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JUNE 2024

• Cultivating community-led change in rural Hawaiʻi

• Baltimore’s Goodwill Excel Center offers paths to a diploma and careers

• A call to address Jewish poverty

• Check out the Foundation’s latest grants 

For over a decade, Hui Mālama i ke Ala ʻŪlili (huiMAU) has worked with fellow community members on Hawaiʻi Island to restore and cultivate hundreds of acres of land using the knowledge and cultural practices that sustained their Native Hawaiian ancestors for centuries. 

These efforts, as well as huiMAU’s food and educational programs, aim to promote the health and well-being of the surrounding community and help increase opportunity on an island where over 50% of residents struggle to make ends meet. The nonprofit seeks to demonstrate that the people who call their community home — especially Native Hawaiians — can thrive right where they are.

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Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake’s Excel Center is a first-of-its-kind program in Maryland and one of over 40 locations across the country helping adults get their high school diploma. Through accelerated courses, the program equips individuals ages 21 and older to demonstrate competency and complete their education.

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In a recent op-ed, Weinberg President and CEO Rachel Garbow Monroe outlined the importance of addressing poverty in the U.S. Jewish community and shared the journey the Weinberg Foundation and others have taken to increase awareness and tackle this issue, as well as ways funders can continue to do so.

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Grants span our five focus areas — Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Aging — and serve a range of people, including women at risk and their children, older adults, people with disabilities, and the Jewish community. Learn more by exploring the Foundation’s interactive grant search tool and digital map.