REPORT OF REPORT STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS AND GRANTS 2014 – 15

UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS AND GRANTS 2014 – 15

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Table of Contents

Introduction ...... 3

Jewish Communal Network Commission (JCNC) Executive Summary ...... 6 Commission Membership List ...... 8 Fiscal 2015 Grants ...... 12 Fiscal 2014 Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013 ...... 19

Caring Commission (Caring) Executive Summary ...... 22 Commission Membership List ...... 24 Fiscal 2015 Grants ...... 27 Fiscal 2014 Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013 ...... 38

Commission on Jewish Identity and Renewal (COJIR) Executive Summary ...... 46 Commission Membership List ...... 48 Fiscal 2015 Grants ...... 51 Fiscal 2014 Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013 ...... 54

Commission on the Jewish People (COJP) Executive Summary ...... 59 Commission Membership List ...... 62 Fiscal 2015 Grants ...... 66 Fiscal 2014 Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013 ...... 71

SYNERGY Executive Summary ...... 79 SYNERGY Membership List ...... 80 Fiscal 2015 Grants and Other Commitments ...... 81 Fiscal 2014 Grants and Other Commitments Since July 1, 2013 ...... 82

Fiscal 2015 Grants by Agency ...... 83

Fiscal 2014 Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013 (outside the Commissions process) ...... 109

Named Endowment and Spending Funds ...... 116

Special Thanks ...... 120

Introduction

The possibility of change is embedded in our tradition. Each year during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur we are reminded of the possibility of teshuva. Our classical prophets instructed our people that they could abandon habitual ways and create new patterns and institutions that would embody justice, fairness, and compassion. In this book, you will find a list of UJA-Federation of New York grants for the 2014-15 fiscal year as well as those awarded for the current fiscal year since publication of the Report of Strategic Directions and Grants for 2013-14. Each grant represents a belief that we can do better, that we can build stronger, more engaged, and more cohesive Jewish communities. The sum of these grants expresses our belief that our creativity, courage, and resources can change institutions and communities. May the efforts reflected in this book advance us further on our journey toward redemption.

This has been a year of significant strategic review on the planning and allocations side of our organization. Beginning in 1999, we have planned and allocated through three mission-based commissions (Caring Commission, Commission on the Jewish People, Commission on Jewish Identity and Renewal), the Jewish Communal Network Commission, and, since 2009, SYNERGY (UJA-Federation and synagogues together). Fourteen years later, UJA-Federation engaged the Bridgespan Group (a leading consulting firm serving not- for-profit organizations) to assist us in an in-depth review of our allocations and grant making process. After six months of intensive data gathering, we created three working groups that focused on issues critical to ensuring that we use our resources most effectively. The three working groups dealt with these key topics:

 Allocations: Establishing organization wide priorities to guide the work of the commissions and the development of signature initiatives;  Performance Measurement and Evaluation: Enhancing performance measurement and evaluation to better assess the efficacy of our grants and to allow us to compare grants to one another; and  Core Operating Support: Providing a methodology for distributing core operating support that responds to ongoing change in our community and in our network agencies, and that provides a basis beyond history for allocating unrestricted funds.

Initial recommendations from the allocations working group that could be implemented immediately were used on a pilot basis in this year’s appropriations process and are reflected in the grants that you will find in this report. An implementation committee is being established to oversee the full implementation of all three working groups’ recommendations, which will impact our planning for years to come.

Allocations Each year, priorities are informed by our vision of creating “caring, inspired, and interconnected communities” and where UJA-Federation can have the greatest impact. In prior years, strategic priorities were developed at the commission level and were reflected in the presentations made by the commissions to the Allocations Steering Committee (ASC)* in the initial phase of the allocations process. But while the priorities were consistent with our mission, that mission has turned out to be too broad to be helpful in focusing our resources on the most important priorities from an organizationwide perspective. This year, we added a Priorities Cabinet (composed of the ASC plus a former commission chair and a former campaign chair) to develop organizationwide priorities. The commissions made recommendations for priorities to the cabinet, which then guided the group to collaborate, provide input, receive feedback, and advance thinking on priorities. At the end of this work, the Priorities Cabinet adopted priorities (detailed below) and suggested areas for the development of new initiatives. When the commissions came to the ASC with specific funding

*Under UJA-Federation’s bylaws, the ASC consists of the president, chair of the board, treasurer, executive vice president & CEO, and immediate past president, who serves as chair.

3 requests, they did so through the lens of the organizationwide priorities that originated in the Priorities Cabinet, and the results of that process are presented here.

The Priorities Cabinet also asked the mission-based commissions to recognize that fewer and larger grants focused on fewer priorities are more likely to achieve our longer-term goals than are many smaller grants addressing multiple issues. Everyone agreed that diffusion of effort is not in our best interests. After reviewing recommendations from the commissions, the ASC asked them to focus on discrete initiatives in the areas of voluntarism, engaging interfaith families, and young-adult Jewish identity engagement. In addition, the ASC endorsed and encouraged cross-commission efforts in Israel to strengthen the fabric of Israeli society in order to further our vision of a stronger, more inclusive Israeli Jewish community and a strong Jewish democratic state.

The ASC was delighted that this year our vision and plans far outstripped our budget. Although this situation required hard choices, and everyone wished we had more funding to enable all the commissions to pursue their efforts fully, we nevertheless were pleased that the commissions had indeed engaged in bold thinking and planning.

We engaged in the review of our planning and allocations process appreciating that we were doing so from a position of strength. UJA-Federation continues to have enormous impact in our community. During the course of this review, we kept focus on four principles that are fundamental to what UJA-Federation is about:

 Our three-part mission of caring for people in need, strengthening the Jewish people, and inspiring a passion for Jewish life;  Our responsibility for Jews wherever they may live: around the corner, in the former Soviet Union or Israel, or anywhere in the world;  Our network as an essential platform to actualize our mission; and  Our commitment to invest in the Jewish future.

As we planned for the 2015 fiscal year that begins July 1, 2014, we recognized that we are in improving, if still fragile, economic times. Many economic indicators continue to be positive, and the stock market has reached all-time highs. On the other hand, funding for many government safety-net programs that support the most vulnerable people in our community remains under pressure — witness recent major cuts made to the SNAP (food stamps) program. Indicators of Jewish identity — the latest being the Pew Study — continue to show negative trends in Jewish affiliation. And Israel continues to struggle with many societal issues that were suppressed during decades of challenge from war and terrorism, even as events in its neighborhood give rise to new security worries.

How We Use Our Resources As previously noted, the new process developed by the allocations working group and piloted this year led to a set of organization-wide priorities that were used by the commissions and SYNERGY in preparing their funding requests. These priorities are to:

 Support and strengthen UJA-Federation’s network of affiliated agencies and the work they do so they will build caring communities (in New York for both the Jewish and broader community), inspired Jewish communities that can ignite Jewish journeys, and connected Jewish communities that embody collective responsibility.  Intensify the reweaving of the Jewish community so that agencies, synagogues, day schools, and newer Jewish organizations work in concert to strengthen our Jewish community.  Continue to provide critical services at the institutions where Jews gather so that all Jews feel the embrace of the community. This includes providing supportive services to the growing aging Jewish population.

4  Strengthen Israel as an inclusive and diverse Jewish state.  Improve program quality and increase the number of teens and young adults who participate in the transformative Jewish-identity experiences that are most powerful in igniting the Jewish journey.

These priorities have informed the commissions’ ongoing reprioritization of their grant portfolios and the initiatives they fund. These priorities also have guided the development of proposals for initiatives that individually and collectively can demonstrate the power of UJA-Federation to bring together planning and partners to have a major impact on Jewish life.

Planning never ends. As we continue to learn from our grants, from new data from the field, and from studies such as the New York Jewish Community Study of 2011, we continually refine and improve our work. This is our sacred task. We are blessed to engage in such meaningful and holy work.

2015 Appropriations The 2015 appropriations seek to take account of the factors noted above while ensuring that we maintain UJA-Federation of New York’s capacity to support a unique domestic and overseas network of agencies, fulfill our mandate for global responsibility, respond to urgent needs among the poorest in our city while reinventing how we serve the entire Jewish community, and invest in the Jewish future. We are delighted that this report recommends $135,339,000 for grants and related program activities — an increase of $4,030,000 from last year. This report details allocations to our commissions, our national and international agencies, and SYNERGY totaling $126,701,000, an increase of $4,356,000 from last year. The remainder of the funds is for grants made by bodies other than the commissions, various reserves, and related program activities as detailed in the appropriations memorandum sent to the Board of Directors.

2015 Appropriations Amount Jewish Communal Network Commission 35,394,000 Caring Commission 16,786,000 Commission on Jewish Identity and Renewal 15,974,000 Commission on the Jewish People 8,385,000 SYNERGY 500,000 International Agencies (JAFI and JDC) 42,281,000 Jewish Federations of North America 5,135,000 Partnership/Alliance (National Agency) 1,746,000 Global Planning Table/ JFNA 500,000 Other 8,638,000 Total 135,339,000

The pages that follow highlight the strategies of the four commissions and SYNERGY and detail the grants made by them as well as our core operating support to national and international agencies. The grants are organized both by commission and by recipient agency.

5 Jewish Communal Network Commission Executive Summary

The mission of the Jewish Communal Network Commission is to strengthen and empower a network of affiliated agencies and the work they do to advance UJA-Federation’s goal of building caring, inspired, and connected Jewish communities. The Network Commission uses a combination of core operating grants and capacity-building interventions and funding to support and strengthen the network of agencies.

The main functions of the Network Commission are to support network effectiveness and enhance agency service models and strategies. These functions are achieved through our internal departments: Organizational Reviews, Organizational Services, and the J-1-1 Information and Referral Center. The work of the Network Commission is actualized on an annual basis through a variety of committees and task forces including: the Cabinet, Steering Committee, Agency Accountability Task Force, Building Repair Committee, Capital Campaign Review Committee, Day Camp Task Force, Task Force on Hillels, Jewish Community Centers for the Future Task Force, National and International Task Force, Network Council on Trustee Relations, Organizational Assessment Committee, and the Task Force on Agency Capacity and Excellence.

In fiscal year 2014, the Network Commission focused its efforts on developing and implementing the Agency Accountability Guidelines, and requested additive capacity-building dollars to be allocated based upon the priorities established by both UJA-Federation and the Network Commission. The strategic priorities of the Network Commission are as follows: 1. Maintaining a network of agencies 2. Supporting network effectiveness 3. Strengthening centers for Jewish life 4. Ensuring the continuation of poverty and safety-net services

For fiscal year 2015, the Network Commission was awarded $35,394,000 for agency allocations, including an additive $870,000 that will be allotted as capacity-building grants in support of strategic priorities 2 through 4.

Strategic Priority 1: Maintaining a Network of Agencies Maintaining and investing in a network of effective and well-managed organizations that are innovative, responsive to the needs in both the Jewish and general communities, and provide a platform for services that support UJA-Federation’s strategic priorities. Strategies this year have included: 1. Providing core operating support grants to a network of agencies. 2. Conducting organizational reviews of network agencies and utilizing the information to support decision-making regarding network affiliation.

Strategic Priority 2: Supporting Network Effectiveness Supporting the growth, development, and effectiveness of network agencies in the areas of infrastructure and operations. Focus has been placed on: 1. The development of effective, strong, and sustainable organizations, including “at-risk” and other priority agencies. 2. Maximizing agency compliance with the implementation of the Agency Accountability Guidelines, and launching the Technology Adoption Initiative.

Strategic Priority 3: Strengthening Centers for Jewish Life Strengthening network agencies that engage young adults, teens, and young families with an enhanced focus on communities that have substantial or growing Jewish populations.

6 Hillels and Jewish community centers have always fostered Jewish community building and have played an important role in engaging various segments of the Jewish community throughout New York. In order to continue to strengthen these institutions in meaningful ways, the Network Commission will allocate funds to:  Bolster select Jewish community centers as an outgrowth of organizational reviews.  Develop infrastructure enhancements for the CUNY Hillels.  Implement strategies to improve and strengthen Jewish day camping experiences.

Strategic Priority 4: Ensuring the Continuation of Poverty and Safety-Net Services Ensuring that safety-net services continue to be provided to the Jewish community, including a focus on the needs of the frail homebound elderly, by building the capacity and facilitating collaborations among network agencies and other Jewish institutions.

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Jewish Communal Network Commission Commission Membership List Fredric Yerman, Chair Roberta Leiner, Senior Vice President of Agency Relations

Herbert Ackerman Eric Goldstein Robert Polonsky Karen Adler Lawrence Gottlieb Brett Reese January Akselrad Elizabeth Grayer Stephen Reiner Phil Altheim John Hermann Dan Reingold Howard Altschul Nadya Hoexter Brandon Resnick* Sanford Antignas Lisa Hurwich* Linda Rich Michel Araten Suzanne Jaffe Theodore Richman Donald Ashkenase Stephen Karafiol Susan Richter Brett Barth Ferne Katleman Gedaliah Riesenberg Froma Benerofe Lisa Kiell Marcia Riklis Maksin Berger Rosemarie Klipper Michael Rosenbaum Sam Bloustein Adam Kneller Gary Rosenberg Thomas Blumberg Peter Kolevzon Seymour Rubin Frances Brandt Bernard Kosberg Barbara Salmanson Jamie Brokowsky* James Krauskopf Helen Samuels David Bryfman Paul Kronish Stanton Selbst Bessie Castagnello Naomi Lazarus Ann Silver Jack Cayre David Leinwand Klara Silverstein Fred Claar Marc Lessner Patricia Silverstein Carol Corbin Jerry Levin Wendy Slavin Alisa Doctoroff Sheri Levine Jill Smith Victoria Feder Paul Levy Karen Spar Kasner Cindy Feinberg Brent Lipschultz Jodi Sperling Jeffrey Fisher* Jeffrey Loewy Jerry Spitzer Martine Fleishman Joan Loren Linda Spitzer Matthew Foreman Heidi Lurensky Barbara Steiner William Frumkin Michael Lustig Hillel Wallick Adam Gaynor Linda Lynn Renee Ward Alan Gaynor Jennifer Lyss Notis Blake Weinberg* Michael Gerber Jill Manczyk Adam Weiss Jeffrey Gerson Barbara Mann Peter Weiss* Joan Gerstler Ralph Marash James Wetzler Craig Gilston Dean Matus Pamela Wexler Allan Glick Adam Menkes Jeffrey Wiesenfeld Ruth Golan Paul Millman Deanne Winnick Billie Gold Linda Mirels Naomi Wolinsky Bradd Gold Preston Neal Steven Wolitzer Amy Goldberg Diana Newman Ann Yerman Muriel Goldberg Suzanne Peck Julia Zeuner Joli Golden Shara Perlman

Network Commission Cabinet Fredric Yerman, Chair Roberta Leiner, Senior Vice President of Agency Relations

Philip Altheim Sanford Antignas Brett Barth Howard Altschul Donald Ashkenase Jack Cayre

*Observer

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Martine Fleishman Paul Kronish Helen Samuels Allan Glick Paul Levy Patricia Silverstein Billie Gold Jeffrey Loewy Jill Smith Joli Golden Heidi Lurensky Karen Spar-Kasner Lawrence Gottlieb Michael Lustig James Wetzler Elizabeth Grayer Suzanne Peck Pam Wexler Suzanne Jaffe Dan Reingold Naomi Wolinsky Rosemarie Klipper Stephen Reiner

Network Steering Committee Fredric Yerman, Chair Roberta Leiner, Senior Vice President of Agency Relations

Howard Altschul Suzanne Jaffe Helen Samuels Brett Barth Suzanne Peck Jill Smith Lawrence Gottlieb Stephen Reiner James Wetzler

Agency Accountability Committee Howard Altschul, Chair Susan Cohen, Staff

Brett Barth John Herrmann Karen Spar Kasner Martine Fleischman Suzanne Jaffe Barbara Steiner Allan Glick Stephen Reiner James Wetzler Larry Gottlieb Dan Reingold Fredric Yerman Elizabeth Grayer Helen Samuels

Task Force on Agency Capacity and Excellence (ACE) Brett Barth, Chair Jill Mendelson, Staff

Michel Araten Suzanne Jaffe Gedaliah Riesenberg Donald Ashkenase Bernard Kosberg Helen Samuels William Frumkin James Krauskopf Stanton Selbst Bradd Gold Joan Loren Peter Weiss* Muriel Goldberg Michael Lustig James Wetzler Joli Golden Linda Lynn Steven Wolitzer Lawrence Gottlieb Jennifer Lyss Notis Fredric Yerman Nadya Hoexter Stephen Reiner Lisa Hurwich* Linda Rich

Building Repair Committee Heidi Lurensky, Chair Betsey Knapp, Staff

Bess Castagnello Michael Gerber Lisa Kiell Cindy Feinberg Craig Gilston Adam Menkes Alan Gaynor Stephen Karafiol Paul Millman

*Observer

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Robert Polonsky Jerry Spitzer Blake Weinberg* Seymour Rubin Hillel Wallick Fredric Yerman

Capital Campaign Review Committee Philip Altheim, Kevin Curran, Staff

Matthew Foreman Brett Reese Wendy Slavin Jeffrey Gerson Stephen Reiner Fredric Yerman Dean Matus Gary Rosenberg Paul Millman Helen Samuels

Day Camp Task Force Joli Golden, Chair Jill Mendelson, Staff

David Bryfman Linda Lynn Jodi Sperling Adam Gaynor Shara Perlman Adam Weiss Allan Glick Helen Samuels Fredric Yerman Rosemarie Klipper

Hillels Task Force Jill Smith, Chair Jane Abraham, Staff Svetlana Muterperel, Staff

Howard Altschul Ruth Golan Klara Silverstein Thomas Blumberg Naomi Lazarus Karen Spar Kasner Frances Brandt Marc Lessner Jeffrey Wiesenfeld Jeffrey Fisher* Michael Lustig Deanne Winnick Martine Fleishman Diana Newman Naomi Wolinsky Joan Gerstler Helen Samuels Fredric Yerman

Jewish Community Centers for the Future Task Force Suzanne Peck, Chair Svetlana Muterperel, Staff Jane Abraham, Staff

Froma Benerofe Ferne Katleman Theodore Richman Maksim Berger Peter Kolevzon Helen Samuels Sam Bloustein David Leinwand Karen Spar Kasner Fred Claar Sheri Levine Ann Yerman Carol Corbin Diana Newman Fredric Yerman Victoria Feder Stephen Reiner

*Observer

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National International Task Force Sanford Antignas, Chair Ronald Soloway, Staff Jen Simbol, Staff

Karen Adler Eric Goldstein Brandon Resnick* Jamie Brokowsky* Ferne Katleman Michael Rosenbaum Alisa Doctoroff Adam Kneller Barbara Salmanson Martine Fleishman Jerry Levin Fredric Yerman Billie Gold Linda Mirels Julia Zeuner

Network Council on Trustee Relations Patricia Silverstein, Chair Melissa Rosen, Staff Mindy Jerome, Staff

Thomas Blumberg Helen Samuels Pamela Wexler Lawrence Gottlieb Karen Spar Kasner Fredric Yerman Barbara Mann

Organizational Review Committee Suzanne Jaffe, Chair Jane Abraham, Staff

Herbert Ackerman Rosemarie Klipper Susan Richter January Akselrad Paul Kronish Ann Silver Howard Altschul Paul Levy Linda Spitzer Michel Araten Brent Lipschultz Naomi Wolinsky Lawrence Gottlieb Stephen Reiner Fredric Yerman

Staff Roberta Leiner, Senior Vice President of Agency Relations Jill Mendelson, Deputy Managing Director Jane Abraham, Director, Organizational Reviews Meredith Levine, Director, J-1-1 Information & Referral Center Susan Cohen, Program Executive, Organizational Reviews Tamar Frydman, Manager, J-1-1 Information & Referral Center Barbara Gold, Program Executive, Organizational Services Betsey Knapp, Program Associate, Organizational Services Svetlana Muterperel, Program Executive, Organizational Reviews Lily Pepper, Administrative Assistant, Jewish Communal Network Commission Melissa Rosen, Program Associate, Organizational Reviews Jennifer Simbol, Planning Associate Jaclyn Spector, Associate Specialist, J-1-1 Information and Referral Center Rebecca Zimilover, Intern

*Observer

11 2014-15 Commission Grants

Network : Agency Core Operating Support Grants 92nd Street YM-YWHA Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $533,207 Alexander M. & Brenda R. Tanger Hillel at Brooklyn College Core Operating Support Grant $182,000 Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $507,247 Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Organizations Core Operating Support Grant $36,647 Berkshire Hills-Emmanuel Camps Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $153,608 Blythedale Children's Hospital Core Operating Support Grant $14,582 Boro Park YM & YWHA Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $310,823 Bronx House Jewish Community Center Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $223,723 Bronx Jewish Community Council Core Operating Support Grant $63,372 Bronx-Riverdale YM-YWHA Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $400,119 Camp Dora Golding Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $72,476 Camp Louemma Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $1,000 CenterLight Health System Core Operating Support Grant $82,737 Central Queens YM & YWHA Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $527,529 College of Staten Island Hillel Core Operating Support Grant $100,000 Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organization (COJECO) Core Operating Support Grant $200,000 Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush Core Operating Support Grant $80,652 Crown Heights Jewish Community Council Core Operating Support Grant $35,690

12 2014-15 Commission Grants

DOROT Directed Core Operating Support Grant $145,816 East Meadow Jewish Community Relations Council Core Operating Support Grant $2,577 Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $678,700 Educational Alliance Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $1,281,429 FEGS Health and Human Services Core Operating Support Grant $3,203,818 Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Core Operating Support Grant $108,426 Hazon Core Operating Support Grant for Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center $144,243 Hebrew Educational Society Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $361,072 Hebrew Free Burial Association Directed Core Operating Support Grant $1,000 Hebrew Free Loan Society Core Operating Support Grant $147,624 Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds Core Operating Support Grant $529,824 Hillel at Baruch College Core Operating Support Grant $165,000 Hillel at Binghamton University Core Operating Support Grant $120,000 Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life: Snyder Hillel Center Stony Brook University Core Operating Support Grant $156,000 Hillels of Westchester (New York) Core Operating Support Grant $89,417 Hofstra University Hillel Core Operating Support Grant $122,500 Hunter College Hillel Core Operating Support Grant $104,000 Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA) Core Operating Support Grant $1,650,271 Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (JBFCS) Core Operating Support Grant $5,328,434

13 2014-15 Commission Grants

Jewish Child Care Association of New York (JCCA) Core Operating Support Grant $471,434 Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Core Operating Support Grant $239,505 Jewish Community Center of Mid-Westchester Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $382,698 Jewish Community Center of Staten Island Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $410,470 Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $235,896 Jewish Community Center on the Hudson Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $219,667 Jewish Community Council of Canarsie Core Operating Support Grant $80,151 Jewish Community Council of Pelham Parkway Core Operating Support Grant $15,020 Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula Core Operating Support Grant $71,111 Jewish Community Council of Washington Heights & Inwood Core Operating Support Grant $41,720 Jewish Community Relations Council of New York Core Operating Support Grant $1,170,860 Jewish Education Project Core Operating Support Grant $2,760,716 Jewish Home Lifecare Core Operating Support Grant $279,297 Kings Bay YM-YWHA Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $402,910 Directed Core Support formerly provided to the Jewish Community Council of Kings Bay $42,172 Kraft Center for Jewish Life (Columbia/Barnard Hillel) Core Operating Support Grant $95,000 Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty Core Operating Support Grant $1,978,047 For Community Council Programs in Boro Park $26,969 Metropolitan Jewish Health System Core Operating Support Grant $89,688 Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $386,430

14 2014-15 Commission Grants

Mosholu-Montefiore Community Center Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $141,341 New York Board of Rabbis Directed Core Operating Support Grant $100,399 New York Legal Assistance Group Directed Core Operating Support Grant $251,677 New York Service for the Handicapped, Camp Oakhurst Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $49,538 Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation Core Operating Support Grant $163,449 Queens College Hillel Core Operating Support Grant $165,000 Queens Jewish Community Council Core Operating Support $87,721 Ramapo for Children Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $70,225 Richard Rosenthal JCC of Northern Westchester Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $371,279 Samuel Field YM&YWHA Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $657,694 Selfhelp Community Services Core Operating Support Grant $404,079 Sephardic Community Center Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $468,956 Shorefront Jewish Community Council Core Operating Support Grant $76,318 Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $588,197 Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $318,838 Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $454,187 Surprise Lake Camp Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $139,715 The Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life: Hillel at NYU Core Operating Support Grant $53,000 United Jewish Council of the East Side Core Operating Support Grant $23,158

