Al-Hakawati Arab and Cultural Trust: $5,000 to support www.al-hakawati.net, a free, educational, non-political online resource about the Arab World
American Society, Order of St. John: $10,000 for the “Mobile Outreach Program – West Bank”, which will provide mobile pediatric screening services, optometrist care, training programs in nutrition and hygiene and modern surgical capability to at-risk patients, particularly women, children, the elderly, and disabled.
Calvary Women’s Services: $5,000 to support services for women in need of housing and other services.
World Music Productions Inc.: $20,000 to support the “Music and Cultures of the Arab World” radio program, featuring music and cultural information from the Arab World.
Grants Awarded for 2007 Cycle II:
Concordia Language Villages: $10,000 to support partial scholarships for DC Public School students to attend Concordia Language Village’s Al-Waha Arabic Language Village during the summer of 2007.
National Council on US-Arab Relations: $17,000 to support the Council’s 2007 Model Arab League Program.
Metro International Services: $2,000 for program materials for the “Passport to the Arab World” program.
Arab-American Institute Foundation: $5,000 to support placement of an Arab-American female intern in their establishment.
International Children Art Foundation: $10,000 to support a cultural performance or participation from Arab World.
Grants Awarded for 2007 Cycle III:
ANERA - $9,000 grant over 3 cycles in $3,000 segments but will restrict the funds to only be used for music books/sheets and instruments.
Ann Arbor Civic Theatre - $4,000 to be used to fund a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream which has been adapted to take place in Baghdad.
Basra, Iraq Prosthetics Project - a $15,000 grant over 3 cycles in $5,000 segments. First segment given in this cycle.
DC Public Schools - $3,000 grant to fund the program, but money is restricted to the Saturday morning Arabic classes; funds cannot be used for travel expenses.
Deseret International - $4,000 to go toward operations
Friends of UNRWA Association- Approved $14,000 to be given in two separate $7,000 disbursements; one per grant cycle.
Washington, DC International Film Festival- $5,000 for project that is dependent on Mosaic Foundation.
Previous Trustees Grants
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of Massachusetts: $5,000/2006. To support the Education Outreach Program in Boston area schools.
Concordia Language Villages: $10,000/2006. To support Al-Waha, the Arabic Language Village at Concordia Language Villages. The grant will be used for scholarships for Washington, D.C. area youth to attend Al-Waha.
American University of Beirut Brave Heart Fund: $15,000/2006. The Brave Heart Fund seeks to provide financial assistance to needy families in Lebanon whose children are suffering from Congenital Heart Disease (CHD), and to promote public awareness of this devastating disease.
Middle East Children’s Alliance: $10,000/2006. To help MECA build and equip a playground at the new Women and Children’s Center of the Dheisheh refugee camp in Palestine.
The Near East Foundation: $20,000/2006. Towards the building of a heath center in Sudan.
Alwan Foundation: $5,000/2005. To support the Sixth Arab and Iranian Film Festival that will take place in New York City in November 2006
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Research Institute: $10,000/2005. To support the ADC Reasearch Institute's Year Round Intern Program.
The Arab Cultural and Community Center: $2,500/2005. To cosponsor the catalogue fr Somewhere Elsewhere art exhibition that opened on October 2004 at the Worth Ryder Gallery at the Universtiy of California, Berkley.
Arab World and Islamic Resources (AWAIR): $3,550/2005. To support the organization's outreach programs that will help introduce and circulate materials to teachers and education officials with the intention to better teach about the Arab world and Islam.
Martha's Table: $5,000/2005. To help fulfill the needs of low-income and homeless children, families, and individuals.
Middle East Studies Association (MESA): $17,500/2005. To support a dollar to dollar matching grantthat will support an online guide on documentary and arts films on th Arab world.
The Montgomery Village Rotary Club: $15,000/2005. To provide funding aimed at reopening an existing prosthetics center in Basra, Iraq. This project will serve an estimated 5000 individuals, mainly children, who have lost their limbs sue to the war in Iraq.
National Alliance for Autism Research: $10,000/2005. To support the Baby Sibling Autism Research Project.
Primary Source: $5,000/2005. To fund the Summer Institute for Teachers in Massachusetts for teachers on the history and achievements of Islamic religious, social and political life.
The Regents of the University of Michigan: $5,000/2005. To provide sustainable, portable light prototypes for indigenous Huichol women weavers in Mexico.
Rock Creek International School: $10,000/2005. To create an Arabic Children's Library call Mosaic Arabic Library.
The Washington, DC International Film Festival: $5,000/2005. In support of the Eighth Annual Arabian Sights Film Series in presenting recent cinema from the Arab World.
Africare: $10,000/2004. To provide income generation opportunities for orphans.
American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA): $10,000/2004. To establish and facilitate the emergence of the Information Technology (IT) industry in Palestine.
Assist International: $20,000/2004. To build the capacity of Omdurman Hospital in Sudan.
Metropolitan Washington, Council of Governments: $10,000/2004. To support the Wednesday's Child Program.
Montgomery County Public Schools Foundation: $10,000/2004. To support the progressive use of the first accredited Arabic curriculum in other school systems.
National Arab American Medical Association: $50,000/2004. To upgrade equipment related to the treatment of children with cancer at the Nasser Institute in Egypt.
N Street Village: $5,000/2004. To support the Residential Addiciton recovery program to help women in Washington, DC to become more stable and able to move out of homelessness.
Primary Source: $10,000/2004. To fund the Summer Institute for Teachers in Massachusetts for teachers on the history and achievements of Islamic religious, social and political life.
