Grantee tags peace

Music Therapy with Children Rescued from Child Trafficking or Living in Migrant Shelters in Tijuana

Sharon Katz & The Peace Train

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

I provided weekly music therapy sessions to 15 children living in a safe house who have been rescued from trafficking rings. I also provided weekly music sessions for 30 youth being sheltered in Tijuana while awaiting reunification with their families or aproval of their asylum petitions. Read More

New Jersey Peace Action

New Jersey Peace Action

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Peace Action is the nation's largest grassroots peace organization. It was founded as SANE (later to become SANE/Freeze) in 1957. The Northern New Jersey Affiliate, New Jersey Peace Action, is one of the nation's most active peace groups. Read More

Un-War

Niro, Maria

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

"Un-War! features artist Krzysztof Wodiczko and his thought provoking political urban-interventions. Since 1968, the radical artist has been single-mindedly creating works for the purpose of challenging audiences all over the world on some of the mo Read More

Education for a Shared Society Between Jews and Arabs in Israel (2014)

Givat Haviva Educational Foundation

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Givat Haviva's comprehensive educational program for Jewish and Arab students that fosters peaceful learning and understanding, while imparting the tools necessary to foster a Shared Society in Israel. Read More

Through Others’ Eyes

Givat Haviva Educational Foundation

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Givat Haviva's Through Others' Eyes is a dialogue & community building project that uses photography as the lens to explore questions of identity and coexistence between Israeli Arab and Jewish youth who rarely, if ever, have an opportunity to meet. Read More

Shalom/Salaam: A Story of a Mystical Fraternity (2004)

Tom Block

Year Grant Awarded: 2005

The Shalom/Salaam Project highlights the strong Sufi influence on the development of Jewish mysticism, following this unfamiliar tale from 10th century in Spain, Egypt and the Holy Land, through the Kabbalah and into contemporary Jewish practice. Read More