SUMMARY OF J&M FOUNDATION GRANTS
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST. LOUIS www.wustl.edu
$125,000 to fund an annual scholarship to the School of Arts and Sciences. The scholarship is called the Joseph and May Winston Memorial Scholarship.
$50,000 over five years at $10,000 per year commencing in 2003 for a research fund at the Washington University School of Medicine for Diabetes research, named after Lawrence Fultonberg.
$10,000 grant in 2005 to fund the publication by MacMillan Press of "Israel: The Next Decade," a volume with 10 chapters addressing the most important public policy issues facing Israel in the next decade. Four of the 10 chapters were presented, academically assessed, and publicly discussed in a three-day seminar May 19-21, 2005 presented by: The Center for New Institutional Social Sciences at Washington University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. The seminar took place at Washington University in conjunction with the Murray Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University. Click here for pdf seminar brochure.
BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV, BEERSHEVA, ISRAEL www.aabgu.org
$50,000 over five years to fund the AABGU Medical School's Sexual Violence Prevention Program for the youth of the Negev. This program currently reaches over 1500 students in Beersheva and its suburbs regarding the issue of sexual violence. In recent years there has been an alarming increase in sexual violence in all social layers of society, particularly among teenagers. In Israel today, one of every three women and one of every seven men will undergo a form of sexual harassment before the age of 18.
The AABGU program is an effort to reverse this trend through education of young adults in high schools in Beersheva. The J & M Foundation grant will enable AABGU to expand its activities to additional cities in the Negev, including Yerucham, Netivot, Ofakim, Dimona and Mitzpe Ramon and to the Bedouin population.
$125,000 over five years to fund the Joseph and May Winston Career Development Chair in Chemical Engineering. Link here to the Career Development Chairs at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, VIENNA, VA www.wolf-trap.org
$75,000 grant over five years for the new Music Library for the Wolf Trap Opera & Classical Programming. commencing 2005. This grant is in honor of May and Joseph Winston. Located in Wolf Trap's Center for Education, the Music Library houses musical scores, recordings, DVD's, videotapes, reference books, trade magazines, opera programs, and audiovisual equipment, giving members of the Wolf Trap Opera Company an opportunity to study and conduct research. The Music Library also serves as a resource to administrative staff and other industry professionals. The Library's contents are documented in a database that may be searched by category (i.e., by voice part, composer, or style of music). photo of center
$25,000 grant over 5 years at $5,000 per year to fund the new Wolf Trap Center for Education commencing in 2003. photo of center
$5,000 in 2004 to fund the production of Volpone (The Fox), an Opera commissioned by Wolf Trap, inspired by the Ben Johnson play. Award-winning composer John Musto and librettist Mark Campbell have collaborated to create a new traditional comic opera in English. The world premiere performances of Volpone took place on March 10, 12 and 14, 2004 at the Barns.www.wolf-trap.org/performances/volpone.html
THE CENTRAL EUROPE CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION, VIENNA, AUSTRIA www.centropa.org
Centropa is the Internet name for The Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation, which is registered as a non-profit corporation in the US. Its principal offices are in Vienna and Budapest.
Chairman Edward Serotta leads an international team of more than 100 historians, filmmakers, web designers, journalists, educators and Jewish community activists (most of whom work part-time; a dozen are employed full-time).
Since the inception of its signature project, Jewish Witness to a European Century in early 2000, its initial goal has been to preserve 1,500 life histories and digitize 25,000 privately-held family photographs in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Moldavia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Turkey. Rather than focus on how Jews were murdered during the Shoah, Jewish Witness to a European Century is much more about the way they lived, and instead of using video in its interviews, Centropa digitizes their family pictures while asking them to tell it all about the people in those snapshots.
The concept is to provide these last witnesses to a world destroyed with a platform for them to share their memories of an entire century: from the small comedies of everyday life to the great tragedies that befell them. Everything is preserved in a keyworded, searchable database that is accessible from every computer in the world with Internet access.
Centropa is beginning to wind down its interviews and has begun reaching toward its second goal, which is to take this enormous archive of memories and turn it into an engine for creating illustrated books, documentary films, educational programs, traveling exhibitions and a myriad of websites.
$5,000 in 2008 in honor of the memory of Joseph and May Winston
THE FRENCH-AMERICAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION, WASHINGTON, D.C. www.f-acf.org
The French-American Cultural Foundation facilitates cultural exchanges linking France and the United States through artistic and educational programs and events as follows:
- Annual Programs: Artisan Scholarship Program - Exchange program for French & American gilders. C'est Chic: New films from France - First French film festival in Washington, D.C. FRANCOPHONIE - Francophone cultural festival during the month of March.
- France Magazine: A quarterly magazine containing feature articles on France and French culture. It informs and educates American subscribers on these topics.
- Special Projects: European Poetry in Motion - Poetry showcased in D.C. Metro. Jacques Perrin Festival - Films, seminars and social events surrounding the promotion of Perrin's "Oceans" project. Lafayette Initiative - Helping the American Revolution Center in the development of their collection and communication with French museums.
- Musical Events: Various musical events supported throughout the year including the following series: Jazz, Baroque, Classical, Contemporary, Cabaret & Les Grandes Pianistes.
$10,000 grant in 2008 in honor of the memory of Joseph and May Winston
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE, NEW YORK, NY www.centralsynagogue.org
$5,000 in 2007 as part of Central Synagogue's Yom Kippur Appeal in honor of Pearl Fultonberg.
AMERICAN YOUTH POLICY FORUM, WASHINGTON, D.C. www.aypf.org
The J & M Foundation partially funded the distribution of the publication: Looking Forward: School-to-Work Principles and Strategies for Sustainability that was mailed to thousands of educators and distributed at numerous conferences throughout the nation. The J & M Foundation's share of this one-time grant was $7,500.
RIPON EDUCATIONAL FUND, WASHINGTON, D.C.
In 2004 a grant in the amount of $10,000 was made to the Ripon Educational Fund, a 501 (c) (3) non-partisan, non-profit, tax-exempt corporation. Through its domestic and international conferences, the Clinger Scholars Program and policy briefs, the Educational Fund seeks to stimulate creative public policy discussions and involve the talents, energies and ideas of scholars, politicians, civil servants and others in proposing new public policy options.
FOUNDATION TO ERADICATE DUCHENNE, ALEXANDRIA, VA
Grants of $5,000 in 2004 and $1,400 in 2003 were made to the Foundation to Eradicate Duchenne (FED), a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt organization. FED strives to be the preeminent organization in financing a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. The contributions to FED goes to research at Children's National Medical Center, where a team of geneticists is working to expand possible treatments.
THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA, GREENSBORO, NC www.musicacademync.org
In 2004 a grant of $1,000 was made to the Music Academy of North Carolina, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. The Music Academy is dedicated to providing quality musical education that is accessible to the entire community regardless of age, musical skill, or socio-economic circumstances. Founded on the belief that music is an integral part of human development and expression, the Music Academy offers programs to educate and enrich the lives of students and the community.
THE PHI BETA KAPPA ANNUAL POETRY AWARD, DISCONTINUED
The J & M Foundation helped to establish and fund the PBK annual poetry award for the best book of American Poetry published in the previous year. Two awards were given under this program in 2001 and 2002. The funding for this program was $27,000 per year.
