Fund Type
92nd Street Y	to offer programs in arts and culture, Jewish life, health and fitness and personal growth	Donor Advised
Barrington Stage Company	to offer simulcast of lectures from the 92nd Street Y	Donor Advised
The Bushnell	to support performing arts, arts education and advocacy	Donor Advised
Charter Oak Cultural Center	to help provide free after-school programming in the arts	Designated
Charter Oak Cultural Center	for community concert featuring the Zamir Chorale	Donor Advised
Charter Oak Cultural Center	to support multi-cultural arts and education programming celebrating Jewish heritage	Donor Advised
Congregation Knesset Israel	to support the 2011 Berkshire Jewish Film Festival	Donor Advised
Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Inc.	for programming that highlights and explores the Jewish faith, culture and history and contemporary issues concerning the Jewish people	Designated
Foundation for Jewish Culture	to support artists and scholars who can create content for meaningful Jewish cultural experiences for the American public	Donor Advised
Gas and Electric Arts	to support production of a children's play incorporating a Hanukkah story for all ages with lessons about religious and cultural understanding	Donor Advised
Goodspeed Opera House Foundation, Inc.	to preserve and advance musical theatre and the development of new artistic works	Donor Advised
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford	to offer educational tour of historic Hartford focusing on the Jewish immigrant experience	Donor Advised
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford	to sponsor a community-wide lecture and dinner on history of the Greek Jewish community	Donor Advised
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford	to support the collection and preservation of historical documents, photographs, and memorabilia of the Jewish community of Greater Hartford	Donor Advised, Designated
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford	for the transcription of taped interviews and oral histories of Holocaust survivors	Designated
Jewish Museum	to support museum dedicated to the enjoyment, understanding, and preservation of the artistic and cultural heritage of the Jewish people	Donor Advised
Lyman Heritage Preservation Foundation, Inc.	to support renovation and preservation of the Town and County Club's historic Lyman House	Donor Advised
Mandell Jewish Community Center	to provide transportation and subscription subsidies for seniors to attend Hartford Stage performances	Donor Advised
Mandell Jewish Community Center	for the screening of films at the 2011 Hartford Jewish Film Festival	Donor Advised, Designated
Mandell Jewish Community Center	to form Jewish high school choir and underwrite start-up expenses and concert performance in New York City	Donor Advised
Mandell Jewish Community Center	to sponsor Jewish Book Festival event at which Alan Zweibel is the featured author	Designated
Mandell Jewish Community Center	to form transdenominational regional chorus and sponsor a community music festival	Unrestricted
Mandell Jewish Community Center	for year-round cultural arts programs	Designated
Museum of Jewish Heritage	to support museum dedicated to educating people of all ages and backgrounds about the broad tapestry of Jewish life in the 20th and 21st centuries	Donor Advised
Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford	to sponsor a free Chanukah concert and celebration in West Hartford Center	Designated
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum	to support a living memorial to the Holocaust with a mission to educate and inspire citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, promote human dignity, and prevent genocide	Donor Advised

Total Grants: $689,891

Organiztion	Purpose	Fund Type
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford, Inc.	for training on program evaluation and a grantee workshop	Unrestricted
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City	to help sponsor conference focused on the promotion of legacy giving across communities	Donor Advised
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford, Inc.	to retain the services of an executive search firm to assist in the recruitment of a new President and CEO	Unrestricted
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	for Mother's Circle, an educational/support group providing workshops for non-Jewish women raising Jewish children	Donor Advised
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	for match to reacquire donors who have not contributed the Federation annual campaign in the past year	Donor Advised
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	to build the Capital Equipment Fund	Unrestricted
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	to provide financial resources to Jewish communal organizations, support strategic planning and coordinate community relations efforts	Donor Advised, Designated
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	to provide subsidies for the attendance at the JFNA Young Leadership Conference in Las Vegas in March, 2011	Designated
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	to retain project manager to assist in the implementation of the initiatives recommended by the Long Range Community Planning Committee	Unrestricted
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	to retain Wellspring Consulting to assist in the retooling of Federation's allocations process	Unrestricted
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	to utilize social media to engage Birthright alumni from Hartford in community activities and fundraising	Donor Advised
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	for major women's outreach event benefiting the annual campaign	Designated
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	to support educational campaign on Hartford area college campuses designed to help neutralize the debate on the delegitimization of Israel	Designated
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	to retain a consultant to assist in developing strategies to strengthen local Jewish day schools	Unrestricted
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	to allocate funds to start, expand or strengthen programs of beneficiary agenices representing sound approaches to serving community needs	Unrestricted
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	to sponsor Israeli participants in the International Fire Fighting Robotics Contest	Donor Advised
Jewish Federation of Greater Portland	to support grants program designed to encourage new initiatives impacting the Portland Jewish community	Donor Advised
Jewish Funds for Justice	to promote Jewish people working for social and economic justice in the United States	Donor Advised
Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Federation, Inc.	to provide financial resources to Jewish communal organizations, support strategic planning and coordinate community relations efforts	Donor Advised
Teen Leadership and Philanthropy Institute	to provide young people with the opportunity to learn first-hand the importance of tzedakah and of taking responsibility for the Jewish community	Donor Advised

