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We now hold $75 in community funds!
We now hold $75 in community funds! Hear Jewish Foundation Executive Director Lisa Stanger on WNHH discuss the Foundation’s impact and successes, as well as philanthropy in New Haven.
Tips to Keep in Mind for End of Year Charitable Giving
End-of-Year Giving Thanks to the CARES stimulus package, The current age at which you are required to take a Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) is 72; however, if you are 70½ or older, you can still make a qualified Charitable Distribution from your IRA. WHAT...
Former Jewish Home Assets Benefit Local Jewish Elderly
Former Jewish Home Assets Benefit Local Jewish ElderlyWhen the Jewish Home for the Aged was sold to a Chicago firm in 2011, the Jewish Home Building Fund Corporation, which was a separate entity, continued to hold the former Jewish Home’s assets, including, many of...
One Happy Camper!
One Happy Camper!This year, a total of $30,650 was granted for our local youth to experience Jewish overnight summer camp! Thanks to One Happy Camper and the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven, 23 campers received a total of $15,400 in needs-blind, first-time...
$277,000 Awarded in Grants for Security for Area Jewish Institutions
$277,000 Awarded in Grants for Security for Area Jewish InstitutionsThanks to the Arthur Eder Family Fund, this year the Jewish Foundation awarded $277,000 in security grants to our synagogues, day schools, JCC, and Camp Laurelwood. All awards were made in memory of...
Stephen Saltzman is Star of David Society’s Newest Member
Stephen Saltzman is Star of David Society’s Newest MemberThe Society, a national designation through the JFNA (Jewish Federations of North America), includes a distinguished community of donors who have committed at their local Jewish Foundation, $200,000 or greater...
Jewish Historical Society to Create Professional Digital Archive of the History and Artifacts from the Former Jewish Home for the Aged
Jewish Historical Society to Create Professional Digital Archive of the History and Artifacts from the Former Jewish Home for the AgedNew Haven’s Jewish Home for the Aged, which was located on Davenport Avenue, may be gone, but a partnership between the Jewish...
A Torah Scroll Finds a New Home
A Torah Scroll Finds a New HomeThis season, Camp Laurelwood has been able to welcome a Torah scroll to their camp. The scroll, along with seven other Torah scrolls, one haftorah, one megillot, and many other artifacts, belonged to the old Jewish Home for the Aged in...
Women of Vision Grant Recipients 2021
Women of Vision Grant Recipients 2021 The Jewish Foundation’s Women of Vision Society has been helping women and girls in the Greater New Haven area and Israel for over 20 years. This endowment, created by 100 founding members in our community, has tackled issues from...
Join Us Online June 30 – Donor Advised Funds: The Swiss Army Knife of Gift Planning
Join us online June 30 Donor Advised Funds:The Swiss Army Knife of Gift Planning With Bryan Clontz, PhD, CFP,® CLU,® CAP,® AEP,® RICP,® ChSNC®Founder and President, Charitable Solutions, Inc. In this highly interactive session, Clontz will present the...
Jewish Foundation Incorporates Social Responsible Investing- but with a Jewish Lens
The Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven proudly announces that they will be partnering with JLens to invest a portion of the Jewish Foundation’s US equity portfolio. In doing so, the Jewish Foundation Board of Trustees unanimously approved the recommendation of the...
Fried Watsky Family Create Community Legacy
Fried Watsky Family Create Community Legacy Husband and wife, Dr. Kal Watsky and Dr. Debbie Fried, have always been generous in donating their time and money to the Jewish community. Over the years Kal, Debbie, and their children, Benjamin and Rebecca (Ben and Reba)...
Temple Beth Tikvah 2 Way L’Dor V’Dor Project Brings Generations Together, Thanks to the Community Grants for the Jewish Elderly
Temple Beth Tikvah 2 Way L’Dor V’Dor Project Brings Generations Together, Thanks to the Community Grants for the Jewish Elderly Helena Schanzer only started asking questions about her own family Holocaust experience as her mother lay dying in Chile. What she learned...
Why Ask Why: Adding Value and Values to Your Client Relationships
PROFESSIONAL ADVISOR EVENTS Why Ask Why: Adding Value and Values to Your Client Relationships February 25, 2001 • 8am - 9:15am. • Jay Weisman, CAP®, Founder of Legacy Philanthropy Group With Jay Weisman, CAP®, Founder of Legacy Philanthropy Group Most advisors...