15 2014-15 Commission Grants

Usdan Center for the Creative & Performing Arts Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $70,190 Westchester Jewish Community Services Core Operating Support Grant $1,019,593 Westchester Jewish Council Core Operating Support Grant $70,444 YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $307,494 Total $33,317,816 Network : Building Repair Alexander M. & Brenda R. Tanger Hillel at Brooklyn College Emergency pipe repairs $7,800 Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center Replace aged humity and temperature controls $25,000 Boro Park YM & YWHA Roof Repairs $8,000 Bronx House Jewish Community Center Bathroom Renovations $10,000 Central Queens YM & YWHA Preventive Maintenance Planning Grant $18,000 Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst Boiler refurbishment and roof repairs $29,690 Educational Alliance Pool equipment replacements for the 14th Street Y $25,000 Hazon Replace eight tent platforms and framing materials for Adama staff housing $6,000 Hebrew Educational Society Replace six doors with operational issues $24,986 Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds Rebuild code compliant chlorine containment areas at Staten Island Property $25,000 Jewish Community Center of Mid-Westchester Level sports field terrain $10,000 Jewish Community Center of Staten Island Preventive Maintenance Planning Grant $18,000 Kings Bay YM-YWHA Installation of two engergy efficient HVAC units and door repairs $6,750 Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center Preventive Maintenance Planning Grant $18,000

16 2014-15 Commission Grants

Richard Rosenthal JCC of Northern Westchester Install a heating system in the gym $8,000 Samuel Field YM&YWHA Marble dust the pool at the Bay Terrace Pool & Tennis Center $14,515 Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach Sauna Refurbishment $10,000 Surprise Lake Camp Removal and pruning of hazardous trees $10,000 YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood Replace six emergency exit doors $8,000 Total $282,741 Network : Long Island Program Services Cabinet

Congregation L'Dor V'Dor-Oakland Little Neck Jewish Center Simcha Singles $5,000 Jewish Child Care Association of New York (JCCA) Compass Hibur L'Dor $15,000 Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns Greater Five Towns Mitzvah Corps (Kol Yisrael Arevim Zeh Bazeh) $5,000 Ve'haavta le'reacha Camchoa - Love Your Friend as You Love Yourself $6,000 Jumpstart Jewish Without Walls - JFUN $8,000 Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center BRIJE - Building Russian Inspired Jewish Expression $18,000 Kehilla $18,000 M'Yad L'Yad - Long Island's Helping Hands Long Island's Helping Hands Community Collection Program $5,000 Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center Engaging Interfaith Families $20,000 Total $100,000 Network : Supplemental Operating Support Jewish Community Relations Council of New York Community Relations Initiatives on Long Island $45,961 Supplemental Operating Support $100,000 Total $145,961 Network : Vehicles Mosholu-Montefiore Community Center Purchase two 15-seat school buses $7,666

17 2014-15 Commission Grants

Ramapo for Children Purchase 12 passenger van $7,666 Total $15,332 Network : Westchester Program Services Cabinet Congregation Kol Ami The Westchester/Fairfield Association of Temple Educators (WATE) $5,500 Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organization (COJECO) Westchester Families Project $6,000 DOROT Helping Seniors by Partnering with Westchester Jewish Community Services $7,200 Jewish Community Center on the Hudson Jewish Community Cultural Arts Festival $6,000 New York Board of Rabbis Westchester Elderly Outreach Program $6,000 Westchester Jewish Community Services Family Caregiver Network $12,000 Westchester Jewish Council Expansion of Westchester Adult Education Program $4,500 Total $47,200

18 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Network : Agency Core Operating Support Grants Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organization (COJECO) Core Operating Support Grant $100,000 Jewish Community Council of Washington Heights & Inwood Core Operating Support Grant $4,000 Kings Bay YM-YWHA Directed Core Support formerly provided to the Jewish Community Council of Kings Bay $42,172 Total $146,172 Network : Building Repair Samuel Field YM&YWHA Marble dust the pool at the Bay Terrace Pool & Tennis Center $15,485 Total $15,485 Network : Capacity Building Projects 92nd Street YM-YWHA JData Mini Grant $1,000 Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center JData Mini Grant $1,000 Berkshire Hills-Emmanuel Camps Improve Quality of Agency Audit Pilot Program $5,000 Bronx House Jewish Community Center JData Mini Grant $1,000 Bronx-Riverdale YM-YWHA JData Mini Grant $1,000 Central Queens YM & YWHA JData Mini Grant $1,000 Moving Forward Your Digital Capacity - Implementation Grant $1,000 Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organization (COJECO) Social Enterprise Planning Grant $13,500 Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst JData Mini Grant $1,000 Educational Alliance Social Enterprise Planning Grant $20,000 JData Mini Grant $1,000 Moving Forward Your Digital Capacity - Implementation Grant $1,000 Hazon Financial Dashboard $12,000 Hebrew Educational Society JData Mini Grant $1,000

19 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds Improve Quality of Agency Audit Pilot Program $5,000 Development at the Core Program: Follow-On Mini Grant $3,500 Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA) Social Enterprise Planning Grant $20,000 Jewish Community Center in Manhattan JData Mini Grant $1,000 Moving Forward Your Digital Capacity - Implementation Grant $1,000 Jewish Community Center of Mid-Westchester JData Mini Grant $1,000 Moving Forward Your Digital Capacity - Implementation Grant $1,000 Fiscal Infrastructure Review $10,000 Development at the Core Program: Follow-On Mini Grant $3,500 Jewish Community Center of Staten Island JData Mini Grant $1,000 Moving Forward Your Digital Capacity - Implementation Grant $1,000 Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns Social Enterprise Planning Grant $13,000 JData Mini Grant $1,000 Jewish Community Center on the Hudson JData Mini Grant $1,000 Outsourcing of Financial Management $12,500 Jewish Community Centers Association Training for JCC Day Camps $6,700 Kings Bay YM-YWHA Social Enterprise Planning Grant $10,000 JData Mini Grant $1,000 Moving Forward Your Digital Capacity - Implementation Grant $1,000 Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center Financial Dashboard $12,000 JData Mini Grant $1,000 Queens College Hillel NY Area Hillel Website Redesign $14,335 Board Assessment $7,500 Richard Rosenthal JCC of Northern Westchester JData Mini Grant $1,000 Samuel Field YM&YWHA Fiscal Infrastructure Review $35,000 Executive Coaching $3,000

20 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

JData Mini Grant $1,000 Moving Forward Your Digital Capacity - Implementation Grant $1,000 Sephardic Community Center JData Mini Grant $1,000 Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach JData Mini Grant $1,000 Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center JData Mini Grant $1,000 Development at the Core Program: Follow-On Mini Grant $3,500 Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center JData Mini Grant $1,000 Surprise Lake Camp Fiscal Infrastructure Review $20,000 United Jewish Council of the East Side Fiscal Infrastructure Review $7,250 Social Enterprise $20,000 YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood Regional Day Camp, Stage 2 Planning Grant $25,000 JData Mini Grant $1,000 Development at the Core Program: Follow-On Mini Grant $3,500 Total $314,785 Network : Long Island Program Services Cabinet Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center Giving Garden: Grow to Give, Grow to Learn $1,746 Total $1,746 Network : Task Force on Hillels College of Staten Island Hillel Israel Engagement/Education $8,000 Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life: Snyder Hillel Center Stony Brook University Israel Engagement/Education $8,000 Hillels of Westchester (New York) Israel Engagement/Education $10,000 Queens College Hillel Israel Engagement/Education $14,000 The Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life: Hillel at NYU Israel Engagement/Education $10,000 Total $50,000

21 Caring Commission Executive Summary

The Caring Commission ensures that those struggling with life’s challenges feel the warm embrace of the Jewish community during periods of isolation, strengthens the safety net for the community’s most vulnerable, and empowers individuals to play an active role in the building of a caring and responsive Jewish community. At the heart of the Caring Commission’s mission is a commitment to building a community to which individuals feel both a sense of belonging and a sense of responsibility. An essential strategy in almost all we do is the reweaving of the Jewish communal institutions — synagogues, day schools, Hillels, Jewish Community Centers, and other gateways at which Jews naturally gather — into the lives of Jews. The Caring Commission’s work is guided by its three strategic priorities: 1) provide critical services for vulnerable members of the community, 2) build communities of inclusion and full participation, and 3) enable Jews to care one for the other through meaningful opportunities to serve.

This year, the creation of the five organizationwide priorities described in the Introduction served as a blueprint for the reprioritization of commission resources toward initiatives that align with those priorities. Two of these priorities specifically guided the reprioritization of the Caring Commission’s resources in 2014 – 15: 1) intensifying the reweaving of agencies, synagogues, day schools, and newer Jewish organizations into the Jewish community so that they work in concert to strengthen our Jewish community, and 2) continuing to provide critical services at the institutions where Jews gather so that all Jews feel the embrace of the community.

Over the years, the Caring Commission has crafted a service delivery system that meets basic life-sustaining needs, works to reduce suffering and isolation, and draws on the Jewish community to provide comfort and strength. To actualize this, the Caring Commission has long utilized the strategy of reweaving and has ensured that a holistic system of critical safety-net services is available to meet the needs of the most vulnerable in our community. In 2014 – 15, guided by the mandate to move resources toward UJA- Federation’s organizationwide priorities, the Caring Commission will reprioritize $295,000 to deepen our commitment to delivering critical services at the places where Jews naturally congregate. This reprioritized funding will be used for the development of initiatives dedicated to supporting populations identified in the Jewish Population Study 2011: Special Report on Poverty as particularly vulnerable:  Isolated elderly and their caregivers: we aim to enhance critical-service provision for the frail elderly and their caregivers through technology-based resources and programming to enhance social connectedness involving synagogues and day schools  Single parents: we will expand programming in community-based settings, building on the programs of our Safety Net and Single Stop provider agencies, in order to enable single parents to more easily access critical services as well as Jewish life and family programming.

The Priorities Cabinet also endorsed additive funding for innovation and R&D in the broad area of volunteerism, where it is believed that UJA-Federation and the New York Jewish community needed to assume a far larger role. In response to this charge, the Caring Commission put forth a bold vision to position UJA-Federation as the destination and catalyst for Jewish volunteerism in our region. The result is UJA- Federation’s Live With Purpose Institute, to be funded with $650,000 in additive resources plus $130,000 of the Caring Commission’s own reprioritized funds, which will employ a multitiered five-year strategy to actualize UJA-Federation’s vision.

In the coming year, we will lay the groundwork for the vision by building the volunteer management and service learning capacity of a number of network agencies, providing service consulting to synagogues and day schools, and increasing pro bono volunteerism within UJA-Federation’s network. Taken together, these strategies will enable us to help create and sustain opportunities for volunteers to use their skills to play the primary roles in the delivery of mission-critical, high-impact service in projects delivered within a Jewish context side by side with other Jews.

22 In 2015 – 16, after having ramped up capacity, we will launch a sophisticated web application through which individuals will easily be able to connect to a full range of substantive volunteer offerings in the Jewish community. We will also launch an annual conference that will culminate with a “call to action” for Jews to volunteer, and will offer an “innovation competition” for new volunteer projects. A communitywide marketing campaign will package all of this work into a cohesive, highly visible brand.

Further, in 2014 – 15, the Caring Commission will expand on existing areas of success or implement new initiatives to further its strategic priorities, as follows:  In 2013 – 14, we piloted an initiative to help students from low-income families at CUNY Hillels build the critical skills and networks necessary to enter and thrive in the job market. In 2014 – 15, we will build on initial successes by expanding the pilot program to Hillels at Baruch College and the College of Staten Island. We will also enhance the program model to include online resources, internships, and networking events that will engage volunteers from UJA-Federation’s ELP and other groups.  It has been less than one year since we launched Engage, and the initiative has already succeeded in recruiting more than 450 baby-boomer volunteers in projects, who in turn have served more than 3,500 clients. Over the coming year, we will build on year-one successes by doubling the number of volunteers involved in the program and deepening volunteer engagement.  We launched the Center for Jewish End of Life Care in 2013 – 14 to create a central address for Jewish hospice, palliative care, and end-of-life inquiries in the New York metropolitan area, and we have already achieved initial success in elevating the conversation around Jewish end of life. In 2014 – 15, we will increase funding for this initiative to further its reach and impact.  The Caring Commission will develop and implement an initiative based on the results of a recent study it commissioned to examine how Jewish adolescents and teens use technology to find and access mental health resources and support. As most youth find themselves online more often than they find themselves in the physical spaces in which we currently work, we hope to build caring communities for this cohort by creating a virtual space built on technology that will connect Jewish adolescents and teens to mental health resources, support, and community.  We will continue to monitor the development and implementation of new and ongoing programs — vocational and social skills training, internships, and employment placements — that promote the inclusion and independence of young adults with autism spectrum disorder. Going forward, we will develop and implement tools to help us optimally gauge successful outcomes and create a “community of practice” among funded agencies.  We will commit additional funds to Kehilot Shel Areyvut, a collaboration between leaders in the field of spiritual care and renewed Jewish communities in Israel that teaches people how to care for one another in the creation of strong Jewish communities. With additional funds, we aim to build on the initiative’s successful foundation and momentum by creating a more robust, coordinated training program for community leaders; deepening and expanding the work of spiritual care providers in the three currently funded communities; and expanding to an additional community.  We will evaluate the expansion of the Benin undergraduate scholarship program in Israel. This evaluation will include considering the addition of three academic colleges and whether Atidim students should become eligible to apply. We will continue to make enhancements to the program and explore ways to offer wrap-around services to scholarship recipients to help them optimize their academic success.

Additionally, the Caring Commission, together with the other mission-based commissions, will engage in the coming year in a planning process aimed toward the development of a signature cross-commission Israel initiative, building upon and reinforcing the efforts of each commission to date with the aim of strengthening Israel as an inclusive and diverse Jewish state.

23 Caring Commission Commission Membership List Jeffrey Schoenfeld, Chair Julia Zeuner, Vice Chair Alex Roth-Kahn, Managing Director

Jed Aber Jack Gorman Michael Papo Roberta Ain Elaine Gould Lori Perlow Laura Barbanel Patricia Green Rina Pianko Jamie Baron Linda Gross Jonathan Plutzik Judy Baron Natasha Hanan Tina Price Shari Beckman Jamie Harris Gail Propp Trisanne Berger Shelley Harrison Jodi Reiskind Ari Blaut* Theodore Hertzberg* Susan Richter Ruth Brause Deborah Hilibrand Penny Rosen Carol Brennglass Spinner Ellen Hochberg Patricia Rosof Jason Brzoska Ori Hollander* Susan Rozin Allan Carlton Marcie Imberman Joseph Rubin Carol Corbin Isaac Jonas* Helen Rubinstein Eustacia Cutler Floy Kaminski Javier Schiffrin Ellen De Jonge-Ozeri Talia Kaplan Philip Schlussel Ilene Eder Amy Kapnick Cari Schnipper Melanie Eisman* Jason Kats* Jeffrey Schoenfeld Richard Ellenson Susan Klugman Rebecca Siegel Travis Epes Vickie Kobak Paul Siegel Marcia Eppler-Colvin Jeane Kraines Jesse Silver Rachel Epstein Adam Kramer* Karen Sobel Valerie Feigen Naomi Kronish Stephanie Spiegel Helga Fisch Philip Lang Barry Stein Cheryl Fishbein Susan Lax Shari Steinberg Steven Fleischer Naomi Lazarus Marjorie Stern Ellen Forrest Sharon Lewis Richard Streicher Sarah Jane Fox Arlene Maidman Jennifer Sultan Pamela Frankel-Stein Gabriella Major Renee Ward Carole Friedman Reina Marin Peter Webb Karen Friedman Benjamin Metzger* Shahla Weiner Patti Fuchs Michael Morse Amy Werman Michelle Galpern* Beth Moses Judith West Judith Gelfand Josh Myers Erika Witover Jonathan Gerber Margaret Neimeth Ann Yerman Joan Gerstler Leslie Nelson Julia Zeuner Judith Ginsberg Marilyn Newman Dina Zuckerberg Muriel Goldberg Madeline Noveck Myra Zuckerbraun Lisa Goldman Jane Nusbaum Carol Goldstein Linda Nussbaum

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Caring Cabinet Jeffrey Schoenfeld, Chair Alex Roth-Kahn, Managing Director

Richard Ellenson Muriel Goldberg Jesse Silver Travis Epes Jack Gorman Amy Werman Marcia Eppler-Colvin Reina Marin Julia Zeuner Karen Friedman Susan Richter Jonathan Gerber Jeffrey Schoenfeld

Task Force on Aging Marcia Eppler-Colvin, Chair Lauren Epstein, Staff

Jed Aber Elaine Gould Marilyn Newman Ari Blaut* Marcie Imberman Michael Papo Ruth Brause Floy Kaminski Susan Rozin Carol Brennglass-Spinner Talia Kaplan Joseph Rubin Jason Brzoska Vickie Kobak Marjorie Stern Marcia Eppler-Colvin Jeane Kraines Richard Streicher Patti Fuchs Naomi Lazarus Renee Ward Judith Gelfand Sharon Lewis Julia Zeuner Joan Gerstler Margaret Neimeth Carol Goldstein Leslie Nelson

Autism Task Force Travis Epes, Chair Melanie Goldberg, Staff

Shari Beckman Rachel Epstein Arlene Maidman Carol Corbin Ellen Forrest Michael Morse Eustacia Cutler Judith Ginsberg Rina Pianko Travis Epes Deborah Hilibrand

Employment and Self- Sufficiency Task Force Jonathan Gerber, Chair Elisabeth Kostin, Staff

Trisanne Berger Ellen Hochberg Jodi Reiskind Steven Fleischer Ori Hollander* Cari Schnipper Karen Friedman Isaac Jonas* Jesse Silver Michelle Galpern* Adam Kramer* Jennifer Sultan Jonathan Gerber Josh Myers Judith West Natasha Hanan Linda Nussbaum Erika Witover Jamie Harris Gail Propp

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Health, Healing, and Spirituality Task Force Muriel Goldberg, Chair Jodi Rosenberg, Staff

Roberta Ain Susan Klugman Gail Propp Helga Fisch Naomi Kronish Helen Rubinstein Carole Friedman Susan Lax Philip Schlussel Muriel Goldberg Marilyn Newman Marjorie Stern Patricia Green Madeline Noveck Peter Webb Amy Kapnick Jane Nusbaum Ann Yerman

Mental Health and Wellbeing in Youth and Families Task Force Richard Ellenson and Reina Marin, Chairs Melanie Goldberg, Staff

Laura Barbanel Pamela Frankel-Stein Javier Schiffrin Jamie Baron Lisa Goldman Rebecca Siegel Carol Corbin Jack Gorman Karen Sobel Ellen De Jonge-Ozeri Linda Gross Stephanie Spiegel Melanie Eisman* Shelley Harrison Barry Stein Richard Ellenson Jason Kats* Shari Steinberg Rachel Epstein Gabriella Major Shahla Weiner Valerie Feigen Reina Marin Dina Zuckerberg Sarah Jane Fox Lori Perlow Myra Zuckerbraun

Safety Net and Security Task Force Susan Richter and Julia Zeuner, Chairs Abigail Pick, Staff

Jason Brzoska Theodore Hertzberg* Patricia Rosof Allan Carlton Philip Lang Paul Siegel Ilene Eder Benjamin Metzger* Richard Streicher Karen Friedman Beth Moses Renee Ward Joan Gerstler Susan Richter Julia Zeuner

Staff Alex Roth-Kahn, Managing Director Elise Slobodin, Planning Director Lauren Epstein, Planning Manager Elisabeth Kostin, Planning Manager Melanie Goldberg, Planning Executive Abigail Pick, Planning Associate Jodi Rosenberg, Planning and Grants Associate Sheryl Parker, Engage Project Manager Hannah Kalson, Administrative Assistant Abigail Malis, Intern

*Observer

26 2014-15 Commission Grants

Caring : Aging - Holocaust Survivors Blue Card Cash Assistance for Destitude Holocaust Survivors $50,000 Boro Park YM & YWHA Club Nissim - Enhanced Senior Adult Activities for Nazi Victims $64,500 Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst 'Poka Gorit Svecha'- Bensonhurst Holocaust Survivors Center $25,000 Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns Never Said Goodbye (Chaverim) $92,500 Maimonides Medical Center Brooklyn Holocaust Survivors Mental Health Project $131,500 Montefiore Medical Center An Alliance for the Mental Health of Holocaust Survivors $150,000 New York Legal Assistance Group Compensation Appellate Practice Program $185,000 Samuel Field YM&YWHA Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Holocaust Survivors in Queens $40,000 Selfhelp Community Services Core Services for Holocaust Survivors $750,000 Shorefront Jewish Community Council Services for Victims of Nazi Persecution (Project TOV): The Other Victims $62,500 Total $1,551,000 Caring : Aging - Holocaust Survivors in Israel AMCHA-National Israeli Center for Psychosocial Support of Survivors Emotional Support for Holocaust Survivors $173,000 BINA Al Tashlicheini (Do Not Forsake Me) $50,000 Total $223,000 Caring : Aging - Partners in Caring Isolated Older Adults Central Queens YM & YWHA Queens Partners in Caring Initiative $35,000 DOROT DOROT Partners in Caring Synagogue Initiative $75,000 Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns 'Ve'haderta Pnai Zaken': Respect the Elderly $71,500 Samuel Field YM&YWHA Queens Partners in Caring $50,000

27 2014-15 Commission Grants

YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood Support Services at Neighborhood Synagogues $25,000 Total $256,500 Caring : Aging - Professional Development in Israel American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) UJA-Federation/JDC Eshel Professional Exchange $7,770 Total $7,770 Caring : Aging - Volunteerism/Socialization

Bronx Jewish Community Council BJCC Volunteer Initiative $65,000 Kings Bay YM-YWHA Kaplan Fund Concerts for Seniors $4,646 Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach Summer Nights Festival $4,646 Total $74,292 Caring : Aging- UJA -Federation of New York's EngAGE Jewish Community Center in Manhattan UJA-Federation of New York's Engage $170,000 Richard Rosenthal JCC of Northern Westchester UJA-Federation of New York's Engage $180,000 Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center UJA-Federation of New York's Engage $195,000 Total $545,000 Caring : Autism - Family Centered Autism Initiative Jewish Child Care Association of New York (JCCA) POINT Westchester Internship Program $55,000 The Compass Project (Yad L'Mishpachah - A Helping Hand to the Family) $60,000 Mount Sinai School of Medicine UJA-Federation-Mount Sinai Family Centered Autism Initiatives $109,846 Westchester Jewish Community Services Therapeutic Support Services for Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and Their Families $70,524 Total $295,370 Caring : Employment & Self-Sufficiency College of Staten Island Hillel CUNY Hillel Career Services Initiative $10,000 Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst Pathways to Vocational Training and Placement $150,000

28 2014-15 Commission Grants

FEGS Health and Human Services Connect to Care: Region-Wide Employment Services $295,000 CUNY Hillel Career Services Initiative $84,096 Employment Services at Single Stops $87,500 Experience2Work $225,000 Pathways to Success $150,000 Hebrew Free Loan Society Baby Boomer Entrepreneurship $39,238 Hillel at Baruch College CUNY Hillel Career Services Initiative $10,000 Hunter College Hillel CUNY Hillel Career Services Initiative $10,000 Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (JBFCS) Connect to Care in Manhattan $90,000 New York Legal Assistance Group Connect to Care: Financial Counseling $120,000 Connect to Care: Legal Counseling $140,000 Samuel Field YM&YWHA Connect to Care in Queens $80,000 Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center Connect to Care in Nassau County - LI $95,000 Westchester Jewish Community Services Connect to Care in Westchester $106,131 Total $1,691,965 Caring : Employment & Self-Sufficiency- Young Adults at Risk in Israel Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) Atidim - Cadets for Public Service $100,000 Benin Fund Post Graduate Scholarships $80,000 Benin Fund Undergraduate Scholarships $350,000 Sheatufim Promoting Civic Service in Israel $125,000 Yedidim for Youth and Society Striving Toward A Better Future $50,000 Total $705,000 Caring : Health, Healing and Spirituality- Jewish Healing and Hospice Alliance Beth Israel Medical Center Improving Patient and Caregiver Well-being via Hospital-Community Linkages $150,000