Total Grants: $209, 610

Organiztion	Purpose	Fund Type
10,000 Degrees	to create an endowment that provides financial need based scholarships to Jewish students	Donor Advised
Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy	for the purchase and installation of stage lighting	Donor Advised
Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy	to provide for the capital needs of the school	Designated
Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy	for financial need based scholarships for students	Donor Advised, Designated
Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy	to support girls athletic activities or art, music and Jewish cultural programs	Designated
Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford, Inc.	to help at-risk youth develop life-skills, values, character and leadership	Donor Advised
Brandeis University	for college student volunteer community service and outreach organization	Donor Advised
Brown University	to support academics in the departments of Judaic studies and Egyptology	Designated
Brown University	for the award of financial need and merit based college scholarships	Donor Advised, Designated
Commission on Jewish Education and Leadership	to purchase books geared toward those new or returning to Jewish home-based ritual practice	Donor Advised
Commission on Jewish Education and Leadership	for a Jewish educators conference	Designated
Commission on Jewish Education and Leadership	to support community-wide reading program that brings students and community members together by reading one book with themes resonating in Judaism	Donor Advised
Commission on Jewish Education and Leadership	to support the general operations of the Koopman Library, including the acquisition of new materials	Designated
Congregation Mishmeres Shulem	to support high school dedicated to providing orthodox Jewish education to boys with learning disabilities	Donor Advised
Farmington Valley Jewish Congregation - Emek Shalom	to fund college scholarships awarded by the Temple	Designated
Hartford Hillel Foundation	to enrich the lives of Jewish students and to explore and celebrate their Jewish identity through social justice, tikkun olam, social programming and Jewish learning	Designated
Hartford Hillel Foundation	to sponsor a multi-campus Hillel shabbat dinner and discussion	Donor Advised
Hebrew High School of New England	to support regional, Modern Orthodox, co-educational day school that provides a college preparatory Judaic and general studies curriculum	Donor Advised
Hebrew High School of New England	capital repair and maintenance and other non-recurring building needs	Designated
Hillel Foundation - University of Connecticut	to offer Jewish students the means to explore and celebrate their Jewish identity through an array of social cultural and community service programs	Designated
Hillel Foundation - University of Connecticut	to sponsor a campus-wide celebration for students who have observed their B'nai Mitzvah with Hillel over the past 18 months	Donor Advised
Hillel: The Berman Jewish University Center of Pittsburgh	for annual fundraising event featuring an American Idol-like campus singing competition	Donor Advised
Jewish Federation of the Berkshires	for the purchase of books and music for participants in the PJ Library project	Donor Advised
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	to pair volunteer tutors with pre-school through third grade public school students in the Greater Hartford area who read below grade level through Jewish Coalition for Literacy	Donor Advised
Jewish High School of Connecticut	to support a regional, pluralistic co-educational day school that provides college preparatory Judaic and general studies curriculum	Donor Advised, Designated
Kingswood-Oxford School	to support co-educational independent college preparatory day school	Donor Advised
Loomis Institute	to fund fourth year of the Lt. Mitchell J. Savin '51 Scholarship	Donor Advised
Mandell Jewish Community Center	for the purchase of books and music for participants in the PJ Library project	Designated
Mandell Jewish Community Center	for the maintenance of playground designed to accommodate children with special needs	Designated
Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies	to subsidize student travel to Israel for an archaeological excavation and language courses	Donor Advised
Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies	for filming of documentary centered on the shared experiences of Holocaust survivors and Laotian refugees	Donor Advised
Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy	to help fund the cost of replacing nine rooftop heating and cooling units	Designated
Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford	for 8th grade Israel trip scholarships	Designated
Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford	to award special prizes and scholarships to students	Designated
Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford	to provide Judaic studies, guided by the tenets of Conservative Judaism, and general studies education for children in preschool, elementary school and middle school	Donor Advised, Designated
Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford	in honor of the 40th anniversary of Solomon Schechter Day School	Donor Advised
Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford	to purchase guitars for use in the music program	Designated
Teen Leadership and Philanthropy Institute	to support an experiential program for high school students about leadership and Jewish philanthropy	Donor Advised
Temple B'nai Abraham	for scholarships awarded through the Temple	Designated
Trinity College Hillel	to provide opportunities for Jewish college students to explore and celebrate their Jewish identity through social justice, tikkun olam, social programming and Jewish learning	Designated
University of Connecticut Foundation, Inc.	Susan Hope Sherman Scholarship Award to a student in the Neag School of Education	Designated
University of Hartford	to support arts education	Donor Advised
Watkinson School	to provide scholarships for students demonstrating financial need, active school and community involvement, and academic excellence	Donor Advised
Yachad Greater Hartford Jewish Community High School	to support supplemental Jewish education program for Greater Hartford area high school students	Designated
Yachad Greater Hartford Jewish Community High School	to increase community awareness of the school through effective marketing	Unrestricted

