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43-673: The Koret Foundation is led by a four-member board of directors: Michael Boskin , president; Anita Friedman , president; Richard Greene; and Abraham Sofaer . Its professional staff is led by chief executive officer Jeffrey Farber. The Koret Foundation’s grantmaking is grounded in Jewish principles and traditions and dedicated to serving the general Bay Area community and Jewish community. It supports organizations and initiatives in education ( K-12 and higher education ), arts and culture, Jewish peoplehood , U.S.- Israel bridge-building, and special projects. A key goal of Koret’s education grantmaking

86-600: A director of Exxon Mobil since 1996. He has been a regular contributor to Project Syndicate since 2009. He also served as the chair of the Boskin Commission , which changed the way inflation was measured. He is a director of Oracle Corporation , Shinsei Bank , and Vodafone Group . He currently serves on the Commerce Department's Advisory Committee on the National Income and Product Accounts . Boskin

129-471: A $ 10 million grant to the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America to expand its work across five cities: San Francisco , New York , Los Angeles , Washington, D.C. and Detroit . The funding for SHI’s work in these cities focuses on developing local community leaders, conducting more research to help the community tackle local challenges, and funding more campus and communal programs to engage

172-580: A digital collections management technology used by clients to preserve their ageing media. Among them are the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and Warner Bros. Pictures . Also under the Access umbrella is the institute's collections unit, which works to expand the Visual History Archive by conducting additional interviews, integrating testimony taken by other institutions, and providing training on

215-675: A flourishing Jewish community in the Bay Area, Israel, Poland , and globally. Koret has invested in pillar community institutions like Bay Area Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) for over 30 years, campus organizations like Hillel centers, and a set of programs aimed at engaging Jewish young adults. In 2020, Koret granted $ 10 million to the USC Shoah Foundation and the Hold On To Your Music Foundation for new music-based Holocaust education programs. The grant will fund

258-415: A new curriculum that combines testimony, technology, and music in order to provide Holocaust education for primary and secondary school-aged children around the world. Ultimately, it will reach 25,000 educators and 8 million students through the delivery of educational programming, professional development, innovative educational tools, and live, virtual and immersive performances. In summer 2019, Koret made

301-544: A settlement was reached in a lawsuit brought against the Koret Foundation by Susan Koret, the widow of its founder. Susan Koret retired from the board in 2016 and Tad Taube—the former board president—retired from the board in 2017. Michael Boskin Michael Jay Boskin (born September 23, 1945) is the T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics and senior fellow at Stanford University 's Hoover Institution . He also

344-484: A site for research and teaching, and will convene leading experts to collaborate with one another, patients, and the community. Its mission is to increase accessible and innovative vision care for the Bay Area and beyond. Koret’s Jewish community grantmaking seeks to inspire Jewish identification and increase participation in Jewish life; strengthen ties between Israel and the Bay Area ; combat anti-Semitism ; and develop

387-535: A yearly series of academic events that brings scholars to USC to present lectures, film screenings and panel discussions. The Visual History Archive is fully viewable at 51 subscribing institutions in 13 countries around the world, mainly universities and museums. The institute also offers a subscription for partial access to the Archive. About 211 institutions in 34 countries have contracted for these smaller collections. About 1,200 testimonies are available to any member of

430-523: Is chief executive officer and president of Boskin & Co., an economic consulting company, and serves on the Commerce Department's Advisory Committee on the National Income and Product Accounts . Boskin holds B.A. with highest honors , M.A. , and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of California, Berkeley , earned in 1967, 1968, and 1971 respectively. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa . He joined Stanford University in 1970. He

473-527: Is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research . Notoriously, during his time as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the G.H.W. Bush administration, he is noted to have said in 1990, "Potato chips, semiconductor chips, what is the difference? They are all chips. A hundred dollars' worth of one or a hundred dollars' worth of the other is still a hundred dollars." Boskin has been

