Annual Recipients of Lifchitz Fund Grants
2013
Education
Tutorpedia Foundation
Tutorpedia Foundation provides highquality, personalized tutoring and related education services to underresourced students. In partnership with local schools and community organizations, Tutorpedia Foundation augments lowincome students' classroom experiences, helping to improve their chances of graduating high school, building 21st century workforce skills, and breaking the cycle of poverty. |
Israel
Matan B'Seter Bambi
Matan B’Seter Bambi is a charity that helps needy families in Eretz Yisrael with financial support. It primarily helps people whose poverty results from, or is exacerbated by, a medical or social crisis. |
Social Justice
Self-Sustaining Communities
SelfSustaining Communities is an organization based in Richmond, California that works with low income residents and community members to create widescale, environmentally sustainable local food production in distressed and needy neighborhoods. Its goal is to help neighborhoods recover and heal, using urban farms as a focal point to address food, housing, mental health, and other needed survival skills. |
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2011
EducationSidney and Freda Davidson Educational and Cultural Center The Center will serve as a meeting place for the building and nurturing of Jewish identity for all ages |
IsraelEzer Mizion Ezer Mizion offers an extensive range of medical and social support services to help Israel's sick, disabled, elderly and underprivileged populations |
Social JusticeSpark Program Spark provides life-changing apprenticeships to youth in underserved communities across the US |
2010
EducationPardes Institute of Jewish Studies A co-ed yeshiva in Jerusalem that offers a variety of educational Israel programs for college and post-college young people interested in serious Jewish studies in an open Beit Midrash environment. |
IsraelYad Eliezer Yad Eliezer's mandate is to help families cope with financial difficulties and to empower them to break through the cycle of poverty and achieve self-sufficiency |
Social JusticeAVODAH AVODAH engages participants in service and community building that inspires them to become lifelong agents for social change rooted in Jewish values |