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The Foundation has no income tax related penalties or interest for the periods. true Jon Adam Ross (FS FJC) 520 Eighth Avenue 20th Fl NY NY 10018 133848582 501(C)(3) 20000 SEE PART IV Ilana Trachtman (FS Hartley Film Fdtn) 49 Richmondville Avenue Westport CT 06880 060950982 501(C)(3) 30000 See Part IV 14th Street Y (FS Educational Alliance) 197 East Broadway New York NY 10002 135562210 501(C)(3) 150000 See Part IV Abundance Farm (FS Cong B'Nai Israel) 253 Prospect Street Northampton MA 01060 046052052 501(C)(3) 120000 See Part IV Beit Hatfutsot of America 633 Third Avenue New York NY 10017 132928469 501(C)(3) 35000 See Part IV Brandeis Marin 180 N San Pedro Rd San Rafael CA 94903 471253063 501(C)(3) 150000 See Part IV Capital Camps & Retreat Center 11300 Rockville Pike Rockville MD 20852 521515202 501(C)(3) 100000 See Part IV G-dcast 131 Steuart Street San Francisco CA 94105 454230275 501(C)(3) 50000 See Part IV The Graduate Center for Jewish Education 15600 Mulholland Dr Los Angeles CA 90077 951684064 501(C)(3) 100000 See Part IV Jewish Community Center in Manhattan 334 Amsterdam Avenue New York NY 10023 133490745 501(C)(3) 150000 See Part IV The Jewish Theological Seminary of America 3080 Broadway New York NY 10027 130887640 501(C)(3) 140650 SEE PART IV National Jewish Education Innovation Network 7607 Old York Road Melrose Park PA 19027 232473518 501(C)(3) 25000 SEE PART IV Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies 5 West 37th Street New York NY 10018 222594099 501(C)(3) 37500 SEE PART IV Tiferes Bnos(FS Congregation Ahavas Shulem) 199 Lee Avenue Suite 196 Brooklyn NY 11211 470878099 501(C)(3) 40000 SEE PART IV YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood 54 Nagle Avenue New York NY 10040 131635308 501(C)(3) 67500 SEE PART IV BIMA Genesis at Brandeis University 415 South Street Waltham MA 024549110 042103552 501(C)(3) 20000 SEE PART IV Be'chol Lashon (FS Inst Jewish Comm Res) 3198 Fulton Street San Francisco CA 94118 943307253 501(C)(3) 20000 SEE PART IV Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago 305 South Wells Street Chicago IL 60606 362167761 501(C)(3) 20000 SEE PART IV Kulanu NNJ (FS Temple Avodat Shalom) 385 Howland Avenue River Edge NJ 07661 226046606 501(C)(3) 20000 SEE PART IV Sixth & I Historic Synagogue 606 I Street NW Washington DC 20001 331036146 501(C)(3) 16000 SEE PART IV The Well (FS Temple Israel of Detroit) 5725 Walnut Lake West Bloomfield MI 48323 381490194 501(C)(3) 20000 SEE PART IV Yeshiva University Museum 500 West 185th Street New York NY 10033 131624225 501(C)(3) 20000 SEE PART IV Girls in Trouble (FS NY Fndtn of the Arts) 20 Jay Street Suite 740 Brooklyn NY 11201 237129564 501(C)(3) 50000 SEE PART IV Habonim Dror North America 1000 Dean Street 353 Brooklyn NY 11238 135596779 501(C)(3) 45000 SEE PART IV Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Center 6255 N Santa Monica Blvd Mlwkee WI 53217 390806234 501(C)(3) 10000 SEE PART IV Jewish Community Center of Gr Kansas City 5801 W 115th St Overland Park KS 66211 440545992 501(C)(3) 20000 SEE PART IV University of Wisconsin Hillel 611 Langdon Street Madison WI 53703 392035142 501(C)(3) 15000 SEE PART IV Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning 610 South Michigan Ave Chicago IL 60605 362662739 501(C)(3) 20000 SEE PART IV Sabes Jewish Community Center 4330 S Cedar Lake Rd Minn MN 55416 410833543 501(C)(3) 15000 SEE PART IV The Moxie Institute (Fiscal Sponsor Let it Ripple 217 Sycamore Ave Mill Valley CA 94941 462851766 501(C)(3) 35000 SEE PART IV The Paradigm Project (FS Temple Beth Shalom) 670 Highland Ave Needham MA 02494 046006558 501(C)(3) 28100 SEE PART IV Tiferes Bnos (FS Congreg Ahavas Shulem) 199 Lee Avenue Suite 196 Brooklyn NY 11211 470878099 501(C)(3) 10653 SEE PART IV Washington DC Jewish Community Center 1529 16th St NW Washington DC 20036 521398151 501(C)(3) 12500 SEE PART IV 33 AWARDS TO EDUCATORS 11 199000 Monitoring - Part I, Line 2 Twice a year grantees are required to submit both a narrative progress report and a current budget for the grant. Twice a year grant allocations are released dependent upon receipt and approval of narrative and budget reports. During the year there are random site visits and the project directors are gathered annually. PURPOSE OF GRANT 1. JON ADAM ROSS (FS: FJC) - The InHEIRitance Project: The Genesis Plays. To facilitate the expansion of the communal creation of five theater productions, which are being created in partnership with five Jewish communities across the United States. These productions combine the stories of the matriarchs and patriarchs with the stories of local Jewish community members. Each production will premiere locally followed by a production in New York City. 2. ILANA TRACHTMAN (FS: HARTLEY FILM FOUNDATION) - InHEIRiting Sisterhood. To work with the Jewish community in Seattle on the project InHEIRiting Sisterhood, a collaborative theatre/video performance that explores the Biblical narrative of Rachel and Leah. The performance will be created based on study sessions and interviews held with members of the community. 