NEWS, EVENTS & PUBLICATIONS

CONTENTS (Click on headings below to link to relevant topics)

• 2009 ANNUAL REPORT
• 2010 GRANT RECIPIENTS
• 2010 SPECIAL GRANT RECIPIENTS
• EDUCATION AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
• RUTH & JOE FREED ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARD
• MONA GRAY CREATIVE ARTS SCHOLARSHIP

• ENDOWMENT BOOK OF LIFE
• BAR AND BAT MITZVAH FUND-HOLDERS

• 2010 WOMEN'S ENDOWMENT FUND GRANTS

Please note that the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba has implemented a new application process effective immediately. For detailed information, to read the new grant guidelines and to download the new fillable online application form, click here.

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The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba approved the following grants:

• ALEPH BET CHILD LIFE ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC.
  To install a gazebo and two storage units in phase three of their Green Garden Getaway.

• ASPER JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS OF WINNIPEG
  To upgrade flooring and furniture in the multi-purpose room.
  To purchase four HeartStart defibrillators which will be located and accessible to all areas of the Campus.

• B'NAI BRITH JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMP
  To replace and upgrade its water treatment system.
  

• CAMP MASSAD MANITOBA
  To repair the dining hall's foundation and upgrades to the swimming pool.

• GWEN SECTER CREATIVE LIVING CENTRE
  To fund a strategic planning retreat.

• IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION OF MANITOBA
  To fund a community liason project.

• RADY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE
  To fund the "Tarbut: Festival of Jewish Culture".

• THE SAUL AND CLARIBEL SIMKIN CENTRE
  To retain a fund development professional.

• ST. AIDAN'S CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
  To fund the school furnishings.

• URBAN CIRCLE TRAINING CENTRE INC.
  To fund an intergenerational program for children, youth, adults and elders in the Selkirk Avenue neighbourhood.

• WINNIPEG ART GALLERY
  To produce a retrospective presentation of "The Rough Ideal" - the art of Eva Stubbs.

• WINNIPEG OPTIMAL HEALTH EARLY YEARS SPORTS CLUB
  To fund a jobs and sports program for youth.

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• WILLOW ASTER – to support the festival and Shabbaton. It will celebrate the life, teachings, songs, and stories of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (Breslov) on the occasion of his 200th yahrzeit.
• NOAM GONICK – To support the completion of post-production on a short documentary film about John Hirsch, a holocaust survivor who was adopted by a Winnipeg family at the age seventeen and went on to create the Manitoba Theatre Centre and play an important role in the international theatre.
• CAIRN MOORE – For the development, dramaturgical guidance and completed first draft of his new play titled "Shiksa". "Shiksa" is a full length comedic play in two acts, that explores the challenges inherent in multi-faith relationships.
• MICHAEL NATHANSON. - To support the second and third drafts of Nathanson's newest play - "One of Ours" as well as two workshops.
• CELIA RABINOVITCH - to fund a vernacular visual history of the Canadian Midwest before World War II by a Jewish Canadian war hero, Isadore Nicholas Yudell. The project uses archival photographs of Canada in the 1930's, capturing the people and events experienced by a young Jewish Canadian, Nick Yudell. These are from a never before seen cache of carefully catalogued negatives taken by Nick Yudell from 1928-1939.
• SUSAN TURNER - to fund the "Tabernacle: The Ceremonial Fabric of Jewish Life (a visual arts project"). The project will incorporate digital inkjet prints, small sculptural objects of paper and metal, and artist-bookworks of image and text.
  
  

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The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba awarded 70 education awards to local students in 2010. The Foundation was pleased to distribute over $124,500 to education award recipients in 2010!

The following Education Award

Recipients were approved in 2010:

SPECIAL AWARDS

Mark and Dorothy Danzker Scholarship - Eryn Rubenfeld

Mark and Dorothy Danzker Scholarship of Excellence for the Preservation
of Cultural Heritage (*Recipients selected by the Folk Arts Council of Winnipeg)

TBA

*NEW* Grosberg Family Judaic Studies/Hebrew Teachers' Award -
Andrew Kaplan

Sharon Home Family Education Award - Natalia Burachynsky

George Finkle Memorial Scholastic Bursary Award -
Josef Bader, Mariya Bronfman, Jessica Finkel, Michael Shvartsman

GENERAL AWARDS

The education award application deadline is March 31 of any given year (unless otherwise indicated). Appy online by clicking here.

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The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba is pleased to announced the recipients
of the 2010 Ruth and Joe Freed Academic Excellence Awards are:

Milana Abramovich, Sean Fainman, Skylar Kneller

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The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba is pleased to announced the recipient
of the 2010 Mona Gray Creative Arts Scholarship is:

Rachel Tennenhouse

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The Endowment Book of Life program at the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba is a planned giving program that offers participants an opportunity to leave both a financial legacy and a historical legacy to the community. Donors make a promise to leave a bequest to the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba and have their family stories inscribed in the Endowment Book of Life.

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More than 200 Bar and Bat Mitzvah Funds have been established at the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba. These funds, opened with an initial gift of $100, are designed to introduce youth to philanthropic giving and provide them with the opportunity to support community organizations and charities of their choosing.

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The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba approved the following
Women's Endowment Fund grants:

• FEMREV COLLECTIVE
  To fund a Pan-American gathering for Young women.

• HOLY NAMES HOUSE OF PEACE
  To fund the purchase of kitchen and dining room furniture for its kitchen
  and dining room.

• KAUFMAN SILVERBERG RESOURCE CENTRE
  To enable the librarian to attend the Association of Jewish Libraries
  Annual Conference.

• NORTH POINT DOUGLAS WOMEN'S CENTRE
  To fund the enhancement of a planned drop-in and safety program.

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