Grantmaking is focused in the areas of Mental Health, Scientific Research, the Jewish Community, and Israel. The Foundation also supports Avaloch Farm Music Institute, which it established in 2013. Avaloch Farm is a residency program in Boscawen, New Hampshire that fosters the development of professional chamber musicians and composers of new classical music.
MENTAL HEALTH
The Foundation has made significant contributions to mental health including establishing a Mental Health Initiative at Tipping Point in San Francisco to ensure that mental health professionals are trained to meet the needs of the underserved.
The Foundation was also instrumental in co-founding the Child Trauma Training Institute at Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) in San Francisco to train mental health professionals in identifying and treating trauma in young children. The Foundation also supports the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), which is nationally recognized for creating science-based interventions.
Since 2014, the Foundation has supported the Clinical Psychology Training Program at UCSF that offers a two-year clinical research fellowship based on the scientist-practitioner model. Also in 2014, the Foundation founded a pioneering Mental Health Initiative at Rodef Sholom in San Rafael, California to provide a forum for congregants to come together as a community around mental health concerns. In 2013, the Foundation launched a Psychology Internship Program at California Pacific Medical Center that offered psychoanalytic training for psychology fellows.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
The Foundation’s interest in scientific research focuses on supporting protocols that advance innovative scientific investigation. The Foundation established the Tauber Bioinfomatics Research Center at the University of Haifa.
The Foundation played a critical role in supporting breast cancer research and clinical trials, including funding the development of an FDA-approved medical scalp-cooling technology that prevents the severity of chemotherapy-induced hair loss. The Foundation also supports scientists at Breast Cancer Prevention Partners who are conducting research related to the link between breast cancer and environmental toxins.
JEWISH COMMUNITY
The Foundation’s support in the Jewish community includes a focus on Holocaust education and remembrance. This commitment led to a visionary partnership in 2011 between JFCS and Lehrhaus Judaica (now New Lehrhaus) to create the JFCS Holocaust Center and its centerpiece, the Tauber Holocaust Library and Archives. This partnership enhanced and expanded the scope and breadth of adult Jewish learning in the Bay Area and established an exemplary national model for Holocaust education. The Foundation’s dedication to Holocaust education also led to the creation of a series of programs at the Holocaust Center that are named in memory of Ingrid’s and Alfred’s mother, Lilly Manovill. The Manovill Programs include the Manovill Holocaust History Fellowship and Manovill University Fellowship. In 2023, the Foundation pledged a $10 million gift to JFCS to design and construct a new state-of-the art Holocaust Center and to endow the Tauber Library and Archives and the Manovill Programs
From 2012 to 2019, the Foundation supported the Tauber Holocaust Education Fellowship that brought educators to Israel to learn new educational initiatives, training them to be advocates for Holocaust education in their respective communities.
ISRAEL
The Foundation has supported mental health programs and services in Israel, with a focus on policy, advocacy, training, and development. Among its most prominent initiatives was the establishment of a specialization in Psychiatric Rehabilitation in the School of Social Work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a community Mental Health Rehabilitation Track in the Department of Occupational Therapy at Tel Aviv University, a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Fieldwork Program in the Department of Community Mental Health at the University of Haifa, and a PhD program in the Department of Community Mental Health at the University of Haifa. The Foundation engaged in supporting mental health policy work in Israel, including funding a study on service systems for people with severe mental disorders and supporting the National Outcome Rehabilitation Monitoring Implementation and Research program at the University of Haifa. The Foundation promoted the rights of people with psychiatric disabilities in Israel through support of Bizchut, Lishma, and Otzma. The Foundation also created the Moshe Hess Association and the Israel Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association.
The Foundation is also committed to social justice in Israel, including support of the New Israel Fund and Shatil, which work to promote the values of justice, equality, and peace in Israel. In 2016, the Alliance for Israel’s Future was established to identify and foster progressive leadership committed to democratic values of inclusions and respect for diversity.