Arts & Culture: Irving and Gloria Schlossberg Family Fund Grants

The Irving and Gloria Schlossberg Family Fund Grants aim to support local nonprofit organizations in Dutchess County, focusing on preserving Jewish culture and heritage. Eligible applicants include tax-exempt organizations that significantly impact the community. The fund encourages collaborative programs that educate the public about Jewish history, customs, and arts, and gives priority to initiatives appealing to the broader community. This initiative promotes diversity, equity, and inclusiveness in community life.

The Foundations provide superior donor services, awards grants and scholarships, ensures sustainability of philanthropic resources and serves as a leader, catalyst, and resource to positively impact our community. The Foundation practices and encourages diversity, equity, and inclusiveness as fundamental values of community life. A percentage of the Irving and Gloria Schlossberg Family Fund’s value will be awarded as grants to local nonprofit organizations. Applicants are encouraged to review the grant criteria and may contact the Foundation if they have questions.
Funding Focus
The Irving and Gloria Schlossberg Family Fund was primarily established to preserve and strengthen Jewish culture and Jewish institutions in Dutchess County. Grants will be given for programs and organizations that promote this goal.
Requests will be accepted for programs that educate the community about Jewish heritage, history, customs and culture through lectures, music, arts, literature, theater, etc. Applications that involve two or more Jewish/non Jewish organizations in collaboration are encouraged in order to reach out to the broadest-based secular community.
In awarding a grant to a synagogue or temple, priority will be given to programs that would appeal to the entire community or the Jewish community regardless of temple or synagogue affiliation. Funds granted to local chapters of national or international organizations must be used locally. Non-Jewish organizations (e.g. Poughkeepsie Public Library District, Dutchess County Historical Society or any educational institutions in Dutchess County) would be considered eligible recipients of grants.
Specific areas of interest include:

• Jewish culture, heritage, etc. as outlined aboveThe Holocaust/genocide educationIsraeli culture and history

Eligibility

The following organizations are eligible to apply for grants:Tax exempt organizations located in Dutchess County, New YorkTax exempt organizations providing services to residents of Dutchess County, New York (the organization must be able to demonstrate a significant impact on residents of Dutchess County).