Past Projects
Health
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
Our involvement: The Philip and Helen Brecher Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Website:
http://www.americanheart.org
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries.
Our involvement: The Philip and Helen Brecher Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Website:
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
Partners In Health
The PIH Vision: Whatever it takes
At its root, our mission is both medical and moral. It is based on solidarity, rather than charity alone. When a person in Peru, or Siberia, or rural Haiti falls ill, PIH uses all of the means at our disposal to make them well—from pressuring drug manufacturers, to lobbying policy makers, to providing medical care and social services. Whatever it takes. Just as we would do if a member of our own family—or we ourselves—were ill.
Our involvement: The Philip and Helen Brecher Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Website:
http://www.pih.org
Whittier Institute For Diabetes And Endocrinology
Our mission is to improve the quality of life for people with diabetes through innovative education programs, clinical care, research, and collaborations that pursue prevention and a cure.
Our involvement: The Philip and Helen Brecher Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Website:
http://www.whittier.org/
Poverty
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at M.I.T.
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) serves as a focal point for development and poverty research based on randomized trials. The objective is to improve the effectiveness of poverty programs by providing policy makers with clear scientific results that help shape successful policies to combat poverty. J-PAL works with NGOs, international organizations, and others to evaluate programs and disseminate the results of high quality research.
Our Involvement: The Marty Tomberg Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Website:
http://www.povertyactionlab.com/
CHF International
CHF International's mission is to be a catalyst for long-lasting positive change in low- and moderate-income communities around the world, helping them to improve their social, economic and environmental conditions.
Our Involvement: The Marty Tomberg Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Website:
http://www.chfhq.org/
Davis Community Meals
The mission of Davis Community Meals is to provide low-income and homeless individuals and families with housing, food and human services to help them rebuild their lives.
Davis Community Meals is a non-profit, non-denominational organization. Currently, we serve two meals per week, operate a resource center and provide emergency shelter to individuals and transitional housing to individuals and families.
Our involvement: The Philip and Helen Brecher Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Website:
http://daviswiki.org/Davis_Community_Meals
Heartland International
Heartland International is a non-profit organization based in Chicago, Illinois. Established in 1989, the organization designs, implements, and manages political, economic and social development projects, as well as international education exchange programs.
Through its programs, Heartland International seeks to:
- bring to bear the traditionally underutilized resources of the Midwestern United States on international programs;
- act as a catalyst in strengthening emerging democratic institutions;
- provide training and technical assistance to encourage microenterprise development;
- support the role of women in economic, political and social affairs in emerging democracies;
- provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between the U.S. and foreign policymakers;
- promote mutual understanding between various segments of U.S. society and their international counterparts.
Our involvement: The Marty Tomberg Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Website:
http://www.heartlandinternational.org/en/index.htm
Project Dignity
Project Dignity is a non profit organization that began serving Orange County’s homeless population in 1991 when founders Linda and Dave Dunlap produced a series of self-help videos for local homeless shelters. These videos contained valuable information about food, shelter, education and survival and were provided free-of-charge to organizations working with the homeless. Within a year, Project Dignity added food and clothing distribution services to accompany the videos.
In 1996, due to the greatest need Dave & Linda saw in their own community, Project Dignity redefined its mission to address the needs of the families and especially children living in residential motels. It has been our experience that people living in motels are the most misunderstood and underserved of all homeless. In 1998 we added children’s educational programs, medical assistance, increased emergency services and financial assistance to supplement its food and clothing distribution.
Our involvement: The Marty Tomberg Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Website:
http://www.projectdignity.org/
Environment
Friends Of Funedesin
At the Foundation for Integrated Education and Development (FUNEDESIN), we are dedicated to finding sustainable solutions in the struggle between the ideals of rain forest preservation and the realities of life in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
We work with local communities to develop community-based medical care and ecotourism programs, establish sustainable agricultural practices, improve education, provide environmentally sustainable economic alternatives, and conserve the rain forest.