SOS Childrens Villages-USA: $20,000/2004. To build an SOS Social Center to be named The Mosaic Foundation Social Center in Sudan.
Catticus Corporation: $35,000/2004. To support the development and scripting of the documentary The Ornament of the World as well as the production of a demonstration tape.
The Washington, DC International Film Festival: $5,000/2004. In support of the Seventh Annual Arabian Sights Film Series in presenting recent cinema from the Arab World.
Institute for Civic Leadership (ICL): $16,000/2003. To support the ICL civic leadership program for high school students. The program challenges young people to think critically about the world they live in, to develop an understanding of current events, and to believe in their ability to make a difference.
The Philadelphia Arab-American Commnuity Development Corporation: $6,000/2003. To support the Al-Bustan summer camp in Philadelphia. Al-Bustan (Arabic for “the garden”) provides children with an opportunity to develop and to reinforce their Arabic language skills and to increase their appreciation of Arab culture. Open to children 6-11 years old, of various religious and ethnic backgrounds, Al-Bustan encourages dialogue and tolerance, and celebrates diversity.
University of the Middle East Project: $20,000/2003. To provide scholarships for two female Arab secondary school educators to attend the Teacher Education Institute in the summer of 2003 in Boston. Based on open dialogue and debate, the participants will learn how to alter passive approaches to teaching and how to implement dynamic curricula. The program illustrates the importance of civic education through classroom work and field research in Boston area schools, community-based organizations, and local educational institutions in Massachusetts.
Arab American Institute Foundation (AAIF): $10,000/2003. To support their educational outreach program teaching about the people and cultures of the Arab World in schools and colleges in the United States. The AAIF provides materials, training, and technical support to programs already underway to educate young Americans about the people and cultures of the Arab World. These include a high school assembly pilot program on Arabs and Islam sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Relations.
Bluefield State College: $25,000/2003. To support the National Youth Sports Program held during the summer of 2003. Operated in conjunction with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the NYSP provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth _ boys and girls aged 10-16 _ to benefit from sports skill instruction, engage in sports competition, and improve their physical fitness. Participants receive free instruction in a minimum of two sports as well as in alcohol and drug abuse prevention, nutrition, personal health, and career opportunities.
Near East Foundation: $33,000/2003. To support the Helping Kids Cope program in the village of Bayt Imrin in Palestine. The goal of Helping Kids Cope is to assist Palestinian children and their families to cope with the violence surrounding them. The Near East Foundation provides children with creative activities in groups and at home as a vehicle to relive conflict-related trauma. Families also receive access to professional counseling and clothing.
The Washington, DC International Film Festival: $5,000/2002. To support the Seventh Annual Arabian Sights Film Series, presenting some of the most recent cinema from the Arab world. The festival featured nine works by creative filmmakers from six countries. “We turned away so many people for each screening we could have sold out the theaters twice,” said Festival Director Shirin Ghareeb. “This told us that there is an audience for these movies. And if there is no other way to see these movies, we should find a way.”
The Bead Society of Greater Washington: $5,000/2002. To support the exhibition Silver Speaks: Traditional Jewelry from the Middle East, October 27, 2002-September 8, 2003. Drawn from the collection of guest curator Marjorie Ransom, who had assembled the pieces over the course of a 30-year career as an American diplomat in the Arab World, this exhibition presented a stunning array of traditional Middle Eastern jewelry and selected costumes — from Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and other culturally related areas.
Martha’s Table of Washington, DC: $35,000/2002. To provide support for low-income children and families in the District, to build additional classrooms and facilities to provide educational, safe, and creative services to children and youth, including nutritional meals, infant and toddler care, parenting classes for teen mothers, computer training, college preparation, and enhanced care for children with special needs. Barbara Washburn, Chair of the Martha’s Table Board of Directors said, in accepting the award, that “we are humbled by [the Mosaic Foundation’s] caring that knows no borders.”
AmidEast of Washington, DC: $15,000/2002. To create a website for the documentary film, Young Voices from the Arab World: The Lives and Times of Five Teenagers in Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Morocco. Related curriculum materials were also made available to schools throughout the United States.
World Vision of Federal Way, CA: $1,000/2002. To help villagers in the West Ramallah area of the Occupied Territories to replant olive trees, restoring hope and generating income for working families.
Rene Moawad Foundation: $25,000/2002. The Rene Moawad Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-governmental organization created in 1990 which is committed to tolerance, equality, and social justice in Lebanon, and to promoting durable and gender-aware human, economic, social, and rural development. The grant will provide 50 percent of the funding necessary to establish a Literacy and Vocational Training Program for Women in Bab el Tebbaneh, among the most densely populated and poorest areas of Lebanon.
World Link TV of San Raphael, CA: $10,000/2002. For the acquisition and promotion of special broadcasts of Arab Diaries, a unique five-part television series depicting Arab culture through insightful portraits of real-life Arabs in the universal phases of Birth, Youth, Love and Marriage, Work and Money, and Home. Kim Spencer, President of WorldLink, said “The broadcast of Arab Diaries has helped achieve our goal to present a humanistic, empathetic approach to Arab culture, with human portraits that powerfully illustrate the cultural dimensions of daily life in the Middle East.”
DC Public Schools: $25,000/2001. To further develop educational programs for teachers and students to increase knowledge of Arab history, religions, and culture, and to improve international and intercultural understanding between American and Arab youth through the Youth Ambassadors Program. Sally Schwartz, Director of International Programs for DC Public Schools, said the grant will “improve the lives of youth and prepare a new generation of leaders for the 21st century.”
Columbia Hospital for Women: $13,250/1999. To support the hospital’s work in providing needed medical care to indigent women.