Total Grants: $295,944

Organiztion	Purpose	Fund Type
All Faiths Food Store, Inc.	for the distribution of food for hunger relief to agencies in Sarasota and DeSoto counties in Florida	Donor Advised
American Cancer Society-New England Division	to support research towards finding a cure for cancer and helping people stay well and get well	Donor Advised
American Red Cross-Greater Hartford Chapter	for blood donation services, worldwide disaster relief and health and safety educational programs	Donor Advised
Arthritis Foundation, Inc.	to improve the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by arthritis	Donor Advised
Bloomfield Volunteer Ambulance	for a volunteer ambulance service operating in the town of Bloomfield, Connecticut	Donor Advised
Chabad House of Greater Hartford	for program that pairs high schools students and children with special needs for friendship, enrichment and social development	Donor Advised
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation	for research by postdoctoral fellows in the area of spinal cord injury	Donor Advised
Civic Ventures	to help midlife and older professionals transition to careers in the nonprofit and public sectors	Donor Advised
Connecticut Children's Medical Center	to support therapeutic arts program for children	Donor Advised
Connecticut Food Bank	to supply food products and resources to member agencies and promote public awareness about the problem of hunger	Donor Advised
Federation Homes, Inc.	to provide a hot mid-day meal to residents on legal holidays when the Community Renewal Team does not provide kosher meals	Donor Advised
Federation Homes, Inc.	to provide art, cultural, educational, and social activities for tenants	Designated
Federation Homes, Inc.	to purchase 6 benches for memorial garden	Donor Advised
Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation, Inc.	for the training of a seeing eye dog for a Jewish person	Donor Advised
Foodshare, Inc.	to purchase perishable and non-perishable food that will help stock the Kosher Food Pantry at Jewish Family Services	Donor Advised
Foodshare, Inc.	to help end hunger as a part of an overall community goal to alleviate poverty in Greater Hartford	Donor Advised
HARC, Inc.	to help people with intellectual disabilities and their families enjoy lives of quality, inclusion and dignity	Designated
HARC, Inc.	to fund expansion of an arts, music and exercise program for dementia and adult day center clients	Donor Advised
Hartford Hospital	to pilot a program that helps patients and families to navigate the system of medical treatment	Donor Advised
Hartford Hospital	for nursing education and innovative professional development programs for nurses	Designated
Hebrew Home and Hospital, Inc.	for the purchase of units that warm blankets for the comfort of patients	Donor Advised
Hebrew Home and Hospital, Inc.	to provide inpatient, outpatient and community based geriatric health services	Donor Advised, Designated
Hebrew Home and Hospital, Inc.	to purchase colorful and textured activity items for therapy with dementia patients	Donor Advised
Hebrew Home and Hospital, Inc.	to provide inpatient, outpatient and community based geriatric health services	Designated
Hebrew Home and Hospital, Inc.	to purchase books, games, puzzles and other amenities for residents	Designated
Hebrew Home and Hospital, Inc.	for Shabbat and Jewish holiday services, Jewish holiday celebrations and pastoral care provided by rabbis and cantors	Designated
Jewish Association for Community Living	to help people with intellectual disabilities and their families enjoy lives of quality, inclusion, dignity and Jewish tradition	Designated
Jewish Association for Community Living	for the construction of a sukkah at the Brookmoor Road group home	Designated
Jewish Children's Service Organization	to provide financial assistance to needy and deserving children	Donor Advised
Jewish Family Services of Greater Hartford	to purchase software to enable outcomes-based evaluations of programs	Unrestricted
Jewish Family Services of Greater Hartford	to help elderly Jews gain access to vital services such as food stamps, meals on wheels, transportation and entitlement programs and remain living independently	Donor Advised
Jewish Family Services of Greater Hartford	to help individuals and families deal with life's transitions and challenges	Designated
Jewish Family Services of Greater Hartford	to counsel people in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease	Donor Advised, Designated
Jewish Family Services of Greater Hartford	to provide financial assistance for basic human needs	Donor Advised
Jewish Family Services of Greater Hartford	to provide individualized professional counseling services to children	Donor Advised
Jewish Family Services of Greater Hartford	for mental health services and advocacy for Jewish persons having an intellectual or developmental disability	Designated
