From time to time, the Foundation offers a matching grant program. In the 2009 program, these donors used their matches to recommend grants to Jewish causes close to their hearts. These are a few examples:
New to the community but a longtime philanthropist and supporter of Israel, Nina Madden Sabban used her matching grant to support the American Society for Technion.
Foundation Fund Advisors Suzie and Dan Engel’s vision has enabled children with developmental and physical disabilities to find joy and confidence in the challenges and triumphs of baseball.
In 2005, a grant from the Daniel and Suzanne Engel Fund established the Miracle League of San Diego. Six baseball seasons later, hundreds of young people play in weekly games at Engel Family Field in San Dieguito Park which has been specially outfitted by the Miracle League to accommodate wheelchairs and assisted-walking devices. Each Miracle League team member is assigned a volunteer buddy who can help hit the ball or navigate the bases.
Giving is a family tradition for the Engels. Suzie’s parents, Harriet and Sidney Schuman, and siblings, Holly and Bruce Schuman and Jennifer Schuman and John MacDougall, all have funds at the Foundation which have granted to Miracle League.
Active community volunteers Francine and Phil Ginsburg used their matching grant to support the award-winning San Diego Jewish Film Festival, which Francine chairs. The Film Festival is a program of the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center's San Diego Center for Jewish Culture.
Many parents seek ways to engage their children of all ages in giving. To accomplish this goal, Richard and Sharon Bockoff designated certain funds within their donor advised fund for their three adult daughters to distribute.
“The Foundation’s online giving system makes it easy,” said Richard. “Although our daughters live in Michigan and Georgia and we’re in San Diego, we can work together as one family on philanthropy.”
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