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JEWISH FOUNDATION of GREATER

Philanthropy for a Strong Jewish Future

Grant Distributions 2020 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY GRANT DISTRIBUTIONS

In partnershp with our generous donors, the Jewish Foundation distributed $42.2 million to over 650 organizations and programs.

2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR

Action Against Hunger Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto Congregation Canadian Art Foundation Adas Congregation of Hamilton Beth Israeli Community Centre Canadian Associates of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev Adath Israel Congregation Beth David B’nai Israel Beth Am Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Agudath Israel of Toronto Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Canadian Baptists of Western Canada AIDS Committee of Toronto Beth Haminyan Congregation Canadian Blind Hockey Aleh Rehabilitation of Canada Beth Israel Congregation Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Alli’s Journey Beth Lida Forest Hill Synagogue Canadian Cancer Society Altadore Baptist Church Beth Radom Congregation Canadian Celiac Association Alzheimer Society of Canada Beth Sholom Synagogue Canadian Centre for Jewish Community Studies Alzheimer Society of Beth Congregation Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking Alzheimer Society of Toronto Beth Tzedec Congregation Canadian Council of The Blind - Ontario Division Amref Health Africa in Canada Canadian Diabetes Association Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Society of Canada Bikur Cholim Canadian Disability Resources Society Anglican Synod of the Diocese of Foundation of Canada Canadian Eyesight Global Anglican United Refugee Alliance - Aura Foundation Canadian Feed the Children Anne & Max Tanenbaum Community Blue Sea Philanthropy Hebrew Academy of Toronto Canadian Film Centre B’nai Brith Canada Must End Now (A.M.E.N.) Canadian Foundation for Control of B’nai Brith of Canada Foundation Neurodegenerative Disease Apathy Is Boring B’nai Levy Foundation Canadian Foundation for Masorti Aptus Treatment Centre Schools Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons Art Gallery of Ontario Bnos High School Canadian Foundation for Pioneering Israel Arthritis Research Foundation Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada Canadian Friends of A.V. Israel Arthritis Society Canadian Friends of AKIM Ashkenaz Foundation Breast Cancer Society of Canada Canadian Friends of Alyn Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto Brechin United Church Canadian Friends of Bar-Ilan University Association for New Canadians Bridge to Health Medical and Dental Canadian Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Asthma Canada Bridgepoint Foundation Canadian Friends of Beit Elon Moreh Bridges to Community Canada Canadian Friends of Boys Town Aura Anglican United Refugee Alliance Brothers of Mercy Foundation Canadian Friends of Cuban Jewry Autism Speaks Canada Bruce Trail Conservancy Canadian Friends of Dental Volunteers for Israel B.A.S. Charitable Foundation Building a Jewish Tomorrow NCSY Canadian Friends of Ezrath Herzog Hospital Bais Chaya Mushkah School for Girls Business & Education Partnership of Waterloo Region Canadian Friends of University Bais Yaakov Elementary School Cambridge Memorial Hospital Foundation Canadian Friends of Israel Elwyn Banff Centre Foundation Camp Hatikvah Foundation Canadian Friends of Kishorit Bat Melech Canada Canadian Friends of Tiferes Baycrest Centre Foundation Camp Moshava Yitzchok of Aleksander BBYO Ontario Camp Ooch & Camp Trillium Canadian Friends of Laniado Hospital Ontario Region Beacon United Church Camp Oochigeas Canadian Friends Of Larger Than Life Beautiful World Canada Foundation Camp Winston Foundation Canadian Friends of Massuah Beit Halochem Canada Canada Charity Partners Canadian Friends of Meir Panim Beit Rayim Synagogue Canada Israel Cultural Foundation Canadian Friends of Mercaz Hatora Benjamin Foundation Canadahelps Canadon Canadian Friends of Nishmat Berhan Semay Church of Toronto Canada-Israel Children’s Centres Canadian Friends of Rambam Medical Centre Bernard Betel Centre for Creative Living Canadian Anti-Semitism Education Foundation Canadian Friends of Shalva Israel Association 2 Canadian Friends of Sheba Medical Center Catholic Archdiocese of Cystic Fibrosis Canada Canadian Friends of Soroka Medical Centre Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Whitehorse Daily Bread Food Bank Canadian Friends of Catholic Parish of Our Lady of the Angels DANI Developing and Nurturing Independence Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University Catholic Parish of the Sacred Heart David Suzuki Foundation Canadian Friends of the Israel Guide Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation Doctors Without Borders Canada Dog Center for the Blind Chabad at Flamingo Downtown Jewish Community Schools of Toronto Canadian Friends of the Israel Museum Chabad at Western Dr. Jay Children’s Grief Centre Canadian Friends of the Jaffa Institute Chabad Lubavitch of Aurora Dublin Street United Church Canadian