1991 Community Grants

RECIPIENT PURPOSE TOTAL AWARDS 1991 PAYMENTS GRANTS PAYABLE 12/31/91
American Friends of the Israel Museum
New York, New York.
To complete the storerooms of the Nathan Cummings 20th Century Art Building. $10,000 $10,000  
American Heart Association
Phoenix, Arizona
For cardiovascular research and general operating support. 10,000 10,000  
Anshe Emet Synagogue
Chicago, Illinois
For the Nathan Cummings Resource Center and training programs for teachers. 10,000 10,000  
Anshe Emet Synagogue
Chicago, Illinois
For the Synagogue's Sustaining Fund. 10,000 10,000  
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona
General operating support for the Cancer Research Institute. 10,000 10,000  
Arizona State University Foundation
Tempe, Arizona
For educational outreach programs in honor of a key University member's retirement. 5,000 5,000  
Blue Gargoyle Youth Service Center
Chicago, Illinois
To establish an affiliation with the University of Chicago to increase professional development and training of staff to better provide services to the seriously ill. 25,000 25,000  
Botanical Dimensions
Occidental, California
For collecting and propagating medicinal and shamanic tropical plants from around the world. 5,000 5,000  
Casa de Paz y Bien Foundation
Scottsdale, Arizona
General operating support. 25,000 25,000  
Center for Collaborative Education
New York, New York
To create a Friday afternoon and Saturday morning music education program for a model alternative school. 10,000 10,000  
Chicago Alliance for Neighborhood Safety
Chicago, Illinois
To support a NeighborhoodWatch Program to ensure the safety of public housing community residents. 15,000 15,000  
Chicago City Day School
Chicago, Illinois
To retire the mortgage on the school building. 25,000 25,000  
Children of Alcoholics Foundation
New York, New York
To assist children of alcoholics and to educate their classmates and teachers about family alcoholism. 30,000 30,000  
Children's Museum of San Diego
San Diego, California
To design and install the Backstage exhibit and to produce a slide-show for the Museum's capital campaign. 59,730 59,730  
Congregation Bene Shalom of the Deaf
Skokie, Illinois
To help establish the first seminary to train deaf rabbis. 15,000 15,000  
Congregation Har-Zion
Scottsdale, Arizona
Project Genesis-Returned Grant. (10,000) (10,000)  
Educational Alliance
New York, New York
To support programs that help inter-married families explore Jewish religious beliefs and practices. 33,380 33,380  
Film Arts Foundation (formerly New Ways to Work Palo Alto)
San Francisco, California
For Forest Through the Trees, a broadcast documentary about California's redwood forests. 17,000 12,000  
Friendly Place/EI Sitio Simpatico
New York, New York
To expand the children's library. 20,000 20,000  
The Global Fund for Women
Menlo Park, California
To support fuller participation of women in society, targeting women in Eastern Europe, Kuwait, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and the former Soviet Union. 5,000 5,000  
Grand Teton Music Festival
Teton Village, Wyoming
For teaching gifted young instrumentalists the art of orchestral playing. 12,500 12,500  
Hampton Life Arts
Bridgehampton, New York
For a lecture series by Robert Ackerman, addressing the experience of adult children of alcoholics. 3,000 3,000  
Homeward Bound
Phoenix, Arizona
To lease foreclosed homes for seven homeless families. 23,100 23,100  
Jewish Community Centers of Greater Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona
General operating support. 10,000 10,000  
Jewish Family Congregation
South Salem, New York
To support the Jewish Parenting Center, the Jewish Media Resource Center, a lecture series, and Tot Shabbat. 26,500 26,500  
Jewish Film Festival
Berkeley, California
To support the Israeli cinema portion of the 11th Annual Jewish Film Festival. 5,000 5,000  
Josselyn Center for Mental Health
Northfield, Illinois
To strengthen and expand care for high-risk, depressed, suicidal young people. 25,000 25,000  
KCRW Foundation
Santa Monica, California
For a half-hour radio program which presents environmental issues as news. 5,000 5,000  
Liberty Hill Foundation
Santa Monica, California
To sponsor the Liberty Hill Conference of activists from different racial, ethnic and income groups. 5,000 5,000  
Life Sharing Foundation
Great Britain, Massachusetts
To create communal homes for mentally-disabled adults. 3,000 3,000  
Lishkas Ezras Achim
Brooklyn, New York
For Operation Fresh Air, a summer camp program for Jewish children in Russia. 7,500 7,500  
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
New York, New York
For preserving the history of immigrant life on Manhattan's Lower East Side. 10,000 10,000  