3. 14TH STREET Y (FS: EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE) - Downtown Jewish Life at the 14th Street Y. To strengthen the downtown Jewish community through inclusive, Open Tent public programming that will inspire in its audience a renewed interest in Jewish experiences, a firmer sense of who they are as Jews, and a creative context upon which to build a meaningful Jewish life. 4. ABUNDANCE FARM (FS: CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL) - Promoting Innovative Education through Farm-Based Learning. To fully integrate experiential, farm-based education, including the development of a Hebrew on the Farm resource guide, into the Jewish educational life of its campus, which is comprised of Congregation Bnai Israels religious school, preschool, and teen programs, and Lander-Grinspoon Academy, a K-6 Jewish day school. 5. BEIT HATFUTSOT OF AMERICA (FS: AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUSOT) - Curating Your Story Educational Encounter with Jewish Artists in the Community. To enhance and extend the creative experience and community dialogue of the My Family Story program in schools across the United States by inviting local Jewish artists to share their creative expertise with participating students in order to generate excitement and interest in Jewish family legacies. 6. BRANDEIS MARIN - Makers Makom. To fund the creation of a Jewish Studies curriculum that is integrated with a makers program and core academics (Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies). 7. CAPITAL CAMPS & RETREAT CENTER - Capital Camps Institute for Leadership and Learning. To develop a national fellowship program for veteran counselors at Jewish overnight camps with the purpose of helping the participating young adults grow into more competent and confident Jewish leaders. 8. G-DCAST - Studio G-dcast 2.0: Training a National Cadre of Jewish Text Animators. To fund an expansion of the Studio G-dcast Media Beit Midrash program by training a national cadre of educators to independently implement its methodology for using animation as a tool for Jewish text study as well as developing an online course geared towards bnei mitzvah students and their teachers. 9. THE GRADUATE CENTER FOR JEWISH EDUCATION AT AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY - Dream Lab. To fund Dream Lab, which will cultivate creative Jewish education as a field by developing standards of excellence, a professional pipeline of talent, measurable outcomes for Jewish learning, and a collaborative network of creative practitioners. 10. JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN - Circles of Welcome. To create and establish Circles of Welcome, a new initiative aimed at encouraging couples/families with varying degrees of involvement to explore Jewish life within a community of small, supported groups (chavurot). 11. THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA - Building Sustainable Bikkur Holim Programs in the United States. To fund a new program that will train groups of congregational leaders in eight major cities across the United States in the fundamentals of pastoral care and will provide the support and guidance necessary to help them establish and sustain their own bikkur holim groups. 12. NATIONAL JEWISH EDUCATION INNOVAITON NETWORK (FS: JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE) - Shinui: National Jewish Education Innovation Network.To fund the continuation, expansion, and deepening of the work of the Network comprised of six central agencies which supports, and disseminates innovative projects in part-time Jewish education. 13. PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES OF NORTH AMERICA - Rodef Shalom School Program: To develop an evaluation plan and to determine how best to proceed with other aspects of the project including teacher training and curriculum development. 