29 2014-15 Commission Grants

Community Association for Jewish at Risk Cemeteries (CAJAC) At-Risk Cemeteries $80,000 Hebrew Free Burial Association Free Burial Services for Recent Soviet Immigrants $40,000 Metropolitan Jewish Health System Building New York City's First Jewish Hospice Residence $256,290 The Center for Jewish End of Life Care $190,000 Mount Sinai Medical Center Supporting Seriously Ill Patients Living in the Community $150,000 North Shore - LIJ Health System Improving the Continuum of Care through Longitudinal Palliative Care Provision Across Community Settings $150,000 Total $1,016,290 Caring : Health, Healing and Spirituality- Jewish Spiritual Care in Israel Avi Hayishuv Community Rabbinics Program Pastoral Care Track for Rabbis and Community Leaders $49,000 Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center Sunrise Day Camp for Children with Cancer in Israel $30,000 Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer Spiritual Care in Rehabilitation Departments $24,750 Haverut Hadassah-Haverut Partnership $50,000 Keren Koby Mandell Spiritual and Psychological Care for Parents, Widows and Widowers (with Israel Center for Treatment and Psychotrauma) $36,000 Kesher Spiritual Mentoring for Kesher Staff and Parents of Special Needs Children $33,500 Ma'agan - The Jerusalem Support Center for Those Affected by Cancer Ma'agan Spiritual Support Program for People Living with Cancer $38,000 National Association of Jewish Chaplains Bi-National Chaplaincy Education and Training $78,000 Neve Yerushalayim Project S.P.A.R.C. - Spiritual Psychological and Religious Care $17,800 Rambam Medical Center, Health Care Campus Spiritual Care As Part of Oncology Supportive Care $50,000 Sarah Herzog Hospital - Ezrath Nashim Supportive Interdisciplinary Spiritual Care in the Complex Nursing Department $30,000

30 2014-15 Commission Grants

Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies Pastoral Care and Crisis Intervention $35,000 Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Cancer Medicine Department B'Ruach - By Spirit: Development of Chaplaincy (Pastoral Care) Service and Training Program $94,500 Tishkofet Israel Spiritual Care Network $135,000 Nirapeh - Growth and Healing in the Face of Life Threatening Illness $50,000 Spiritual Care Training to Serve the Russian Speaking Community (with Zimrat Yah) $50,000 Total $801,550 Caring : Health, Healing and Spirituality- Jewish Spiritual Care in New York

Jewish Theological Seminary of America Clinical Pastoral Education Program for Zicklin Jewish Hospice $53,130 JTS Clinical Pastoral Education Program - Internships in UJA-Federation of NY agencies $28,175 New York Board of Rabbis Westchester Elderly Outreach Program $18,000 Total $99,305 Caring : Health, Healing and Spirituality- Regional Care Center FEGS Health and Human Services LI Regional Care Center for the UJA-Federation Healing and Hospice Partnership at F.E.G.S - Partners in Dignity $238,889 Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (JBFCS) The Shira Ruskay Center - End of Life Regional Care Center and Enhancing Palliative Care $247,139 Westchester Jewish Community Services End of Life Care Initiative - Pathways To Care $228,086 Total $714,114 Caring : Mental Health & Wellbeing in Youth and Families - Family Support Services in Israel Tishkofet Kehillot Shel Areyvut $150,000 Total $150,000 Caring : Mental Health & Wellbeing in Youth and Families - Family Support Services in New York Hunter College Hillel Rabbinic Intern $10,000 SPARKS SPARKS First Response Helpline and Service $49,077 Total $59,077 Caring : Mental Health & Wellbeing in Youth and Families - Mental Health Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (JBFCS) Mental Health for Unemployed $90,000

31 2014-15 Commission Grants

SAFE Foundation Staff Training and Prevention Education around Addictions in the Jewish Community $25,000 Total $115,000 Caring : Mental Health & Wellbeing in Youth and Families - Partners in Caring Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center Partners in Caring: South Shore Satellite Site $55,159 FEGS Health and Human Services F.E.G.S. Partners in Caring in Day Schools $100,000 Partners in Caring Initiative for the Bukharian Community of Central Queens $100,000 Partners in Caring on Long Island $168,646 Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (JBFCS) Partners in Caring - The 'Building Bridges' Project $160,000 Partners in Caring in Jewish Day Schools and Yeshivas Project $100,000 Jewish Child Care Association of New York (JCCA) Yachad: Working Together to Help At-Risk Youth & Strengthen Families (Partners in Caring for the Bukharian Community) $129,000 Jewish Community Center on the Hudson B'yachad - Together We Will Care for the Needy - Partners in Caring $40,000 Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center Partners in Caring $40,178 Ohel Children's Home and Family Services Project 'CHINUCH' - 'Children Need Chizuk' $130,000 Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center Partners in Community Care $161,949 Westchester Jewish Community Services Partners in Caring/On Site Counseling $244,689 WJCS Partners in Caring in Day Schools $70,000 Total $1,499,621 Caring : Mental Health & Wellbeing in Youth and Families - Special Needs Jewish Deaf Resource Center Changing Attitudes by Creating accessibility For Those With Communication Needs $20,000 Total $20,000 Caring : Overseas Community Electives American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Ashalim $500,000 Eshel Spiritual Care - Professional Spiritual Care Development in Homes for the Aged $100,000 Feeding Programs for Elderly Jews in the Former Soviet Union who do not Qualify as Nazi Victims $2,509,897 Holocaust Survivors in Israel $100,973

32 2014-15 Commission Grants

The Integration Project $100,000 UJA-Federation/JDC Eshel Professional Exchange $12,230 Welfare Assistance for Elderly Jews of Moscow through Hesed Chama $120,000 Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) Caring for Israel's Holocaust Survivors: Amigour $80,000 The Integration Project $100,000 Total $3,623,100 Caring : Safety Net and Security- Day Camp Scholarships

Bronx House Jewish Community Center Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $11,500 Central Queens YM & YWHA Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $33,600 Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $91,500 Hebrew Educational Society Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $38,000 Jewish Community Center of Staten Island Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $8,500 Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $27,000 Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $6,800 Kings Bay YM-YWHA Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $58,000 Mosholu-Montefiore Community Center Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $10,000 Samuel Field YM&YWHA Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $17,800 Sephardic Community Center Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $67,500 Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $23,000 YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $5,800 Total $399,000 Caring : Safety Net and Security- Day Care Scholarships Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center Day Care Scholarships $1,700

33 2014-15 Commission Grants

Day Care Scholarships - Long Beach Division $1,700 Latchkey Scholarships (Beach Y Division) $2,100 Bronx House Jewish Community Center Latch Key Scholarships $3,400 Bronx-Riverdale YM-YWHA Kid's Space Scholarships $4,800 Central Queens YM & YWHA Safety Net-Day Care $4,000 Educational Alliance Extended Jewish Oriented Day Care $5,200 Hebrew Educational Society Daycare Scholarships $3,100 Latch Key Children $4,800 Jewish Child Care Association of New York (JCCA) Day Care Scholarships - Forest Hills Child Care Center $12,400 Jewish Community Center of Staten Island Day Care Scholarships $4,100 Latch Key Scholarships $2,800 Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns 'KEYS' Keeping Each Youth Supervised (latch key scholarships) $2,400 Mosholu-Montefiore Community Center Day Care Scholarships $5,500 Richard Rosenthal JCC of Northern Westchester Latchkey Daycare Scholarships $1,400 Samuel Field YM&YWHA Day Care Scholarships $4,100 Northeast Queens Extension: After School Daycare Program (Latchkey) $2,800 Sephardic Community Center Day Care Scholarships $5,500 Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach After School Latchkey Program Scholarships $5,200 Day Care Scholarships for Infants to Two Year Olds $5,800 Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center Day Care Scholarships $2,800 Latch Key Scholarships $1,000 Total $86,600

34 2014-15 Commission Grants

Caring : Safety Net and Security- New York Times Neediest Cases Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $58,487 Educational Alliance New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $46,230 FEGS Health and Human Services New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $177,563 Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA) New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $346,546 Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (JBFCS) New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $306,446 Jewish Child Care Association of New York (JCCA) New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $33,446 Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $437,254 Mosholu-Montefiore Community Center New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $26,792 Selfhelp Community Services New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $187,195 Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $34,672 Westchester Jewish Community Services New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $87,906 YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $8,582 Total $1,751,119 Caring : Safety Net and Security- Safety Net Initiative Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Organizations Safeguarding Efficient Delivery at the Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Organizations $10,000 Bronx Jewish Community Council Safety Net for All $25,000 Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush Safety Net Services - Project Care of the COJO of Flatbush $45,000 Crown Heights Jewish Community Council Crown Heights Central Initiative $45,000 Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst Marks JCH Safety Net $60,000

35 2014-15 Commission Grants

Educational Alliance Engaging, Strengthening, and Ensuring the Safety of Lower Manhattan's Jewish Older Adults $95,000 Expanding Mental Health Services for Safety Net Program Clients $75,000 FEGS Health and Human Services Long Island Senior Support Network $155,000 Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA) Senior Community Connection $250,000 Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (JBFCS) Specialized Support Services for the Safety Net Initiative $48,000 Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns 'Al Taznichaini' - 'Do Not Neglect Me' $80,000 Jewish Community Council of Canarsie Canarsie Safety Net $90,000 Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty Met Council Urgent Safety Net Services $700,000 New York Legal Assistance Group Safety Net Program $390,000 Safety Net: Financial Counseling $101,225 Samuel Field YM&YWHA QueensNet $145,000 Selfhelp Community Services Selfhelp Safety Net: Comprehensive Case Management for Elderly and Disabled Jews $300,000 Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach Shorefront Y's Safety Net for Low Income/Vulnerable South Brooklyn Seniors: Community Based Geriatric Services Program $90,000 YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood The Hudson Community Project: Safe at Home $115,538 Total $2,819,763 Caring : Safety Net and Security- Single Stop

Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst Single Stop Entitlement Advocacy and Economic Empowerment Center $120,000 Single Stop Financial Services Provision $98,000 Kings Bay YM-YWHA Single Stop Center $120,000 New York Legal Assistance Group Legal Services for Single Stop $231,300

36 2014-15 Commission Grants

Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach Shorefront Y Single Stop (Enhanced Technology Resources to Promote Entitlement Access and Economic Self Sufficiency $90,000 Total $659,300 Caring : Trauma Relief Services - Israel

Israel Trauma Coalition Sustainability Support for Israel Trauma Coalition $225,000 Total $225,000

37 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Caring : Aging - Cash Assistance Bronx Jewish Community Council Cash Assistance for Older Adults $3,300 Total $3,300 Caring : Aging - Holocaust Survivors Blue Card Cash Assistance for Destitude Holocaust Survivors $25,000 Boro Park YM & YWHA Club Nissim - Enhanced Senior Adult Activities for Nazi Victims $32,500 Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst 'Poka Gorit Svecha'- Bensonhurst Holocaust Survivors Center $12,500 Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns Never Said Goodbye (Chaverim) $46,250 New York Legal Assistance Group Compensation Appellate Practice Program $50,000 Samuel Field YM&YWHA Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Holocaust Survivors in Queens $20,000 Selfhelp Community Services Core Services for Holocaust Survivors $637,500 Bi-Annual Lecture for Professionals Working with Holocaust Survivors $2,000 Total $825,750 Caring : Aging - Nazi Victims: Core Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) La'ad (Forever) $21,639 Selfhelp Community Services Comprehensive Case Management for Holocaust Survivors $77,709 Total $99,348 Caring : Aging - NORCs Bronx Jewish Community Council AMPARK NORC- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $1,425 Senior Services at Pelham Parkway Houses- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 CenterLight Health System PEP for Seniors- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst NNORC Skirball Nursing Grant $25,000 Good Neighbors NORC Program- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $1,200 Educational Alliance Co-op Village NORC-SSP- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000

38 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Goddard Riverside Community Center West Side NORC- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 Isabella Geriatric Center El Corazon NNORC- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 Ft. George VISTAS NORC- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $1,500 Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA) Surfside Gardens NORC Skirball Nursing Grant $25,000 1199 Plaza Services NORC- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 Co-op City Senior Services - Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $1,300 TOPS NORC-SSP- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 Trump 4 Us NORC-SSP- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 Warbasse Cares for Seniors NORC-SSP-- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 Penn South Program for Seniors- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $1,500 Coney Island Active Aging NORC/SSP- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 Co-op City NORC Senior Services-Sidney Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 Warbasse Cares-NORC SSP- Sidney Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center Project PACE- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $1,750 Morningside Retirement and Health Services Morningside NORC-Sidney Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 Queens Community House Forest Hills Cooperative- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $1,500 Samuel Field YM&YWHA Clearview Assistance Program- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 Deepdale CARES- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 NORC WOW- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 Clearview Assistance Program- Sidney Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 Deepdale CARES and NORC WOW- Sidney Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 Selfhelp Community Services Big Six Towers NORC- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $1,525 Queensview/North Queensview NORC- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $1,500 Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach NNORC Skirball Nursing Grant $25,000 NORC - Bright on the Ocean- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $1,457 Spring Creek Senior Partner Spring Creek NORC- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center Stanley M. Isaacs NORC- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000

39 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Visiting Nurse Service of New York Chinatown Neighborhood NORC- Jeannette Solomon Cultural Arts Program $2,000 Total $131,657 Caring : Aging - Partners in Caring Isolated Older Adults Jewish Community Center of Staten Island Partners in Caring for Isolated Older Adults $52,650 Total $52,650 Caring : Aging - Volunteerism/Socialization Charities Aid Foundation Volunteerism Conference $75,000 Total $75,000 Caring : Aging - Workforce Development for Home Health Aides CenterLight Health System Home Care Aide Training & Employment Pilot $289,875 FEGS Health and Human Services Homecare Aide Workforce Initiative - Specialty Training $21,430 Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Homecare Aide Workforce Initiative - Specialty Training $24,680 Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA) Homecare Aide Workforce Initiative - Specialty Training $21,430 Jewish Home Lifecare Home Care Aide Training & Employment Pilot $177,689 PHI Home Care Aide Training & Employment Pilot $383,885 Selfhelp Community Services Home Care Aide Training & Employment Pilot $170,871 Total $1,089,860 Caring : Aging- UJA -Federation of New York's EngAGE Jewish Community Center in Manhattan UJA-Federation of New York's Engage Jewish Service Corps $57,500 Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center UJA-Federation of New York's EngAGE $20,000 Total $77,500 Caring : Autism - Family Centered Autism Initiative Autism Science Foundation Planning TED-Style Talks to Foster Jewish-related Autism Education $10,000 Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst Brooklyn Sunday as Funday $6,250

40 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Transition to Independence: BrooklynConnect $64,547 Hebrew Educational Society Brooklyn Sunday as Funday $6,250 Hebrew Institute of Riverdale Synagogue Inclusion Ignition Award $5,000 Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Transition to Independence: Social and Relational Strategies $64,547 Jewish Community Center of Staten Island CLASSP Student Stipends $8,750 Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns CANVAS $10,000 Kings Bay YM-YWHA Brooklyn Sunday as Funday $6,250 Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center Transition to Independence: Leadership and Independence Vocational Initiative (LIVE) $64,547 Samuel Field YM&YWHA HaDereckh: A Path - Assisting Youth with Autistic Spectrum Disorders Prepare for Adulthood; from the Nedivot fund of UJA Federation on NY $10,000 Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach Brooklyn Sunday as Funday $6,250 Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center Transition to Independence: Vocational Training and Employment Center (VTEC) $64,548 Westchester Jewish Community Services Transition to Independence: Shelanu $64,547 Total $391,486 Caring : Employment & Self-Sufficiency FEGS Health and Human Services Connect to Care: Region-Wide Employment Services $295,000 Employment Services at Single Stops $87,500 Experience2Work $225,000 Employment Services for Young Adults $30,000 FEGS Employment Services to the Haredim $68,716 Hebrew Free Loan Society Empowering Displaced 50+ Professionals and Managers $39,238 Microenterprise Program for Haredi Community $48,255 Hunter College Hillel Employment Services for Young Adults $10,000 Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (JBFCS) Connect to Care in Manhattan $90,000

41 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Jewish Community Center of Staten Island Connect to Care in Staten Island $60,000 Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty Employment Services in Brooklyn's Ultra Orthodox Community $35,284 New York Legal Assistance Group Connect to Care: Legal Counseling $170,000 Connect to Care: Financial Counseling $150,000 Samuel Field YM&YWHA Connect to Care in Queens $80,000 Sheatufim Promoting Civic Service in Israel $100,000 Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center Connect to Care in Nassau County - LI $95,000 Westchester Jewish Community Services Connect to Care in Westchester $100,000 Total $1,683,993 Caring : Employment & Self-Sufficiency- Young Adults at Risk in Israel Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) Benin Fund Post Graduate Scholarships $80,000 Benin Fund Undergraduate Scholarships $350,000 Total $430,000 Caring : Health, Healing and Spirituality- Jewish Healing and Hospice Alliance Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University Program for Jewish Genetic Health: Online Community Genetic Health Series $20,000 Beth Israel Medical Center Improving Patient and Caregiver Well-being via Hospital-Community Linkages $150,000 Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA) Improving Patient and Caregiver Well-being via Hospital-Community Linkages $50,000 Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (JBFCS) Supporting Seriously Ill Patients Living in the Community $50,000 Mount Sinai Medical Center Supporting Seriously Ill Patients Living in the Community $150,000 North Shore - LIJ Health System Improving the Continuum of Care through Longitudinal Palliative Care Provision Across Community Settings $150,000 Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation Improving the Continuum of Care through Longitudinal Palliative Care Provision Across Community Settings $50,000 Total $620,000

42 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Caring : Health, Healing and Spirituality- Jewish Spiritual Care in Israel Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies Pastoral Care and Crisis Intervention $35,000 Total $35,000 Caring : Health, Healing and Spirituality- Jewish Spiritual Care in New York Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (JBFCS) Annual Bikur Cholim Conference $5,000 Total $5,000 Caring : Housing Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Expanding Independent Housing Options for People with Autism Spectrum Disorders $10,000 Total $10,000 Caring : Mental Health & Wellbeing in Youth and Families - Family Support Services in Israel Tishkofet Kehillot Shel Areyvut $58,333 Total $58,333 Caring : Mental Health & Wellbeing in Youth and Families - Family Support Services in New York Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center LBGTQ Teen Camp - Participant Subsidies $10,000 Total $10,000 Caring : Mental Health & Wellbeing in Youth and Families - Mental Health SAFE Foundation Staff Training and Prevention Education around Addictions in the Jewish Community $15,000 Total $15,000 Caring : Mental Health & Wellbeing in Youth and Families - Partners in Caring FEGS Health and Human Services Partners in Caring on Long Island $2,000 Total $2,000 Caring : Safety Net and Security- Day Camp Scholarships Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center Day Camp Scholarships for Children with Disabilities - Butler Special Needs Award $5,000 Central Queens YM & YWHA Day Camp Scholarships for Children with Disabilities - Butler Special Needs Award $5,000 Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst Day Camp Scholarships for Children with Disabilities - Butler Special Needs Award $7,500 Hebrew Educational Society Day Camp Scholarships for Children with Disabilities - Butler Special Needs Award $10,000

43 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Jewish Community Center of Staten Island Day Camp Scholarships for Children with Disabilities - Butler Special Needs Award $5,000 Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns Day Camp Scholarships for Children with Disabilities - Butler Special Needs Award $10,000 Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center Day Camp Scholarships for Children with Disabilities - Butler Special Needs Award $5,000 Mosholu-Montefiore Community Center Day Camp Scholarships for Children with Disabilities - Butler Special Needs Award $10,000 Samuel Field YM&YWHA Day Camp Scholarships for Children with Disabilities - Butler Special Needs Award $5,000 Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center Day Camp Scholarships for Children with Disabilities - Butler Special Needs Award $7,500 Total $70,000 Caring : Safety Net and Security- Safety Net Initiative DOROT Food for Holiday Package Delivery $3,000 FEGS Health and Human Services Partners in Dignity $15,000 Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA) Senior Community Connection $50,300 Kosher Home-Delivery Meals $25,000 Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (JBFCS) Specialized Support Services for the Safety Net Initiative $8,000 Jewish Community Council of Canarsie Canarsie Safety Net $5,000 Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty Met Council Urgent Safety Net Services $42,000 Senior Cash Assistance Program $4,000 Engaging Volunteers; Expanding the Safety Net $140,000 New York Legal Assistance Group Financial Counseling Services for Safety Net Grantees $71,225 Safety Net Financial Counseling: Economic Stability for Low-Income Elderly Jews $43,000 Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center 'You Can Age in Place' - A Continuum of Services for Seniors $30,000 Westchester Jewish Community Services WJCS Coordinated Care Services $20,000 Total $456,525

44 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Caring : Safety Net and Security- Single Stop Kings Bay YM-YWHA Single Stop Center $120,000 Total $120,000 Caring : Special Fund Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (JBFCS) Subsidy for the Treatment of Depression at the Network of JBFCS Community Counseling Centers $154,757 Scholarship Funds Administered by Hebrew Free Loan Society Administrative Fee - Biller Scholarship Awards $64,000 Rose Biller Endowment Fund Scholarship Awards $1,020,800 Selim and Rachel Benin Scholarship Fund at the Hebrew Free Loan Society - For Grants and Administration $27,800 Total $1,267,357 Caring : Special Fund - Overseas Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) Rita Allen Foundation Gift:Renovation of the Social Club in the Givat Amos Amigour Sheltered Housing Project in Nesher $70,000 Total $70,000

45 Commission on Jewish Identity and Renewal Executive Summary

Two principles animate the work of the Commission on Jewish Identity and Renewal (COJIR). First, we recognize that there is a new life cycle that fundamentally impacts the contours of the contemporary Jewish journey. Marriage and family, for example, two traditional building blocks of older Jewish communities, are today more often delayed or declined. Recognizing that Jewish lives emerge out of different sets of sacred moments, we have shifted our task forces to reflect these new pathways. Second, we acknowledge that a new century by definition requires new models. We are eager to test experiences and organizations that are emerging to meet present-day sensibilities and revitalizing our communities in new and unexpected ways. From New York to Moscow to Tel Aviv, this flat, fast, and furiously interconnected world can be an overwhelming challenge to the embrace of an eternal and abiding Judaism. Yet with each emerging generation we learn again that Judaism remains a critical touchstone and a vital source of meaning, purpose, and connection.

The strategic priorities affirmed by the UJA-Federation of New York Priorities Cabinet directed COJIR to focus most intently in the following three areas:

Teens We began to see subtle shifts in the landscape in our work to engage Jewish teens in meaningful, powerful, and compelling Jewish experiences. After almost a decade of market shrink, there is renewed interest by both program providers and local communities in the puzzle that is Jewish teen engagement. National collaborations like the planned 2015 shared convention of NFTY (the youth organization of the Union of Reform Judaism) and BBYO (the leading pluralistic youth organization), the successful independence of Young Judaea, and the Jim Joseph-funded Community of Practice (led by our very own Jewish Education Project) may mark a turning point. We welcome the emergence of partners who share our determination to change the communal norm of post-bar and bat mitzvah dropout. An unintended consequence of the Foundation for Jewish Camp’s Jewish Specialty Camp Incubator was a sizeable enrollment of teenagers who had never before been to a Jewish camp. Camp Zeke, a second new camp to be located on UJA-Federation of New York property, will join Eden Village Camp as a COJIR-nurtured specialty camp when it opens for campers this summer. Devoted to health and well-being, we hope that Camp Zeke will help take us more deeply into a redesign of the entire menu of Jewish summer options for Jewish teens.

Young Adults By some estimates 25 percent of all college- and postcollege-aged Jewish young adults will spend some time as a resident of our catchment area. This influx creates an almost unimaginable swirl of people, ideas, and opportunities. While we continue to fund many initiatives designed by and for this cohort, we are also aware that there can be more efficient and effective ways to connect emerging adults and the array of local Jewish experiences. This year we hope to explore various technologies for a better-networked Jewish New York. We are also aware of the gaps in the available opportunities, and have tried to create safe spaces for young adults to wrestle with complicated Jewish ideas and for practicing and experimenting with Jewish behaviors on their own terms. We are approaching a Birthright tipping point, where close to half of this age group will have this 10-day Israel trip as a Jewish common denominator. Our Jewish Journey Guides initiative with Birthright NEXT is designed to weave together the actual Birthright experience with the reality of coming home by using local organizations and specially trained professionals to help participants build meaningful post-Israel Jewish moments.

Strengthening Israel as a Diverse Jewish State The dream of an Israel as a Jewish home in which every Jew feels at home continues to slowly blossom. We celebrate the increase in demand by Israelis for programs that reflect a diversity of Jewish sensibilities by continuing to support local projects as well as municipal and organizational platforms. We have also strengthened our investment in the field of Jewish renewal, encouraging the development of infrastructure

46 that will sustain these efforts over the long term. We are testing several partnerships in the “informal” education space, working closely with camps and youth movements as they reimagine themselves as powerful sources of Jewish experience and inspiration.

