Barbara Picower, the widow of Jeffry Picower, the largest beneficiary of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, has awarded $104 million in grants over two years through a new foundation. The grants from the JPB Foundation have centered on medical research, poverty and the environment, Forbes reported, according to tax returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service….
The Department of Homeland Security allocated to Jewish institutions $12 million, or 94 percent, of $13 million in funds for securing nonprofits. The Jewish Federations of North America’s Washington office director, William Daroff, said Tuesday that the allocation made sense particularly in light of an intensification of threats on Jewish community targets in the United…
How can Jewish charities afford to spend so much money on Israel? It doesn’t hurt that federal, state and local governments in the United States spend billions subsidizing many of the other things the charities do. Israel-related not-for-profit organizations get more contributions than any other type of Jewish agency, as the Forward reported last week….
Four young Jewish entrepreneurs received grants to encourage social entrepreneurship among young Jews. The grants handed out this week from Natan/NEXT, a joint project of the Natan Fund and NEXT, a division of the Birthright Israel Foundation, total $25,000. The recipients are Jesse Friedman, a New York City-based theater artist, for his Jewish Plays Project,…
A new micro-grants initiative will award funding of up to $1,000 each for 50 different project ideas. The #MakeItHappen micro-grants initiative, for creating Jewish experiences in communities around the world, was announced Monday by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Philanthropic Network. The submission deadline is Dec. 6 and the ideas will be selected on a…
Some 90 percent of the $10 million in funding announced by the Department of Homeland Security to help nonprofit organizations protect themselves from terrorism went to Jewish institutions. The total amount of grants, announced Aug. 29, is slightly up from last year’s $9.7 million. “The Department of Homeland Security has demonstrated a great commitment to…
Want to know how an American charity is spending your donated dollars overseas? Tough luck. That’s the effect of an Internal Revenue Service rule change that is making it increasingly difficult for donors and watchdogs to track American not-for-profit dollars after they leave the United States. Former IRS officials have criticized the little-noticed 2008 change,…
Two collapsed ceilings led to one big mitzvah for a Brooklyn synagogue and a neighboring church. After its roof collapsed in 2009, Congregation Beth Elohim, located in Park Slope, temporarily moved its services to the Old First Reformed Church, down the block. Two years later, Rabbi Andy Bachman was nearly struck by chunks of plaster…
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