Philanthropy Koret Foundation aims to bolster civics education in California with $3M grant By J. Staff Apr 19, 2022 The San Francisco–based Koret Foundation has announced grants totaling $3.25 million to support civics education for California students. “Civics used to be taught, explicitly as civics, in schools,”…
Philanthropy S.F.-based Koret Foundation gives $10 million to Shoah Foundation By Gabe Stutman Jan 30, 2020 The Koret Foundation, a 42-year-old private enterprise based in San Francisco, has awarded $10 million to the USC Shoah Foundation, it was announced Tuesday. The money will go toward a unique form of…
Philanthropy Koret Foundation awards $50 million in grants to local universities By J. Staff Jun 5, 2020 The Jewish philanthropic Koret Foundation has announced $50 million in grants to 12 Bay Area colleges and universities, including $12 million to UC Berkeley and $11.7 million to Stanford, the two…
Philanthropy Koret Foundation to give $2M to local arts, cultural orgs By J. Staff Oct 12, 2021 The San Francisco-based, Jewish-founded Koret Foundation has committed $2 million in grants to a dozen Bay Area arts organizations. The grants, announced Oct. 5, are intended to help these…
Philanthropy Koret Foundation to double grants for food aid through 2024 By J. Staff Oct 15, 2020 The San Francisco-based Koret Foundation has announced that it will distribute $5 million in emergency funding for seven Bay Area organizations serving the hungry. The funds will help local food…
Philanthropy Koret Foundation grants $10 million more to nine Bay Area universities By Maya Mirsky Sep 2, 2020 The Koret Foundation is upping its support to several Northern California colleges and universities as part of its ongoing funding of the Koret Scholars program for minority and first-generation…
Philanthropy Joseph Koret biography reveals the man behind the fortune By Liz Harris Nov 14, 2018 The books section is supported by a generous donation from Anne Germanacos. The story of San Francisco businessman and philanthropist Joseph Koret is a real rags-to-riches tale. From an early life of…
Bay Area Capital campaign for energy-neutral synagogue at $25M, after Koret gift puts it over the top By J. Staff Oct 19, 2018 A $1.5 million Koret Foundation gift has completed a $25 million capital campaign at Congregation Kol Emeth in Palo Alto for a rebuilding project that officials say will make it the first net-zero…
Editorial Happy 25th to Koret Foundation By J. Correspondent May 7, 2004 Celebrating its 25th anniversary this month, the S.F.-based Koret Foundation is looking good. We would be hard pressed to find any other phila…
Lawsuit, countersuit strike Koret Foundation By Dan Pine Oct 10, 2014 In a legal salvo that has rocked the Bay Area’s Jewish and philanthropic communities, Susan Koret, the lifetime chair of the Koret Foundation and widow of its founder, has filed a lawsuit against…
Philanthropy Jewish program at UC Berkeley gets $10m from Diller Foundation By Maya Mirsky Feb 9, 2021 The Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley announced Tuesday it has received a $10 million gift from the S.F.-based Helen Diller Foundation to coincide with the…
Koret officer By J. Correspondent May 25, 2001 Claudia Hardin was recently named director of finance and administration at the S.F.-based Koret Foundation. She will be responsible for all fiscal responsi…
Koret Foundation awards prizes to four By J. Correspondent May 5, 2000 Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Science, has been a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution si…
Koret Foundation verdict expected by mid-summer By J. Correspondent May 6, 2016 A verdict is not expected until July or August in the civil trial pitting Koret Foundation chair Susan Koret, widow of founder Joseph Koret, against longtime board members Richard Greene and…
Shultz and Koret By J. Correspondent May 25, 2001 George P. Shultz was the guest speaker at the Board of Rabbis of Northern California's annual luncheon Monday, Jerusalem Day, at the Westin St.…
Philanthropy Substantial new grant for Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies By J. Staff Feb 8, 2019 The Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley has been awarded a matching grant of $1 million from a Los Angeles-based foundation, the first step toward a targeted $10 million…
Philanthropy Shalom Hartman Institute gifted $20 million by S.F. foundations By Dan Pine Aug 21, 2019 If it’s true that money talks, the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America is about to get an earful. In a joint announcement this month, the Koret Foundation and the Jim Joseph Foundation, both…
Settlement reached in Koret lawsuit: Susan Koret, Tad Taube both to leave board By Dan Pine Sep 29, 2016 A settlement reached in the case that pitted Koret Foundation chair Susan Koret against members of the Koret board, most notably longtime president Tad Taube, will result in both Susan Koret and…
Koret trial underway in S.F. court By J. Correspondent Apr 21, 2016 A lawsuit filed 19 months ago by the widow of Koret Foundation founder Joseph Koret went to trial this week in San Francisco Superior Court. Susan Koret alleges conflict of interest and financial…
Tad Taube to step down as Koret Foundation president By Dan Pine Mar 28, 2014 Longtime Koret Foundation president Tad Taube announced last week he will not run for re-election when his current term expires in June. However, Taube said he would stay on until a new president is…
Letter calls Koret Foundation spokesmans comments sexist and classist By J. Correspondent Oct 24, 2014 A group of advocates for immigrants, domestic workers and laborers is demanding that the Koret Foundation apologize for and withdraw negative comments directed against Susan Koret, who recently filed…
Koret funds available to synagogues By J. Correspondent Oct 20, 2000 The initiative aims to provide resources, including staff, for new programs that increase member and non-member involvement in synagogue l…
Koret Foundation is music to S.F. schools ears, pockets By Andy Altman-Ohr Aug 11, 2000 After finding out its $10,000 grant to buy children's musical instruments was somehow embezzled before making it to the San Francisco Unifie…
Tad Taube to step aside as Koret Foundation president By Dan Pine Mar 21, 2014 Longtime Koret Foundation president Tad Taube has announced he will not run for re-election when his current term expires in June. However, Taube said he would stay on until a new president is chosen…