Finally, this year the word “Pew” made itself into nearly every communal conversation. In fact the Pew Research Center released two studies of interest — one an examination of the attitudes of American Jews and the second a detailed look at the generation known as “millennials.” This kind of data is critical not only for the information it provides, but also because it offers an opportunity for reflection and evaluation. Both Pew reports leave us energized. We recognize that we live at a moment of great change and challenge. And while Jewish pride and the desire to be part of the Jewish community may be at record levels, igniting Jewish souls remains a complicated and lifelong pursuit.

47 Commission on Jewish Identity and Renewal Commission Membership List Sara Nathan, Chair Deborah Joselow, Managing Director

Andrew Benerofe Daniel Harari Vladimir Ronin Stella Binkevich Karen Hauser Freda Rosenfeld Laurie Blitzer Dina Huebner Peri Rosenfeld Amy Bressman Robyn Joseph Nina Ross Lindsay Stricke Bressman Ellen Kapito Rivkah Rothschild Ellen Brown Judy Kaufthal Gerald Rothstein Madelyn Bucksbaum Omer Keinan* Benjamin Rubin Adamson Doron Kenter* Shereen Rutman Saul Burian Beth Kern Rachel Schlenker Rachael Burton Arlene Kleinberg David Schuck Jeffrey Cahn Denise Kohn Daniel Septimus Whitney Chernoff* Lois Kohn-Claar Sarene Shanus Antoine Chiche Lynn Korda Kroll Scott Shay Uri Cohen Ariel Koschitzky* Joanna Silver Jason Cury Jeane Kraines Jenna Silverman Bobbie Sue Daitch Jessica Kravitz Vivian Sklar Laurie Davidowitz Patricia Kronick Jill Smith Brigitte Dayan Benjamin Krull Jennifer Sokol Sharon Edelman Tanya Leis* Sureeva Stevens David Eisner Ellis Steven Lenger Dorothy Tananbaum Pamela Emmerich Naomi Less Sara Tawil-Hedaya Martine Fleishman Marc Lessner Bisera Todorovic* Susan Friedman Marion Lev-Cohen Tessie Topol Harry Frischer Walter Levitt Ariana Torchin* Michael Girshin Diane Levy Susan Wagner Jonathan Glaser Renanit Levy Rochelle Waldman Billie Gold Eileen Lieberman Wendy Waxman Rebecca Goldenberg* Seth Linfield Eliza Weber Eric Golynsky* David Meyer Dana Weintraub Judy Goodman Andrew Meyers Meryl Wiener Rhonna Goodman Sherri Miller Dewey Wigod Marilyn Gottlieb Betsy Miller Landis Merle Wolff Sarah Gould* David Paige Eugene Yermash Doree Greenberg Hillary Perlman Eugene Zingman Daniel Greenwald Joseph Rafalowicz Evan Zisholtz Martin Halbfinger Jack Rahmey Lauren Halperin Rachel Ringler

Commission Cabinet Sara Nathan, Chair Deborah Joselow, Managing Director

Amy Bressman Marion Lev-Cohen Scott Shay Michael Girshin Andrew Meyers Jill Smith Billie Gold Jack Rahmey Jennifer Sokol Denise Kohn Rachel Ringler Dorothy Tananbaum Lynn Korda Kroll Sarene Shanus Tessie Topol

*Observer

48

Beginning Jewish Families Denise Kohn, Chair Melanie Schneider, Staff

Lindsay Stricke Bressman Robyn Joseph Shereen Rutman Rachael Burton Arlene Kleinberg Rachel Schlenker Whitney Chernoff* Lynn Korda Kroll Jennifer Sokol Daniel Harari Hillary Perlman Sureeva Stevens

COJIR Abroad: FSU Task Force Tessie Topol, Chair Ariella Goldfein, Staff

Bobbie Sue Daitch Doree Greenberg David Schuck Sharon Edelman Ellis Steven Lenger Eugene Yermash Judy Goodman Gerald Rothstein Eugene Zingman

COJIR Abroad: Israel Task Force Andrew Meyers, Chair Avi Herring, Staff

Amy Bressman Diane Levy Ariana Torchin* Martine Fleishman Joseph Rafalowicz Dewey Wigod Lauren Halperin Sarene Shanus Ariel Koschitzky* Dorothy Tananbaum

Day School Task Force Jack Rahmey, Chair Avi Herring, Staff

Saul Burian Eric Golynsky* Sara Nathan Antoine Chiche Daniel Greenwald Rivkah Rothschild David Eisner Judy Kaufthal Daniel Septimus Pamela Emmerich Jessica Kravitz Sara Tawil-Hedaya Jonathan Glaser David Meyer

Experiments in Teen Engagement Task Force Jennifer Sokol, Chair Sivan Krug, Staff

Andrew Benerofe Doron Kenter* Nina Ross Ellen Brown Beth Kern Vivian Sklar Madelyn Bucksbaum Lois Kohn-Claar Bisera Todorovic* Adamson Lynn Korda Kroll Rochelle Waldman Bobbie Sue Daitch Benjamin Krull Merle Wolff Laurie Davidowitz Walter Levitt Doree Greenberg Seth Linfield

*Observer

49 Gen i Amy Bressman, Chair Ariella Goldfein, Staff

Laurie Blitzer Rhonna Goodman Naomi Less Uri Cohen Sarah Gould* Renanit Levy Brigitte Dayan Martin Halbfinger David Paige Martine Fleishman Karen Hauser Jenna Silverman Harry Frischer Lynn Korda Kroll Dorothy Tananbaum Rebecca Goldenberg* Jeane Kraines Meryl Wiener

Jewish Community Development Sarene Shanus, Chair Melanie Schneider, Staff

Stella Binkevich Sherri Miller Sureeva Stevens Jeffrey Cahn Betsy Miller Landis Susan Wagner Michael Girshin Vladimir Ronin Wendy Waxman Omer Keinan* Peri Rosenfeld Dana Weintraub Tanya Leis* Joanna Silver Evan Zisholtz

Scholarship Committee Rachel Ringler, Chair Sivan Krug, Staff

Andrew Benerofe Dina Huebner Andrew Meyers Bobbie Sue Daitch Patricia Kronick Susan Friedman Eileen Lieberman

Staff Deborah Joselow, Managing Director Hana Gruenberg, Planning Director Jennifer Kaplan, Operations Manager Ariella Goldfein, Senior Planning Executive Melanie Schneider, Senior Planning Executive Avi Herring, Planning Executive Sivan Krug, Planning Associate Keesha Mobley, Senior Administrative Assistant to Managing Director Merav Fine, Intern Ilana Sidorsky, Intern

*Observer

50 2014-15 Commission Grants

COJIR : Abroad, FSU Jewish Family Center Adain Lo Nursery School Network $100,000 Jewish National Cultural Autonomy - The Resource Center Jewish Educational Resource Center in St. Petersburg $133,700 Moishe House Growing Moishe House's Reach and Impact in the FSU $110,000 Moscow Jewish Community House (MEOD) MEOD Studencheskaya $120,000 Total $463,700 COJIR : Abroad, Israel BINA A Secular Yeshiva in Tel Aviv $100,000 Gan Yavneh Community Center ZIKA in Gan Yavneh $40,000 Israel Association of Community Centers Establishment of A Jewish Renewal Department within the IACC $152,500 PANIM: For Jewish Renaissance in Israel A Cooperative of Jewish renewal organizations in Israel $75,000 Project Kesher Israel Project Kesher - Israel $25,000 She'arim - the Association for Empowering Jewish Renewal in Israel Advocacy in Israel $100,000 Tikkun: A Center for Gathering, Education and Social Change Groups Renewing Judaism $75,000 YAHALOM - Parents and Children Study Together Family Summer Camps in Jerusalem for FSU Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Families $80,000 Zayit - Center for Jewish Culture and Identity in Emek Hefer Jewish Cultural Identity in Emek Hefer $25,000 Total $672,500 COJIR : Beginning Jewish Families

Kings Bay YM-YWHA J-Baby Time in North Williamsburg $40,000 My Jewish Learning A Jewish Twist on Parenting, Kveller.com and Kveller.com Long Island Portal $103,000 Richard Rosenthal JCC of Northern Westchester J Baby Steps and J Links and Ladders $65,000

51 2014-15 Commission Grants

Total $208,000 COJIR : Day Schools American Friends of Bar Ilan The Flipped Jewish Studies Classroom $152,426 Jewish Education Project Day School Leadership Pipeline, Collaboration Networks for Day School Leadership $396,300 Torah Umesorah/The National Society for Hebrew Day Schools National Fellowship for Principals of Day Schools $125,000 Total $673,726 COJIR : Experiments in Teen Engagement CZ Wellness Group (Camp Zeke) Camp Zeke - Blintzes and Barbells: Culinary Arts and Fitness for Teens and Parents $35,000 Jewish Education Project Teen Engagement $180,000 Westchester Jewish Teen Learning Initiative $123,350 Jewish Student Connection Jewish Student Connection - Boros Expansion $25,000 Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth (LIGALY) The Aleph Project (TAP) $20,000 Moving Traditions Inspiring the Jewish Identity of Teenage Boys $57,000 New Shul The Downtown Hunger Action Project for Jewish Teen Service and Learning (D-HAP) in Collaboration with Tamid $25,000 Westchester Jewish Council J-Teens Leadership $50,000 Total $515,350 COJIR : Gen-I Mechon Hadar Bringing Torah to the People: Yeshivat Hadar Fellows Lead Peer-to-Peer Education $110,000 Moishe House Moishe House New York City $204,350 Total $314,350 COJIR : Jewish Community Development Congregation Ansche Chesed Firebird/JAR@Ansche Chesed $6,000 Congregation Beit Simchat Torah CBST Russian Speaking Outreach $10,000

52 2014-15 Commission Grants

Congregation Sons of Israel J-STARTS, Yevrestvo Russian Program $6,000 Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organization (COJECO) Creation of Center Without Walls: Hineini $325,000 Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Jewish Journey Project: Support for Makom $40,000 Park East Synagogue The Matryoshka Club: Russian Culture, Jewish Values $6,000 Temple Israel Center 'Jew-sovka': Jewish Table Talk $10,000 Temple Shaaray Tefila Firebird/JAR $6,000 Temple Sinai of Roslyn Sinai Russian Club/SON $10,000 Village Temple Russian Kesher Club $10,000 Young Israel of Staten Island Russian Jewish Outreach Initiative $6,000 Total $435,000 COJIR : Overseas Community Electives American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) JDC Eco-Moshav $25,000 Jewish Renewal and Community Development in the Moscow Region: Community Centers $96,946 Jewish Renewal and Community Development in the Moscow Region: Community Wide Activities $46,000 Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) Jewish Summer Camps in the Former Soviet Union $2,700,000 Jewish Sunday Schools in the FSU $430,000 Rimon Summer Camp for Russian Speakers in Israel $86,410 Total $3,384,356 COJIR : Scholarship Committee

Jewish Federations of North America Birthright Israel Program $1,568,789 Total $1,568,789

53 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

COJIR : Abroad, FSU Charities Aid Foundation FSU Matching Grant Program $80,500 Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Hillel Russia - Hillel University $75,419 Jewish National Cultural Autonomy - The Resource Center Jewish Educational Resource Center in St. Petersburg $130,400 Moscow Jewish Community House (MEOD) MEOD Studencheskaya $148,000 Total $434,319 COJIR : Abroad, Israel Hamidrasha Seminary for Training Eretz Israeli Rabbis $100,000 Kiach/Alliance - Mimizrach Shemesh, The Center for Jewish Social Leadership Partnership in Social Judaism on the Municipal Level $140,000 Shalom Hartman Institute The Be'eri-Israel Scouts Partnership Program for Jewish-Israeli Identity $154,000 Total $394,000 COJIR : Beginning Jewish Families Congegation Tehillah BIKKURIM / First Fruits: Come Grow with Us $10,000 Congregation Ohav Shalom Jewish Daycare Consultancy $4,500 Educational Alliance Exploring Day Care Consultancy $7,000 Fort Tryon Jewish Center Zera’im / Seeds: Early Childhood with the Fort Tryon Jewish Center $15,000 Fractured Atlas Art Kibbutz - Creative Family Time $10,000 Jewish Child Care Association of New York (JCCA) Bringing it Home Planning Grant $7,000 Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Jewish Day Care: Feasibility Study $7,500 Kings Bay YM-YWHA J-Baby Time in North Williamsburg $35,000 J-Baby Long Island City $30,000 Nehirim LGBT Jewish Family Retreats $10,000

54 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood Y Beginnings $20,000 Feasibility Study – Full Day Child Care $7,000 Total $163,000 COJIR : Day Schools Jewish Communal Fund The Shefa School Launch $250,000 Joshua Venture Philanthropies NY Jewish Day School Fellow of the Dual Investment Program Search Process $10,000 PresenTense Group Sharing and Scaling Innovations in New York City Jewish Day Schools: a Communal Hackathon $82,915 Total $342,915 COJIR : Experiments in Teen Engagement Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst B'Yachad $100,000 Jewish Education Project Westchester Jewish Teen Learning Initiative $75,000 Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth (LIGALY) The Aleph Project (TAP) $10,000 Total $185,000 COJIR : Fund for Jewish Education Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Life Monument Funds Fund for Jewish Education - Life Insurance $473,345 2013-14 Database Maintenance $11,460 Fund for Jewish Education - Administration $53,107 Fund for Jewish Education - Medical Reimbursements $2,695,506 Fund for Jewish Education - Pension Reimbursements $253,335 Total $3,486,753 COJIR : Gen-I Brandeis University: Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies Taglit-Birthright Israel Academic Symposium $5,000 Council of Young Jewish Presidents Marketing Consultant for CYJP Mobile App Project $15,000 Footsteps Footsteps Strategic Planning $15,000 Innovation: Africa $1M and More: Building Staff Capacity to Cross the Million Dollar Mark $5,000

55 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Jewish Community Relations Council of New York RJeneration - Organization Development Retreat for Board and Lay Leaders $5,000 Jewish Council for Public Affairs Israel Facilitation Fellowships $164,500 Limmud New York Microgrant $14,500 NEXT: A Division of Birthright Israel Foundation NEXTwork NY: Inspiring Jewish Journey Guides $207,875 Union for Reform Judaism Bonim Kehillah: Building a Community $48,250 Total $480,125 COJIR : Jewish Community Development Congregation Beth Elohim Pathways to Affiliation: CBE’s Israelis in Brooklyn Summer Camp Experience $24,664 Congregation Mount Sinai Dinner and a Movie $10,000 Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale Kesher $6,300 Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organization (COJECO) Creation of Center Without Walls $50,000 Project Dacha – Jewish Specialty Day Camp $25,000 CZ Wellness Group (Camp Zeke) Start-up Funding for Camp Zeke $104,000 Darkhei Noam Continuing and Expanding the Young Professionals Engagement Initiative $10,000 Educational Alliance An Inclusionary Day Camping Experience for Jewish Children with Special Needs $25,000 Foundation for Jewish Camping Jewish Specialty Day Camp Incubator $425,155 Hazon Jewish Greening Fellowship $199,978 Jewish Farm School-Scaling Our Impact: Creating and Sharing a Jewish Garden Manual and Core Curriculum $10,000 Jewish Education Project Jewish Education Project Development Plan $1,000,000 Kings Bay YM-YWHA J Mix $25,000

56 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives Locally Grown: Davening and Brooklyn Community for People in Their 20s and 30s $10,000 Magen David Union Square Congregation Magen David of Manhattan Young Professionals Shabbat Dinner Series $10,000 Park Slope Jewish Center ATID: Brooklyn Jewish 20s and 30s $10,000 Romemu The Young Tish- Building our Future Generation $10,000 Stanton Street Shul (Congregation B'nai Jacob Ansche Brzezan) Gen-I Retreat at Isabella Freedman Center $10,000 Stephen Wise Free Synagogue Shabbat After Dark for 20s and 30s $10,000 Town and Village Conservative Synagogue Congregational Engagement with Young Adults $10,000 YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood Jewish Specialty Day Camp Planning Grant $25,000 Young Judaea Camp Sprout Lake Day Camping at Camp Sprout Lake $25,000 Total $2,035,097 COJIR : Overseas Community Electives American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Volunteerism Conference $67,963 Total $67,963 COJIR : Scholarship Committee Berkshire Hills-Emmanuel Camps Tikun Olam Fellows Program $66,500 Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) CLIP Israel $191,800 Long Island Hebrew Academy Rose Biller Day School Scholarships $3,240 Surprise Lake Camp Camp Marketing and Recruitment at Surprise Lake $50,000 The Jewish Academy of Suffolk County Rose Biller Day School Scholarships $1,620 Total $313,160 Commission on Jewish Identity & Renewal Friends of Mayanot Institute Israel Experience Award $4,850

57 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Friends of Young Judaea Israel Experience Awards $1,250 Hava & Adam Ecology Farm Israel Experience Awards: Hava & Adam Ecology Farm $1,700 Jerusalem Fellowships (New York) Israel Experience Awards $6,600 MASA Israel: Career Israel Israel Experience Award $3,500 Menachem Begin Heritage Center Israel Experience Award $2,500 National Ramah Commission Israel Experience Awards $7,000 NFTY-UAHC Israel Experience Awards $6,500 Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies Israel Experience Awards $7,000 Sachlav Israel Experience Awards: Sachlav Real Life Israel $4,000 Shearim USA Charitable Trust Israel Experience Award $4,500 United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Israel Experience Awards $5,500 Yachad Tours Israel Experience Awards $4,100 Young Judaea Global Israel Experience Award $1,500 Total $60,500

58 Commission on the Jewish People Executive Summary

The Commission on the Jewish People (COJP) continued to build on the strategic directions developed over the past few years, sharpening its priorities and programmatic direction for the coming year to be in line with the broader organizational direction that flowed from the Bridgespan process.

Mission Overview Connecting members of the Jewish communities, locally and globally, and building a vibrant democratic Jewish state in Israel are central to 21st-century Jewish life. Linking the distinct elements of the Jewish people to form one collective community while recognizing deep internal diversity is the major challenge facing the Commission. The pace of change in Israel, in New York, and globally has increased, providing both new opportunities to build a connected global Jewish people, along with deeper challenges to achieving that goal. Combined with building global Jewish connectivity, COJP works to ensure that Israel remains an inclusive and diverse Jewish state reflecting her unique place in Jewish life as a source of Jewish identification and pride, and empowering our role as global Jews in promoting an Israel to which all Jews can feel spiritually and culturally connected.

Core Mission Priorities 1. New York — The work of the Commission in New York falls into two broad categories, both of which affirm the collective communal identity: empowering and connecting the diverse elements of the New York Jewish community and strengthening the understanding of and engagement with Israel.

2. Israel — The character of Israeli society is a growing area of commitment of the Jewish people. What can be done to strengthen Israel as a vibrant, democratic Jewish state built as an inclusive society for all Israelis is the focus of the Commission’s work.

3. Global Peoplehood — The building of a strong collective Jewish identity must take place at both the local level and at the global level. Advancing an active global conversation on Jewish peoplehood and developing a globally connected Jewish leadership, particularly in newly emergent communities in Eastern and Central Europe, are key concerns.

Directions for the Coming Year The New York Jewish community is a large, growing, and increasingly complex entity. The Jewish Community Study of New York: 2011 has delineated many of the geographic, ethnic, and identity subgroups that constitute the total community. The work of the Commission in this area is directed toward learning more about the groups and seeking to determine where to focus its efforts. The Commission will continue working with the Israeli, Syrian, Bukharian, and Russian communities, exploring new possibilities in each area. Of particular note for the coming year is the development of a leadership program by COJECO bringing together a cohort from the Russian-American community and “veteran” American Jews, and expanding the work with the Israeli community to focus on the collective community rather than particular neighborhood groups. The work with engaging interfaith families will expand with further efforts to work with synagogues and organizations across the spectrum of Jewish life on programs that create greater awareness of the opportunities for engagement.

This current year has been one of major expansion in the area of Israeli engagement and education. There are three new shlichim (Israeli education/engagement emissaries) in Nassau County, Westchester, and Brownstone Brooklyn in addition to the one in Manhattan. There was also a major expansion of the Hartman Institute

59 iEngage program to include some 60 congregations throughout the greater New York area. The results have already begun to show an impact on levels of Israel-related activity throughout the community, including the addition of a Brooklyn community celebration of Yom HaAtzma’ut (Israel Independence Day) to the Upper West Side celebration begun last year. The coming year will be one of additional expansion, bringing in six young shlichim (shinshinim — year of service) to Brownstone Brooklyn and expanding the HUC/JTS rabbinical students program to include ongoing follow-up to the Israel year after the cohorts return to New York. Overall the coming year will be one of consolidation and evaluation of the best directions for further expanding the efforts to strengthen the community ties to Israel. For the coming year, the Commission has also assumed both funding and programmatic oversight for the Israel Talks program at JCRC, a citywide effort to build meaningful conversations about Israel across the deep ideological divides in the Jewish community, and the support for the Israel Action Network, a joint initiative of JCPA and JFNA to combat efforts to delegitimize Israel through the tactics of Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS).

The Commission’s commitment to strengthening an Inclusive Civil Society in Israel reflects a dramatic shift in emphasis over the past few years. The areas of absorption of new immigrant populations and local community or organization development efforts have evolved into a focus on how to build a dynamic Israeli society that is inclusive of all its people. This approach is guided by two principles: that Israel will be a stronger and more vibrant state the more engaged and involved its citizenry, and an Israel that is inclusive and engaged will provide a stronger magnet for the global Jewish community.

The first aspect of this strategy is to work toward the full inclusion of three specific populations that, based on research and experience, are seen as both numerically and symbolically crucial to Israel’s future — the Haredim (ultra-Orthodox), Ethiopian Jews, and Arab citizens of Israel. In working with each community, the three key vehicles that have emerged from a range of pilot projects and other learnings are higher education, meaningful quality employment, and leadership development. This year a major commitment was made to work with the governmental Council on Higher Education (CHE) to develop a scholarship fund for Arab Israelis in particular fields where they are underrepresented and to increase the overall level of higher education in the community. It will be fully implemented this coming year. This is to be a long-term strategic partnership with the CHE to change the landscape. There are also increasing efforts to work with the Haredim in integrated higher-education institutions to expand the segments of the community that can act as a bridge to the rest of Israel. A major focus for 2015 will be developing leadership programs for the distinct communities that will also bring these communities together with each other as well as other elements of Israeli society.

The work of strengthening Israeli civil society will similarly continue to grow, with a focus on groups that are expanding the conversation in Israel on the nature of the Jewish ‘public square’ in Israeli society. This debate includes the question of personal status. There is an active Jewish conversation in Israel on the meaning of the “Jewish state” and how this is reflected in the lives of her citizens and institutions, and the global Jewish community must be an active participant. The Commission is also looking at how to strengthen the engagement of Israeli citizens with their public and civic institutions. Work with “intentional communities” and groups in Jerusalem that seek to strengthen the pluralistic Jewish character of the city, and the groundbreaking Safed initiative will all play a key role in the coming year. The major work with JDC’s Center for Civil Society will continue to be a priority area as it develops new leadership and assesses its strategic direction. A new project that reflects the growing commitment to citizen engagement is support for Social Guard, an organization that brings Israelis of all segments of society together to observe and report on Knesset activity, particularly at the committee level.

The expansion of the conversation about global Jewish peoplehood is of crucial importance to develop a broader understanding of the concept of peoplehood and bring increased commitment to its incorporation in Jewish life. A very successful conference was held in Jerusalem in November 2014 with representatives of North American federations, foundations, and Israeli entities. Under the Siach/Shmitta, project an international gathering was held in London in March to advance the cross-national conversation on Shmitta

60 for the coming year. The effort to expand Jewish experience beyond traditional geographic borders will be explored further in a range of ways. One in particular is being conducted by the Bronfman Center for Jewish Life at NYU on bringing Jewish experiences to students in NYU’s overseas programs and linking them to the local Jewish community. The Jewish peoplehood tool kit that was presented this past year will be rolled out to a range of groups, for the first time making widely available a highly accessible resource for peoplehood education. In building peoplehood, the development of leadership and the linking to other Jewish communities in Eastern and Central Europe remains an issue of significant attention, recognizing that these communities are challenged due to the consequences of decades of Nazi and Communist domination. The Commission will continue to look to new possibilities in enhancing the impact of the work in this region.

