1992 Community Grants

RECIPIENT PURPOSE TOTAL AWARDS 1992 PAYMENTS GRANTS PAYABLE 12/31/92
Aid to Artisans
Farmington, CT
To support disadvantaged craftproducing communities in developing countries. $5,000 $5,000  
American Friends of the Israel Museum
New York, NY
To improve the Israel Museum's storage facilities in the Nathan Cummings wing. 70,000 70,000  
American Heart Association
Phoenix, AZ
General operating support. 5,000 5,000  
American Jewish World Service
New York, NY
For economic development projects in developing countries and US disaster relief efforts. 40,000 20,000 20,000
American Jewish World Service
New York, NY
To capitalize the formation of two agricultural groups of women in Zimbabwe. 8,000 8,000  
Americans for Peace Now
New York, NY
General operating support. 5,000 5,000  
Anshe Emet Synagogue
Chicago, IL
General operating support. 10,000 10,000  
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
General operating support. 10,000 10,000  
Arizona State University Foundation
Tempe, AZ
To support an endowment for the School of Art. 64,657 64,657  
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
For an exhibit of the clay traditions of Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and a traveling exhibition of Korean ceramics. 50,000 50,000  
Ascent Inner Dimensions of Jewish Lifestyle
Tsfat, Israel
For an exhibition on the meaning and roots of Jewish Mysticism. 5,000 5,000  
Association of Forest Service Employees For Environmental Ethic
Eugene, OR
General operating support. 20,000 20,000  
Association to Benefit Children
New York, NY
General operating support. 20,000 20,000  
Becca Kesselman Foundation Irrevocable Trust
San Diego, CA
General operating support. 2,000 2,000  
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx, NY
General operating support. 15,000 15,000  
Casa de Paz y Bien Foundation
Scottsdale, AZ
General operating support. 25,000 25,000  
Chicago Children's Museum
Chicago, IL
For a community outreach initiative to provide cultural enrichment, training, and employment opportunities to families living in a public housing community. 25,000 25,000  
Chicago Educational Television Association
Chicago, IL
To create ten TV news programs on such issues as the arts, censorship, and freedom of expression. 125,000 125,000  
Child Crisis CenterEast Valley
Mesa, AZ
To provide a safe shelter for children who have suffered abuse or are threatened by potential abuse. 2,500 2,500  
Congregation Bene Shalom of the Deaf
Skokie, IL
To provide luncheons and social outings for Jewish and Christian senior citizen deaf. 10,000 10,000  
En Garde Arts
New York, NY
General operating support. 10,000 10,000  
Environmental Health Coalition
San Diego, CA
To support the Chollas CreekWatershed Project to educate and empower low income school children to take positive actions in their communities. 15,000 15,000  
Folkworks
New York, NY
To train management assistance providers to use workshops, consultations, and resource banks to help nonprofits plan and organize effective special events. 20,000 20,000  
Friends of Women's World Banking/USA
New York, NY
To investigate the feasibility of a commercial link strategy which includes ethnic-based ties. 5,000 5,000  
Golden Apple Foundation
Chicago, IL
For a new video series by classroom teachers to demonstrate cutting edge teaching strategies and new curricula. 15,000 15,000  
Grand Teton Music Festival
Teton Village, WY
For young musicians to study orchestral playing with a faculty of distinguished professionals. 10,000 10,000  
Homeward Bound
Phoenix, AZ
General operating support. 20,000 20,000  
Institute for the Musical Arts
Bodega, CA
General operating support. 10,000 10,000  
Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services
New York, NY
General operating support. 2,500 2,500  
Jewish Film Festival
Berkeley, CA
To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus' sailing to the New World and the 500th anniversary of the edict expelling the Jews and Moslems from Spain. 10,000 10,000  
Jewish Theological Seminary
Chicago, IL
General operating support. 5,000 5,000  
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago
Chicago, IL
General operating support. 18,000 18,000  
Liberty Hill Foundation
Santa Monica, CA
To organize a congress of grassroots organizations to facilitate dialogue about urban violence. 10,000 10,000  
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
New York, NY
General operating support. 20,000 20,000  
Mama's Kitchen
San Diego, CA
General operating support. 30,000 30,000  
Manhattan Theatre Club
New York, NY
To match a NEA challenge grant. 5,000 5,000  
Marin Housing Center
San Rafael, CA
General operating support. 5,000 5,000  
Marin Suicide Prevention Center San Rafael, CA To support 24-hour telephone counseling, classroom and community presentations, and volunteer crisis interventlon programs. 15,000 15,000  
The Marwen Foundation
Chicago, IL
For technical computer support. 18,250 18,250  