FUNEDESIN employs an innovative development model based on a non-profit/for-profit organizational structure. The non-profit Foundation has created two for-profit companies, Yachana Lodge and Yachana Gourmet, to finance its fight against poverty and disease and the destruction of Ecuador's imperiled rain forest.
One hundred percent of the profits from both companies support FUNEDESIN's rain forest conservation, poverty reduction, healthcare, and community development projects, guaranteeing their long-term financial sustainability.
Our involvement: The Philip and Helen Brecher Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Website:
http://www.funedesin.org/
Sacramento Valley Open Space Conservancy
The Conservancy was founded in 1990 on two basic principles - that open lands are necessary for quality of life and that we must care for the land today so future generations may enjoy its physical and spiritual benefits tomorrow.
SVC's mission is to preserve the beauty, character and diversity of the Sacramento Valley landscape by working with citizens, property owners, developers, public agencies and other nonprofit organizations. It creates dedicated open space by the acceptance of gifts, private purchase, facilitation of public acquisition, conservation easements and by cooperative efforts. It arranges for the preservation of these lands for agricultural, natural resource protection, recreation, and wildlife habitat purposes.
SVC is a private, non-profit land trust and buys land only from willing sellers. We work cooperatively with private landowners and public and private funding sources to create win-win solutions.
Our involvement: The Philip and Helen Brecher Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Website:
http://www.sacramentovalleyconservancy.org
Education
Brandeis University
Brandeis University is a community of scholars and students united by their commitment to the pursuit of knowledge and its transmission from generation to generation. As a research university, Brandeis is dedicated to the advancement of the humanities, arts, and social, natural and physical sciences. As a liberal arts college, Brandeis affirms the importance of a broad and critical education in enriching the lives of students and preparing them for full participation in a changing society, capable of promoting their own welfare, yet remaining deeply concerned about the welfare of others.
Our involvement: Martin Tomberg established The Tomberg Family Endowment Fund and The Helen and Philip Brecher New Student Forum. In addition, The Tomberg Family Philanthropies has financially supported this organization. Gail Tomberg and Charles Tomberg attended Brandeis.
Website:
http://www.brandeis.edu
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's top research universities, distinguished by its commitment to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology.
Georgia Tech's campus occupies 400 acres in the heart of the city of Atlanta, where more than 16,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive a focused, technologically based education.
Accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), the Institute offers many nationally recognized, top-ranked programs. Undergraduate and graduate degrees are offered in the Colleges of Architecture, Engineering, Sciences, Computing, Management, and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. Georgia Tech consistently ranks among U.S. News & World Report's top ten public universities in the United States. In a world that increasingly turns to technology for solutions, Georgia Tech is using innovative teaching and advanced research to define the technological university of the 21st century.
Our involvement: Martin Tomberg established the Charles and Anna Tomberg Loan Fund. In addition, The Tomberg Family Philanthropies has financially supported this organization. Martin Tomberg attended Georgia Tech.
Website:
http://www.gatech.edu/
Polson Middle School
Polson Middle School is located on the Flathead Indian Reservation. It is an open reservation. There are racial tensions between native and non native students. There are three tribes on the Reservation: Pend d’ Orelle Salish, Flathhead Salish and the Kootenai, all having distinct cultural differences, racial tensions and prejudices.
Our Involvement: The Marty Tomberg Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Website:
http://www.polson.k12.mt.us/
San Francisco Education Fund
Founded in 1979, the San Francisco Education Fund is a community-based nonprofit organization established to improve the quality of teaching and learning in San Francisco public schools so that all students in this diverse community have the education necessary for full participation in the economic, civic, and cultural life of our society.
The Ed Fund believes that strong public schools are critical to San Francisco's viability and that the community must take action to ensure their success. By acting as a bridge between the community and the classroom, the Ed Fund increases the availability and impact of resources for students and teachers throughout San Francisco public schools.
Our involvement: The Philip and Helen Brecher Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Website:
http://www.sfedfund.org/
Human Rights
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.
AI’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.
Our involvement: The Philip and Helen Brecher Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Website:
http://www.amnesty.org/