Shifting Priorities A number of areas of activity will be deemphasized as Commission resources — lay, staff, and financial — will be devoted to the strategic priorities outlined above. Among these will be the continued phasing out of the past bilateral agency-to-agency linkage programs. The work with citizenship programs for refugees and new immigrants in New York will shift from direct program delivery to the funding of an ongoing refugee resettlement stand by capability at FEGS. The continued transition to municipal and Israeli philanthropic auspices of programs for Ethiopian and Kavkazi youth and teens reflects the recognition of the success of the efforts to advance these populations and, thus, the willingness of local authorities and interested Israelis to assume responsibility for them.

61 Commission on the Jewish People Commission Membership List Alisa F. Levin, Chair Michael F. Rosenbaum, Planning Chair David Mallach, Managing Director

Karen Adler Jerry Goodman Julie Raice Briana Barocas Gary Gordon Tal Recanati Leona Barsky Jack M. Gorman AJ Reisman* Rachel Benaroya Michael Gorn Emma Reitman Susan Bender Marilyn Gottlieb Tamar Remz Jarret Berg Dan Hackman Rachel S. Rimsky Isaac Bernstein Caren S. Hammerman Michael Robbins Ofra Biener Daniel Harari Jennifer E. Rochkind Sarah Biser Judith Hershorn Judith F. Rosen Daniel B. Blaser Gustave M. Jacobs Michael F. Rosenbaum Paula Blumenfeld Lynn Jacobs Davy Rosenzweig Adri Chaikin Liz Jaffe Shana Novick Roskies Annie S. Cohen Donna Jakubovitz Roni Rubenstein Ted Comet Stephanie R. Joseph Howard J. Rubin Lois Conway Marcia Kahnowitz Michael Rukin Juliet Cooper Marjorie G. Kaufman Stephen Rutenberg Paul M. Corwin Evelyn Kenvin Aleksey Schukin Debbie Cosgrove Ross Kirsh Jan Schwartz Avi Daman Kate Klausner* Jodi J. Schwartz Corey Daniels Nathaniel Klein Eric Seiler Melanie Debrosse Candice B. Koerner Dustin Shapir* Lisa Beth Deutsch Jean-Paul Le Biana Shilshtut Jeanne Dutton-Sinrich Eric Lebovich Geula Solomon David Dworin Marisa Lenger Linda Spitzer Bonnie Eisler Scott Lescher Benjamin S. Steger Jill Ellman Alisa F. Levin Elliot Stein Melvin Epstein Jack P. Levin Neil Steinberg Jennifer E. Falk Adam Levine Ari Jay Storch David Fishman Brian Scott Lichter Leah Susskind Steven D. Fleischer Mara Liebgott* Marc Suvall Martine Fleishman Alan Lovi* Fran E. Szczesny Michael E. Foreman Michael P. Lustig Alana Tendler Lisa Freedland Abigail Malis Gregory Tobias Karen S.W. Friedman Joshua Mandel Judy Tuchman Beth R. Gelfond Ralph P. Marash Robert Varvara* David Gibbs Lisa Messinger Rebecca M. Voorwinde Joseph Ginzberg Amy E. Millard Lara Wachs Alexander S. Gitomer Jo-Ann Mort Elie Weinstock Michael S. Givner Harriet Mouchly-Weiss Pami Wexelman Joan Sara Glatman Warren S. Newcorn Eric Wexler Dmitri Glinski Joshua Oboler Linda M. White Eric Goldberg* Harold B. Obstfeld Erika Witover Lee Goldberg* Caryl R. Orlando Diana Zelikovich Esther W. Goldman Judith Poss Jennifer Goldman* Karen Price Rafalowicz

*Observer

62 Cabinet Alisa F. Levin, Chair David Mallach, Managing Director

Sanford Antignas Gary Gordon Michael F. Rosenbaum Sarah Biser Marilyn Gottlieb Roni Rubenstein Daniel B. Blaser Liz Jaffe Howard J. Rubin Lois Conway Evelyn Kenvin Stephen Rutenberg Paul M. Corwin Nathaniel Klein Jodi J. Schwartz David Dworin Alisa F. Levin Eric Seiler Melvin Epstein Brian Scott Lichter Geula Solomon Steven D. Fleischer Ralph P. Marash Neil Steinberg Martine Fleishman Harriet Mouchly-Weiss Marc Suvall Michael E. Foreman Joshua Oboler Pami Wexelman Esther W. Goldman Tal Recanati

Global Jewish Peoplehood Committee Daniel Blaser, Chair Orly Harel, Staff Ari Rudolph, Staff

Briana Barocas Donna Jakubovitz Linda Spitzer Leona Barsky Kate Klausner* Suzi Stadler Susan Bender Judith Poss Max Wagner Daniel B. Blaser Judith F. Rosen Eric Wexler Juliet Cooper Stephen Rutenberg Linda M. White Debbie Cosgrove Jan Schwartz Deanne Winnick Michael S. Givner Lani Serota

Israel Civil Society Committee Marc Suvall, Chair Anat Barber, Staff Rebecca Katz-White, Staff

Mark Alcott Lee Goldberg* Suzi Oppenheimer Sanford Antignas Jerry Goodman Karen Price Rafalowicz Jarret Berg Jack M. Gorman Anna Propp Sarah Biser Gustave M. Jacobs Tal Recanati Ted Comet Lynn Jacobs Michael F. Rosenbaum Melvin Epstein Marjorie G. Kaufman Barbara Salmanson David Fishman Michael P. Lustig Leah Susskind Joan Sara Glatman Amy E. Millard Marc Suvall Eric Goldberg* Martin Oppenheimer Elie Weinstock

*Observer

63 Economic Empowerment in Israel Committee Roni Rubenstein, Chair Ari Rudolph, Staff Hila Dekel, Staff

Karen Adler Caren S. Hammerman Jo-Ann Mort Paula Blumenfeld Evelyn Kenvin Harold B. Obstfeld Lois Conway Ross Kirsh Michael Robbins Steven D. Fleischer Michal LaVine Davy Rosenzweig Joseph Ginzberg Brian Scott Lichter Victoria Schonfeld Alexander S. Gitomer Alan Lovi* Ari Jay Storch Gary Gordon Michael P. Lustig Harriet Suvall

Youth Focused Programs in Transition Committee Gary Gordon, Chair Hila Dekel, Staff

Roni Rubenstein Davy Rosenzweig

Jewish Peoplehood in New York Committee Geula Solomon, Chair Pami Wexelman, Vice Chair Rachel Hodes, Staff

Avi Daman Dan Hackman Michael F. Rosenbaum Martine Fleishman Daniel Harari Dustin Shapir* Beth R Gelfond Judith Hershon Biana Shilshtut Dmitri Glinski Marcia Kahnowitz Geula Solomon Esther W. Goldman Nathaniel Klein Neil Steinberg Jennifer Goldman* Eric Lebovich Alana Tendler Michael Gorn Warren S. Newcorn Pami Wexelman

Engaging Interfaith Families Eric Seiler, Chair Rebecca Katz-White, Staff

Susan Taxin Baer Stephanie Joseph Howard J. Rubin Annie S. Cohen Evelyn Kenvin Eric Seiler Jeanne Dutton-Sinrich Jean-Paul Le Fran E. Szczesny Bonnie Eisler Marisa Lenger Robert Varvara* Jennifer E. Falk Lisa Messinger Rebecca M. Voorwinde Karen S.W. Friedman Caryl R. Orlando Erika Witover Marilyn Gottlieb Tamar Remz

*Observer

64 Community Connections Committee Josh Oboler, Chair Rachel Hodes, Staff

Rachel Benaroya Scott Lescher Emma Reitman Isaac Bernstein Adam Levine Michael Rukin Ofra Biener Mara Liebgott* Aleksey Schukin Corey Daniels Abigail Malis Elliot Stein Melanie Debrosse Joshua Mandel Neil Steinberg David Dworin Joshua Oboler Lara Wachs Jill Ellman Julie Raice Diana Zelikovich David Gibbs AJ Reisman*

Staff David Mallach, Managing Director Anat Barber, Planning Director Ari Rudolph, Planning Executive Rebecca Katz-White, Planning Executive Orly Harel, Planning Associate Rachel Hodes, Planning Associate Hila Dekel, Planning Coordinator Keesha Mobley, Senior Administrative Assistant to Managing Director Hannah Kalson, Administrative Assistant Arielle Mallen, Graduate Student Intern

*Observer

65 2014-15 Commission Grants

COJP : Community Connections Alexander M. & Brenda R. Tanger Hillel at Brooklyn College Social Innovators Program: Creative Co-Existance (CreaCo) $39,000 Bronx-Riverdale YM-YWHA Interfaith Teen Connections $20,000 Jewish Community Center on the Hudson Through a Clear Lens $30,000 Jewish Community Relations Council of New York Community Connections Intergroup Fellowship $40,000 Jewish Student Leadership Fellowship $15,000 Kings Bay YM-YWHA Young Peacebuilders: Partnership Program with the Turkish Cultural Center $50,000 Mosholu-Montefiore Community Center Jewish Cultural Community School $25,000 Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach Shorefront Y/Coney Island Generation Gap Partnership Program $20,000 Total $239,000 COJP : Economic Empowerment in Israel Aharai - Youth Leading Change Promoting Full Integration of Ethiopian-Israeli Youth within Israeli society $50,000 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues $15,000 Appleseeds Academy: KamaTech KamaTech – Promoting Haredi Employment in Hi-Tech $150,000 Davidson Institute of Science Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science Irteka - Scholarships for Arab-Israelis at The Perach Project $200,000 Desert Stars Desert Stars Leadership Program for Bedouin Youths $100,000 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Shluchei Tzibur - Academic Training for Haredi Community Leaders $150,000 Kav Mashveh Career Opportunities for Israeli Arabs in the Israeli Workplace $100,000 Kemach Foundation Additional Staff to Increase Numbers of Haredim Training for the Workplace $150,000 Keren Hanan Aynor (KHA) Educational Scholarships and Support Mechanisms to Ethiopian Immigrants $70,000

66 2014-15 Commission Grants

Olim Together Core Program for Ethiopian Israeli University Graduates $115,000 EZ Way Psychometric Exam Preparation Course $110,000 Rashi Foundation Ofakim to High Tech Ethiopian Recruiter $74,000 Reut Institute Employer's Initiative $100,000 Sheatufim 'Merchav Hashpa'a' The Ethiopian Coalition $40,000 Sikkuy: The Association for the Advancement of Civic Equality Advancing Fair Employment of Arab Citizens in Businesses Receiving Government Contracts $75,000 Advancing Successful Implementation of the Gov. of Israel's 5 yr. Economic Dev. Plan for the Arab Community in Israel $50,000 Society for Advancement of Education, Jerusalem Hachmey Lev: Yeshiva High School $100,000 Tech-Career Tech Careers Training $40,000 Tsofen High Technology Centers High Tech Employment Center in Nazareth $110,000 Total $1,799,000 COJP : Engaging Interfaith Families Council of Young Jewish Presidents CYJP Grapevine Project in New York $125,000 Jewish Outreach Institute UJA-Federation Big Tent Judaism Initiative - Community Scan $70,000 Jumpstart Jewish Without Walls - Capacity Building Grant $25,000 My Jewish Learning Development of the Interfaith Platform through Kveller.com $17,500 Total $237,500 COJP : Global Jewish Peoplehood Hazon Shmitta Proposal to support the Siach network $100,000 Jewish Funders Network Westbury Group Tachlis Fund Grant $11,000 Limmud FSU Limmud for Young American Jews of Russian Descent $25,000 Total $136,000

67 2014-15 Commission Grants

COJP : Immigration FEGS Health and Human Services Refugee Resettlement Program Services $150,000 New York Community Trust Fund for New Citizens $22,500 Total $172,500 COJP : Israel Civil Society Amotat Yesodot Lezmicha Dror Leadership in Israel's Periphery - Educational Kibbutzim $100,000 Hatnuaa Hayerushalmit Plurastic Community in Jerusalem's Neighborhoods with Ruach Chadasha $100,000 Yeru-Shalem The Coalition for an Inclusive Jerusalem $100,000 Injaz Center for Professional Arab Local Governance Strengthening the Capacity of Arab Local Municipalities $100,000 Israel Hofshit New Media Mobilizing for Jewish Pluralism $100,000 ITIM: The Jewish Life Information Center ITIM:Advocacy Center $200,000 Jerusalem Inter-Cultural Center Deliberative Democracy in Jerusalem $50,000 Jewish Federations of North America Negev Funding Coalition $25,000 Joint Council of Pre-Army Leadership Development Programs Pre-Army Social Leadership Development Programs $175,000 Ma'ase Center Association Building a Civil Society based on the Pursuit of Social Justice and Equal Opportunity $100,000 Neemanei Tora Veavoda The Communal Model $75,000 Oranim Academic College Delivering a National Impact, Shdemot Center, Department of Community $175,000 Reut Institute Israel's Network of Inclusive and Resilient Communities - Pilot in Tsfat Toward National Deployment $250,000 Ruach Hadasha (New Spirit) Pluralistic Community in Jerusalem’s Neighborhoods with Yerushalmim $100,000 Shahaf Foundation Partnering with the Shahaf Foundation $150,000

68 2014-15 Commission Grants

Sheatufim Promoting Civic Service in Israel $125,000 Total $1,925,000 COJP : Jewish Peoplehood in New York 92nd Street YM-YWHA Shaliach Project $10,000 Alexander M. & Brenda R. Tanger Hillel at Brooklyn College Bridging the Gap $100,000 Bronx-Riverdale YM-YWHA Riverdale Israelis - Israeli Gymbo $25,000 Congregation Beth Elohim Shira Be-Shishi Israeli-Style Shabbat Programming Connecting Israelis and Non-Israelis $100,000 Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organization (COJECO) Keystone Fellowship $294,000 Hebrew Educational Society Israeli Cultural and Leadership Center $55,000 Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion JTS/HUC: Israel Education and Engagement Programming $40,000 Institute for Jewish Community Research: Be'chol Lashon Bechol Lashon NY Network $100,000 Diversity Conference $10,000 Jerusalem Online University Step Up for Israel $100,000 Jewish Child Care Association of New York (JCCA) Bukharian Leadership Program $50,000 Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Tikkun JCC in Manhattan $7,500 Jewish Community Relations Council of New York Celebrate Israel Parade $100,000 Celebrate Israel Run $25,000 Israel Talks Project $200,000 Jewish Federations of North America Israel Action Network $184,000 Jewish Theological Seminary of America JTS-HUC Israel Education and Engagement Programming $40,000 JICNY (Jewish International Connections NY) Organizational Capacity Building $70,000

69 2014-15 Commission Grants

MOATZA Core Funding $75,000 New York Legal Assistance Group Citizenship & Naturalization Legal Support Project $125,000 RAJE-USA RAJE Leadership Development Initiative $50,000 Repair the World Repair the World $100,000 Sephardic Community Alliance iLead $50,000 Shalom Hartman Institute of North America iEngage $175,000 Total $2,085,500 COJP : Overseas Community Electives American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Birth to Bagrut $450,000 Building Central European Leadership $44,000 Center for Social Leadership and Civil Society $300,000 City Wide Initiatives in Beer Sheva $210,000 Diversity Hiring and Job Promotion (TEVET, KAV MASHVEH) $120,000 Equal Opportunities in Higher Education, Culturally Sensitive Testing at Bar Ilan University $140,000 Imtiaz: Promoting Higher Education in the Arab-Israeli Population $65,000 JDC Jewish Service Corps Volunteers $75,000 Medical Program: Medical Clinics, Tuberculosis Treatment and Nutrition Program (Felas Mora in Ethiopia) $25,000 PACT - Gedera and PACT Plus $150,000 Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) Community Shaliach (Westchester) $15,000 JAFI Global Linkages $1,972,000 Total $3,566,000 COJP : Youth Focused Projects in Transition American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Birth to Bagrut in Rehovot $400,000 Total $400,000

70 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

COJP : Community Connections Alexander M. & Brenda R. Tanger Hillel at Brooklyn College Social Innovators Program: Creative Co-Existance (CreaCo) $30,000 Central Queens YM & YWHA CITY (Community Improvement Through Youth) Project $30,000 Jewish Community Relations Council of New York Community Connections Intergroup Fellowship $40,000 Jewish Student Leadership Fellowship $10,000 Kings Bay YM-YWHA Young Peacebuilders: Partnership Program with the Turkish Cultural Center $35,000 Mosholu-Montefiore Community Center Jewish Cultural Community School $35,000 Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach Shorefront Y/Coney Island Generation Gap Partnership Program $20,000 Total $200,000 COJP : Economic Empowerment in Israel Aharai - Youth Leading Change Promoting Full Integration of Ethiopian-Israeli Youth within Israeli society $82,000 Appleseeds Academy: KamaTech KamaTech – Promoting Haredi Employment in Hi-Tech $100,000 College for Academic Studies Or Yehuda Scholarship Fund for Ethiopian-Israeli Undergraduate Students $100,000 Davidson Institute of Science Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science Advancement of Science and Technology $80,000 Irteka - Scholarships for Arab-Israelis at The Perach Project $200,000 Feuerstein Institute International: Institute for the Enhancement of Learning Potential Psychometric Test Prep (LPAD) Evaluation Phase I $20,000 Emergency Stipends for Hebrew University EI Students $65,700 North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry (NACOEJ) - Israel Adopt-A-Student Scholarship Program $50,000 Olim Together Olim B'Yachad - Tel Aviv University $70,000 Reut Institute Employer's Initiative $43,000 Sheatufim Employer’s Initiative $43,000 Society for Advancement of Education, Jerusalem Hachmey Lev: Yeshiva High School $100,000

71 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Total $953,700 COJP : Engaging Interfaith Families Congegation Tehillah Engaging Russian Interfaith Families $10,000 Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organization (COJECO) Engaging Russian Interfaith Families $5,000 Hebrew Institute of Riverdale Slow Down, Connect and Share: Shabbat w/Community, Shabbat in Your Home $5,000 Jewish Outreach Institute UJA-Federation Big Tent Judaism Initiative - Community Scan $53,250 Kings Bay YM-YWHA North Willamsburg Annex - PJ Potluck: Your Place or Our Place $10,000 My Jewish Learning Development of the Interfaith Platform through Kveller.com $23,700 Romemu A Stranger No More $10,000 Temple Chaverim Interfaith Family Engagement Initiative $7,500 The Forest Hills Jewish Center Engaging Interfaith Families $10,000 United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism InterAction $7,500 Village Temple Celebrating Diversity: The Interfaith Kesher Project $5,000 Westchester Jewish Community Services WJCS Partners in Caring: Engaging Interfaith Families $7,500 Total $154,450 COJP : Global Jewish Peoplehood American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Building Central European Leadership $44,000 Future Scenarios Planning Seminar at Oxford University $35,500 Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education Peoplehood Papers and other Projects $65,000 Educational Alliance Community, Comunidad, Kehila: Facilitating Stronger Connections Among Edgies Teens $5,000 Encounter Program ROI Encounter-Perspectives Trip Research $8,000

72 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

FJC Project Zug $70,000 Hazon Siach: An Environmental and Social Justice Network, Shmita Part II $120,000 Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) Summer Camps for Youth in the Former Soviet Union - Minsk $29,602 Shlichim Summer Conference $10,750 Jewish Funders Network Westbury Group Tachlis Fund Grant $10,000 Limmud FSU Limmud for Young American Jews of Russian Descent $30,000 Memorial Foundation on Jewish Culture Nahum Goldman Fellowship $70,000 Paideia: The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden Jewish Philosophers Program/US Fellows Program $78,000 Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education: Peoplehood Papers and other Projects $65,000 Total $640,852 COJP : Hungary Fund American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Haver Educational Programs in Hungary $25,000 Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) MiNYanim Alumni Network in Hungary $10,000 Total $35,000 COJP : Israel Civil Society Amotat Yesodot Lezmicha Dror Leadership in Israel's Periphery - Educational Kibbutzim $81,000 Atid Bamidbar Gvanim for Negev Municipalities: Strengthening Civil Society $50,000 Hatnuaa Hayerushalmit Yeru-Shalem The Coalition for an Inclusive Jerusalem $100,000 Plurastic Community in Jerusalem's Neighborhoods with Ruach Chadasha $102,500 Injaz Center for Professional Arab Local Governance Strengthening the Capacity of Arab Local Municipalities $40,000 Israel Hofshit New Media Mobilizing for Jewish Pluralism $75,000 ITIM: The Jewish Life Information Center ITIM:Advocacy Center $120,000

73 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Jerusalem Inter-Cultural Center Deliberative Democracy in Jerusalem $50,000 Joint Council of Pre-Army Leadership Development Programs Pre-Army Social Leadership Development Programs $200,000 MERCHAVIM - The Institute for the Advancement of Shared Citizenship in Israel Kulanana $75,000 Neemanei Tora Veavoda The Communal Model $75,000 Oranim Academic College Delivering a National Impact, Shdemot Center, Department of Community $100,000 Ruach Hadasha (New Spirit) Pluralistic Community in Jerusalem’s Neighborhoods with Yerushalmim $102,500 Shahaf Foundation Partnering with the Shahaf Foundation $150,000 Sheatufim Promoting Civic Service in Israel $100,000 The Center for Educational Technology (C.E.T.) Teachers for Social Cohesion in Israel $200,000 United Hatzalah of Israel Integration of Haredim and Secular United Hatzalah Volunteers in Jersusalem $52,000 Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Haredi Leadership's Responsibility to Israeli Society at Large $75,000 Total $1,748,000 COJP : Jewish Peoplehood in New York 92nd Street YM-YWHA Israeliness $35,000 Alexander M. & Brenda R. Tanger Hillel at Brooklyn College Bridging the Gap $100,000 Bronx-Riverdale YM-YWHA Riverdale Israelis - iHouse $25,000 Congregation Beth Elohim Shira Be-Shishi Israeli-Style Shabbat Programming Connecting Israelis and Non-Israelis $100,000 Shira Be Shishi $15,000 Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organization (COJECO) ZOOM IN! Focus on Tomorrow's Leaders $30,000 Dor Chadash Dor Chadash Cultural and Educational Project $25,000

74 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Hebrew Educational Society Israeli Cultural and Leadership Center $55,000 Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion JTS/HUC: Israel Education and Engagement Programming $50,100 Institute for Jewish Community Research: Be'chol Lashon Strengthening Diverse Communities and Leadership $100,000 Jerusalem Online University Step Up for Israel $100,000 Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) Brownstone Brooklyn Shaliach $382,340 Community Shaliach (Westchester) $32,500 Jewish Child Care Association of New York (JCCA) Kalontar: A Bukharian Leadership Institute $50,000 Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Tikkun JCC in Manhattan $7,500 Upper West Side Yom Ha'atzmaut Celebration $100,000 Yom Haatzmut Marketing $50,000 Jewish Community Relations Council of New York Celebrate Israel Parade - Outreach $25,000 Jewish Theological Seminary of America JTS-HUC Israel Education and Engagement Programming $44,900 JICNY (Jewish International Connections NY) Organizational Capacity Building $70,000 MOATZA Establishing the Moatza $55,000 Matching Grant $20,000 RAJE-USA RAJE Leadership Development Initiative $75,000 Repair the World Repair the World $225,000 Shalom Hartman Institute of North America iEngage $150,000 Uri L'Tzedek Program Support $10,000 Total $1,932,340 COJP : Jewish Social Action Month Bay Ridge Jewish Center, Cong Sheiris Israel Bay Ridge Jewish Center Bikkur Cholim Event $4,000

75 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Chabad Center-Shabbos House Action for Addiction at Albany (A4A@A) $3,000 Chabad Lubavitch of Brooklyn Heights Chicken Soup for Seniors by College Students $4,000 Community Reform Temple Facing Hunger in the Jewish Community $3,300 Congegation Tehillah Nourishing the Jewish Spirit -Caring for our Environment $4,000 Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester Chesed in Cheshvan $5,000 Congregation Sons of Israel Ahavat Ha-Beriot – “Love of All of God’s Creations” $5,000 Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organization (COJECO) Russian-speaking and Israeli Families Unite to Give Back to Holocaust Survivors $3,800 DOROT Generations Connecting in Cheshvan $2,000 Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst Shomrei Kehilah - Community Guardians $4,500 Hebrew Free Burial Association Jewish Social Action Month - Parshat Chayei Sara Cemetery Clean-Up Project $4,500 Hillel at Baruch College Just Like a Good Neighbor $5,000 Hunter College Hillel TiCUNY Olam Super $10,000 Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA) Emergency Preparedness Project $3,500 Jewish Child Care Association of New York (JCCA) Queens Mitzvah Day $4,000 Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Food on Their Table $4,500 Jewish Home Lifecare Good Neighbor Bags $3,000 Jewish Theological Seminary of America Standing Against Slavery $4,000 KULANU-Torah Academy The Friend Finder Program $3,150 Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth (LIGALY) The Aleph Project (TAP) $4,000

76 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Mazel Day School Loaves of Love $3,000 Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty Stand up for Shalom Bayit (Cup of Warmth) $3,000 Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center Kids for K.I.S.S. (Kids in Special Services) - Kids Night Out $3,800 Moishe House Healing Hunger in Heshvan with Moishe House $2,050 Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation Operation Reaching Out: An intergenerational Exchange $4,000 Ramaz School The JSAM-wich project $4,600 Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach Carnival of Care $3,000 Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center Kristallnacht Awareness Walk $5,000 Society for the Advancement of Judaism Kids Care for Elders at Project Ezra $3,000 Temple Shaaray Tefila Tour De Shuls in Northern Westchester -- Biking for Tikkun Olam and Jewish Community Building $5,000 Westhab V'ahavta Le Recacha (Love Your Neighbor) $3,000 Total $123,700 COJP : Overseas Community Electives American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) JDC Jewish Service Corps Volunteers $153,000 Center for Social Leadership and Civil Society $300,000 Imtiaz: Promoting Higher Education in the Arab-Israeli Population $86,000 Congregation Rodeph Sholom Young Leaders Learning from the Past to Build the Future Today $12,500 Hillel at Baruch College Kol Hillel $24,200 Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) Minyanim- European Leadership Project $190,000 Rene Cassin Fellowship Program $125,000 Brownstone Brooklyn Shaliach $71,000 New York-Israel Connections Office Operating costs $102,200 Project T.E.N. $110,000

77 2013-14 Commission Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Jewish Community Center of Staten Island Growing Stronger Together $53,663 Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns Sharing Our Knowledge/Uniting Our People (SKUP) $38,000 Kings Bay YM-YWHA Shinui: Transforming lives and being transformed $68,500 Kraft Center for Jewish Life (Columbia/Barnard Hillel) Student Leadership for Jewish Peoplehood: Building Global Connections $118,550 Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center Crossing Borders – Getting Stronger and Better Together $25,000 Richard Rosenthal JCC of Northern Westchester Havaya Reimagined $100,000 The Viral Power and Potential of Partnership $45,000 Sephardic Community Center Three Distant Communities Uniting as One $129,500 Temple Shaaray Tefila Gates and Tents $80,610 The Center for Educational Technology (C.E.T.) The Jewish Lens at CET $75,000 World Confederation of Jewish Community Centers Amitim- Fellows-A Global Leadership Network $100,000 Total $2,007,723

78 SYNERGY: UJA-Federation of New York and Synagogues Together Executive Summary

SYNERGY’s mandate to strengthen synagogues and, together with them, to strengthen the New York Jewish community is actualized through its many collaborative efforts as well as through its grants strategy.