Jewish Family Services of Greater Hartford	to purchase kosher food for distribution to individuals qualifying for food assistance	Designated
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	for Jewish senior adult needs in Greater Hartford, especially of those in New Britain	Donor Advised
Jewish Guild for the Blind	to support a broad range of programs including low vision, psychiatric and rehabilitative services, managed long-term care and educational training	Designated
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation	to help prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes	Donor Advised
Mandell Jewish Community Center	for a conference designed to provide practical and valuable tips and advice to parents on raising their children	Donor Advised
Mandell Jewish Community Center	to offer programs for individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities	Designated
Mandell Jewish Community Center	to provide social, physical, intellectual, and cultural activities to the Greater Hartford Jewish community	Designated
Mandell Jewish Community Center	for senior adult programs	Donor Advised, Designated
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	for Program for Women Faculty Affairs--career development activities	Donor Advised
Middlesex Hospital	to support acute care hospital and a broad range of patient care and innovative medical and surgical treatments	Donor Advised
Multiple Sclerosis Research Center of New York, Inc.	for medical research directed toward finding the cause and eventual cure of multiple sclerosis	Donor Advised
My Sister's Place	to provide housing and supportive services to women and families in an effort to end homelessness in Greater Hartford	Designated
NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation	to advocate for privacy and protect a woman's reproductive rights through educational activities	Donor Advised
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center Foundation Inc.	for nursing education and innovative professional development programs for nurses	Designated
Sunshine Kids Foundation	to provide emotional support and group activities to children with cancer	Donor Advised
United Service Organizations, Inc.	for entertainment and emotional support to lift the spirits of members of the U.S. armed forces	Donor Advised
University of Connecticut Health Center	for nursing education and innovative professional development programs for nurses	Designated

Total Grants: $37,107

Organiztion	Purpose	Fund Type
Alexander Muss Institute for Israel Education, Inc.	to support 8-week intensive academic and travel program for high school students	Donor Advised
ALYN - American Friends of ALYN Hospital	for rehabilitation center for physically disabled children, adolescents and young adults	Donor Advised
American Friends of Jordan River Village	to support camp in Israel for children who suffer from serious illnesses and life-threatening conditions	Donor Advised
Birthright Israel Foundation	for free trips to Israel for first time Jewish travelers ages 18-26	Donor Advised
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston	to help rebuild the Yemin Orde youth village that was decimated by the Carmel area fires	Donor Advised
The Good People Fund	to enable underprivileged Ethiopian girls in Israel to celebrate becoming a Bat Mitzvah	Designated
Jewish Agency for Israel	to support program that empowers disadvantaged Israeli youth, providing them with an equal opportunity to develop their academic and social skills	Designated
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	to provide aid to victims of the December, 2010 wildfires and support long term recovery efforts in the Carmel Mountain region of Israel	Donor Advised
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	to assist children of S'derot with counseling and summer camp scholarships in order to temporarily escape the continual missile attacks on the town	Designated
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	to offer medical services in Israel	Designated
Jewish National Fund	to help cultivate and rejuvenate forests in northern Israel destroyed by the December, 2010 wildfires and to purchase firefighting equipment	Donor Advised
New Israel Fund	to help secure women's right to hold and read the Torah and to wear religious garments at the Western Wall	Donor Advised
P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds, Inc.	to support school which helps disadvantaged teens achieve a high school diploma and vocational training	Donor Advised
P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds, Inc.	to support specialized academic instruction for children living in economically distressed areas of Israel	Donor Advised
Seeds of Peace	to empower young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation	Donor Advised