Liora Lew Endowment Fund for BEKI Established by Yaron Lew
Liora Lew Endowment Fund for BEKI Established by Yaron Lew Liora Lew, wife of BEKI’s President Yaron Lew, passed away in June 2020 from an aggressive cancer diagnosed just two months earlier. To honor her memory, he has established the Liora Lew Endowment for the...
Celebrating the impact of our Community Security Grant program!
Celebrating the impact of our Community Security Grant program! Since 2020, we have awarded an incredible $787,000 to Jewish organizations in the greater New Haven area to strengthen their security measures. We are honored to have awarded grants to the following...
Chabad of Westville COVID-19/Maimonides Response Fund
Chabad of Westville COVID-19/Maimonides Response Fund Since Covid-19 began impacting our communities, it has affected many families in different ways. Addressing these issues requires a flexible response, personalized to the needs of the individual. Rabbi Chanoch and...
Covid-19/Maimonides Response Fund Impact
$281,600 distributed in Emergency Grants for Critical Human Needs When Covid-19 hit our communities, many faced financial troubles with medical bills, unemployment, and food insecurity. The Jewish Federation along with the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven,...
Jewish Foundation distributes $2.2 million in first 6 months of 2020
Jewish Foundation Distributes $2.2 Million in First 6 Months of 2020 Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven distributed over $2,222,360 in the first six months of 2020—$2,054,739.24 of this amount was to local Jewish...
Women of Vision Grant Recipients 2020
Women of Vision Grant Recipients 2020 Women of the Wall – "Claiming What's Ours" "Claiming What's Ours" empathetically asserts that despite the ultra-Orthodox monopoly over religion in Israel, there is no halachic (Jewish law) basis for denying women access to Jewish...
Helping At-Risk Girls in Israel
Helping At-Risk Girls in Israel The small city of Tzfat, Israel, perched high up on the Upper Galilee Mountains, is known for the Golden Age of its 16th century, Kabbalists and Torah luminaries. Today, with a population of some 22,000, the newer neighborhoods are home...
The Jewish Foundation recently launched their new Grants for the Jewish Elderly Initiative which awarded $130,000 in Grants for the Jewish Elderly
“This is the inaugural year of an annual grant program which was made possible and permanently endowed by funding from the Jewish Home Building, Corporation,” says Dr. Craig Sklar, the Jewish Foundation’s Chair. Our...
A MESSAGE FROM THE JEWISH FOUNDATION DURING THIS CRISIS
Dear Friends,We know this is a stressful time and you are receiving many emails concerning this public health crisis. We wanted to share an update about the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven.First, the Jewish Foundation remains confident that our investment...
ONE HAPPY CAMPER + MANY LUCKY CHILDREN = A LIFETIME OF JEWISH CAMPING MEMORIES
Bring on the (kosher) bug juice and light the havdalah campfire! The Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven offers grants and scholarships through their One Happy Camper Program (OHC). This initiative, made possible through the Foundation for Jewish Camp...
WOMEN OF VISION SOCIETY GRANT APPLICATION DUE MAY 31
The Jewish Foundation’s Women of Vision Society has been helping women and girls in the Greater New Haven area and Israel for over 20 years. This endowment, created by 100 founding members in our community, has tackled issues from domestic violence and health to...
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR PROGRAMS IN ISRAEL
The Jewish Foundation Israel Experience Scholarship Program enables local Jewish students ages 14-19 the opportunity to participate in an Israel experience to develop and enrich their Jewish education and reinforce their Jewish identity. The Jewish Foundation...
MAY 1 DEADLINE – COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
All scholarships are for high school seniors from Jewish households. All applications must be completed online by May 15. All applications are confidential and anonymously reviewed. Go to www.jewishnewhaven.org/scholarships for more information. Mary...
FUND MANAGEMENT AND INVESTMENT OF SYNAGOGUE, AGENCY AND ORGANIZATION CUSTODIAL ACCOUNTS
FUND MANAGEMENT AND INVESTMENT OF SYNAGOGUE, AGENCY AND ORGANIZATION CUSTODIAL ACCOUNTS The Foundation’s professional staff and its centrality to the Jewish Federation insure continuous, permanent, and secure fund management and enhance donor confidence and...
UNRESTRICTED FUNDS
UNRESTRICTED FUNDS Individuals or families can establish a named Unrestricted Fund at the Jewish Foundation with a minimum donation of $1,000. Unrestricted Funds allow the Foundation to meet the changing needs of the Jewish community through our grants process...
