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2009 Grants

• $3,469,940 Education
  • $911,440 K-12 Education
  • $150,000 Pacific Research Institute
    to fund the position of Koret Senior Fellow in Education Studies in 2009.
  • $150,000 Pacific Research Institute
    to fund the position of Koret Senior Fellow in Education Studies in 2010.
  • $100,000 Menlo School
    for scholarship support for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds.
  • $75,000 The Independent Institute
    for an evaluation of the U.S. Department of Education and the Government Cost Calculator project.
  • $50,000 DonorsChoose Bay Area
    to support classroom projects for the California Teacher Empowerment Network (CTEN) member teachers.
  • $50,000 Eastside College Preparatory School
    for general operating support.
  • $50,000 Thomas B. Fordham Institute
    as a 1:1 match to support two research projects, "Charter School Autonomy" and "A Comparison of Low-Performing Charter Schools & District
    Schools".
  • $286,440 22 grants under $50,000 including Foundation for Excellence in Education, KIPP Bay Area Schools, and San Francisco Education Fund.
  • $2,168,500 Higher Education
  • $400,000University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine
    over two years as a 1:1 match for the Koret Shelter Medicine Program
  • $255,000Stanford University
    for Huntington's Disease research, in collaboration with Taube Philanthropies
  • $150,000Intercollegiate Studies Institute
    for the Northern California Leadership Project
  • $90,000Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa
    for general operating support
  • $85,000The Federalist Society
    to support Bay Area law school student chapters in 2009-10
  • $431,00039 grants under $50,000 including Hoover Institution, J. David Gladstone Institutes, and University of California, San Francisco
  • $757,500Jewish Studies
  • $450,000UC Berkeley
    over three years for the Jewish Studies program
  • $150,000UC Santa Cruz
    over three years for the Jewish Studies program
  • $90,000UC Davis
    over three years for the Jewish Studies program
  • $45,000Sonoma State University
    for the Jewish Studies program
  • $12,500Chico State University
    for the Modern Jewish and Israel Studies program
  • $10,000Sonoma State University
    over three years for the Jewish Studies program
  • $390,000Youth Development
  • $50,000Aim High
    to sponsor the summer school site at Gateway High School
  • $50,000BUILD
    for general operating support for Bay Area sites
  • $50,000Citizen Schools
    to support Bay Area expansion
  • $50,000Peninsula Bridge Program
    for general operating support
  • $190,000College Access Programs
  • $150,000College Track
    over three years for general operating support for Bay Area programs
  • $25,000Summer Search
    for general operating support
  • $15,000Seven Tepees Youth Program
    for the College/Career Advisement Program
• $1,072,900 Israel
  • $315,000The Milken Institute, Los Angeles
    for the Koret-Milken Institute Fellows program
  • $148,400Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
    for the Koret Hillel Internship program
  • $120,000Bureau of Jewish Education of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
    for the Israel Education Initiative
  • $120,000Middle East Forum
    as a 2:1 match to support Campus Watch and the Legal Project
  • $50,000American Friends of Hebrew University
    in honor of the Tails of Love Benefit for the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine
  • $50,000The Israel Project
    for general operating support
  • $269,50019 grants under $50,000 including David Horowitz Freedom Center, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting, and MEOR
• $4,419,844 Jewish Peoplehood
  • $1,000,000Jewish Family & Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
    to support economic emergency services of all three Bay Area Jewish family service agencies
  • $110,000Stanford Hospitals and Clinics
    for general operating support of the Jewish Chaplaincy
  • $90,000Jewish Theological Seminary
    for the Chancellor's Discretionary Fund for Innovation
  • $961,000Jewish Community Federations
  • $345,000Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
    to support specified projects
  • $246,000Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley
    to support specified projects
  • $230,000Jewish Community Federation of East Bay
    to support specified projects
  • $140,000Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
    for impact projects in Poland
  • $1,280,000Jewish Community Centers
  • $600,000Oshman Family Jewish Community Center
    as a 1:1 match to close the Taube Koret Campus capital campaign and in collaboration with Taube Philanthropies for the Taube-Koret Initiative in Jewish Peoplehood
  • $400,000Peninsula Jewish Community Center
    in collaboration with Taube Philanthropies, over four years for the Koret-Taube Initiative on Jewish Peoplehood
  • $250,000Addison-Penzak Jewish Community Center Silicon Valley
    over two years for Jewish programming
  • $30,000Jewish Community Federation of East Bay
    for the Contra Costa Jewish Community Center
  • $185,100Chabad Shabbat Dinner Program
  • $470,088Chabad Jewish Student Center at Stanford University
    as a 1:1 match to retire the mortgage
  • $54,000Chabad Jewish Student Center at Stanford University
