Grants: Herb Alpert Foundation Gives $500,000
The Herb Alpert Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds charities and is headed by the famed jazz artist, has donated $500,000 to the National Conference of Christians and Jews for its work on race and ethnic sensitivity programs for high school students.
The National Conference of Christians and Jews received two matching grants of $250,000 for its Los Angeles Youth Education Programs. The programs include the Brotherhood-Sisterhood Camp, which is intended to ease racial, ethnic and gender divisions among high school students by exposing them to personal discussions on prejudice and fear.
“The achievements of the National Conference always appealed to me as the most important form of raised consciousness in our society,” Alpert said.
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