YOUTH PHILANTHROPY AND BUILD A TZEDAKAH FUNDS
Youth Philanthropy: Build a Tzedakah and My Very Own Tzedakah The Foundation administers and promotes the Build a Tzedakah program which enables young adults to establish their own Foundation endowment fund. The Build-a-Tzedakah program allows young adults to engage...
DONOR ADVISED/PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS
DONOR ADVISED/PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS For individuals and families seeking active involvement in philanthropy, a Philanthropic Fund (also called a donor-advised fund) allows the donor to create a named fund that provides flexibility in charitable giving. A...
PACE (PERPETUAL ANNUAL CAMPAIGN ENDOWMENT) & LOJE (LION OF JUDAH ENDOWMENT)
PACE (PERPETUAL ANNUAL CAMPAIGN ENDOWMENT) & LOJE (LION OF JUDAH ENDOWMENT) ENDOWING YOUR JEWISH FEDERATION ANNUAL CAMPAIGN GIFT How can you provide for Jewish education, camps, schools, the elderly, those in need, the JCC and for Jews locally and overseas?...
Designated Restricted Funds
DESIGNATED/RESTRICTED FUNDS FOR SYNAGOGUES, AGENCIES AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS With the Jewish Foundation, you can establish a named Designated/Restricted Fund for your synagogue, for Jewish education, for the needy, for Israel, for the arts, or for any...
BOBBE GROSSMAN
CAMP LAURELWOOD SCHOLARSHIP FUND BOBBE GROSSMAN Bobbe Grossman established a scholarship fund for Camp Laurelwood in memory of her husband, Richard Grossman z’l. "There’s an Irving Berlin song about hating to get up in the morning—it references murdering the bugler...
JEWISH FOUNDATION HIRES NEW INVESTMENT ADVISOR
n the summer of 2016, the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven Board of Trustees, following a recommendation of the Foundation’s Investment Committee, approved a RFP process (Request for Proposal) for a new investment advisor/consultant for the Foundation. The...
SCHOLARSHIPS AND INCENTIVE GRANTS FOR JEWISH CAMPS!
Jewish Camp Works Did you know that…. As adults, Jewish campers are 21 percent more likely to feel that being Jewish is very important.As adults, Jewish campers are 26 percent more likely to be members of a synagogue.As adults, Jewish campers are 55 percent more...
SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH THE JEWISH FOUNDATION!
Jewish Scholarship Initiative (JSI)-Scholarships for Area Day Schools, Synagogue Schools, Jewish Preschools and Camps Thanks to a generous donor in our community, last year JSI distributed $87,000 in local scholarships. Scholarships are needs based and are for Jewish...
FIRES IN ISRAEL-HOW YOU CAN HELP
Over the past week, Israel suffered from over 600 wildfires which injured 180 people and burned over 500 homes. Nearly 100,000 Israelis have been evacuated; in Haifa, hundreds of apartments were destroyed, leaving more than 1,000 people without homes. Israel’s Nature...
TIPS FOR YEAR END GIVING
What to do in order to ensure you can claim a charitable deduction for 2016: For donations of cash (including checks), your donation must be either postmarked or personally delivered to the not-for-profit organization on or before December 31.For donations of stock,...
CONTINUING A FAMILY’S TRADITION OF BUILDING COMMUNITY
Charitable giving often starts at an early age. Noam Benson Tilsen recently established a scholarship fund for members of his synagogue, Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel, to attend Camp Ramah. This fund is part of Noam’s bar mitzvah observance and facilitated by the...
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The Jewish Foundation is a trusted and expert resource for charitable gift planning and endowments and serves as a partner and resource for synagogues, local Jewish agencies, professional advisors and donors.
When you make a current gift or leave a bequest to the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven, you not only benefit our community, but you can also support the causes that are important to you. You can designate that your gift be used to provide unrestricted funds to help meet community needs now and in the future or to endow a permanent fund to aid identified programs, your synagogue, agencies, organizations, or initiatives (Jewish or not Jewish, in Greater New Haven, Israel or beyond) that are of particular interest to you and your family.
Lisa Stanger, Esq., Executive Director
Tiberius Halai, Grants and Gift Manager
Beth Kupcho, Scholarship and Philanthropy Manager
Stephanie Licsak, Controller
Sarah Domena, Marketing and Communications Director
Tamara Schechter, Create a Jewish Legacy Manager
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For Professional Advisors
If you are working with a professional advisor or advising a donor, here’s a useful guide for including the Don Bosco Prep in a charitable estate plan.