    for the "Friday Night Live" Shabbat dinner program
  • $49,100Chabad Jewish Student Center at UC Berkeley
    for the "Friday Night Live" Shabbat dinner program
  • $47,000Chabad Student Center at UC Santa Cruz
    for the "Friday Night Live" Shabbat dinner program
  • $25,000Chabad Student Center of San Francisco
    for the "Friday Night Live" Shabbat dinner program
  • $10,000Chabad Jewish Student Center at CSU Chico
    for the "Friday Night Live" Shabbat dinner program
  • $33,500JCC Maccabi Games
    for scholarship support and year-round programming for teens participating in the 2009 Maccabi Games
  • $15,000Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
  • $6,500Oshman Family Jewish Community Center
  • $4,000Jewish Community Federation of Greater East Bay
  • $4,000Peninsula JCC
  • $4,000Osher Marin Jewish Community Center
  • $290,15673 grants under $50,000 including American Jewish Committee, Cantors Assembly Foundation, and Jewish Theological Seminary
• $3,776,050 Arts, Culture, & Civic Institutions
  • $500,000San Francisco Symphony
    over three years for radio programming
  • $500,000Sonoma State University
    for capital support for the construction of the Green Music Center
  • $450,000Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
    over three years for general operating support
  • $400,000San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    for "SFMOMA: 75 Years of Looking Forward" and the anniversary community weekend program
  • $300,000American Conservatory Theater
    over four years for general operating support
  • $200,000Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
    for the Musee d'Orsay exhibitions
  • $150,000Stanford Lively Arts
    over three years for jazz programming
  • $100,000Berkeley Repertory Theatre
    over two years for general operating support
  • $100,000KQED
    for general operating support
  • $70,000The Exploratorium
    for general operating support
  • $65,000Cal Performances
    for the Koret Recital Series
  • $62,500Glide Foundation
    as a 1:1 match to complete the Performance Evaluation System
  • $60,000KQED
    for general operating support
  • $50,000San Francisco Planning and Urban Research
    for general operating support and for the Young Urbanist program
  • $50,000The Tech Museum of Innovation
    for general operating support
  • $718,55067 grants under $50,000 including Jazz Heritage Center, Marine Mammal Center, and San Francisco Film Society
• $507,550 Strengthening Bay Area Communities
  • $100,000Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health
    for general operating support to help establish the Center for Autism and Related Disorders
  • $407,550Koret Food Program
  • $80,000San Francisco Food Bank
    for general operating support
  • $63,000Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties
    for general operating support
  • $48,000Glide Foundation
    for the Free Meals program
  • $36,250Jewish Family & Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
    for the holiday food program
  • $35,000Alameda County Community Food Bank
    for general operating support
  • $30,000Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano Counties
    for general operating support
  • $27,000St. Anthony Foundation
    for the holiday food program
  • $25,000The Salvation Army, Golden State Division
    for the holiday food program
  • $24,000Samaritan House
    for the holiday food program
  • $11,000Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley
    for the Project N.O.A.H. Food Assistance Program
  • $10,000Hands On Bay Area
    for "A Place at the Table"
  • $8,800Jewish Family and Children's Services of the East Bay
    for the holiday food program
  • $7,500Food Runners
    for general operating support
  • $2,000Ritter Center
    for the food pantry
• $179,500 Miscellaneous
  • $99,500The Philanthropy Roundtable
    for general operating support and support for programs in K-12 education, higher education, and national security
  • $80,000Sun Valley Adaptive Sports Program
    as a 1:1 match to provide therapeutic sports rehabilitation programs to Northern California wounded war veterans
• Multi-year grants awarded in previous years
  • $4,000,000California Academy of Sciences
    in addition to a previous grant of $1 million to support the Campaign for the New Academy
  • $2,500,000American Friends of Koret Israel Economic Development Funds
    over five years to provide general operating support to AFKIEDF and KIEDF
  • $2,250,000American Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    over three years as a 1:1 match to complete construction of the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine
  • $2,000,000Maybeck Foundation
    for restoration of the Palace of Fine Arts
  • $2,000,000Stanford University
    capital support for the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research
  • $1,800,000J. David Gladstone Institutes
    over three years to support Huntington's Disease research
  • $1,500,000Hoover Institution
    over five years for the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education
  • $1,500,000San Francisco Opera
    for the Koret-Taube Media Suite
  • $1,500,000University of California, Berkeley
    for a high-tech classroom at the Haas School of Business
• $13,425,784Total grant awards, 2009

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