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516-487: Is available at 49 institutions around the world, while smaller collections are available at 199 sites in 33 countries. The institute will continue to develop digital technologies to preserve and enhance the Visual History Archive, while building access pathways for students, educators, scholars and the general public. Approximately 1.6 million people view the testimonies every year. The Visual History Archive features more than 1,200 testimonies accessible worldwide. In 2015,

559-625: Is indexed by a native speaker and each minute of video is timecoded in English. They average a little over two hours each in length and were conducted in 65 countries and 44 languages. Since its inception, the archive has expanded its collection to include testimony from survivors and witnesses of other genocides, including the Rwandan genocide , the Nanjing Massacre , Armenian genocide , Guatemalan genocide , Cambodian genocide , Rohingya genocide and

602-642: Is the recipient of the Adam Smith Prize . According to Patrick Buchanan , in Death of Manufacturing , Boskin was sanguine about the transfer of United States manufacturing overseas. USC Shoah Foundation USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, formerly Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making audio-visual interviews with survivors and witnesses of

645-543: Is to increase access to education and to implement new ways of optimizing student success, improving completion rates, and bolstering career advancement opportunities. In spring 2020, Koret announced $ 50 million in grants to 12 colleges and universities across the Bay Area, including UC Berkeley , Stanford University , University of San Francisco , UC Davis , UC San Francisco , San Jose State University , Santa Clara University , UC Santa Cruz , City College of San Francisco , Sonoma State University , CSU Monterey Bay and

688-485: The Bosnian genocide , as well as a collection of contemporary Antisemitism. In December 2023, the foundation launched a collection of testimonies from the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel in cooperation with Tablet Studios . Its collections include: The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation were founded by director Steven Spielberg in 1994 after the release of his critically-acclaimed film Schindler's List

731-746: The COVID-19 crisis . The funds will last through 2024, and will help food banks and meal delivery services cope with increased demand stemming from the pandemic’s economic impacts. Recipients of the funding include the Alameda County Community Food Bank , the GLIDE Foundation , Jewish Family and Children’s Services, Meals on Wheels San Francisco, the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley and St. Anthony’s Foundation . Koret has funded food programs in

774-546: The Cal State Hayward Education Foundation. The grants help fund scholarships, research, mentorship programs, career prep and virtual learning services as schools adjust to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic . This includes $ 10 million in grants for the Koret Scholars Program, which provides funds for nine colleges and universities in the Bay Area to help underserved students cope with

817-827: The Foothill-De Anza Community College Foundation. In 2018, Koret announced $ 10 million in funding for various arts and cultural programs in the Bay Area . These multi-year grants are intended to help spur greater engagement with the arts in the community, including musical, performing and visual arts. Recipients of this funding include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco Symphony , SFJAZZ , San Francisco Ballet , Berkeley Repertory Theatre , Oakland Museum of California , Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco , Cal Performances , San Francisco Opera , Stanford Live, The Contemporary Jewish Museum , Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and

860-599: The Holocaust (which in Hebrew is called the Shoah ) a compelling voice for education and action. It was established by Steven Spielberg in 1994, one year after completing his Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List . In January 2006, the foundation partnered with and relocated to the University of Southern California (USC) and was renamed the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education. In March 2019,

903-475: The National Library of Israel about how to create a collection of records. The foundation claims to aspire to be the world's academic authority on the study of genocide and personal testimony. It continues to incorporate new collections of genocide eyewitness testimonies while also fostering scholarly activities that confront real-world problems the testimonies address. Scholars in many fields have utilized

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946-427: The Rwandan genocide , Armenian genocide , and Cambodian genocide . By 2016, the foundation's archive included nearly 52,000 recordings and was the largest collection of audiovisual testimonies of any kind. In the 2020s, the foundation expanded its mission from the Holocaust to focus on antisemitism since 1945, as there were fewer Holocaust survivors to interview. The foundation planned to gather testimonies on

