The Covenant Foundation

AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps, New York, NY. AVODAH: A Model for Jewish Service Education. To enable AVODAH to help shape the educational methods and content for the emerging field of Jewish service by scaling up and enriching its successful educational model, by providing guidance and training for organizations developing programs that combine service with non-formal education, and by creating and widely disseminating high-quality educational teaching materials for Jewish service. Project Director: Rabbi David Rosenn; $150,000 (3 years).

Coalition for Jewish Learning, Milwaukee, WI. A Designer Education Program for New Millennium Jewish Teens. To utilize an array of compelling educational options in order to significantly increase the number of teenagers involved in Jewish education. Project Director: JoAnne Gaudynski. $145,200 (3 years).

Darim Online, Charlottesville, VA. The Darim Online Learning Network for Congregational Educators. To design and launch a community of practice that will empower congregational educators to incorporate Web 2.0 technologies into their work. Project Director: Lisa Colton; $160,135 (2.5 years).

Fiedler Hillel at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. HowDoYouJew? To research, establish and develop a replicable model of a user-driven Internet platform for Northwestern University students and young alumni to engage in meaningful Jewish experiences both on- and off-line. Project Director: Adam Simon; $150,000 (3 years).

Florence Melton Adult Mini-School, Northbrook, IL. Adult Learning for Small Jewish Communities. To establish ongoing schools of adult learning in eight underserved communities with a Jewish population of fewer than 10,000. Project Director: Judy Kupchan; $153,500 (3 years).

HAZON, New York, NY. Tuv Ha Aretz: Hazon's Jewish Food Project. To support a significant expansion of Hazon's food-related work, by using food as a platform to create innovative Jewish educational programs to touch people's lives directly, to strengthen Jewish institutions, and, in the broadest sense, to create healthier, richer, and more sustainable Jewish communities. Project Director: Elena Sigman; $150,000 (3 years).

The Jewish Lens, Inc., New York, NY. The Jewish Lens: Exploring Values and Community through Photography. To fund the expansion and deepening of Avoda's innovative, photography-based Jewish values curriculum to additional Jewish middle and high school students across the country. A curriculum partnership with Avoda Arts [http://www.avodaarts.org/]. Project Director: Debbie Krivoy; $120,000 (3 years).

Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education Center, Newton, MA. Mainstream: The Mikveh Outreach Initiative. To develop and establish national resources for education and professional training for reclaiming mikveh rituals and practice. Project Director: Aliza Kline; $150,000 (3 years).

New Orleans Jewish Day School, Matairie, LA. Renewing the New Orleans Jewish Day School. To strengthen and integrate the Judaic Studies and General Studies curriculum by hiring dedicated staff, in order to support the school's renewal post-Katrina. Project Director: Gwynne Bowman; $138,000 (3 years).

Newberger Hillel at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Jewish Adulthood Education on the Campus. To pilot a new decentralized approach to Jewish engagement and education on campus that is based on small groups facilitated by artists and scholars. Project Director: Daniel Libenson; $150,000 (3 years).

Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration of Yeshiva University, New York, NY. Reclaiming Interpretation. To establish a laboratory class for Bible teachers that will simulate the activities of medieval exegetes, giving students and educators greater personal access to the Tanakh. Project Director: Dr. Moshe Sokolow.

Canfei Nesharim, New York, NY. Environmental Engagement in Orthodox Day Schools: An Educational Strategy. To develop a strategic plan to identify the best products, strategies, and venues for a meaningful program to integrate environmental consciousness and action into Orthodox day school education. Project Director: Evonne Marzouk.

IKAR, Los Angeles, CA. IKAR House Party Outreach Project. To fund an expansion and evaluation of the IKAR House Party model, a program through which unaffiliated Jews in the Los Angeles area participate in Jewish learning in peers' homes. Project Director: Rabbi Sharon Brous.

Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, New York, NY. Bar/Bat Mitzvah Preparation Program for Children with Special Needs. To start a new Bar/Bat Mitzvah preparation program, in partnership with MATAN, for children with special needs and their families. Project Director: Genna Singer.

New Orleans Jewish Community Center, New Orleans, LA. The New Orleans Jewish Community Center Strategic Plan Post-Hurricane Katrina. To partially fund a professional strategic plan to assist it in determining how best to rebuild, redefine and recreate a meaningful JCC for New Orleans post-Katrina. Project Director: Arlene Barron.

Teva Learning Center, New York, NY. Jumpstarting Congregational Education. To jumpstart a new Congregational Education initiative at Teva via intensive curriculum development, evaluation, and training of educators. Project Director: Nili Simhai.

University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work, Denver, CO. A Taste of Jewish Leadership in Colorado. To develop a traveling, text-based, interactive workshop program, to improve and strengthen the quality of leadership in Jewish communal organizations and agencies across Colorado. Project Director: Lorie Klumb.