The Covenant Foundation

The Center for Jewish Learning and Living, Oakland, CA. Edah: A Community of Jewish Living and Learning. To support the refinement, scale-up, and dissemination of a premier “out of school” program for high-quality, complementary Jewish education in the San Francisco East Bay. Project Director: Oren J. Massey; $50,000 (1 year).

ConverJent New York, NY. Jewish Mobile Phone GPS Game/Situated Documentary. To fund the design, development, and marketing of the first release of a Jewish mobile phone game/situated documentary. Project Director: Rabbi Owen Gottlieb; $65,000 (2 years).

G-dcast San Francisco, CA. Fiscal Sponsor: San Francisco Film Society, San Francisco, CA. Media Beit Midrash. To support the creation of a new animated film series that will be the outcome of an annual, intensive, week-long Media Beit Midrash of student animators and storytellers who will develop filmed stories of the Minor Prophets. Project Director: Sarah Lefton; $100,000 (2 years).

Hannah Senesh Community Day School Brooklyn, NY. SmallCity@Senesh. To develop and expand the school’s efforts to provide Jewish programming for members of the Brownstone Brooklyn community. Project Director: Angie Lieber; $150,000 (3 years).

Hebrew at the Center Newton, MA. Opening the Gates: Leveraging Today’s Technology to Professionalize Hebrew Language Educators. To develop technological capabilities in order to deliver HATC programming to a much larger population of potential Hebrew educators. Project Director: Janice Silverman Rebibo; $25,000 (1 year).

Jewish Education Center of Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, OH. Thinking Together: Developing Communities of Philosophical Inquiry Around Parshat Hashavua. To develop and implement curriculum that engages children in philosophical inquiry related to text study and encourages active commitment to their Jewish future. Project Director: Dr. Jennifer Glaser; $42,280 (1 year).

Jewish Women’s Archive, Brookline, MA. Living the Legacy: A Jewish Social Justice Education Project. To pilot and revise the second module on Jews and the Labor Movement, to hold another Institute for Educators with an LTL focus (in July 2012), and to prepare for and implement the national launch of the complete Living the Legacy project. Project Director: Judith Rosenbaum; $17,500 (1 year).

Limmud NY New York, NY. Limmud North American Community of Educators. To create and implement a professional development community of educators. This is a collaboration between Limmud NY, Limmud LA, Limmud Colorado, and Limmud Atlanta+SE. Project Director: David Wolkin; $173,950 (3.5 years).

National Ramah Commission New York, NY. Ramah365: An app for Social Network Gaming to Promote Year-Round Educational Engagement and Networking Among Ramah Staff and Teen Campers. To support the development of an application for mobile devices. This app will offer young adult and teenage Ramah camp alumni a range of opportunities to engage in year-round social network gaming aimed at strengthening their ties to the Jewish community and building upon the educational activities and leadership development that is at the core of the Ramah summer camp experience. Project Director: Amiel Hersh; $59,000 (1 year).

RAVSAK: The Jewish Community Day School Network, New York, NY. The RAVSAK Moot Beit Din. To maintain and grow a premier program that brings Jewish sacred text study to life for students in Jewish high schools. Project Director: Dr. Elliott Rabin; $50,000 (1 year).

Union for Reform Judaism New York, NY. Adult Jewish Living and Learning Journeys Project. To strengthen Jewish adult education at 150 congregations through the creation of a series of free learning modules and four training retreats. Project Director: Rabbi Jan Katzew; $102,000 (2 years).

Citizen Film San Francisco, CA. Digital Storytelling in Jewish Studies. To collaborate with Judaic studies professors at underserved academic institutions on digital storytelling that inspires a passion for Jewish Studies. Project Director: Sam Ball; $20,000 (1 year).

Institute for Jewish Spirituality New York, NY. Growing Older/Growing Wiser. To research, write, and disseminate a curriculum to provide guidance for the spiritual journeys of Jewish boomers. Project Director: Rabbi Rachel Cowan; $20,000 (1 Year).

Merage Jewish Community Center of Orange County, Irvine, CA. The Paradigm Project for Jewish Early Childhood Education Leadership. To expand the network of rising leaders in Jewish early childhood education, by establishing the Paradigm Project for Jewish Early Childhood Education Leadership to be concentrated in four communities. Project Director: Peter Blair; $20,000 (1 year).

Mishkan Shalom, Philadelphia, PA. Expanding the “Celebrations!” Program. To expand its “Celebrations!” program for children with special needs and their families in order to accommodate additional families, to include holiday-related experiences, and to consult with other institutions seeking to build similar programs. Project Director: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer; $20,000 (1 year).

Not-A-Box Media Lab Cambridge, MA. Fiscal Sponsor: The Dorothy and Myer S. Kripke Institute for Jewish Family Literacy. The Aleph-Bet App. To develop and launch a mobile game application focused on basic Hebrew literacy for young children. Project Director: Rabbi Charlie Schwartz; $26,550 (1 Year).

The Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, NY. Elizabeth Swados, Producer and Director, to produce Jewish Books Cooking, a theatrical production based on excellent Jewish children's books. Project Director: Liz Swados; $15,500 (1 Year).