989-559: The San Francisco Conservatory of Music . The foundation was organized in 1979 by Stephanie and Joseph Koret , along with Tad Taube , their family friend and chief executive officer of their women's sportswear company, Koret of California. Stephanie died in 1978, and Joseph died in 1982. Tad Taube was instrumental in leading the Foundation and growing its assets from around $ 35 million to nearly $ 500 million today. In 2016,

1032-477: The University of Haifa in Israel . The three-year grant supports scientific collaboration between the two schools on climate/environmental change and marine archeology . As part of Koret’s work to create a dynamic, diverse, and livable Bay Area, the Foundation supports organizations that address the region’s needs, strengthen its social fabric, and improve the quality of life for its residents. Koret has supported

1075-557: The expulsion of Jews from Arab countries after 1948 and Ethiopian Jews . Eight days after the October 7 attacks on Israel , researchers from the Shoah Foundation were in southern Israel to gather survivor testimonies after recognizing the attack as a "mass act of violence against Jews." Within a year, the foundation had recorded 400 testimonies of survivors, first responders, and eyewitnesses, with 370 online. The foundation also advised

1118-671: The 1978 television miniseries Holocaust . In 2006, the foundation, moved from its home in a set of trailers at Universal Studios to the libraries of the University of Southern California . It was renamed the USC Shoah Foundation—The Institute for Visual History and Education in order to emphasize its place in a legitimate academic environment. In 2014, the Shoah Foundation established the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research to expand its documentation efforts to other genocides, such as

1161-608: The Bay Area. Recipients of the funding included the National Math and Science Initiative , Beyond 12, the Hoover Institution , College Track, KQED , the YMCA of San Francisco, KIPP Bay Area and Teach for America Bay Area. In fall 2019, Koret made a $ 10 million grant to the University of California San Francisco and the nonprofit That Man May See, to build a new Koret Vision Clinic at UCSF, which opened in 2020. The clinic will be

1204-695: The San Francisco Parks Alliance and SF Parks and Recreation for the Let’s Play Initiative, and has made grants to help rebuild the Golden Gate Park Tennis Center, which caters to underserved youth. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic , Koret has prioritized its giving to help those most adversely affected by the virus and the accompanying economic crisis . In October 2020, Koret announced $ 5 million in emergency funding for Bay Area food banks that are struggling with

1247-706: The cycle that leads to mass violence. It holds international conferences and workshops and hosts fellows and scholars in residence to conduct research using the resources available at the University of Southern California. Institute fellows, staff and student interns participate in more than a dozen academic events on the USC campus annually. it focusses on interdisciplinary study organized around three themes: "Resistance to Genocide and Mass Violence" focuses on acts of resistance and elements of defiance that slow down or stop genocidal processes. "Violence, Emotion and Behavioral Change" studies

1290-438: The entire Archive took five years to complete, from 2008 to 2012. During the digitization project, it was discovered that about 5 percent of the 235,005 tapes had audio or visual problems, some to the point of being unwatchable. Finding there were few existing options for restoring tape-based material, the institute's ITS team created new software programs to help them recover both audio and visual problems. The institute has created

1333-574: The foundation added Global Outreach as its fourth organizational pillar. In one year — between 2013–2014 and 2014–15 – the number of people reached by its testimony nearly doubled, from 3.6 million to 6.5 million. The number increases to 15 million when including media exposure, TV broadcasts, museum exhibits, presentations at conferences and workshops, and social media. Global outreach is conducted through websites, documentaries, and exhibits, as well as national and international press coverage about its programs; and shared media on social platforms. Since 1999

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1376-505: The impacts of the virus. The scholarships come in the form of direct financial aid and high-impact learning opportunities. Beneficiaries include UC Berkeley , UC Davis , University of San Francisco and six others. In 2019, Koret launched a three-year “K-12 Education Innovation Initiative” granting $ 11 million to 35 organizations devoted to ensuring more equal access to K-12 education, STEM learning, teacher training, and skills- and opportunity-building programs for underserved students in