14. TIFERES BNOS (FS: CONGREGATION AHAVAS SHULEM D'NADVERNE) - Project Based Learning Professional Development Program. To support a unique year-long Project Based Learning Teacher Professional Development Program aimed at enhancing teachers professional skills and the development and implementation of a project-based learning curriculum as well as a fully-developed pilot arts-based curriculum. 15. YM & YWHA OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS AND INWOOD - Bubbies Kitchen: Connecting Youth and Families to Their Jewish Roots and Values through Global Foods and Traditions. To launch Bubbies Kitchen, an innovative, globally-informed cooking program for children and their families designed to significantly deepen Jewish engagement of the young, unaffiliated families living in Washington Heights. 16. BIMA/GENESIS AT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY - The Jewish STEAM Project. To develop cutting-edge curricula and teacher trainings that integrate Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) with Jewish Studies. 17. BE'CHOL LASHON (FS: INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH & COMMUNITY RESEARCH) - Passport to Peoplehood. To develop Passport to Peoplehood, a program designed to strengthen Jewish identity by expanding childrens awareness of themselves in relation to the racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of Jews around the world. 18. JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO - Hebrew in Public Schools: A Community Approach. To assess the current landscape of Hebrew language instruction in public high schools in the United States and to propose a path forward for the Federated Jewish community to work collaboratively to implement and expand public school Hebrew nationwide 19. KULANI NNJ - (FS: TEMPLE AVODAT SHALOM) - Kulanu NNJ ETC: EdTech Training for Congregational Schools. To train congregational school teachers to effectively integrate educational technology into the classroom and home. 20. SIXTH & I HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE - DIY: Design Identity Yourself. To create a new program that combines Jewish text study with collaborative learning and creative self-expression, providing participants with the skills and support needed to develop their own unique Jewish voice. 21. THE WELL (FS: TEMPLE ISRAEL OF DETRIOT) - CSI: Coffee. Study. Interpret. To support and expand the CSI: Coffee. Study. Interpret. community Beit Midrash program, a monthly, Beit Midrash-style, partner learning program in a pluralistic setting designed to use the study of texts to address how to live a meaningful life. 22. YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AT THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY - How a Poem Begins Lynne Avadenka and the Poet Rahel. To support the development, marketing, and implementation of educational programming connected to the exhibition and project by printmaker and book artist, Lynne Avadenka, which offers a contemporary artistic and personal encounter with Rahel Bluwstein, one of the greatest poets of pre-State Israel and an enduring figure in modern culture. 23. GIRLS IN TROUBLE (FS: NY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS) - The Complicated Lives of Biblical Women: An Arts-Based Curriculum. To develop, pilot, and electronically distribute The Complicated Lives of Biblical Women, an innovative, arts-based curriculum about the women of the Torah for teens and adults structured around "Girls in Trouble", an indie-folk song cycle about women of the Torah. 24. HABONIM DROR NORTH AMERICA - Habonim Drors Shlav Hachshara Bet: Inspiring and Supporting Youth in Defining and Shaping the Jewish Future. To expand, improve, and institutionalize its Shlav Hachshara Bet Leadership Program for college-age Jewish young people as an integral part of HDNA. During the grant period (January 2015-December 2017), approximately 200 youth leaders will be involved in the program. 25. HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - The Midwestern Artists' Laboratory Network. To provide continued support to the current Artists Laboratory Network and to add and to mentor three new Artists Labs in other Midwestern cities. 26. JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GR. KANSAS CITY - The Midwestern Artists' Laboratory Network. To provide support to the current Artists Laboratory Network. 27. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HILLEL - The Midwestern Artists' Laboratory Network. To provide support to the current Artists Laboratory Network 28. SPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP - The Midwestern Artists' Laboratory Network. To provide support to the current Artists Laboratory Network 29. 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