Our vision is New York synagogues as visionary centers of Jewish life embracing possibility. Capable leaders will make strategic decisions informed by knowledge of their community, inspired by and aligned with vision and guided by data. Synagogues will be dynamic, relevant, relational, “porous”, courageous, inspiring and purpose driven. Our community of synagogues will be interconnected and ready to collaborate with the broader Jewish communal network to nurture compassionate, interconnected and inspired Jewish communities.

SYNERGY realizes its mission and vision through three core pillars:

Moving the Synagogue Field By engaging with synagogues ready for broad-ranging transformations, SYNERGY aims to inspire the field and pioneer new visions for the synagogues of tomorrow through various pilot projects.

Strengthening the New York Area Synagogues By connecting New York area synagogues to a variety of resources such as leadership development programs, grant opportunities, and cross-promoted, movement-specific resources, SYNERGY enables synagogues to move from the present to a better future; from functional to visionary.

Partnering to Strengthen Community By connecting synagogues to the larger, local Jewish community landscape comprised of other synagogues, SYNERGY aspires to create an interconnected, caring, and vibrant Jewish community. We also enjoin synagogues in our collective community tzedakah and fundraising efforts to enable the building and sustaining of a strong Jewish community.

In an effort to continue to identify and develop re-imagined and re-prioritized financial, structural and leadership models for synagogues, we launched Connected Congregations. Connected Congregations, an Initiative of UJA-Federation with Darim Online, works intensively with six congregations from the New York catchment to support their journey towards becoming “Connected Congregations”. In addition to the work with the cohort of six congregations we are funding both an impact and process evaluation in order to understand both the outcomes and impact of this signature initiative as well as to share the broad learnings with the field. SYNERGY’s work in the area of disabilities inclusion is co-funded with the Caring Commission and extends from our desire to broaden and deepen synagogue engagement of underrepresented segments of the Jewish community. Our work to support synagogues to better utilize data to inform planning and action continued this year in collaboration with the Orthodox Union, United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism and the Union for Reform Judaism. This year we hosted a day-long data consultation for synagogue leaders, are funding the development of a report on the data maturity spectrum in synagogues and are funding the development of an updated Guide for the Synagogue Management Systems. We are launching two region-specific initiatives to further the priorities identified by the regions. In Westchester we are funding research in the area of Synagogue Engagement of Empty Nesters and on Long Island, following a Long Island Symposium: Congregations Focus on the Future, we are planning for a Long Island synagogue consultation focusing on synagogue vision. Finally, we are planning the launch of a New York Rabbinic Fellowship for Visionary Leaders, the first cohort of which is to be selected spring of 2014.

79 SYNERGY: UJA-Federation of New York and Synagogues Together SYNERGY Membership List

Michael Laufer, Chair Cantor Adina Frydman, Executive Director

Rabbi Lester Bronstein Michael Lustig Sarene Shanus Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove Lisa Messinger Nancy Solomon Esther Goldman Sara Nathan Harriet Suvall Rabbi Linda Goodman Craig Padover Rabbi Michael White Stephanie Ives Yolanda Potasinski Naomi Wolinsky Sally Kaplan Howard Rubin Ann Yerman Dianne Lob David Ruzow Rabbi Haskel Lookstein Irwin Scharf

Staff Cantor Adina Frydman, Executive Director Kate Lauzar, Planning Manager Ewa Maniawski, Long Island Program Executive Andi Rosenthal, Westchester Program Executive Leora Cohen, Rabbinic Fellowship Program Manager Sarah Ecton, Senior Administrative Assistant

80 2014-15 Grants and Other Commitments

SYNERGY

Programs Funded by SYNERGY Creating Connected Congregations Initiative $151,000 Connected Congregations Initiative $9,000 Total $160,000

81 2013-14 Grants and Other Commitments Since July 1, 2013

SYNERGY Hebrew Institute of Riverdale Synagogue Inclusion Ignition Award $5,000 Park Slope Jewish Center Connected Congregations Project Support Funds $4,000 Reconstructionist Congregation Beth Emeth Connected Congregations Project Support Funds $4,000 Scarsdale Synagogue/Tremont Temple Connected Congregations Project Support Funds $4,000 Temple Beth Abraham Connected Congregations Project Support Funds $4,000 The Community Synagogue of Port Washington Connected Congregations Project Support Funds $4,000 Programs Funded by SYNERGY Connected Congregations Evaluation $11,000 Creating Connected Congregations Initiative $135,550 Data Spectrum White Paper $8,550 Long Island Visioning Consultation Planning Grant $10,000 Synagogue Empty Nest Engagement Systems $30,000 Update to Synagogue Database Management Systems Guide $14,350 Total $234,450

82 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Other Nat and (includes Agency Network Caring COJIR COJP Int'l SYNERGY) Total 92nd Street YM-YWHA 533,207 10,000 543,207 Aharai - Youth Leading Change 50,000 50,000 Alex & Brenda Tanger Hillel at Brklyn College 189,800 139,000 328,800 AMCHA 173,000 173,000 American Friends of Bar Ilan 152,426 152,426 American Jewish Joint Distribution Com.(JDC) 3,450,870 167,946 1,994,000 (see JFNA) 5,612,816 American Jewish World Service 60,000 60,000 Amotat Yesodot Lezmicha Dror 100,000 100,000 Appleseeds Academy: KamaTech 150,000 150,000 Avi Hayishuv Community Rabbinics Program 49,000 49,000 Barry and Florence Friedberg JCC 532,247 90,659 622,906 Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Orgs. 36,647 10,000 46,647 Berkshire Hills-Emanuel Camps 153,608 153,608 Beth Israel Medical Center 150,000 150,000 BINA 50,000 100,000 150,000 Blue Card 50,000 50,000 Blythedale Children's Hospital 14,582 14,582 Boro Park YM & YWHA 318,823 64,500 383,323 Bronx House Jewish Community Center 233,723 14,900 248,623 Bronx Jewish Community Council 63,372 90,000 153,372 Bronx-Riverdale YM-YWHA 400,119 4,800 45,000 449,919 Camp Dora Golding 72,476 72,476 Camp Louemma 1,000 1,000 CenterLight Health System 82,737 82,737 Central Queens YM & YWHA 545,529 72,600 10,000 628,129 Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer 24,750 24,750 College of Staten Island Hillel 100,000 10,000 110,000 Community Assoc. for Jewish at Risk Cemeteries 80,000 80,000 Congregation Ansche Chesed 6,000 6,000 Congregation Beit Simchat Torah 10,000 10,000 Congregation Beth Elohim 100,000 100,000 Congregation Kol Ami 5,500 5,500 Congregation L'Dor V'Dor 5,000 5,000 Congregation Sons of Israel 6,000 6,000 Council of Jewish Émigré Comm. Org. (COJECO) 206,000 325,000 294,000 5,000 830,000 Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush 80,652 45,000 125,652 Council of Young Jewish Presidents 125,000 125,000 Crown Heights Jewish Community Council 35,690 45,000 80,690 CZ Wellness Group (Camp Zeke) 35,000 35,000 Davidson Inst. of Science Ed. (Weizmann Inst.) 200,000 200,000 Desert Stars 100,000 100,000 DOROT 153,016 75,000 228,016 East Meadow Jewish Comm. Relations Council 2,577 2,577 Edith and Carl Marks JCHB 708,390 602,987 1,311,377 Educational Alliance 1,306,429 221,430 1,527,859 F.E.G.S. 3,203,818 1,781,694 150,000 5,135,512 Gan Yavneh Community Center 40,000 40,000 Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 108,426 108,426 Hatnuaa Hayerushalmit 200,000 200,000 Haverut 50,000 50,000 Hazon 150,243 - 100,000 69,200 319,443 Hebrew Educational Society 386,058 45,900 55,000 486,958 Hebrew Free Burial Association 1,000 40,000 41,000 Hebrew Free Loan Society 147,624 39,238 186,862 Hebrew Union College - JIR 40,000 40,000

83 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Other Nat and (includes Agency Network Caring COJIR COJP Int'l SYNERGY) Total Hebrew University of Jerusalem 150,000 150,000 Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds 554,824 4,000 558,824 Hillel at Baruch College 165,000 10,000 175,000 Hillel at Binghamton University 120,000 120,000 Hillel Fdn. Snyder Hillel Ctr. Stony Brook Univ. 156,000 156,000 Hillels of Westchester 89,417 89,417 Hofstra University Hillel 122,500 122,500 Hunter College Hillel 104,000 20,000 124,000 Injaz Center for Prof. Arab Local Governance 100,000 100,000 Inst. for Jewish Community Research: Be'chol L 110,000 110,000 Israel Association of Community Centers 152,500 152,500 Israel Hofshit 100,000 100,000 Israel Trauma Coalition 225,000 225,000 ITIM: The Jewish Life Information Center 200,000 200,000 Jerusalem Inter-Cultural Center 50,000 50,000 Jerusalem Online University 100,000 100,000 Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) 710,000 3,216,410 1,987,000 (see JFNA) 5,913,410 Jewish Association Serving the Aging 1,650,271 596,546 2,246,817 Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services 5,328,434 1,041,585 6,370,019 Jewish Child Care Association of New York 486,434 289,846 50,000 826,280 Jewish Community Center in Manhattan 239,505 170,000 40,000 7,500 457,005 Jewish Community Center of Mid-Westchester 392,698 392,698 Jewish Community Center of Staten Island 428,470 15,400 443,870 Jewish Community Center of the Gr. Five Towns 246,896 273,400 520,296 Jewish Community Center on the Hudson 225,667 40,000 30,000 10,000 305,667 Jewish Community Council of Canarsie 80,151 90,000 170,151 Jewish Community Council of Pelham Parkway 15,020 15,020 Jewish Com. Cncl of the Rockaway Peninsula 71,111 6,800 77,911 Jewish Com. Cncl of Wash. Heights & Inwood 41,720 41,720 Jewish Community Relations Council of NY 1,316,821 380,000 1,696,821 Jewish Deaf Resource Center 20,000 20,000 Jewish Education Project 2,760,716 699,650 3,460,366 Jewish Family Center Adain Lo 100,000 100,000 Jewish Federations of North America 1,568,789 209,000 6,751,800 8,529,589 Jewish Federations of North America - JAFI Core 23,549,768 23,549,768 Jewish Federations of North America - JDC Core 7,234,000 7,234,000 Jewish Funders Network 11,000 11,000 Jewish Home Lifecare 279,297 279,297 Jewish National Cultural Autonomy 133,700 133,700 Jewish Outreach Institute 70,000 70,000 Jewish Student Connection 25,000 25,000 Jewish Theological Seminary of America 81,305 40,000 121,305 JICNY (Jewish International Connections NY) 70,000 70,000 Joint Council of Pre-Army Leadership Devel. 175,000 175,000 Jumpstart 8,000 25,000 33,000 Kav Mashveh 100,000 100,000 Kemach Foundation 150,000 150,000 Keren Hanan Aynor (KHA) 70,000 70,000 Keren Koby Mandell 36,000 36,000 Kesher 33,500 33,500 Kings Bay YM-YWHA 451,832 182,646 40,000 50,000 724,478 Kraft Center: (Columbia/Barnard Hillel) 95,000 95,000 Limmud FSU 25,000 25,000 Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth (LIGALY) 20,000 20,000 Ma'agan 38,000 38,000

84 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Other Nat and (includes Agency Network Caring COJIR COJP Int'l SYNERGY) Total Ma'ase Center Association - 100,000 100,000 Maimonides Medical Center 131,500 131,500 MATAN: The Gift of Jewish Learning for Every Child 10,000 10,000 Mechon Hadar 110,000 110,000 Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty 2,005,016 1,137,254 3,142,270 Metropolitan Jewish Health System 89,688 446,290 535,978 Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center 440,430 40,178 480,608 MOATZA 75,000 75,000 Moishe House 314,350 314,350 Montefiore Medical Center 150,000 150,000 Moscow Jewish Community House 120,000 120,000 Mosholu-Montefiore Community Center 149,007 42,292 25,000 216,299 Mount Sinai Medical Center 150,000 150,000 Mount Sinai School of Medicine 109,846 109,846 Moving Traditions 57,000 57,000 My Jewish Learning 103,000 17,500 120,500 M'Yad L'Yad - Long Island's Helping Hands 5,000 5,000 National Association of Jewish Chaplains 78,000 78,000 Neemanei Tora Veavoda 75,000 75,000 Neve Yerushalayim 17,800 17,800 New Shul 25,000 25,000 New York Board of Rabbis 106,399 18,000 124,399 New York Community Trust 22,500 22,500 New York Legal Assistance Group 251,677 1,167,525 125,000 1,544,202 New York Ser. Handicapped, Camp Oakhurst 49,538 49,538 North Shore-LIJ Health System 150,000 150,000 Ohel Children's Home and Family Services 130,000 130,000 Olim B'Yachad (Together) 225,000 225,000 Oranim Academic College 175,000 175,000 PANIM: For Jewish Renaissance in Israel 75,000 75,000 Park East Synagogue 6,000 6,000 Parker Jewish Inst. for Health Care and Rehab. 163,449 163,449 Project Kesher Israel 25,000 25,000 Queens College Hillel 165,000 165,000 Queens Jewish Community Council 87,721 87,721 RAJE-USA 50,000 50,000 Ramapo for Children 77,891 10,000 87,891 Rambam Medical Center 50,000 50,000 Rashi Foundation 74,000 74,000 Repair the World 100,000 100,000 Reut Institute 350,000 350,000 Richard Rosenthal JCC of No. Westchester 379,279 181,400 65,000 - 625,679 Ruach Hadasha (New Spirit) 100,000 100,000 SAFE Foundation 25,000 25,000 Samuel Field YM&YWHA 672,209 339,700 1,011,909 Sarah Herzog Hospital - Ezrath Nashim 30,000 30,000 Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies 35,000 35,000 Selfhelp Community Services 404,079 1,237,195 1,641,274 Sephardic Community Alliance 50,000 50,000 Sephardic Community Center 468,956 73,000 541,956 Shaare Zedek Medical Center 94,500 94,500 Shahaf Foundation 150,000 150,000 Shalom Hartman Institute of North America 175,000 175,000 She'arim 100,000 100,000 Sheatufim 125,000 165,000 290,000

85 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Other Nat and (includes Agency Network Caring COJIR COJP Int'l SYNERGY) Total Shorefront Jewish Community Council 76,318 62,500 - 138,818 Shorefront Y of Brighton - Manhattan Beach 598,197 253,318 20,000 871,515 Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center 318,838 451,949 770,787 Sikkuy 125,000 125,000 Society for Advancement of Education, Jerusalem 100,000 100,000 SPARKS 49,077 49,077 Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center 474,187 3,800 477,987 Surprise Lake Camp 149,715 149,715 Tech-Career 40,000 40,000 Temple Israel Center 10,000 10,000 Temple Shaaray Tefila 6,000 6,000 Temple Sinai of Roslyn 10,000 10,000 The Edgar M. Bronfman Center: Hillel at NYU 53,000 53,000 Tikkun: A Ctr for Gathering, Ed. & Social Change 75,000 75,000 Tishkofet 385,000 385,000 Torah Umesorah 125,000 125,000 Tsofen High Technology Centers 110,000 110,000 United Jewish Council of the East Side 23,158 23,158 Usdan Center for the Creative & Performing Arts 70,190 70,190 Village Temple 10,000 10,000 Westchester Jewish Community Services 1,031,593 807,336 10,000 1,848,929 Westchester Jewish Council 74,944 50,000 124,944 World ORT (through JFNA) 400,000 400,000 YAHALOM - Parents & Children Study Together 80,000 80,000 Yedidim for Youth and Society 50,000 50,000 YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood 315,494 154,920 470,414 Young Israel of Staten Island 6,000 6,000 Zayit 25,000 25,000 Total Recommended Grants as of 7/1/2014 33,909,050 19,388,736 8,235,771 10,560,500 38,064,768 59,000 110,217,825

Budget Items Commission Budget Remaining (1) 1,484,950 3,015,983 11,122,585 1,790,500 17,414,018 Overseas Electives (2) (3,623,100) (3,384,356) (3,566,000) 11,097,232 523,776 SYNERGY 500,000 500,000 Special Funds Outside of Commmissions (3) (1,995,619) - (400,000) 7,001,000 4,605,381 Appropriations Fund Reserve 500,000 500,000 Global Planning Table 500,000 500,000 Jewish Community Study of New York 150,000 150,000 Programs Managed by UJA-Federation 928,000 928,000

Total Appropriations Budget 35,394,000 16,786,000 15,974,000 8,385,000 49,162,000 9,638,000 135,339,000

1) Of the total Commission budget remaining, Caring's Autism Task Force will allocate $511,399 to the Transitions to Independence Initiative. COJP will earmark $400,000 for a National Leadership Initiative in Israel, $350,000 for Strengthening Israeli Society, and $150,000 for Engaging Interfaith Families mini grants.

2) UJA-Federation's Community Electives funding for JAFI and JDC is $11,097,232. Of this total, $10,573,456 is included by agency above, then deducted on this line to avoid duplication. An additional $523,776 remains to be allocated by the Commissions.

3) Funds governed by special committees or not part of the Commissions' core budgets.

86 2014-15 Grants by Agency

92nd Street YM-YWHA Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $533,207 Shaliach Project $10,000 Total $543,207 Aharai - Youth Leading Change Promoting Full Integration of Ethiopian-Israeli Youth within Israeli society $50,000 Total $50,000 Alexander M. & Brenda R. Tanger Hillel at Brooklyn College Bridging the Gap $100,000 Core Operating Support Grant $182,000 Emergency pipe repairs $7,800 Social Innovators Program: Creative Co-Existance (CreaCo) $39,000 Total $328,800 AMCHA-National Israeli Center for Psychosocial Support of Survivors Emotional Support for Holocaust Survivors $173,000 Total $173,000 American Friends of Bar Ilan The Flipped Jewish Studies Classroom $152,426 Total $152,426 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Ashalim $500,000 Birth to Bagrut $450,000 Birth to Bagrut in Rehovot $400,000 Building Central European Leadership $44,000 Center for Social Leadership and Civil Society $300,000 City Wide Initiatives in Beer Sheva $210,000 Core Funding (through Jewish Federations of North America) $7,234,000 Diversity Hiring and Job Promotion (TEVET, KAV MASHVEH) $120,000 Equal Opportunities in Higher Education, Culturally Sensitive Testing at Bar Ilan University $140,000 Eshel Spiritual Care - Professional Spiritual Care Development in Homes for the Aged $100,000 Feeding Programs for Elderly Jews in the Former Soviet Union who do not Qualify as Nazi Victims $2,509,897 Holocaust Survivors in Israel $100,973 Imtiaz: Promoting Higher Education in the Arab-Israeli Population $65,000 Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues $15,000 JDC Eco-Moshav $25,000 JDC Jewish Service Corps Volunteers $75,000 Jewish Renewal and Community Development in the Moscow Region: Community Centers $96,946 Jewish Renewal and Community Development in the Moscow Region: Community Wide Activities $46,000 Medical Program: Medical Clinics, Tuberculosis Treatment and Nutrition Program (Felas Mora in Ethiopia) $25,000

87 2014-15 Grants by Agency

PACT - Gedera and PACT Plus $150,000 The Integration Project $100,000 UJA-Federation/JDC Eshel Professional Exchange $20,000 Welfare Assistance for Elderly Jews of Moscow through Hesed Chama $120,000 Total $12,846,816 American Jewish World Service Core Funding for Service Learning Programs $60,000 Total $60,000 Amotat Yesodot Lezmicha Dror Leadership in Israel's Periphery - Educational Kibbutzim $100,000 Total $100,000 Appleseeds Academy: KamaTech KamaTech – Promoting Haredi Employment in Hi-Tech $150,000 Total $150,000 Avi Hayishuv Community Rabbinics Program Pastoral Care Track for Rabbis and Community Leaders $49,000 Total $49,000 Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $507,247 Day Care Scholarships $1,700 Day Care Scholarships - Long Beach Division $1,700 Latchkey Scholarships (Beach Y Division) $2,100 Partners in Caring: South Shore Satellite Site $55,159 Replace aged humity and temperature controls $25,000 Sunrise Day Camp for Children with Cancer in Israel $30,000 Total $622,906 Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Organizations Core Operating Support Grant $36,647 Safeguarding Efficient Delivery at the Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Organizations $10,000 Total $46,647 Berkshire Hills-Emmanuel Camps Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $153,608 Total $153,608 Beth Israel Medical Center Improving Patient and Caregiver Well-being via Hospital-Community Linkages $150,000 Total $150,000 BINA A Secular Yeshiva in Tel Aviv $100,000 Al Tashlicheini (Do Not Forsake Me) $50,000

88 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Total $150,000 Blue Card Cash Assistance for Destitude Holocaust Survivors $50,000 Total $50,000 Blythedale Children's Hospital Core Operating Support Grant $14,582 Total $14,582 Boro Park YM & YWHA Club Nissim - Enhanced Senior Adult Activities for Nazi Victims $64,500 Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $310,823 Roof Repairs $8,000 Total $383,323 Bronx House Jewish Community Center Bathroom Renovations $10,000 Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $223,723 Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $11,500 Latch Key Scholarships $3,400 Total $248,623 Bronx Jewish Community Council BJCC Volunteer Initiative $65,000 Core Operating Support Grant $63,372 Safety Net for All $25,000 Total $153,372 Bronx-Riverdale YM-YWHA Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $400,119 Interfaith Teen Connections $20,000 Kid's Space Scholarships $4,800 Riverdale Israelis - Israeli Gymbo $25,000 Total $449,919 Camp Dora Golding Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $72,476 Total $72,476 Camp Louemma Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $1,000 Total $1,000 CenterLight Health System Core Operating Support Grant $82,737 Total $82,737