Museum of Broadcast Communications
Chicago, IL
General operating support. 5,000 5,000  
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
New York, NY
To support a public education campaign to change Americans' attitudes about civil rights and race-related issues. 5,000 5,000  
New Amsterdam Singers
New York, NY
To commission Paul Alan Levi to compose a piece for chorus and chamber ensemble in honor of NAS's 25th Anniversary. 5,000 5,000  
New School for Social Research
New York, NY
General operating support. 7,500 7,500  
New York Botanical Garden*
Bronx, NY
A two-year grant for the Belize Ethnobotany Project to research the use of tropical plants for health care. 60,000 30,000  
One With One
Boston, MA
To train minority men and women to obtain employment in the health care industry. 20,000 20,000  
Orchard Association For The Retarded
Skokie, IL
To develop one of the first community-based residential and social programs for seniors with developmental disabilities in the Chicago metropolitan area. 20,000 20,000  
People Ending Hunger
Chicago, IL
For a monthly nonprofit newspaper sold exclusively by Chicago's homeless men and women. 25,500 25,500  
The Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix, AZ
To sponsor a Latin American Symposium and to hire a grants writer. 40,000 40,000  
The Phoenix Art Museum*
Phoenix, AZ
For completion of a two-year matching grant for ongoing support of the museum. 25,843 25,843  
Princess Grace Foundation
New York, NY
General support for emerging young artists in American theater, dance, and film. 5,000 5,000  
Princeton Center for Leadership Training
Lawrenceville, NJ
To involve five Jewish congregations in a two-year pilot project to implement the Jewish Peer Group. 70,000 35,000 35,000
Pygmy Fund
Malibu, CA
General operating support. 15,000 15,000  
Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center
Chicago, IL
For the Robert B. Mayer Memorial Fund, given in honor of Beatrice Cummings Mayer. 7,500 7,500  
San Diego Hospice Foundation
San Diego, CA
General operating support. 2,500 2,500  
San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association
San Diego, CA
For a three-year model for the integration of music education into the school curriculum, targeting disadvantaged San Diego City Schools. 40,000 40,000  
San Diego Youth and Community Services
San Diego, CA
General operating support. 6,000 6,000  
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
To support the Museum's Educational Endowment Modern Art Fund. 50,000 25,000 25,000
San Francisco State University Foundation
San Francisco, CA
To provide scholarships for students to participate in the Volunteer Center.  2,500 2,500  
Scottsdale Memorial Health Foundation
Scottsdale, AZ
To support an endowment for bone marrow transplantation. 30,000 30,000  
Scottsdale Memorial Health Foundation
Scottsdale, AZ
For a program to keep people in the community healthy and out of the hospital. 25,000 25,000  
Sculpture Chicago
Chicago, IL
To support the creation of innovative urban monuments through seminars, temporary installations, and permanent site designations. 50,000 50,000  
Southwest Learning Centers
Santa Fe, NM
To produce multicultural events and media projects with environmental themes featuring native and international performers. 5,00 5,000  
Symphony Space
New York, NY
General operating support. 7,500 7,500  
Threshold Foundation
San Francisco, CA
General operating support. 5,000 5,000  
Trisha Brown Dance Company
New York, NY
General operating support. 20,000 20,000  
United States Catholic Conference
Phoenix, AZ
General operating support. 10,000 10,000  
University of Arizona Foundation
Tucson, AZ
For the Herbert K. Cummings Memorial Fund at the Arizona Cancer Center. 53,177 53,177  
University of San Diego
San Diego, CA
A pilot project providing a professional, fulltime advocate and attorney team for children involved in child abuse proceedings. 40,000 40,000  
Waldorf Institute
Spring Valley, NY
To provide a summer program for public and private school teachers in Waldorf Education methods. 20,000 20,000  
White Earth Land Recovery Project
White Earth, MN
For land acquisitions for the Anishinaabe within their reservation; and for the protection of their medicine plants, maple sugar groves, and sacred burial grounds. 10,000 10,000  
Wildlife of the American West
Jackson, WY
For the endowment campaign. 35,000 35,000  
Wildlife of the American West Jackson, WY For computer needs and for interior environmental monitoring equipment. 10,000 10,000  
World Union for Progressive Judaism
New York, NY
For prayer books for the reformed congregation in Moscow called Hineni. 40,000 40,000  
Young Men and Young Women's Hebrew Association of the Bronx
Riverdale, NY
General operating support. 2,500 2,500  
Ziv Tzedakah Fund
Rockville, MD
To provide scholarships for 35 apprentices to Danny Siegel in the Summer of 1993. 10,000 10,000  
TOTAL   $1,546,427 $1,420,584 $80,000

*Award authorized in 1991.