Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation

The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation "promotes social justice and human rights through its five program areas: Jewish life, strengthening Israeli democracy, health and mental health, educational opportunity, and human rights. Support is provided to organizations in the United States and abroad. Please refer to each program area for specific geographic focus."

• Michael J. Hirschhorn: President
• Betsy Ringel: Executive Director
• Lara Hall: Program Officer; Educational Opportunity, Health and Mental Health
• Brenda Bodenheimer Zlatin: Program Officer; Jewish Life, Israel, Human Rights

Selected 2006 Grants

Human Rights

• Advocates for Youth - $60,000 over two years
• Center for Health and Gender Equity - $70,000 over two years
• Center for Reproductive Rights - $70,000 over two years
• Feminist Majority Foundation - $60,000 over two years
• Global AIDS Alliance - $70,000 over two years
• Human Rights Watch - $60,000 over two years
• International Center for Research on Women - $100,000 over two years
• Let's Breakthrough - $60,000 over two years
• Tahirih Justice Center - $80,000 over two years
• Tostan - $90,000 over two years
• ActionAid International USA - $35,000
• Center for Global Development - $30,000
• Our Education - $15,000
• American Jewish World Service - $40,000
• Fund for Global Human Rights - $80,000 over two years
• Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund - $20,000
• Mental Disability Rights International - $70,000 over two years

Israel Program

• Adva Center - $40,000 over two years
• Agenda: Israeli Center for Strategic Communications - $60,000 over two years
• ALMAYA: Association for the Advancement of the Ethiopian Family and Child in Israel - $25,000
• American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - $1,600,000 over eight years
• American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - $70,000 over two years
• American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - $10,000
• American Friends of Haifa University - $50,000 over three years
• American Friends of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam - $45,000 over two years
• American Friends of Tel Aviv University - $20,000
• Arava Institute for Environmental Studies - $40,000 over two years
• Association for Civil Rights in Israel - $150,000 over three years
• Association for the Promotion of Bedouin Women’s Education in the Negev - $60,000 over three *Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights - $140,000 over two years
• Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development - $65,000
• Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel - $50,000 over two years
• Center for Higher Education in the Middle East - $15,000
• Collot Ba'Negev - $40,000 over two years
• Community Advocacy - $60,000 over two years
• Economic Empowerment for Women - $50,000 over two years
• FIDEL Association for Education and Social Integration of Ethiopian Jews in Israel - $100,000 *Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion - $500,000 over five years
• Institute for the Advancement of Education in Jaffa - $30,000 over three years
• Ir Amin - $100,000 over two years
• Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews - $40,000 over two years
• Israel Family Planning Association - $90,000 over two years
• Israel Religious Action Center - $150,000 over two years
• Itach – Women Lawyers for Social Justice - $25,000 over two years
• Jerusalem Foundation - $140,000 over three years
• Maan: Forum of Bedouin Women’s Organizations - $20,000
• Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development - $75,000 over three years
• New Family Organization for the Advancement of Family Rights - $10,000
• New Israel Fund - $200,000 over two years
• Panim for Jewish Renaissance in Israel - $50,000 over two years
• Shiluv - $30,000 over three years
• Sikkuy - $40,000 over two years
• A Step Forward - $10,000
• Tali Beit Hinuch High School - $75,000 over three years
• Tebeka: The Center for Legal Aid and Advocacy for Ethiopian-Israelis - $10,000
• Yad L'isha - $40,000 over two years
• Yedid - The Association for Community Empowerment - $80,000 over two years
• Yesodot - The Center for the Study of Torah and Democracy - $50,000 over two years

Jewish Life

• American Jewish Committee - $2,000,000 over ten years
• American Jewish Committee - $145,000
• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - $35,000 over two years
• American Jewish World Service - $100,000 over two years
• American Jewish World Service - $65,000 over three years
• American Pardes Foundation - $30,000 over two years
• Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore - $1,000,000
• Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore - $2,500,000 over seven years
• Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore - $195,000 over three years
• AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps - $100,000 over two years
• Ayecha Resource Organization - $20,000
• Bikkurim: An Incubator for New Jewish Ideas - $92,000 over two years
• Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education - $25,000
• Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life - $32,500
• Congregation B'nai Jeshurun - $50,000 over two years
• Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs - $50,000 over two years
• Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Academy - $60,000 over three years
• Hillel - The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life - $50,000 over two years
• Hillel – The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life - $25,000
• Hillel of Greater Baltimore - $150,000 over five years
• Hillel of Greater Baltimore - $90,000 over three years
• [[Institute for Jewish Spirituality $50,000 over two years
• InterfaithFamily.com - $50,000 over two years
• Jewish Coalition for Service - $100,000 over two years
• Jewish Council on Urban Affairs - $25,000
• Jewish Foundation for the Righteous - $10,000 over four years
• Jewish Funds for Justice - $140,000 over two years
• Jewish Museum of Maryland - $30,000 over three years
• Jewish Outreach Institute - $50,000 over two years
• Just Vision - $40,000 over two years
• Keshet - $25,000
• Neighborhood Interfaith Movement - $40,000 over two years
• Panim – The Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values - $50,000 over two years
• Progressive Jewish Alliance - $25,000
• Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism - $200,000 over five years
• Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism - $100,000 over two years
• Rutgers University Foundation - $30,000 over three years
• Temple Oheb Shalom - $1,000,000* over five years
• World Union for Progressive Judaism - $200,000 over two years

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