- Community-based
and school-based programs intended to foster greater understanding
and mutual respect between people of diverse backgrounds.
Example:
Louis D. Brown Peace Institute,
Dorchester, MA
A Teen Survivor-to-Survivor program that targets high school
students who are surviving the homicide of a relative or
close friend.
- Educational Training
and programming initiatives aimed at promoting heightened
awareness of issues of Jewish and humanitarian concern.
Example:
Etgar L’Noar, Newton, MA
A program that provides Jewish education and inclusion in
the Jewish community to children with intensive special
needs.
- School-based student
initiatives committed to community service, programs aimed
at promoting non-violence, or efforts to reduce illiteracy.
Example:
Jeremiah Burke High School, Dorchester, MA
This Attendance and Achievement incentive program encourages
at-risk students to change behavior and rewards their successes.
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- Community-based
awareness programs dealing with medical advocacy issues,
alternative therapies, health education and medical research.
Example:
The Healing Garden, Harvard, MA
Provides psychosocial support and complementary therapies
in a natural and healing setting, without financial barriers,
to women with breast cancer.
- Community-based
efforts to improve neighborhood security, homelessness,
after- school programs, assistance to the elderly, and to
facilitate integration of new immigrant groups.
Example:
On the Rise, Cambridge, MA
The Going Home Fund helps address the need for upfront costs
associated with housing, and the need to rebuild credit
histories.
- Interfaith coalitions
that promote any of The Lenny Zakim Fund objectives.
Example:
Bread of Life/Homeless Family Outreach Program A grassroots
interfaith coalition of 31 partner churches, synagogues,
high schools, businesses, and community groups. Provides
critical intervention for vulnerable and isolated homeless
families living in motels.
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