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History
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In 1972, to honor the memory and life work of the
founders, the idea took shape of creating a special program
named "STAR" (Seeds of Toni and Albert Roothbert).
The Fund Board decided that in addition to its Scholarships
Program, it would introduce a modest Fellows' Projects Program.
Roothbert Fellows no longer on grant would be eligible to
apply to the Fund for seed money in the form of small grants
for individual or group projects taking place within the United
States that are consonant with the aims of the founders. Fundamentally,
the Fellows Projects Program aims to pay for full or partial
costs of:
• Educational
or service projects conducted by Fellows for the benefit of
others in ways that either extend or fulfill the vocational
commitments developed while these Fellows were on stipend,
or otherwise embody a continuing expression of Fellows' commitment
to the purposes of the Fund, or
• Activities
intended to increase Fellows' spiritual awareness or commitment,
or to increase their knowledge, skill and other capabilities
in ways that fulfill the Fund's purposes.
Examples of
Fellows' Projects Grants
Since the program's inception, the Fund has awarded over 40
grants. Examples include the following:
• Training
for a group of Roothbert Fellows involved in family counseling
at Project Basement, Upper Manhattan
• Funding
a van servicing street people in the name of the Highbridge
Community Life Center, South Bronx
• Program
for prisoners in areas of mental health, poetry, leadership
at Graterford Correction Center, Pennsylvania
• Establishment
of an interfaith institute for clergywomen in rural Massachusetts
• Seminar
for 30 inner-city youths on "Youth Leadership in a Multicultural
World," in New York
• Project
on peace-making in Jerusalem
• A one-day
activity-based mathematics workshop for parents and their
children, in Maryland
• Establishment
of a library for the College-Bound program at Bedford Hills
Correctional Facility in New York
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