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Amount
$15,000
Year
2011
Field of Interest
Financial Literacy and Veterans
Organization Description

Founded in 1995, the Boys & Girls Club of Burbank and the Greater East Valley helps young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. The organization is committed to providing affordable after school, summer, extended day care programs and services covering a wide range of programs at little to no cost.

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Grant Purpose

Money Matters & Career Launch  teaches youth, ages 10-18, about basic money management including budgeting, saving, investing, and managing a checking account.

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Amount
$200,000
Year
2019
Field of Interest
Addressing Homelessness in Los Angeles
Organization Description

Established in 2004 and operating in both the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles County, Brilliant Corners provides supportive housing that meets the unique needs of individuals experiencing homelessness. Its primary activities include housing development, supportive services, property management, and case management. Through its multiple public and private partnerships and innovative housing strategies that supplement and leverage critical, but limited affordable housing resources, Brilliant Corners has housed over 6,000 individuals over the past five years.

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Grant Purpose

The Motel Conversion Project will renovate and convert a motel into 18 units of supportive housing at a fraction of the time and cost of building new housing. The project aims to serve as a scalable model that affordable housing developers can utilize throughout Los Angeles County, creating housing for hundreds of individuals experiencing homelessness.

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Amount
$200,000
Year
2016
Field of Interest
Youth
Organization Description

Founded in 1937, Builders of Jewish Education works to support and enhance Jewish educational experiences, from early childhood through high school, across the full Jewish, religious, and cultural spectrum.

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Grant Purpose

Project EnAble provides a centralized resource for Jewish day schools that offers reduced-cost clinical support for students with mild to moderate learning needs in Jewish elementary schools, flexible coordination of how those services are provided, and integrated professional development workshops for school faculty. 

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Amount
$130,000
Year
2006
Field of Interest
Youth
Organization Description

Founded in 1937, Builders of Jewish Education works to support and enhance Jewish educational experiences, from early childhood through high school, across the full Jewish, religious, and cultural spectrum.

The Jewish Education Customer Relations Management Program helps Jewish families identify formal and informal Jewish educational opportunities for their children. BJE enhanced its website to match Jewish families to educational opportunities; employed a new customer relations management software system that links to the website; and built a cadre of peer ambassadors to connect customers to appropriate educational opportunities. As a result, Jewish families, including those not currently engaged in Jewish education, have access to a comprehensive, reliable resource to locate a spectrum of educational opportunities that meet their needs and interests.

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Grant Purpose

Encourage an increased number of Jewish families accessing formal and informal Jewish educational opportunities for their children.

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Amount
$101,500
Year
2020
Field of Interest
Youth
Organization Description

BJE is Los Angeles’ central coordinating resource for Jewish education, connecting thousands of families and children to a broad range of Jewish educational opportunities. During the pandemic, it is working to help support remote learning curriculum and infrastructure across over 140 Jewish schools.

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Grant Purpose

To mitigate the economic hardship resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and to help them achieve long-term organizational sustainability.

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Amount
$15,000
Year
2011
Field of Interest
Financial Literacy and Veterans
Organization Description

Founded in 1978 as a part the California State University Foundation, California Council on Economic Education (CCEE) provides training and standards-based curriculum in economics to California teachers. Its mission is to prepare California's students to participate in the global economy as responsible workers, consumers, savers and citizens. CCEE helps teachers teach students the value of their human capital, how markets work and where students fit in the global economy. This economic context helps students make better, more informed choices, such as choosing to finish high school, while taking control of their lives and building self esteem.

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Grant Purpose

MoneyWise Teen trains teachers of low- and moderate-income students to help students learn responsible decision-making and the consequences of their choices, develop real-life business skills, and learn how to manage their personal finances.

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Amount
$125,000
Year
2007
Field of Interest
Special Needs
Organization Description

Established in 1956, Camp Ramah of California provides summer and year-round opportunities for campers, staff, and other program participants to explore and strengthen their Jewish identity and creativity and experience the beauty of nature.

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Grant Purpose

Camp Ohr Lanu  provides a week-long camp for families with special needs children ages four to fourteen.

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Amount
$200,000
Year
2016
Field of Interest
Jewish Identity
Organization Description

Founded in 1971, the Center for Educational Technology works to empower educational systems around the globe by creating innovative learning environments that balance pedagogical needs with the evolution of new technology.  It offers technology platforms and tools to enhance teaching, learning and assessment; develops online and blended learning models; and innovates in the field of STEM education (science, technology, engineering and math).  It has most recently launched 929 (the number of chapters in the Tanach, which is the Torah (5 books of Moses), Neviim (Prophets) and Ketuvim (Writings), which uses a variety of technological outlets to share Jewish learning throughout Israel.

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Grant Purpose

929 engages Israeli Jews of all religious identities in studying the 929 chapters of the Tanach, as a tool to increase pluralistic and respectful speech amongst all sectors of Israeli society.

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Amount
$20,000
Year
2015
Field of Interest
Domestic & Sexual Violence Prevention and Support
Organization Description

Founded in 1978, the Center for the Pacific-Asian Family (CPAF) specializes in serving Asian and Pacific Islander (API) survivors of domestic and sexual violence. CPAF addresses API survivors’ need for linguistically accessible and culturally responsive services to help them find safety, access to legal resources and social services. Its programs and services include a 24-hour hotline and intervention services in over 30 API languages and dialects, an emergency & transitional shelter, employment & housing initiatives, and prevention education.

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Grant Purpose

Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention program provides immediate response services to survivors of sexual assault through a 24-hour hotline, individualized crisis counseling and support groups.