89 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Central Queens YM & YWHA Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $527,529 Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $33,600 Preventive Maintenance Planning Grant $18,000 Queens Partners in Caring Initiative $35,000 Safety Net-Day Care $4,000 Working Together To Build An Inclusive Community in Central Queens $10,000 Total $628,129 Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer Spiritual Care in Rehabilitation Departments $24,750 Total $24,750 College of Staten Island Hillel Core Operating Support Grant $100,000 CUNY Hillel Career Services Initiative $10,000 Total $110,000 Community Association for Jewish at Risk Cemeteries (CAJAC) At-Risk Cemeteries $80,000 Total $80,000 Congregation Ansche Chesed Firebird/JAR@Ansche Chesed $6,000 Total $6,000 Congregation Beit Simchat Torah CBST Russian Speaking Outreach $10,000 Total $10,000 Congregation Beth Elohim Shira Be-Shishi Israeli-Style Shabbat Programming Connecting Israelis and Non-Israelis $100,000 Total $100,000 Congregation Kol Ami The Westchester/Fairfield Association of Temple Educators (WATE) $5,500 Total $5,500 Congregation L'Dor V'Dor-Oakland Little Neck Jewish Center Simcha Singles $5,000 Total $5,000 Congregation Sons of Israel J-STARTS, Yevrestvo Russian Program $6,000 Total $6,000 Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organization (COJECO) Core Operating Support Grant $200,000 Creation of Center Without Walls: Hineini $325,000

90 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Keystone Fellowship $294,000 Project LeChaim for the Members of Wheelchair Support Association -COJECO member organization $5,000 Westchester Families Project $6,000 Total $830,000 Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush Core Operating Support Grant $80,652 Safety Net Services - Project Care of the COJO of Flatbush $45,000 Total $125,652 Council of Young Jewish Presidents CYJP Grapevine Project in New York $125,000 Total $125,000 Crown Heights Jewish Community Council Core Operating Support Grant $35,690 Crown Heights Central Initiative $45,000 Total $80,690 CZ Wellness Group (Camp Zeke) Camp Zeke - Blintzes and Barbells: Culinary Arts and Fitness for Teens and Parents $35,000 Total $35,000 Davidson Institute of Science Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science Irteka - Scholarships for Arab-Israelis at The Perach Project $200,000 Total $200,000 Desert Stars Desert Stars Leadership Program for Bedouin Youths $100,000 Total $100,000 DOROT Directed Core Operating Support Grant $145,816 DOROT Partners in Caring Synagogue Initiative $75,000 Helping Seniors by Partnering with Westchester Jewish Community Services $7,200 Total $228,016 East Meadow Jewish Community Relations Council Core Operating Support Grant $2,577 Total $2,577 Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst Boiler refurbishment and roof repairs $29,690 Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $678,700 Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $91,500 Marks JCH Safety Net $60,000 New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $58,487 Pathways to Vocational Training and Placement $150,000

91 2014-15 Grants by Agency

'Poka Gorit Svecha'- Bensonhurst Holocaust Survivors Center $25,000 Single Stop Entitlement Advocacy and Economic Empowerment Center $120,000 Single Stop Financial Services Provision $98,000 Total $1,311,377 Educational Alliance Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $1,281,429 Engaging, Strengthening, and Ensuring the Safety of Lower Manhattan's Jewish Older Adults $95,000 Expanding Mental Health Services for Safety Net Program Clients $75,000 Extended Jewish Oriented Day Care $5,200 New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $46,230 Pool equipment replacements for the 14th Street Y $25,000 Total $1,527,859 FEGS Health and Human Services Connect to Care: Region-Wide Employment Services $295,000 Core Operating Support Grant $3,203,818 CUNY Hillel Career Services Initiative $84,096 Employment Services at Single Stops $87,500 Experience2Work $225,000 F.E.G.S. Partners in Caring in Day Schools $100,000 LI Regional Care Center for the UJA-Federation Healing and Hospice Partnership at F.E.G.S - Partners in Dignity $238,889 Long Island Senior Support Network $155,000 New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $177,563 Partners in Caring Initiative for the Bukharian Community of Central Queens $100,000 Partners in Caring on Long Island $168,646 Pathways to Success $150,000 Refugee Resettlement Program Services $150,000 Total $5,135,512 Gan Yavneh Community Center ZIKA in Gan Yavneh $40,000 Total $40,000 Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Core Operating Support Grant $108,426 Total $108,426 Hatnuaa Hayerushalmit Plurastic Community in Jerusalem's Neighborhoods with Ruach Chadasha $100,000 Yeru-Shalem The Coalition for an Inclusive Jerusalem $100,000 Total $200,000 Haverut Hadassah-Haverut Partnership $50,000

92 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Total $50,000 Hazon Core Funding for National Programming $69,200 Core Operating Support Grant for Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center $144,243 Replace eight tent platforms and framing materials for Adama staff housing $6,000 Shmitta Proposal to support the Siach network $100,000 Total $319,443 Hebrew Educational Society Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $361,072 Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $38,000 Daycare Scholarships $3,100 Israeli Cultural and Leadership Center $55,000 Latch Key Children $4,800 Replace six doors with operational issues $24,986 Total $486,958 Hebrew Free Burial Association Directed Core Operating Support Grant $1,000 Free Burial Services for Recent Soviet Immigrants $40,000 Total $41,000 Hebrew Free Loan Society Baby Boomer Entrepreneurship $39,238 Core Operating Support Grant $147,624 Total $186,862 Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion JTS/HUC: Israel Education and Engagement Programming $40,000 Total $40,000 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Shluchei Tzibur - Academic Training for Haredi Community Leaders $150,000 Total $150,000 Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds Core Operating Support Grant $529,824 HKC -SJJCC Pre Vocation Camp Experience Collaboration $4,000 Rebuild code compliant chlorine containment areas at Staten Island Property $25,000 Total $558,824 Hillel at Baruch College Core Operating Support Grant $165,000 CUNY Hillel Career Services Initiative $10,000 Total $175,000

93 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Hillel at Binghamton University Core Operating Support Grant $120,000 Total $120,000 Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life: Snyder Hillel Center Stony Brook University Core Operating Support Grant $156,000 Total $156,000 Hillels of Westchester (New York) Core Operating Support Grant $89,417 Total $89,417 Hofstra University Hillel Core Operating Support Grant $122,500 Total $122,500 Hunter College Hillel Core Operating Support Grant $104,000 CUNY Hillel Career Services Initiative $10,000 Rabbinic Intern $10,000 Total $124,000 Injaz Center for Professional Arab Local Governance Strengthening the Capacity of Arab Local Municipalities $100,000 Total $100,000 Institute for Jewish Community Research: Be'chol Lashon Bechol Lashon NY Network $100,000 Diversity Conference $10,000 Total $110,000 Israel Association of Community Centers Establishment of A Jewish Renewal Department within the IACC $152,500 Total $152,500 Israel Hofshit New Media Mobilizing for Jewish Pluralism $100,000 Total $100,000 Israel Trauma Coalition Sustainability Support for Israel Trauma Coalition $225,000 Total $225,000 ITIM: The Jewish Life Information Center ITIM:Advocacy Center $200,000 Total $200,000 Jerusalem Inter-Cultural Center Deliberative Democracy in Jerusalem $50,000 Total $50,000

94 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Jerusalem Online University Step Up for Israel $100,000 Total $100,000 Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) Atidim - Cadets for Public Service $100,000 Benin Fund Post Graduate Scholarships $80,000 Benin Fund Undergraduate Scholarships $350,000 Caring for Israel's Holocaust Survivors: Amigour $80,000 Community Shaliach (Westchester) $15,000 Core Funding (through Jewish Federations of North America) $23,549,768 JAFI Global Linkages $1,972,000 Jewish Summer Camps in the Former Soviet Union $2,700,000 Jewish Sunday Schools in the FSU $430,000 Rimon Summer Camp for Russian Speakers in Israel $86,410 The Integration Project $100,000 Total $29,463,178 Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA) Core Operating Support Grant $1,650,271 New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $346,546 Senior Community Connection $250,000 Total $2,246,817 Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (JBFCS) Connect to Care in Manhattan $90,000 Core Operating Support Grant $5,328,434 Mental Health for Unemployed $90,000 New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $306,446 Partners in Caring - The 'Building Bridges' Project $160,000 Partners in Caring in Jewish Day Schools and Yeshivas Project $100,000 Specialized Support Services for the Safety Net Initiative $48,000 The Shira Ruskay Center - End of Life Regional Care Center and Enhancing Palliative Care $247,139 Total $6,370,019 Jewish Child Care Association of New York (JCCA) Bukharian Leadership Program $50,000 Compass Hibur L'Dor $15,000 Core Operating Support Grant $471,434 Day Care Scholarships - Forest Hills Child Care Center $12,400 New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $33,446 POINT Westchester Internship Program $55,000 The Compass Project (Yad L'Mishpachah - A Helping Hand to the Family) $60,000 Yachad: Working Together to Help At-Risk Youth & Strengthen Families (Partners in Caring for the Bukharian Community) $129,000

95 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Total $826,280 Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Core Operating Support Grant $239,505 Jewish Journey Project: Support for Makom $40,000 Tikkun JCC in Manhattan $7,500 UJA-Federation of New York's Engage $170,000 Total $457,005 Jewish Community Center of Mid-Westchester Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $382,698 Level sports field terrain $10,000 Total $392,698 Jewish Community Center of Staten Island Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $410,470 Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $8,500 Day Care Scholarships $4,100 Latch Key Scholarships $2,800 Preventive Maintenance Planning Grant $18,000 Total $443,870 Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns 'Al Taznichaini' - 'Do Not Neglect Me' $80,000 Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $235,896 Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $27,000 Greater Five Towns Mitzvah Corps (Kol Yisrael Arevim Zeh Bazeh) $5,000 'KEYS' Keeping Each Youth Supervised (latch key scholarships) $2,400 Never Said Goodbye (Chaverim) $92,500 Ve'haavta le'reacha Camchoa - Love Your Friend as You Love Yourself $6,000 'Ve'haderta Pnai Zaken': Respect the Elderly $71,500 Total $520,296 Jewish Community Center on the Hudson B'yachad - Together We Will Care for the Needy - Partners in Caring $40,000 Camp BaShemesh Expansion Project $10,000 Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $219,667 Jewish Community Cultural Arts Festival $6,000 Through a Clear Lens $30,000 Total $305,667 Jewish Community Council of Canarsie Canarsie Safety Net $90,000 Core Operating Support Grant $80,151 Total $170,151

96 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Jewish Community Council of Pelham Parkway Core Operating Support Grant $15,020 Total $15,020 Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula Core Operating Support Grant $71,111 Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $6,800 Total $77,911 Jewish Community Council of Washington Heights & Inwood Core Operating Support Grant $41,720 Total $41,720 Jewish Community Relations Council of New York Celebrate Israel Parade $100,000 Celebrate Israel Run $25,000 Community Connections Intergroup Fellowship $40,000 Community Relations Initiatives on Long Island $45,961 Core Operating Support Grant $1,170,860 Israel Talks Project $200,000 Jewish Student Leadership Fellowship $15,000 Supplemental Operating Support $100,000 Total $1,696,821 Jewish Deaf Resource Center Changing Attitudes by Creating accessibility For Those With Communication Needs $20,000 Total $20,000 Jewish Education Project Core Operating Support Grant $2,760,716 Day School Leadership Pipeline, Collaboration Networks for Day School Leadership $396,300 Teen Engagement $180,000 Westchester Jewish Teen Learning Initiative $123,350 Total $3,460,366 Jewish Family Center Adain Lo Nursery School Network $100,000 Total $100,000 Jewish Federations of North America Birthright Israel Program $1,568,789 Israel Action Network $184,000 JAFI and JDC Core and Community Elective Funding $42,281,000 JFNA Fair Share Operating Support $5,135,000 Negev Funding Coalition $25,000 Partnership Alliance $1,616,800 Total $50,810,589

97 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Jewish Funders Network Westbury Group Tachlis Fund Grant $11,000 Total $11,000 Jewish Home Lifecare Core Operating Support Grant $279,297 Total $279,297 Jewish National Cultural Autonomy - The Resource Center Jewish Educational Resource Center in St. Petersburg $133,700 Total $133,700 Jewish Outreach Institute UJA-Federation Big Tent Judaism Initiative - Community Scan $70,000 Total $70,000 Jewish Student Connection Jewish Student Connection - Boros Expansion $25,000 Total $25,000 Jewish Theological Seminary of America Clinical Pastoral Education Program for Zicklin Jewish Hospice $53,130 JTS Clinical Pastoral Education Program - Internships in UJA-Federation of NY agencies $28,175 JTS-HUC Israel Education and Engagement Programming $40,000 Total $121,305 JICNY (Jewish International Connections NY) Organizational Capacity Building $70,000 Total $70,000 Joint Council of Pre-Army Leadership Development Programs Pre-Army Social Leadership Development Programs $175,000 Total $175,000 Jumpstart Jewish Without Walls - Capacity Building Grant $25,000 Jewish Without Walls - JFUN $8,000 Total $33,000 Kav Mashveh Career Opportunities for Israeli Arabs in the Israeli Workplace $100,000 Total $100,000 Kemach Foundation Additional Staff to Increase Numbers of Haredim Training for the Workplace $150,000 Total $150,000 Keren Hanan Aynor (KHA) Educational Scholarships and Support Mechanisms to Ethiopian Immigrants $70,000 Total $70,000

98 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Keren Koby Mandell Spiritual and Psychological Care for Parents, Widows and Widowers (with Israel Center for Treatment and Psychotrauma) $36,000 Total $36,000 Kesher Spiritual Mentoring for Kesher Staff and Parents of Special Needs Children $33,500 Total $33,500 Kings Bay YM-YWHA Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $402,910 Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $58,000 Directed Core Support formerly provided to the Jewish Community Council of Kings Bay $42,172 Installation of two engergy efficient HVAC units and door repairs $6,750 J-Baby Time in North Williamsburg $40,000 Kaplan Fund Concerts for Seniors $4,646 Single Stop Center $120,000 Young Peacebuilders: Partnership Program with the Turkish Cultural Center $50,000 Total $724,478 Kraft Center for Jewish Life (Columbia/Barnard Hillel) Core Operating Support Grant $95,000 Total $95,000 Limmud FSU Limmud for Young American Jews of Russian Descent $25,000 Total $25,000 Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth (LIGALY) The Aleph Project (TAP) $20,000 Total $20,000 Ma'agan - The Jerusalem Support Center for Those Affected by Cancer Ma'agan Spiritual Support Program for People Living with Cancer $38,000 Total $38,000 Ma'ase Center Association Building a Civil Society based on the Pursuit of Social Justice and Equal Opportunity $100,000 Total $100,000 Maimonides Medical Center Brooklyn Holocaust Survivors Mental Health Project $131,500 Total $131,500 MATAN: The Gift of Jewish Learning for Every Child Matan Institute for Early Childhood Educators $10,000 Total $10,000 Mechon Hadar Bringing Torah to the People: Yeshivat Hadar Fellows Lead Peer-to-Peer Education $110,000

99 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Total $110,000 Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty Core Operating Support Grant $1,978,047 For Community Council Programs in Boro Park $26,969 Met Council Urgent Safety Net Services $700,000 New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $437,254 Total $3,142,270 Metropolitan Jewish Health System Building New York City's First Jewish Hospice Residence $256,290 Core Operating Support Grant $89,688 The Center for Jewish End of Life Care $190,000 Total $535,978 Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center BRIJE - Building Russian Inspired Jewish Expression $18,000 Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $386,430 Kehilla $18,000 Partners in Caring $40,178 Preventive Maintenance Planning Grant $18,000 Total $480,608 MOATZA Core Funding $75,000 Total $75,000 Moishe House Growing Moishe House's Reach and Impact in the FSU $110,000 Moishe House New York City $204,350 Total $314,350 Montefiore Medical Center An Alliance for the Mental Health of Holocaust Survivors $150,000 Total $150,000 Moscow Jewish Community House (MEOD) MEOD Studencheskaya $120,000 Total $120,000 Mosholu-Montefiore Community Center Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $141,341 Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $10,000 Day Care Scholarships $5,500 Jewish Cultural Community School $25,000 New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $26,792 Purchase two 15-seat school buses $7,666 Total $216,299

100 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Mount Sinai Medical Center Supporting Seriously Ill Patients Living in the Community $150,000 Total $150,000 Mount Sinai School of Medicine UJA-Federation-Mount Sinai Family Centered Autism Initiatives $109,846 Total $109,846 Moving Traditions Inspiring the Jewish Identity of Teenage Boys $57,000 Total $57,000 My Jewish Learning A Jewish Twist on Parenting, Kveller.com and Kveller.com Long Island Portal $103,000 Development of the Interfaith Platform through Kveller.com $17,500 Total $120,500 M'Yad L'Yad - Long Island's Helping Hands Long Island's Helping Hands Community Collection Program $5,000 Total $5,000 National Association of Jewish Chaplains Bi-National Chaplaincy Education and Training $78,000 Total $78,000 Neemanei Tora Veavoda The Communal Model $75,000 Total $75,000 Neve Yerushalayim Project S.P.A.R.C. - Spiritual Psychological and Religious Care $17,800 Total $17,800 New Shul The Downtown Hunger Action Project for Jewish Teen Service and Learning (D-HAP) in Collaboration with Tamid $25,000 Total $25,000 New York Board of Rabbis Directed Core Operating Support Grant $100,399 Westchester Elderly Outreach Program $24,000 Total $124,399 New York Community Trust Fund for New Citizens $22,500 Total $22,500 New York Legal Assistance Group Citizenship & Naturalization Legal Support Project $125,000 Compensation Appellate Practice Program $185,000

101 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Connect to Care: Financial Counseling $120,000 Connect to Care: Legal Counseling $140,000 Directed Core Operating Support Grant $251,677 Legal Services for Single Stop $231,300 Safety Net Program $390,000 Safety Net: Financial Counseling $101,225 Total $1,544,202 New York Service for the Handicapped, Camp Oakhurst Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $49,538 Total $49,538 North Shore - LIJ Health System Improving the Continuum of Care through Longitudinal Palliative Care Provision Across Community Settings $150,000 Total $150,000 Ohel Children's Home and Family Services Project 'CHINUCH' - 'Children Need Chizuk' $130,000 Total $130,000 Olim Together Core Program for Ethiopian Israeli University Graduates $115,000 EZ Way Psychometric Exam Preparation Course $110,000 Total $225,000 Oranim Academic College Delivering a National Impact, Shdemot Center, Department of Community $175,000 Total $175,000 PANIM: For Jewish Renaissance in Israel A Cooperative of Jewish renewal organizations in Israel $75,000 Total $75,000 Park East Synagogue The Matryoshka Club: Russian Culture, Jewish Values $6,000 Total $6,000 Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation Core Operating Support Grant $163,449 Total $163,449 Project Kesher Israel Project Kesher - Israel $25,000 Total $25,000 Queens College Hillel Core Operating Support Grant $165,000 Total $165,000

102 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Queens Jewish Community Council Core Operating Support $87,721 Total $87,721 RAJE-USA RAJE Leadership Development Initiative $50,000 Total $50,000 Ramapo for Children Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $70,225 Purchase 12 passenger van $7,666 Supporting Children with Learning Disabilities through Family and Community $10,000 Total $87,891 Rambam Medical Center, Health Care Campus Spiritual Care As Part of Oncology Supportive Care $50,000 Total $50,000 Rashi Foundation Ofakim to High Tech Ethiopian Recruiter $74,000 Total $74,000 Repair the World Repair the World $100,000 Total $100,000 Reut Institute Employer's Initiative $100,000 Israel's Network of Inclusive and Resilient Communities - Pilot in Tsfat Toward National Deployment $250,000 Total $350,000 Richard Rosenthal JCC of Northern Westchester Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $371,279 Install a heating system in the gym $8,000 J Baby Steps and J Links and Ladders $65,000 Latchkey Daycare Scholarships $1,400 UJA-Federation of New York's Engage $180,000 Total $625,679 Ruach Hadasha (New Spirit) Pluralistic Community in Jerusalem’s Neighborhoods with Yerushalmim $100,000 Total $100,000 SAFE Foundation Staff Training and Prevention Education around Addictions in the Jewish Community $25,000 Total $25,000 Samuel Field YM&YWHA Connect to Care in Queens $80,000

103 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $657,694 Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $17,800 Day Care Scholarships $4,100 Marble dust the pool at the Bay Terrace Pool & Tennis Center $14,515 Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Holocaust Survivors in Queens $40,000 Northeast Queens Extension: After School Daycare Program (Latchkey) $2,800 Queens Partners in Caring $50,000 QueensNet $145,000 Total $1,011,909 Sarah Herzog Hospital - Ezrath Nashim Supportive Interdisciplinary Spiritual Care in the Complex Nursing Department $30,000 Total $30,000 Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies Pastoral Care and Crisis Intervention $35,000 Total $35,000 Selfhelp Community Services Core Operating Support Grant $404,079 Core Services for Holocaust Survivors $750,000 New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $187,195 Selfhelp Safety Net: Comprehensive Case Management for Elderly and Disabled Jews $300,000 Total $1,641,274 Sephardic Community Alliance iLead $50,000 Total $50,000 Sephardic Community Center Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $468,956 Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $67,500 Day Care Scholarships $5,500 Total $541,956 Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Cancer Medicine Department B'Ruach - By Spirit: Development of Chaplaincy (Pastoral Care) Service and Training Program $94,500 Total $94,500 Shahaf Foundation Partnering with the Shahaf Foundation $150,000 Total $150,000 Shalom Hartman Institute of North America iEngage $175,000 Total $175,000

104 2014-15 Grants by Agency

She'arim - the Association for Empowering Jewish Renewal in Israel Advocacy in Israel $100,000 Total $100,000 Sheatufim 'Merchav Hashpa'a' The Ethiopian Coalition $40,000 Promoting Civic Service in Israel $250,000 Total $290,000 Shorefront Jewish Community Council Core Operating Support Grant $76,318 Services for Victims of Nazi Persecution (Project TOV): The Other Victims $62,500 Total $138,818 Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach After School Latchkey Program Scholarships $5,200 Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $588,197 Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $23,000 Day Care Scholarships for Infants to Two Year Olds $5,800 New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $34,672 Sauna Refurbishment $10,000 Shorefront Y Single Stop (Enhanced Technology Resources to Promote Entitlement Access and Economic Self Sufficiency $90,000 Shorefront Y/Coney Island Generation Gap Partnership Program $20,000 Shorefront Y's Safety Net for Low Income/Vulnerable South Brooklyn Seniors: Community Based Geriatric Services Program $90,000 Summer Nights Festival $4,646 Total $871,515 Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center Connect to Care in Nassau County - LI $95,000 Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $318,838 Partners in Community Care $161,949 UJA-Federation of New York's Engage $195,000 Total $770,787 Sikkuy: The Association for the Advancement of Civic Equality Advancing Fair Employment of Arab Citizens in Businesses Receiving Government Contracts $75,000 Advancing Successful Implementation of the Gov. of Israel's 5 yr. Economic Dev. Plan for the Arab Community in Israel $50,000 Total $125,000 Society for Advancement of Education, Jerusalem Hachmey Lev: Yeshiva High School $100,000 Total $100,000 SPARKS SPARKS First Response Helpline and Service $49,077

105 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Total $49,077 Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $454,187 Day Care Scholarships $2,800 Engaging Interfaith Families $20,000 Latch Key Scholarships $1,000 Total $477,987 Surprise Lake Camp Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $139,715 Removal and pruning of hazardous trees $10,000 Total $149,715 Tech-Career Tech Careers Training $40,000 Total $40,000 Temple Israel Center 'Jew-sovka': Jewish Table Talk $10,000 Total $10,000 Temple Shaaray Tefila Firebird/JAR $6,000 Total $6,000 Temple Sinai of Roslyn Sinai Russian Club/SON $10,000 Total $10,000 The Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life: Hillel at NYU Core Operating Support Grant $53,000 Total $53,000 Tikkun: A Center for Gathering, Education and Social Change Groups Renewing Judaism $75,000 Total $75,000 Tishkofet Israel Spiritual Care Network $135,000 Kehillot Shel Areyvut $150,000 Nirapeh - Growth and Healing in the Face of Life Threatening Illness $50,000 Spiritual Care Training to Serve the Russian Speaking Community (with Zimrat Yah) $50,000 Total $385,000 Torah Umesorah/The National Society for Hebrew Day Schools National Fellowship for Principals of Day Schools $125,000 Total $125,000

