The Covenant Foundation

IKAR, Los Angeles, CA. House Party Project 2.0 - Minyan Tzedek. To help IKAR’s membership organize into six minyanim, each built around a social justice project rooted in Jewish learning. Project Director: Melissa Balaban; $140,000 (3 years).

Interactive Communications & Simulations (ICS), Ann Arbor, MI and RAVSAK: The Jewish Community Day School Network, New York, NY. JCAT: Jewish Court of All Time. To expand and disseminate a web-based educational project in which students learn about and portray significant historical and contemporary figures to Jewish middle schools across North America. Project Director: Matt Kaplan; $165,100 (3 years).

Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY. Developing a 21st Century Curriculum for Congregational Schools. To develop, implement and evaluate a 21st century Jewish curriculum for grades 3-5 in the Conservative and non-Conservative congregational school setting. Project Director: Deborah D. Miller; $250,000 (3 years).

Nishmah: The St. Louis Jewish Women's Project, St. Louis, MO. Banot Buddies. To expand an ongoing program that joins elementary and high school girls together for mentoring opportunities, Jewish enrichment, and community service projects. Project Director: Ronit  Sherwin; $7000 (1 year).

Solomon Schechter Day School Association, New York, NY. M'chadshei Ma'aseh Breisheet: An Integrated Middle School Curriculum on Judaism and the Environment. To fund one-year planning process for an integrated middle school curriculum addressing Judaism and the environment that will incorporate rabbinics, science, the arts, and service environmental programs. Project Director: Elaine Cohen; $30,000 (1 year).

Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago, IL. A Master's Degree Program in Judaic and Jewish Education Studies. To support Spertus College's new degree program created specifically to meet the needs of Jewish educators working in diverse Jewish educational frameworks in the Chicago metropolitan area. Project Director: Barry Chazan; $66,000 (2 years).

Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA. LINK: A Jewish Art & Technology Initiative. To develop a technology-based Jewish curriculum focused on technology and culture and comprised of three main components: (1) an annual panel discussion series; (2) an artist project that embodies the ideas addressed in the discussion series; and (3) a year-long curriculum-building fellowship for eight Jewish educators. Project Director: Dan Schifrin.

The Curriculum Initiative (TCI), New York, NY. Developing Jewish Student Leadership on Multicultural High School Campuses: A Student Empowerment Approach. To expand their emerging student leadership strategy for Jewish students, friends, and allies who attend non-Jewish independent high schools. Project Director: Adam Gaynor.

Gann Academy: The New Jewish High School, Waltham, MA. Chanoch L'Na'ar: A Holistic Approach to Jewish Values and Character Education. To fund the initial teacher education phase of a comprehensive, system-wide middot development initiative. Project Director: Rabbi David Jaffe.

Jewish Student Press Service, New York,  NY. The Jewish Student Journalism 2.0 Web Initiative for College Students. To develop of the recently launched www.newvoices.org into an interactive web-based educational platform for college-aged Jewish journalists and writers. Project Director: Benjamin Sales.

Keshet, Jamaica Plain, MA. Keshet Training Institute. To support Keshet’s National Training Institute for Jewish Educators and Youth Professionals, which gives participants tools and training to help them build safer and more inclusive Jewish educational environments. Project Director: Idit Klein.

National Ramah Commission, New York, NY. The Ramah Fellows Program: Ramah-Style Immersive Learning in Conservative Synagogues through a Community Service Initiative. To plan for the launch of a national community service program, engaging post-college Ramah alumni as embedded emissaries in synagogue communities. Project Director: Rabbi Mitchell Cohen.

Uri L'Tzedek, New York, NY. Uri L'Tzedek University Fellowship. To develop the Uri L'Tzedek University Fellowship that will educate and empower student leaders to create communities of change. Project Director: Rabbi Ari Weiss.