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Amount
$20,000
Year
2011
Field of Interest
Financial Literacy and Veterans
Organization Description

Founded in 1991, Centro Latino for Literacy (Centro Latino) seeks to address the need for basic literacy instruction among the Los Angeles Latino community. Centro Latino teaches non-literate Spanish speakers how to read and write in Spanish to build foundational reading and writing skills – and the confidence – to subsequently learn English and pursue other educational and personal goals.

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Grant Purpose

Listos  teaches practical financial skills in Spanish to adults, ages 18+, who have basic reading and writing skills.

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Amount
$25,000
Year
2008
Field of Interest
Religious Life
Organization Description

Chabad of the Conejo was established in 1979 as a branch of Chabad of the Greater San Fernando Valley to provide a center for Jewish education, worship and outreach to Jews from all walks of life residing in the Conejo Valley. Its mission is to implement and operate educational and community outreach programs that promote awareness, knowledge and observance of Jewish tradition and a sense of Jewish pride and solidarity. It offers youth programs, adult education and community services and outreach.

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Grant Purpose

The Chabad Center for Jewish Life project will construct the two-story Center for Jewish Life building that includes classrooms, offices, meeting space, and a kitchen and library/chapel.

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Amount
$25,000
Year
2020
Field of Interest
Vulnerable Populations
Organization Description

Founded in 1987, Chai Lifeline is the international health support organization whose emotional, social, and financial support enables ill children, families, and communities to cope with the crises and daily challenges of serious pediatric illness.

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Grant Purpose

To support Los Angeles-based efforts toward emergency relief in response to COVID-19 .

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Amount
$200,000
Year
2015
Field of Interest
Vulnerable Populations
Organization Description

Founded in 1987, Chai Lifeline is the international health support organization whose emotional, social, and financial support enables ill children, families, and communities to cope with the crises and daily challenges of serious pediatric illness.

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Grant Purpose

i-Shine is an after-school program that provides support, mentorship, Jewish experiences, and friendship to  hundreds of children whose lives have been disrupted by the illness or death of a parent or sibling.

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Amount
$125,000
Year
2016
Field of Interest
Jewish Identity
Organization Description

Founded in 1955 in the underground of the former Soviet Union (FSU), Chamah helps Jews economically through job placement, holiday food distribution and spreading Jewish identity.  Today, Chamah runs humanitarian and educational programs in Russia, the United States and Israel.  Since 1971, Chamah’s work in Israel has included assisting immigrants to find jobs, placing immigrant children in suitable educational institutions, establishing Judaic libraries with literature in Russian, and publishing Judaic materials in Russian.  In 1989, Chamah established a day care center that serves over 100 children.  The center has been visited by many government representatives and serves as a model for other centers across the country.

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Grant Purpose

Holiday and Weekend Retreats convenes Shabbat and holiday retreats for immigrants from the Former Soviet Union, with the goal of enhancing participants’ Jewish identity and awareness.

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Amount
$10,000
Year
2010
Field of Interest
Gang Prevention & Intervention
Organization Description

Chapter Two Inc. was established in 2008 to provide healthy alternatives to gang association, juvenile delinquency, and gang-related crimes in disenfranchised communities of LA. It educates at-risk youth and their families on the causes and effects of gang violence; trains and certifies Gang Intervention Workers throughout the City of LA; and provides counseling, employment training, child care assistance, and other services to help youth achieve self-sufficiency.

Grant Purpose

The Gang Intervention Project provides at-risk youth in South Los Angeles with gang prevention activities including counseling, sports, and music enrichment.

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Amount
$70,000
Year
2016
Field of Interest
Foster Youth: College Access & Career Readiness
Organization Description

Founded in 1993, Children Youth and Family Collaborative (CYFC) works to prevent foster youth from experiencing the negative outcomes associated with involvement in the foster care system, such as school dropout, incarceration, unemployment and homelessness. In partnership with school districts and individual schools, CYFC staff is placed at schools and provides the school’s foster youth with regular tutoring and academic support. The organization also works with foster youth agencies to form a multi-agency care team to monitor student outcomes, prevent students from being moved from schools, and provide comprehensive support through the transition from the foster system to adulthood.

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Grant Purpose

 The Academic Remediation, Intervention, Support Services, and Education program provides foster youth at schools in Los Angeles individualized academic support through onsite education specialists at school campuses able to address educational challenges in real time. 

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  • Boys and Girls Club of Burbank & the Greater East Valley
    Money Matters & Career Launch
    Financial Literacy and Veterans
  • Brilliant Corners
    Motel Conversion Project
    Addressing Homelessness in Los Angeles
  • Builders of Jewish Education
    Project EnAble
    Youth
  • Builders of Jewish Education
    Jewish Education Customer Relations Management Program
    Youth
  • Builders of Jewish Education
    Youth
  • California Council on Economic Education
    MoneyWise Teen
    Financial Literacy and Veterans
  • Camp Ramah in California
    Camp Ohr Lanu
    Special Needs
  • Center for Educational Technology
    929
    Jewish Identity
  • Center for the Pacific-Asian Family
    Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention
    Domestic & Sexual Violence Prevention and Support
  • Centro Latino for Literacy
    Listos
    Financial Literacy and Veterans
  • Chabad of the Conejo
    Chabad Center for Jewish Life
    Religious Life
  • Chai Lifeline
    Vulnerable Populations
  • Chai Lifeline
    i-Shine
    Vulnerable Populations
  • Chamah
    Holiday and Weekend Retreats
    Jewish Identity
  • Chapter Two
    Gang Intervention Project
    Gang Prevention & Intervention
  • Children Youth and Family Collaborative
    Academic Remediation, Intervention, Support Services, and Education Program
    Foster Youth: College Access & Career Readiness

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