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While funding can support causes, issues, and concerns, our mission is to support
people—as they strive for more productive, meaningful, joyful lives for
themselves, their families and their communities.
The Jewish Community Foundation, in partnership with its donors, annually awards
grants to more than 100 different Jewish and secular organizations serving people
locally, nationally and worldwide. These dollars are at work every day of the
year transforming lives and enriching communities, at home and around the globe.
Here are a few examples of the work that has been made possible in the Jewish
and general communities through grants from the Foundation:
Expanding Educational Opportunity
- Enriched synagogue and day school education and high school programs for
thousands of children and youth
- Jewish education for children with special needs
- Education and capital projects at universities in the Bay Area and in Israel
- Expanded Jewish learning and involvement programs for families of diverse
Jewish backgrounds
Health and social services
- Bay Area programs helping the hungry and homeless
- Enriched quality of life for our aged
- Medical research at hospitals and universities in the United States and
Israel
- A Jewish Parenting Center for soon-to-be parents and those with young children
Israel and World Jewry
- Hunger relief and outreach to impoverished elderly Jews
in Russia and the former Soviet Republics
- Community-wide educational and cultural programs celebrating
our partnership with Israel
- Sending Bay Area college students to Israel to work with
underprivileged and immigrant children as day camp counselors
Arts and cultural enrichment
- Visual and performing arts projects within the Jewish and general communities
- Expansion and enrichment of Jewish film as a vehicle for
engaging Bay Area Jews
- Support for museums and traveling exhibits
Reaching out to Jewish youth
- Needs-based youth scholarships for Jewish summer camps and Israel trips
- Jewish teen basketball leagues and scouting programs
- Social gatherings and youth volunteer outreach programs for Jewish teens
Synagogues and spiritual life
- A Community Rabbi to reach and provide a Jewish lifeline to unaffiliated
members of our community
- Training congregational volunteers in Bikkur Holim, the
mitzvah of visiting the sick
- Program grants to enrich synagogue and congregational
life
Community building and outreach
- Opportunities for youth and adult volunteer action within the Jewish and
general communities
- Outreach to Jewish college students on Bay Area campuses
- Intergroup cooperation to combat anti-Semitism
- Computers and video projection equipment to benefit Jewish
organizations and synagogues
Holocaust remembrance
- Holocaust education programs to reach 1,500 public and
private students each year
- Collecting oral histories of Holocaust survivors to create
an indelible historical and educational record for future
generations
Where funding comes from
The Foundation supports the community through
- Donor-advised philanthropic funds and supporting family foundations,
set up by our donors so they can make grants to Jewish and secular organizations
that have a positive impact upon the health and vitality of our community
- Designated endowment funds, set up by donors or organizations, to
provide long-term funding for a specific organization or program
- Community grants, given from the Permanent Community Endowment, given
on the basis of Jewish community priorities as determined with our partner
the Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay
- Services for community organizations, such as capacity-building
and strategic planning support
Our partnership with the Jewish Federation of the Greater
East Bay
With the Jewish Community Federation of the Greater
East Bay, the Foundation engages Bay Area Jews in Jewish life, cultivates
community leadership, and sets funding priorities that are based upon closely-tracked
community needs. The Federation and Foundation administer an integrated grants
process focused on serving Jewish communities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties,
Israel, and elsewhere around the world where Jews are in need. The Foundation
and Federation share facilities, goals and a close working relationship, enabling
us to more effectively meet the needs of Jews and others in the East Bay and
beyond.
More...
>> Community grants from the Permanent
Community Endowment to Jewish programs in the East Bay and overseas
>> Grants to Jewish and secular organizations
and programs
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