The Lynn Campbell Memorial Fund
Reseda, California
For the Magic Years Nursery School, a cooperative serving 30 poor, rural children in Ecuador. 5,000 5,000  
Machne Israel
Brooklyn, New York
For summer camp scholarships for newly-arrived Russian immigrant children in Frankfurt, Germany. 7,500 7,500  
Marin Housing Center
San Rafael, California
To help homeless people make the transition into permanent housing in Marin County. 10,000 10,000  
Marwen Foundation
Chicago, Illinois
To expand the off-site facilities of an art center for inner-city youth and to provide career workshops. 25,000 25,000  
Mayo Medical Foundation for Medical Education and Research
Rochester, Minnesota
For research on pancreatic cancer. 10,000 10,000  
Museum of Broadcast Communications
Chicago, Illinois
General support for the museum's service to the broadcast industry and the public. 5,000 5,000  
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, Illinois
To purchase videotape equipment and to produce a videotape of the lecture series, The Museum of the 21st Century. 15,000 15,000  
New Israel Fund
New York, New York
To publish a directory for women immigrating to Israel that describes the rights and status of women there. 6,000 6,000  
New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, New York
A two-year grant for the Belize Ethonobotany Project to research the use of tropical plants for health care. 60,000 30,000 30,000
Options for People
Chicago, Illinois
To train long-term unemployed people for jobs in private industry. 10,000 10,000  
Our Lady of the Mountains Church
Jackson, Wyoming
For ongoing support of the church's education programs, community service, and parish plant. 5,000 5,000  
Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix, Arizona
A two-year matching grant for ongoing support of the museum. 25,843 15,843 10,000
Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix, Arizona
Endowment funds. 125,000 50,000  
Phoenix Shanti Group
Phoenix, Arizona
To provide health care, support services, and research information to people with AIDS. 10,000 10,000  
Phoenix Symphony Association
Phoenix, Arizona
To support a campaign to build the endowment. 25,000 25,000  
Phoenix Symphony Association
Phoenix, Arizona
To underwrite Classroom Concerts for schools unable to afford busing to Symphony Hall. 10,000 10,000  
Photographers and Friends United Against AlDS
New York, New York
To fund Brian Weil's lectures and a videotape of Brian Weil: The AIDS Photographs, a travelling exhibition. 10,000 10,000  
Rape Foundation
Santa Monica, California
To provide counseling and support services to victims of rape and abuse. 17,500 17,500  
San Diego Youth and Community Services
San Diego, California
To fund emergency services for the homeless and for runaway youth. 31,000 31,000  
San Dieguito Boys and Girls Club
Salana Beach, California
To involve developmentally and physically disabled children in organized, after-school activities. 3,000 3,000  
San Francisco State University Foundation
San Francisco, California
To provide scholarships for students to participate in the Volunteer Center. 2,500    2,500
Scottsdale Cultural Council
Scottsdale, Arizona
General operating support. 5,000 5,000  
Scottsdale Memorial Health Foundation
Scottsdale, Arizona
To support the Chaplaincy Fund for emergency support of the Foundation's employees. 5,000 5,000  
Scottsdale Memorial Health Foundation
Scottsdale, Arizona
To support the Community Health Education Program. 5,000 5,000  
Share the Health Foundation
Scottsdale, Arizona
General operating support. 5,000 5,000  
Shefa Fund
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
To support the organizing activities surrounding the second national Jewish Funder's Network Conference. 3,000 3,000  
Temple Sholom Religious School
Chicago, Illinois
For a weekend production and performance of The Book of Job, by Liz Swados in 1992. 10,000 10,000  
Threshold Foundation
San Francisco, California
For a general funding pool. 5,000 5,000  
Tony Fitzjohn/George Adamson African Wildlife Preservation Trust
Los Angeles, California
For educational outreach and equipment for the African Wildlife Preservation Trust Mkomazi Project on the Mkomazi game reserve in Tanzania. 10,000 10,000  
University of Arizona Foundation
Tucson, Arizona
To improve health services and cancer screening for the Hispanic population of southern Arizona.  13,557 13,557  
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
For the Museum's outreach program. 100,000 100,000  
Wendy Paine O'Brien Treatment Center
Scottsdale, Arizona
Capital contribution for a family therapy room. 40,000 20,000  

TOTAL $1,085,610 $943,110 $42,500