• Improve health;
• Provide medical care; or
• Strengthen Jewish identity and the Jewish community. 

Grant Criteria
• In keeping with Mount Sinai Auxiliary’s 40+ year history of philanthropy, its primary focus for grant making will be on applications that directly relate to health issues and needs.

• The Foundation will consider funding new components of established programs.

• Programs for which funds are being requested must relate to the goals and purposes of the grant applicant.

• Grants are normally made on a one-time basis.

• No agency may submit more than one proposal during any grant cycle.

• Applications must indicate all other sources of income that have been sought.  The availability of other resources will be taken into consideration.

• The maximum grant award is ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

• When applicable, all publicity should include a statement indicating that “Funding, in    part, was made possible through a grant from the Mount Sinai Community Foundation, a designated endowment of the Jewish Community Foundation of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation.”

Grants are normally made on a one-time basis and embrace the needs of both the Jewish and non-Jewish communities.

Mount Sinai Community Foundation Supports Local Health Needs

Seven projects totaling $35,060 were funded in 2009 by the Mount Sinai Community Foundation.

Grant recipients included:
• Children's Dental Services, to expand critically needed dental services to low-income children and pregnant women in North Minneapolis and Northwest Hennepin County.
• Churches United in Ministry (CHUM), to support a Nurse Clinic which serves adults who are homeless and/or living in poverty, specifically to offer access to dental care and related medications for those who are uninsured or underinsured.
• Friends of B'nai Abraham Synagogue, to restore Jewish ritual objects original to the synagogue in Virginia, Minn.
• Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE), to design, produce and distribute educational brochures and magnets for women on medical and mental health-related diseases. 
• St. Louis Park Emergency Program (STEP) to purchase kosher food for Jewish people using STEP's food shelf as well as to purchase prescription medications for seniors.
• National Alliance on Mental Illness Minnesota (NAMI), to provide education and support to families who have children with intensive mental health care needs and create intensive services that are family-driven and family-centered.

The Mount Sinai Community Foundation also partnered with the Frances & Samuel Finkelstein/Janice Finkelstein Mattison Memorial Fund, also a designated fund of the Jewish Community Foundation, in supporting the Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance, helping expand an educational program to make Twin Cities Jewish communities aware of their elevated risk of BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations and hereditary ovarian and breast cancers; screening and prevention strategies to reduce risk; and potential benefits of counseling and testing.