Grantee Stories and Foundation News

2020

Welcome New Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture Advisory Board Members

The Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture is pleased to announce four new members of our advisory board who join the… more


Taube Jewish Heritage Tours Launches TJHTalks

In response to the coronavirus limiting travel to Poland, our partner organization in Warsaw, Taube Center for the Renewal… more


Stem-Cell Transplantation Grant to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital

Taube Philanthropies recently announced 1:1 matching grant of $500,000 to support the work of Dr. Agnieska Czechowicz, one… more


Taube Grant Supports City of Oakland's Program for Unsheltered Residents Vulnerable to COVID-19

Oakland, CA – Mayor Libby Schaaf, Vice Mayor Larry Reid, and City Councilmember Loren Taylor joined with community and… more


Taube Philanthropies names Dariusz Stola, Historian and Polin Museum Director (2014-2019), as 2020 Irena Sendler Memorial Award Recipient

MAY 12, 2020, SAN FRANCISCO — Taube Philanthropies has named the former director of the POLIN Museum of the History of… more


Exhibition of Political Art by WWII-Era Human Rights Advocate Arthur Szyk Opens at UC Berkeley Magnes Collection

Berkeley, Calif. (January 21, 2020)—Arthur Szyk’s compelling political cartoons placed Nazi genocide, tyranny and racism on… more


Tad and Dianne Taube Gift $6 Million to Name SF Opera General Director Position

San Francisco Opera today announced that philanthropists Tad and Dianne Taube have committed $6 million to support the… more


Award-Winning Documentary Now Streaming

Trillium Studios is pleased to announce that its award-winning documentary Raise the Roof is now available on Amazon in the… more


Who Will Write Our History

In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and… more


University of Southern California (USC) Thornton School of Music’s Polish Music Center Receives Endowment Grant

Tad and Dianne Taube have approved an endowment grant of $2,000,000 for the University of Southern California (USC) Thornton… more