Bernhardt Foundation seeks grant applications

PROVIDENCE – Are you affiliated with a Jewish nonprofit organization in need of grant funds?  If so, please consider submitting a grant request to the Helene and Bertram Bernhardt 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.  The Foundation also distributes a limited number of small grants (up to $250) to local charities that support the broader community.

Since its founding, the Foundation has distributed more than $4 million to such nonprofit organizations as Temple Beth-El, the Jewish Alliance, Jewish Collaborative Services, Brown/RISD and URI Hillel and The Miriam Hospital, as well as to many other agencies.  Many of these grants support new initiatives and/or individual projects that are unable to attract support from more traditional funding sources.

To receive the Bernhardt Foundation application form and funding guidelines, contact Samuel Zurier, secretary of the Foundation, at 55 Dorrance St., Suite 400, Providence, RI 02903 or sdz@zurierlaw.com or at 401-861-0200.   

The deadline to submit applications for fiscal year 2020-21 is Dec. 1, 2019.