The Amy Adina Schulman Memorial is an endowment fund started in 1987 to commemorate the brief but vibrant life of a twenty year old college student, a neuropsychology major, and an activist for ten years in the progressive Labor Zionist Youth Movement, Habonim-Dror. Adina died suddenly from a burst aneurysm while a student in her junior year at Rutgers University. 

 

The Princeton community in which she was nurtured, Habonim-Dror which shaped her commitment to social justice, and her Rutgers community - all searched for a way to continue her presence, her ideals.  This Fund is a realization of her family and her friends' desire to celebrate her life, to fulfill her dreams and her potential.

The Fund is unique in that it provides grants only to individuals, young adults who volunteer or intern in progressive social action projects of their own choosing.  Applicants submit a letter of acceptance from the project with which they will work, and also submit a proposed plan as to how they will educate and encourage their peers to participate in similar social action.

 

Since Amy Adina's death the Fund has distributed almost one-third of a million dollars, $328,300 to 450 grantees.   The size of grants and the number of awards has grown each year thanks to annual contributions and to gifts sent to the fund to honor special occasions and life cycle events. The Fund also sponsors a lecture each year on a relevant and timely topic related to the Fund's educational mission. 

 

Contributions to the Amy Adina Schulman Memorial Fund are fully tax deductible; the Fund is a 501 (c ) 3 non-profit organization.  All contributions become part of the Endowment Base.  The Schulman family covers all administrative costs to maintain and develop the Fund.