106 2014-15 Grants by Agency

Tsofen High Technology Centers High Tech Employment Center in Nazareth $110,000 Total $110,000 United Jewish Council of the East Side Core Operating Support Grant $23,158 Total $23,158 Usdan Center for the Creative & Performing Arts Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $70,190 Total $70,190 Village Temple Russian Kesher Club $10,000 Total $10,000 Westchester Jewish Community Services Connect to Care in Westchester $106,131 Core Operating Support Grant $1,019,593 End of Life Care Initiative - Pathways To Care $228,086 Family Caregiver Network $12,000 New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $87,906 Partners in Caring/On Site Counseling $244,689 Relationship and Sexuality Resource Program for Individuals with Dev. Disabilities $10,000 Therapeutic Support Services for Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and Their Families $70,524 WJCS Partners in Caring in Day Schools $70,000 Total $1,848,929 Westchester Jewish Council Core Operating Support Grant $70,444 Expansion of Westchester Adult Education Program $4,500 J-Teens Leadership $50,000 Total $124,944 YAHALOM - Parents and Children Study Together Family Summer Camps in Jerusalem for FSU Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Families $80,000 Total $80,000 Yedidim for Youth and Society Striving Toward A Better Future $50,000 Total $50,000 YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood Core Operating Support Grant and Scholarship Support $307,494 Day Camp Scholarships for Needy Children $5,800 New York Times Neediest Cases Cash/Direct Assistance Grant $8,582 Replace six emergency exit doors $8,000 Support Services at Neighborhood Synagogues $25,000

107 2014-15 Grants by Agency

The Hudson Community Project: Safe at Home $115,538 Total $470,414 Young Israel of Staten Island Russian Jewish Outreach Initiative $6,000 Total $6,000 Zayit - Center for Jewish Culture and Identity in Emek Hefer Jewish Cultural Identity in Emek Hefer $25,000 Total $25,000

108 2013-14 Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Grants Outside the Commission Process 92nd Street YM-YWHA Superstorm Sandy Unreimbursed Flood Loss Relief $7,400 Total $7,400 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) PACT - Gedera and PACT Plus; from the Nedivot fund of UJA Federation on NY $25,000 Total $25,000 Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center Camp Sunrise - Support from Oppenheimer Haas Foundation $16,000 Superstorm Sandy Unreimbursed Flood Loss Relief $365,900 Total $381,900 Beth Israel Medical Center Graduate Medical Education Program $35,000 Novel Approaches to Treating Parkinson's Disease $15,000 Total $50,000 Bloomingdale School of Music Music Access Project $25,000 Total $25,000 Boro Park YM & YWHA Gymnastics Equipment for Children's Program $10,000 Total $10,000 Bronx House Jewish Community Center Bronx House Music School Scholarship Program $25,000 Aquatic Equipment & Youth Swim Program $10,000 Total $35,000 Bronx-Riverdale YM-YWHA Riverdale Y Sunday Green Market $5,000 Total $5,000 Central Queens YM & YWHA Twice Monthly Funday Program for Children with Autism $9,000 Project Launch $50,000 Adventures in Making Music $25,000 Neighborhood Improvement Through Creating Common Ground $5,000 All Sorts of Sports $10,000 Total $99,000 Economic Empowerment for Women Regional Business Incubators for Business Growth $35,000 Total $35,000 Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst B'Yachad $40,000 Brooklyn Sunday as Funday $5,000 CLASSP Student Stipends $15,000 Marks JCH Youth Choir $25,000 Splash Ball $5,923 College CLASSP Student Stipends $6,250

109 2013-14 Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Grants Outside the Commission Process Total $97,173 Educational Alliance Sports and Nutrition Mentorship Program $10,000 The Jewish Engagement Initiative of the Manny Cantor Ctr. Building Jewish Community $30,000 Expanding Mental Health Services for Safety Net Program Clients $150,000 Total $190,000 Facing History and Ourselves Westchester Synagogue Educators Summer Retreat $25,000 Total $25,000 FEGS Health and Human Services UJA-Federation Trust for Disabled Adults $88,633 The Bronx Lab School Sports for Youth Athletic Program $10,000 BOSS Studio Music Ensemble $25,000 Superstorm Sandy Unreimbursed Flood Loss Relief $283,600 Total $407,233 Footsteps Footsteps Women's Empowerment Initiative $25,000 Total $25,000 Gateways Organization Inc. Brownstone Experience $25,000 Total $25,000 Harlem Lacrosse & Leadership Girls Program Manager $10,000 Total $10,000 Hebrew Educational Society Brooklyn Sunday as Funday $5,000 CLASSP Student Stipends $5,000 Coordination of BASDI CLASSP $3,000 Splash Ball $5,967 College CLASSP Student Stipends $6,250 Total $25,217 Hebrew Free Loan Society Microenterprise Program for Haredi Community $24,000 Total $24,000 Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds To Purchase New Row Boats and Canoes $10,000 Total $10,000 Hillels of Westchester (New York) Young Jewish Women's Leadership Training Program $5,000 Total $5,000 Hope for Heroism General Operating Support $50,000 Total $50,000

110 2013-14 Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Grants Outside the Commission Process ILAN - Israel Sport Center for the Disabled ISCD DIsable Children Transportation Project $10,000 Total $10,000 Jerusalem Season of Culture General Operating Support $50,000 Total $50,000 Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) Bitui: Integrating Formal and Informal Jewish Education in Mexico $15,000 Atidim - Cadets for Public Service $50,000 Project T.E.N. Tikkun Empowerment Network $25,000 Total $90,000 Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA) JASA Cultural Arts Institute Jewish Music Series $2,000 Superstorm Sandy Unreimbursed Flood Loss Relief $272,100 Total $274,100 Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (JBFCS) Road Recovery $12,000 Superstorm Sandy Unreimbursed Flood Loss Relief $50,900 Total $62,900 Jewish Child Care Association of New York (JCCA) Compass Project in Westchester $75,000 Fitness for Teens (FIT) $10,000 Brooklyn Music Collaborative $25,000 Queens Teens Mitzvah Council $13,600 Bukharian Teen Lounge College Prep. $15,000 Kew Garden Hills Teen Center Outings $3,000 Superstorm Sandy Unreimbursed Flood Loss Relief $6,600 Total $148,200 Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Reelabilities Film Festival $5,000 Jewish Journeys $30,000 Total $35,000 Jewish Community Center of Staten Island CLASSP Student Stipends $5,000 Music for All Children $25,000 Celebration of Jewish Music Month $2,500 Multi-Purpose Sports Court $10,000 College CLASSP Student Stipends $1,250 Total $43,750 Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns Play Golf - Lessons for Individual's with Disabilities $10,000 Kosher Café Kids for adolescent girls $23,100 Total $33,100 Jewish Community Center on the Hudson Outdoor Camp Inclusive Fitness Playground Center $10,000

111 2013-14 Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Grants Outside the Commission Process Celebrating Jewish Composers $2,000 Total $12,000 Jewish Community Relations Council of New York Celebrate Israel Parade - Funding from the Jewish Communal Fund $100,000 Support for Israel Mission $119,000 Total $219,000 Jewish Education Project Westchester Jewish Teen Learning Initiative $50,000 Total $50,000 Jewish Federations of North America JFNA Fair Share Operating Support $135,000 Funding for UANI(United Against A Nuclear Iran) $100,000 Ukraine Assistance Fund $100,000 Total $335,000 Jewish Home Lifecare Naming the Rooftop Garden $300,000 Total $300,000 Jewish Women's Foundation of Metro. Chicago Jewish Women's Collaborative International Fund DAF - Funding for Itach - Maaki in Israel $10,000 Total $10,000 Jewishcolorado Flood Relief $36,000 Total $36,000 Kings Bay YM-YWHA Brooklyn Sunday as Funday $5,000 CLASSP Student Stipends $5,000 Archery at the Kings Bay Y for South Brooklyn Kids & Teens $5,000 College CLASSP Student Stipends $6,250 Superstorm Sandy Unreimbursed Flood Loss Relief $13,500 Total $34,750 Leket Israel General Support - Nedivot Fund $15,000 Total $15,000 Lighthouse International Comprehensive Music Program for Young People $20,000 Total $20,000 Mayors Fund to Advance New York City East Harlem Building Collapse Relief Effort $10,000 Total $10,000 Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty Access to Music Performance (AMP) $2,000 Emergency Grant for Met Council's General Purposes $1,000,000 Total $1,002,000

112 2013-14 Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Grants Outside the Commission Process Metropolitan Jewish Health System Naming of the Elevator Bank $187,000 Total $187,000 Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center Monkey Motion $10,000 Total $10,000 Moishe House Nedivot Fund Grant $25,000 Total $25,000 Montefiore Medical Center The B'NFit Exercise Challenge $10,000 Total $10,000 Mosholu-Montefiore Community Center Grant Proposal Day Camp 'Ropes Course Program' $10,000 Total $10,000 Music Conservatory of Westchester Scholarship Program for Low-Income Students $10,000 Total $10,000 National Council of Jewish Women New York Section We Were Slaves: Sex Trafficking Initiative $11,000 Total $11,000 National Ramah Commission Ramah Tikvah Staff Training $15,000 Total $15,000 Netanya Foundation Netanya Hoops for Kids $10,000 Total $10,000 New York Legal Assistance Group Project Nedivot $40,000 Mobile Legal Help Center - Jewish Communal Fund $134,000 Mazer Special Education Fellow $50,000 Total $224,000 New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers 2013-14 Program - Solender Music Fund $2,775 Total $2,775 New York Pops The New York Pops at Mosholu-Montefiore Community Center in the Bronx $25,000 Total $25,000 Orr Shalom for Children and Youth at Risk Purchasing and Opening Therapeutic Foster Treatment Center in Ashdod - Bonim Atid Fund $291,000 Total $291,000

113 2013-14 Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Grants Outside the Commission Process Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies In Support of the Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies (PIJS) $10,000 Total $10,000 Richard Rosenthal JCC of Northern Westchester Renovation of Baseball Field at Camp Discovery $10,000 Community Shaliach (Westchester) $10,000 Total $20,000 Samuel Field YM&YWHA Summer Camp Inclusion Program (SCIP) - Funding from Oppenheimer Haas Foundation $24,000 CAPE Geriatric Mental Health Clinic and Alzheimer's Respite Program Endowment for Nurse Specialist $20,000 HaDereckh: A Path - Assisting Youth with Autistic Spectrum Disorders Prepare for Adulthood; from the Nedivot fund of UJA Federation on NY $61,000 VIP (Violins in Our Program) $18,000 Fitness for All: The A-Z Fitness Initiative $8,000 Total $131,000 Selfhelp Community Services Using Music to Improve the Quality of Life for People with Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia $1,500 Total $1,500 Sephardic Community Center Expanding a Fitness Facility: An Exercise in Keeping Our Teens Enfranchised $10,000 Total $10,000 Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach Brooklyn Sunday as Funday $5,000 College CLASSP Student Stipends $6,250 CLASSP Student Stipends $5,000 Sing-Along With the ShorefrontY $15,000 Shorefront Y Junior Dunkers $14,000 Total $45,250 Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center Exploring Our Neighborhood, Becoming Community $3,750 Camp Jacobson Inclusive Golf Center & Program $10,000 Klezmer Kool $2,000 Total $15,750 Soccer for Peace Goals for Peace $10,000 Total $10,000 Songcatchers, Inc. Composers of the Future within the After-School Music Program $5,000 Total $5,000 Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center Youth Take the Lead $15,000 Total $15,000

114 2013-14 Grants Awarded Since July 1, 2013

Grants Outside the Commission Process The Israel Project Technology and Digital Media Development $70,000 Total $70,000 Tony Blair Faith Foundation-US New York-Israel Face to Faith Program $100,000 Total $100,000 Usdan Center for the Creative & Performing Arts Scholarships for Teen Mentoring Program $20,000 Usdan Center - PS165 Block Tuition Assistance Program $25,000 Total $45,000 Westchester Jewish Community Services Music at Mt. Vernon Senior Programs $1,000 Spectrum Athletics $10,000 Martial Arts for 7-12-year-olds with ADD/ADHD $33,932 Total $44,932 Westchester Jewish Council J-Teens Leadership $10,000 Total $10,000 Wheelchair Sports Federation Inc. WSFSled Rangers-Competitive Ice Hockey Experience for Disabled Youth $10,000 Total $10,000 World Confederation of Jewish Community Centers Enhancing Jewish Education in Centro Deportivo Mexico (CDI Mexico) - Staff Seminar in Israel $10,000 Total $10,000 YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood First Adventure in Singing $25,000 Vertical Wall $10,000 Total $35,000

115

UJA-Federation Named Endowment and Spending Funds

Sarah Ackerman Fund Agnes Coleman Fund Vera and George Adams Fund Aileen S. & Lester J. Cooper Fund Benjamin Adler & Pearl Steinberg Endowment Fund Albert S. Disraeli Fund for Training in Geriatric Medicine Eric R. Adler Endowment Fund Molly and Abe Divinsky Fund Leon Ajces Fund Doctorow Family Fund Yetta & Melech Ajces Fund Ruth Weiss Dressler Fund Akabas Family Fund Allen and Belle Efros Fund Sidney and Theda Allerhand Fund Beatrice Eisendorfer Fund Avraham Avinu Fund for Jewish Continuity Etra Family Fund Catherine Bachner Fund Feigenbaum Family Fund Richard H. and Anny M. Baer Fund Peter I. Feinberg Lecture Series for the Aged Fund Helen Bagel Fund Joshua V. Fidanque Fund Baschkopf Family Fund Ruth and Joshua Fidanque Fund Charles Batchelor Fund Nathan and Vivian Fink Scholarship Fund Robert A. Belfer Family Fellows Fund Arlene and Daniel Fisher Family Endowment Fund Selim and Rachel Benin Fund Sara Fishkin Holocaust Memorial Fund Anne H. Berger Fund Sylvia Fishman Fund Harry Biele Endowment Fund Max Forster Fund Rose Biller Fund Paul, Alice and Theodore Frank Endowment Fund Henrietta Blau Fund Paul K. Frankford Fund Matilda Blendes Scholarship Fund Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Friedlander Israel Fund Colette Bloch Fund Sam & Bertha Friedlander Fund Block Fund Arthur L. & Camille C. Friedman Fund Harriet & Joseph J. Bloom Endowment Fund Dr. Hans D. Froehlich Fund Rose and Bernard M. Bloom Endowment Fund Rose and Adolph Fuchs Endowment Fund Allen I. Bluestein Fund Benjamin Gallinger Endowment Fund for Resettlement Simon and Tekla Bond Fund In Israel Anny B. Brieger Fund Josef & Maurice Garbaty Fund Brookdale Foundation Fund Jeanne H. Garr Fund Walter J. Brownstone Fund Ruehl M. Gelbin Fund Margery D. and Howard Bruno Fund Constance Geltman Fund Ira Allen Brushman Memorial Fund for Gilbert Glass Fund Camp Scholarships Glass Family Endowment Fund Morris Buchberg Fund Norman Goetz Experimental Fund Rose F. & I. Victor Burger Fund Herman & Lillian Goldblats Fund Burstein Family Fund Edna S. Goldman Fund Zella and Jack E. Butler Fund Milton and Phoebe Goldman Endowment Fund Paula & Max Buxpan Fund I., I. & P. Goldman Endowment Fund Allan Caplan Fund Goldstein Family Fund Nathan & Alina Clay & Mark Clay Fund Samuel N. & Kathryn Goldstein Fund Phyllis and Lee Coffey Fund Charles and Janet Goldstone Fund Joan M. Cohen Endowment Fund Miriam Golombeck Fund Jeanette Coin Fund Gertrude Robinson Goodman Memorial Fund

116

UJA-Federation Named Endowment and Spending Funds

Morris, Rose & Sheldon Goodman Fund Murray and Etta Knispel Fund Harry and Betty Goodman Shechtman Family Fund Frances & Sidney Korsh Endowment Fund Stephen Richard Goodrich Fund Lili Kramer Fund Murray and Eleanor K. Graham Fund for the Aged Estelle Kanner Krieger Fund Greenberg Family Fund Dr. Karel Kumerman Family Fund Kathryn & Alan Greenberg Day Camp David and Elsie J. Lampert Fund Scholarship Fund Landau Family Fund Edith and Edward Greenwald Fund Margot Landes Fund Shirlee and Jerome Gross Fund Bela and Meyer Laskin Fund Josie Gutman Fund Leir Endowment Fund Martin Hackel Endowment Fund Leo Lemle Fund Lorenz Hart Fund Adolph Leon Fund Margot and Dr. Jeno Hartmann Fund Dr. Gerson J. and Mrs. Norma Lesnick Fund Harriet & Robert H. Heilbrunn Fund Augusta & Georgia Levy Fund Edward M. and Akiba Heller Endowment Fund Bernard and Ruth Frances Levy Fund Sol and Evelyn Henkind Fund Juliette Lewin Fund David M. Heyman Fund Jacob P. Lieberman Fund Ira G. Hiller Endowment Fund Liebermann Family Fund Ann and Leon Himelberg Fund Robert & Janet Liebowitz Fund Fred & Hannah Scharps Hirschhorn Fund Harold F. Linder Fund Margaret and Kurt Hirsh Endowment Fund Mrs. William Linder Fund Franchon Hirshkind Fund Morris Loeb Fund Morton Hirshkind Fund S & R Loeb Fund Irving Hochberg Fund Martha J. Loewenstein Fund Nathan Hofheimer Fund Mildred J. Lowy Fund for the Aged Daisy M. Holman Memorial Endowment Fund Joshua and Evelyn Magnes Endowment Fund Jacob Holman Memorial Fund Dr. J. William Maller Memorial Fund Louis J. & Mary E. Horowitz Endowment Fund Clare Mamolen Fund Muriel, Harry, Sanford and Melvin Horowitz Fund Harry Mancher Memorial Fund Benjamin Isenberg Scholarship Fund Morris Markowitz Educational Endowment Fund Frances Irwin Fund Rita Markus Endowment Fund Elisabeth G. & Stanley R. Jacobs Fund Mazer Family Fund Jane Joseph Fund Beatrice Melnick Fund Satoko M. Joseph and Franz M. Joseph Fund Marjorie Meltzer Fund Adam Kahan Scholarship Fund Norman L. and Pauline W. Mendel Fund Julius and Ericka Kaplan Programs Fund Mendez Family Fund Stanley H. and Rita J. Kaplan Fund Simon, Margot, Lizette Leah Metzger Family Fund William V. and Frances S. Karp Fund Lotte and Fred Meyer Fund Dr. Arnold Karsch Memorial Fund Pearl and Ira Meyer Fund Ruth Katzman Fund Ernest Michel Fellowship Fund Fannie Kavesh Goldstein Endowment Fund Morris Morchan Fund Dora Kessler Fund Felicia Moser Scholarship Fund

117

UJA-Federation Named Endowment and Spending Funds

Henry & Lucy Moses Fund Alice & Irving Rubenstein Scholarship Fund Irving M. Moss Fund Edna Heller Sachs Fund Elie Nahoum Fund Edna & Richard B. Salomon Scholarship Fund Dr. Louis and Minnie Nathanson Fund Ruth U. Samuel Fund Elsa & Frederic Naumberg Fund Else Samuel Fund George & Cecile Naumberg Fund Ruth and Michael Saphier Fund Henry Necarsulmer Fund Ida and Harry Savitt Memorial Fund Jean & Albert Nerken Scholarship Fund Aaron, Rosa, Meta and Sylvia Scheuer Memorial Fund Jean & Albert Nerken Human Services Fund Helen R. Scheuer Fund for the Aged Jean Nerken Fund for Ethiopian Israelis Schiller Family Fund Hilde Neugass-Gouldman Fund Irving P. and Felix A. Schlesinger Memorial Fund Harold Neuwirth Fund Ilse & Kurt Schloss Endowment Fund Nevelson Building Art Fund Norbert Schoenbach Fund Detta Okun Fund Rhea Schonzeit Fund Ann L. Oppenheimer Fund Florence & Arthur J. Schwartz Fund for the Aged Beryl Oppenheimer Fund Benjamin Schwartz Fund Norma Pechenik Fund Bernard and Rose J. Schwartz Endowment Fund Maurice & Ethel Pessah Family Fund Berthe Schwartz Fund Esther Peterman Scholarship Fund Max & Blanche Schwartzman Endowment Fund Milton Petrie Fund Fanny & Ysrael Seinuk Endowment Fund William Petschek Fund Shapiro Family Fellows Fund Hyman Pohoriles Fund Alfred and Bernice Shawl Endowment Fund Pollack-Olanoff Family Fund Rabbi Seymour Siegel Scholarship Fund Byron Preiss Childrens Fund Dorothy and Marty Silverman Day Care Fund Aaron and Clara G. Rabinowitz Fund Isabelle & Selig Silverman Fund Alexander E. Racolin Fund Thomas R. Simons Fund Theodore Racoosin Scholarship Fund Simon-Wolfeiler Fund Anne S. and Robert Rau Fund Herbert M. Singer Endowment Fund Reeves Family Fund Skodnek Family Fund Rose Reinheimer Fund Sylvia & Alexander E. Slater Endowment Fund Miriam and Joseph Reiss Memorial Fund J. Seymour & Gertrude H. Sloan Fund Rice Family Fund Sanford Solender Lecture Series Fund Fred M. and Rita Richman Fund Sanford S. and Ethel K. Solender Music Fund Henry and Renee Richmond Fund Gary Sollish Memorial Endowment Fund Ring Foundation Endowment Fund Nathan A. Solomon Endowment Fund Helene Eisner Rittenberg Fund Sidney L. and Jeanette Solomon Fund Beatrice and Dr. Barnard H. Robbins Fund Solomon Schechter Day School of Nassau County Louis & Anne Robbins Fund Endowment Fund Sommer-Hochberg Fund William H. and Nina S. Robbins Fund Louis Sparaga Endowment Fund Jack and Lillian Rosenblum Fund Israel A. Stein Fund Delia Rosenfelt Fund Kathryn W. Stein Endowment Fund Stanley Roth Sr. Fund Samuel Steinhardt Fund Dr. William and Janet Ruberman Family Fund

118

UJA-Federation Named Endowment and Spending Funds

Samuel S. Stempler & Mark C. Wilner Fund in Susan Wimpfheimer Memorial Fund Memory of Louis & Lillian Wilner Harold Yagerman Fund Nathan D. Stern Fund Arthur Zankel Fund Harry J. Sternberg Fund Abraham Zimmerman Fund Karl Stoll Fund Leon E. and June Nelson Zuckerman Fund David Stone Fund Natalie G. & Myron K. Stone Fund Bernard Stone Fund Bernard Stone Scholarship Fund Joan & Solomon Strausberg Fund Dr. Arthur and Hella Strauss Endowment Fund Recha Strauss Fund Irving Rudensky and Lillian Studer Rudensky Fund Solon Summerfield Fund Leo Swerdlick Fund for the Aging Dr. Alberta Szalita Fund Dr. Judith Teclaw Scholarship Fund for Medical Education Tepper Family Fund Peggy & Alan Tishman Fund for the Aged Phyllis Tishman Day Camp Scholarship Fund George Toeplitz Fund Milton W. Tomber Fund Jerome E. Treibitsch Fund Edythe & Joseph Turberg Memorial Fund Anne and Moe Turman Endowment Fund David Turner Fund Joseph M. Ury Fund Stanley D. & Nikki Waxberg Fund Vele Weber Fund Jeanne & Max Weil Fund for Services for the Aged Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Fund for Programs for the Aging Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Health Care Assistance Fund Velvel and Sima Weinberg Family Endowment Fund Herschel M. Weinberg Fund Greta and Paul Weinberger Endowment Fund Herbert & Shirley Weisberg Fund Marian Weisberg Gelles Fund Rose and Joseph Weissman Fund Janet Younker Willen Fund Diane Wilson Fund

119 The Report of Strategic Directions and Grants 2014-15

Prepared by the following staff of the UJA-Federation of New York Accounting & Finance department:

Oswald Cordeiro Larry Feinstein Joann LoCascio Connie Mendoza David Moskowitz Connie Pi Jennifer Sovronsky Lawrence Swilling

With special thanks to:

Barry Howell and Leah Haviv in Information Technology Services

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