About Us
The Gruss Life Monument Funds, Inc. (Gruss Foundation) provides funding for Yeshivot and Jewish day schools in New York City, Westchester and Long Island. In 2001-2002, the Gruss Foundation launched an initiative to improve secular education for 3,000 elementary school children in 15 Yeshivot and Jewish day schools in the New York City and Long Island areas. As part of the initiative, each school received a computer laboratory, the SuccessMaker Enterprise electronic courseware system, and support from a supervisor and two Education Liaisons (ELs). In addition, each school provided an onsite lab manager. In 2008 the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education (CIJE) was established as an independent 501C (3) which serves as an umbrella for all of the educational programs. Currently approximately 25,000 students in more than one hundred schools are benefitting from the educational programs approved by CIJE.
The Gruss Foundation, located in New York, provides annual Funding of over $15 million to more than 400 educational and philanthropic institutions, it has made more than 14,000 interest-free mortgages to former Soviet Olim in Israel and more than 100 interest-free loans of $500,000 each to Jewish educational institutions worldwide.