Total Grants: $32,188

Organiztion	Purpose	Fund Type
Anti-Defamation League CT Regional Office	for educational programs related to anti-semitism, Israel advocacy and interfaith relations	Donor Advised
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society	for protection and assistance to persecuted and oppressed Jews and other refugees from around the world	Donor Advised
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	to subsidize attendance at a national conference focusing on key issues facing the Jewish community	Donor Advised
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	for lectures that will inform the community of myriad injustices against women through the lens of Judaism and Jewish women	Donor Advised
JFACT Fund, Inc.	to help design an interactive website to educate the community about Connecticut Holocaust survivors and their liberators	Donor Advised
JFACT Fund, Inc.	to help neutralize the debate on the delegitimization of Israel on Hartford area college campuses	Donor Advised
JFACT Fund, Inc.	for educational programs and teacher training workshops on the Holocaust	Designated
The Lenny Zakim Fund	to fund initiative to connect inner-city youth of color to suburban Jewish youth and to further mutual understanding, leadership development and youth advocacy	Donor Advised

Organiztion	Purpose	Fund Type
Beth David Synagogue	for operation of synagogue providing Torah study, prayer and cultural activity according to the tenets of Orthodox Judaism	Donor Advised, Designated
Beth El Temple of West Hartford	for the repair of air conditioner and general operations of synagogue committed to traditional Judaism as interpreted by the Conservative Movement	Designated
Beth Hillel Synagogue of Bloomfield	to support Conservative synagogue offering a full range of religious, cultural and educational activities	Donor Advised, Designated
Chai Mitzvah	for a new program that encourages individuals to reconnect with Judaism by creating a new tradition of celebrating their commitment to Judaism every 18 years after bar or bat mitzvah	Unrestricted
Congregation Beth El	to fund special projects and emergency needs in the discretion of the congregation's rabbi	Donor Advised
Congregation Beth Israel	for the salary and health and welfare benefits of the Senior Rabbi	Designated
Congregation Beth Israel	to support library and the purchase of new books	Designated
Congregation Beth Israel	to support liturgical and musical programs for the congregation	Designated
Congregation Beth Israel	help build the Congregation Beth Israel endowment	Designated
Congregation Beth Israel	to strengthen Jewish identity of 7th grade students and their parents	Donor Advised
Congregation Beth Israel	to support religious school and senior adult education program	Designated
Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek	to support Reform congregation dedicated to teaching and living Jewish values and heritage based on the principle of diversity	Donor Advised, Designated
Congregation P'nai Or of Central Connecticut	to support congregation dedicated to Jewish renewal through Judaism's prophetic and mystical traditions	Designated
Emanuel Synagogue	to support synagogue committed to traditional Judaism as interpreted by the Conservative Movement	Donor Advised
Farmington Valley Jewish Congregation - Emek Shalom	for the ongoing and capital maintenance needs of Memorial Park cemetery	Designated
Hebrew Home and Hospital, Inc.	for chaplaincy services for residents of Hebrew Home and Hospital	Donor Advised
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford	for the ongoing and capital maintenance needs of older Jewish cemeteries in Greater Hartford	Designated
Temple B'nai Abraham	to support programs for Jewish youth and elderly	Designated
Temple B'nai Abraham	for ongoing maintenance and capital needs of the synagogue's cemetery	Designated
Temple Chai	to support Reform synagogue committed to the development of spiritual growth through study and communal worship	Donor Advised
Temple Sinai	to teach 4th through 7th graders lessons in social values utilizing the arts as a learning tool	Donor Advised
Temple Sinai	for Temple youth activities and programs	Designated
Temple Sinai	for special projects and emergency needs in the discretion of the congregation's rabbi	Donor Advised

Snapshot of Funded Projects

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