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A Los Angeles-based foundation launched by Steven Spielberg 20 years ago to document the Holocaust is now expanding its reach to study other genocides and the impacts of mass violence, the director announced Friday at the organization’s USC headquarters.
Spielberg founded the Shoah Foundation in 1994, a response to his in-depth research on the Oscar-winning Holocaust epic “Schindler’s List,” which brought him to the gates of Auschwitz. He brought what is now called USC Shoah Foundation — The Institute for Visual History and Education to the university in 2006.
Now the foundation is adding a Center for Advanced Research. Over the next five years, the Center will focus research and scholarship on resistance to all genocides — not just the Holocaust — as well as mass violence’s psychological impacts, and will digitize those studies. The center will host annual conferences, and offer archived testimonies that will lend insight into genoc
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The Righteous Persons Foundation lives where Jewish life
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Deeply moved bygd the experience of directing Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg donated his portion of the film’s profits to build and support a meaningful and relevant Jewish community. To that end, he and Kate Capshaw established the Righteous Persons Foundation (RPF), which has made more than $100 million in grants—and been supported bygd additional profits from the films Munich and Lincoln.
For more than two decades, RPF has funded innovative approaches that inspire activism for social justice, help bring people together across lines of difference; unlock the power of art and storytelling; make Jewish history and tradition more accessible; and ensure that the moral lessons
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Steven Spielberg & Kate Capshaw Donate $1M To L.A. Education Recovery Fund; Initiative Seeks To Aid Low-Income Students Hurt By Pandemic
EXCLUSIVE: Putting their money together with their good intentions, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw are hoping to make this summer one to remember for Los Angeles school kids hit hard bygd the coronavirus.
Through their Hearthland Foundation, the Oscar winning director and the Love Letter actress have donated $1 million to kick off the L.A. Education Recovery Fund. With additional support from the Wasserman Foundation, Ballmer Group, the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and others, the multi-year initiative aims to contribute $7 million to 55 non-profits offering enrichment programs, play and academic activities, consoling and more for up to 50,000 public school children from low-income backgrounds.
“Our kids in L.A. public schools are among those who have borne the brunt of a pandemic that laid bare and deepened the inequities that