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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. G-DCAST - The grant will support a Fellow who will create new interactive content, as well as a structure, curriculum, and pipeline to develop a cohort of 'educator techies,' and a stronger, more centralized Jewish new media organization. The grant will also support the Fellow's product development. 2. GIRLS IN TROUBLE (FISCAL SPONSOR: 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 Torah for teens and adults structured around "Girls in Trouble," an indie-folk song cycle about women of the Torah. 3. JON ADAM ROSS (FISCAL SPONSOR: FJC) - inHEIRitance: The Genesis of Our Stories. To facilitate the communal creation of five theater productions in partnership with five Jewish communities across the United States. These productions will be based on the stories of the matriarchs and patriarchs, along with the stories of local Jewish community members. Each production will premiere locally, followed by a production in New York City. 4. 92ND STREET Y - Shababa Network. To support the full-scale launch of Shababa Network, a professional development program that will train Jewish leaders in the Shababa philosophy and approach, creating engaged and active intergenerational Jewish communities across North America. 5. CITIZEN FILM - New Media in Jewish Studies Collaborative. To continue cultivating a Professional Learning Network consisting of illustrious Jewish Studies professors plus fifty-four graduate students, around using digital storytelling and emergent media tools of today to inspire active exploration of Jewish subjects in the classroom and beyond. 6. CONGREGATION AHAVATH BETH ISRAEL - Shir Transformation: A Congregational Music Program to Enhance and Sustain Jewish Life. To fund development and implementation of a Jewish music education program for innovative educational, spiritual, and community growth, with intent to reach out to the unaffiliated, especially Millennials, in the greater Treasure Valley of Idaho. 7. EDAH (FISCAL SPONSOR: COMMUNITY INITIATIVE) - A Jewish Learning Innovation Corps: A Proof-of- Concept at Edah. To develop, pilot, and implement a proof-of-concept of a Jewish Learning Innovation Corps that will foster a new generation of Jewish learning experience designers and facilitators. 8. HABONIM DROR NORTH AMERICA - Habonim Dror's 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. 9. 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. 10. JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GR. KANSAS CITY - The Midwestern Artists' Laboratory Network. To provide support to the current Artists' Laboratory Network 11. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HILLEL - The Midwestern Artists' Laboratory Network. To provide support to the current Artists' Laboratory Network. 12. SPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP - The Midwestern Artists' Laboratory Network. To provide support to the current Artists' Laboratory Network 13. SABES JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - The Midwestern Artists' Laboratory Network. To provide support to the current Artists' Laboratory Network 14. JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA - JCC Association ECE and Family Engagement Directors Institute. To fund a Directors' Fellowship, The Early Childhood Education and Family Engagement Directors Institute, to develop the high quality personnel needed for excellence in the field of JCC Early Childhood Education. 15. JEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND - Engaging Texts: A Cross-Communal Network Developing the Educational Practice of Philosophical Inquiry with Tanach. To create and develop a cross-communal network that will facilitate and provide support for the scaling up of the educational practice of philosophical inquiry with Tanach as the central focus for the Jewish educators working within the participating communities. 16. JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE - Project Kavod. To develop a new educational initiative to provide its staff, board members, and volunteers with fresh opportunities to examine the Jewish roots of the organization's work and to help staff members increase and enhance their capacity to serve. 17. LET IS RIPPLE, INC. - The Creation of Accompanying Educational Materials for the Jewish Version of The Science of Character Film. To accompany a Jewish version of its 8-minute film The Science of Character, reframed through the lens of the Mussar movement, a Jewish ethical, educational, and cultural movement, developed in 19th century Eastern Europe, particularly among Orthodox Lithuanian Jews. 18. THE REFORM TEMPLE OF FOREST HILLS - Project 613: The RTFH Digital Badging Project Implementation. To complete development, implementation, and roll-out of a digital badging system that, fully integrated with the congregational school curriculum (for grades K-7) in a Reform Jewish congregation, will support the blending of in-class and at-home learning objectives to more effectively engage and motivate students and their families while deepening their appreciation of and participation in Jewish content, education, and community religious education. 19. YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL - The YCT Communities Project. To develop local learning communities in cities across North America that will engage in ongoing study supported through curriculum, community organizing, lay leadership mentoring, and student and faculty visits. 20. BINAH SCHOOL (FISCAL SPONSOR: FJC) - To develop and implement The Creative Collaborators Project: An Arts and Social Justice Program, which features the creation of a Community Arts and Social Justice Program, deepens and develops digital badging and pilots arts-integration for Orthodox girls. 21. THE PARADIGM PROJECT (NEW FISCAL SPONSOR: TEMPLE BETH SHALOM) - Nurturing and Networking the Seeds of Excellence: A Flexible, Cost-Effective, Blended-Learning Approach to Systemic Change in Jewish Early Childhood Education. To support the expansion of The Paradigm Project's network of Fellowships (formally Communities of Practice) in Jewish Early Childhood Education. 22. NATIONAL JEWISH EDUCATION INNOVATION NETWORK (FISCAL SPONSOR: JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE) - To develop and nurture innovation in part-time Jewish Youth Education, through the creation of a network of innovators, a virtual platform connecting people with people and information, and an annual conference to bring together innovators, shed light on models and experiments, develop best practices and success indicators, and advance the field. 23. 14TH STREET Y (FISCAL SPONSOR: EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE) - Downtown Jewish Life at the 14th Street Y. To support two Jewish educational engagement events and one viral digital campaign that interprets Jewish traditions and values and educates the broader public 24. JEWISH PUBLIC MEDIA (FISCAL SPONSOR: CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE AND CREATIVITY) - SermonSlam. To expand SermonSlam into a regular source of new, creative Jewish expression in dozens of cities around the world as well as online. 25. KADIMAH SCHOOL OF BUFFALO - Multi-age Pod Instruction. To fund a professional teacher training program for its faculty and the faculty of six of its partner schools in the Upstate New York Jewish Day School Consortium that will support the complete implementation of multi-age learning. 26. MECHON HADAR - Cross-Denominational Beit Midrash for Future Community Leaders. To support a weekly cross-denominational Beit Midrash for future Jewish community leaders, serving as a center for energized, multi-level learning while modeling how Jewish learning can unite otherwise distinct communities. 27. MISHKAN CHICAGO - Back to Basics: Inspired Judaism in Small Installments for Busy People. To launch Back to Basics: Inspired Judaism in Small Installments for Busy People, an experiment in adult learning that will integrate students coming from diverse backgrounds into month-long, self-contained courses. These courses will be organized thematically around foundational Jewish thought and practices that rely on the best available creative adult learning resources. They will also include individualized attention to guide students down paths of conversion, adult b'nai mitzvah, or simply deepening their learning. 28. LYNNE AVADENKA (FISCAL SPONSOR: FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CULTURE - Rahel Project 29. 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