Bernhardt Foundation seeks applications for grants

PROVIDENCE – Are you affiliated with a Jewish nonprofit organization in need of grant funds?  If so, you might want to consider submitting a grant request to the Helene and Bertram Bernhardt Foundation (the “Foundation”).

Established in 2005 under the wills of the late Helene and Bertram Bernhardt, the Foundation’s mission is to support nonprofit organizations, with a specific preference given to Jewish nonprofit organizations in Rhode Island and to nonprofit organizations that Helene and Bertram Bernhardt supported during their lives.

Since its founding, the Foundation has distributed almost $3 million to such nonprofit organizations as Temple Beth-El, the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island, the Jewish Community Center (both of which, with the Bureau of Jewish Education, now comprise the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island), Jewish Family Service, Hillel, Jewish Seniors Agency and many other agencies.

The deadline to submit applications for Fiscal Year 2013-14 is December 31, 2013.

For guidelines and application form for the grants, contact Samuel Zurier, secretary of the Foundation, at 55 Dorrance St., Suite 400, Providence, RI 02903 or sdz@om-rilaw.com.