Foundation for Jewish
Culture
The Foundation for Jewish Culture (formerly the National Foundation for Jewish Culture) invests in creative individuals in order to nurture a vibrant and enduring Jewish identity, culture and community. It achieves its goals by providing grants, recognition awards, networking opportunities, and professional development services to artists and scholars.
It also educates and builds audiences for meaningful
Jewish cultural experiences, and promotes Jewish culture as a core component of
Jewish life. The Foundation has a new strategic plan that will enhance its
current portfolio of programs — which have funded documentary filmmakers,
writers, choreographers, playwrights and scholars — to now include composers,
poets and visual artists. It will increase the size and number of grants while
adding professional development and networking opportunities for grantees. A
national network of communities and agencies will be organized to present and
exhibit the works of artists and scholars.
Also, a new logo and web site are being developed to reflect the Foundation’s active engagement with the artists, scholars and projects it supports. Current programs include the Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film (which has supported the completion of films including
Trembling before G-d, My Architect, Encounter Point and Rape of Europa); the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Fund for Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Jewish Studies, which has supported over 600 fellows since 1960; New Jewish Theatre Projects; the Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers; and the Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists, a collaboration with Avoda Arts and JDub Records, with major support from the UJA Federation of New York. Most recently the Foundation initiated a pilot Jewish Studies Expansion Project with support from the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation.Contact:
Elise Bernhardt, President and CEO330 Seventh Avenue
P.O. Box 1342
New York, NY 10116
(212) 629-0500 x 331
Fax: (212) 629-0508
ebernhardt@JewishCulture.org
www.jewishculture.org
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Documents:
FJC
Strategic Plan
FJC
Annual Report 2006-2007
Alliance Documents:
Alliance FJC Summary Report 2008
Alliance FJC Summary Report 2009
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