1419-456: The institute opened their new global headquarters on USC's campus. The foundation's testimonies are preserved in the Visual History Archive. The archive is digitized, fully searchable via indexed keywords, and hyperlinked. With more than 112,000 hours of testimony, indexing allows students, teachers, professors, researchers and others around the world to retrieve entire testimonies or search for specific sections within testimonies. Each testimony

1462-503: The institute's preferred methodology for gathering testimony. Using testimony from the Archive, the foundation develops teaching tools for educators across the disciplinary spectrum, such as social studies, English Language Arts, government, foreign language, world history, American history, and character education. The institute also provides professional development to prepare educators worldwide to use testimony in relevant and engaging ways—providing an experience that takes students beyond

1505-515: The international conference "Singing in the Lion's Mouth: Music as Resistance to Violence", including two days of programming that highlighted the use of music as a tool to resist oppression and spread awareness. Digital Genocide Studies examines how big data and large datasets, including the 53,000 testimonies in the foundation's Visual History Archive, can be used to find patterns in the field of mass violence and its resistance. The institute also organizes

1548-509: The local Jewish community. Koret has also given to a variety of academic collaborations to strengthen ties between the U.S. and Israel in areas of great concern to society. In 2018, Koret announced a $ 10 million grant to Tel Aviv University for a collaboration in bioinformatics with UC Berkeley and smart cities with Stanford University. In February 2020, Koret announced a new $ 1.3 million grant to UC San Diego to support binational collaboration between its Scripps Center for Marine Archeology and

1591-611: The nature of genocide and mass violence and how they impact emotional, social, psychological, historical and physical behavior. The foundation, in conjunction with its Center for Advanced Genocide Research, held an international conference in November 2014 at USC "Memory, Media and Technology: Exploring the Trajectories of Schindler's List". In 2015, in collaboration with the Thornton School of Music and USC Visions and Voices, it hosted

1634-463: The previous year. Spielberg's goal was to collect 50,000 testimonies of Holocaust survivors while meeting the standards of rigorous scholarship. The foundation consulted with Holocaust scholars and oral histories in order to ground its work in legitimate historical scholarship. The Shoah Foundation followed the pioneering work of the Fortunoff Archive , founded in 1979 partly in response to

1677-489: The public with an Internet connection who registers to access the Visual History Archive Online. The institute dedicates attention to maintaining each testimony's audio-visual quality, to protect it from degrading over time. With contributions from technology companies, the institute devised a preservation system where the original videos were digitized into a variety of commonly used formats. The digitization of

1720-571: The region since the Foundation’s inception. In summer 2019, Koret announced $ 1.2 million in grants for Bay Area organizations serving veterans in the community. The grants, disbursed over three years, focus on supporting veterans in the transition to civilian life, workforce development, health care and more. Organizations that received funding include Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin, VA Palo Alto Health Care System , Higher Ground, Hire Heroes USA, The Mission Continues and

1763-454: The resources of the Visual History Archive to teach more than 400 university courses across four continents, including 112 courses at USC. The Center for Advanced Genocide Research is the research and scholarship unit of the foundation. Founded in 2014, the center engages in interdisciplinary research on the Holocaust and genocide, more specifically the origins of genocide and how to intervene in

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1806-434: The textbook. IWitness, the institute's flagship educational website, provides students access to 1,600 testimonies for guided exploration. They can engage with the testimonies and bring them into their own multimedia projects via a built-in video editor. Approximately 17,000 high school students and over 5,000 educators in 57 countries and all 50 U.S. states have used the site. It has trained more than 39,000 educators around

1849-528: The world to incorporate testimony into classroom lessons. More than 200 educators have participated in advanced training and the Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century programs in the U.S., Ukraine, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. The foundation's other education programs include: In addition to the foundation's Visual History Archive and IWitness, the institute's has a YouTube channel , and Web portals in 12 languages. The complete Visual History Archive

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