Friends of the Jerusalem College Chabad Lubavitch of Markham Dying With Dignity Canada of Technology School of Applied Sciences Chabad Lubavitch of Richmond Hill (Chabad Romano) East Kootenay Friends of Refugees Society Canadian Friends of the Seminary Yeshivah Mirer of Jerusalem Inc Chabad Lubavitch of Southern Ontario Easter Seals Canada Canadian Friends of the Shalom Hartman Institute Chabad Lubavitch of the Waterloo Region Ecojustice Canada Society Toronto Canadian Friends of the World Union Chabad Lubavitch of York Mills Edmonton Hebrew Association - Congregation Beth Israel for Progressive Judaism Chabad of Centrepointe Canadian Friends of Meir Chabad of Downtown Baal Haness of Jerusalem Eli’s Place Residential Treatment Chabad of Guelph Canadian Friends of Yad Eliezer and Transition Centre Chabad of Midtown Toronto Canadian Friends of Yad Sarah Canada Chabad of Mississauga Canadian Friends of University Energy Probe Research Foundation Chabad on Campus Canada Canadian Friends of Yeshivat Aish Hatorah Engage And Change Chabad on the Avenue Canadian Friends of Yeshivath Engineers Without Borders Chai Lifeline (Canada) Beth Jerusalem Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo St. Michael Church Chai Tikvah Foundation Canadian Friends of Yeshivath Birkat Moshe Ernestine’s Women’s Shelter Charities Aid Foundation Canada Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Estonian Arts Centre Chasdei Kaduri Jewish Food Bank Canadian Institute for Jewish Research Evangel Tabernacle of Kelowna of the Community Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism Eva’s Initiatives for Homeless Youth Chevra Oseh Financial Canadian Institute for the Study of Evergreen Assistance Organization Global Antisemitism & Policy Ezer Mizion Childhood Cancer Canada Foundation Canadian Liver Foundation Ezras Cholim Organization Children’s Aid Foundation Canadian Lung Association Face the Future Foundation Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada Canadian for Israel Facing History and Ourselves Christian Reformed Church of Telkwa Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Fall for Dance North Festival Circle of Home Care Services (Toronto) Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario Federation CJA City Shul Congregation Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Federation of Ontario Naturalists Clanton Park Synagogue Canadian National Institute for the Blind FINCA Canada Colon Cancer Canada Canadian Opera Company First Mennonite Church Colorectal Cancer Canada Canadian Opera Foundation First Narayav Congregation Communauté Chabad De Mont-Tremblant Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society First Presbyterian Church Communauté Chabad Montréal Ouest Canadian Red Cross Society First Russian Congregation of Rodfesolium Ansekiev Community Food Centres Caanda Canadian Rofeh Foundation First United Church Congregation Ayin L’tzion Canadian Scholarship Fund of Ohr Hameir Food Allergy Canada Congregation Beth Chabad C.S.L Canadian Shaare Zedek Hospital Foundation Food Bank of Waterloo Region Congregation Bnai Torah Canadian Society for the Protection of Nature In Israel Food Banks Canada Congregation Chasidei Bobov Canadian Society for the Weizmann FoodShare Toronto Institute of Science Congregation Habonim of Toronto Forest Hill Jewish Centre Canadian Society for Congregation Kahal Avreichim Forever Chai Foundation of Canada Canadian Unitarian Council Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Foundation Fighting Blindness Canadian Wildlife Foundation Contact Photography Festival Friends of Amani Canada Canadian Women’s Foundation Covenant House Toronto Friends of Kiryat Hayeled, Jerusalem Canadian Zionist Cultural Association Crescent Fort Rouge United Church Friends of Ruby Cancer Research Society Crohn’s and Colitis Canada Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center Cardiac Health Foundation Crossroads United Church for Holocaust Studies Cathedral Church of St. James Crow’s Theatre Circus 3 Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Interchurch Refugee Group La Corporation Archiepiscopale Catholique Romaine De St-Boniface Friends of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria Ladner Christian Reformed Church Friends of in Toronto International Fellowship of Christians and of Canada L’arche Canada Foundation Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival Interval House Law Society Foundation Gemilas Chesed of Clanton Park Iraqi Jewish Association of Ontario Lay-Up Youth Basketball Gesher Abraham ISANS. Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia Le Centre Chabad Ville St-Laurent Gift Organization Islamic Family and Social Service Association Leket Canada Gilda’s Club Greater Toronto Israel Cancer Research Fund of Toronto Leo Baeck Day School Glaucoma Research Society of Canada Israel Koschitzky Family Charitable Foundation Letter of the Law Glenn Gould Foundation Ivey Business School Foundation Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada Grace Communion International Canada J R H Foundation - Fondation J R H Liberation75 Grace Mennonite Church JACS Toronto Limmud Canada Jane Finch Community and Family Centre Link Yad Chesed Growing Neighbourhoods Foundation Jerusalem Foundation of Canada Living City Foundation Guardian Project Jewish Camp Council of Toronto Living Jewishly Guelph Humane Society Jewish Community of The Lower Laurentides Community Hebrew Day School Hachnosas Kallah Jewish Family and Child Foundation Long-Run Thoroughbred Retirement Society Hadassah-WIZO Organization of Canada Jewish Family and Child Service of Greater Toronto Loran Scholars Foundation Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation Jewish Family Services of Ottawa Lower Canada College Hamilton Hebrew Academy Zichron Meir of Ottawa Lung Cancer Canada Cancer Pulmonaire Canada Hamilton Jewish Federation Jewish Free Loan Toronto Lymphoma Foundation Canada Hamilton Jewish Home for the Aged Charitable Foundation Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada M.O.S.A.I.C. Multi-Lingual Orientation Service Association For Immigrant Communities Harbourfront Foundation Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada Maccabi Canada Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company Jewish Hospital of Hope Eldercare Foundation Machson Tzvi Hersh Hashomer HaTzair Young Guard Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus Machzikai Hadath Congregation - Hatzoloh Toronto of Canada Clanton Park Synagogue Foundation Jewish Renaissance Centre Mackenzie Health Foundation Hawkesville Mennonite Church Jewish Russian Speaking Community of Toronto MADA Community Center Health Partners International of Canada Jewish Theological Society of Canada Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario Jewish Vocational Service of Metropolitan Toronto Makom, Creative Downtown Judaism Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jewish Youth Network March of Dimes Canada Hillel Ontario Jews for Judaism Maryvale Academy Hillhurst United Church JIAS (Jewish Immigrant Aid Services) Toronto Matthew House Refugee Reception Services Toronto Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation JspaceCanada Foundation Mazon Canada Hospital Foundation Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms McGill University Holy Blossom Temple Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation McMaster University Holy Blossom Temple Foundation JWRP Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project McMichael Canadian Art Foundation Hospital for Sick Children Foundation Kayla’s Children Centre Medhanialem Evangelical Church Hospitality House Refugee Ministry KBF Foundation Canada Mennonite Central Committee British Columbia Hot Docs Kehilla Residential Programme Mennonite Central Committee Humber River Hospital Foundation Keter Torah Learning Centre Mennonite Central Committee Hyman Family Foundation Kfar Yeladim David Mennonite Central Committee Ontario IDF Widows and Orphans Canada Kidney Foundation of Canada Mennonite Central Committee Saskatchewan Imagine a Cure for Leukemia Kids Help Foundation Mifal Klita Incorporated Synod of the Diocese of Huron Kids Help Phone Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre Incorporated Synod of the Diocese of Ontario Kingston General Hospital Auxiliary Miriam Foundation Incorporated Synod of the Diocese of Ottawa Kingsview Free Methodist Church Misaskim Canada Indspire Knesseth Israel Synagogue Congregation Mississauga Food Bank Innocence Canada Koffler Centre of the Arts Mizrachi Organization of Canada Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies Kupas Hachesed Meoroth MISE Foundation Institute of Torah Education Kyle Brandon Traves Foundation 4 Moeen Centre for Physically Disabled & Paul Penna Downtown Shaarei Tefillah Congregation Developmentally Challenged Young Adults Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario Shaarei Tzedec Congregation Moniteur UN Watch Canada Petah Tikva - Anshe Castilla Congregation Shaarei Community Centre Montreal General Hospital Foundation Plan Canada Shadowlight Montreal Heart Institute Foundation Plan International Canada Shalem Foundation Canada Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD Canada) Planet In Focus Foundation Shalom Village Nursing Home Mount Forest United Church Planned Parenthood of Toronto Shaw Festival Theatre, Canada Movember Canada Polar Bears International Shelter Movers of Toronto Multifaith Housing Initiative Pollution Probe Foundation Shomrai Shaboth-Chevrah Mishnayoth Congregation Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada Presbyterian Church in Canada Shoresh Jewish Environmental Programs Musical Stage Company Pride of Israel Synagogue Sigma Chi Canadian Foundation N I F Canadian Charitable Trust Prime Quadrant Foundation Sinai Child Care Services Na’amat Canada Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation Sinai Health System Foundation Nanny Angel Network Project Abraham Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital National Ballet of Canada Project Aseret Small Wonders National Council of Jewish Women Project Give Back for Youth Smile Company - Theatrical Productions of Canada, Toronto Section Project Inspire Canada Société De La Francophonie Manitobaine Native Women’s Resource Center of Toronto Prosserman Jewish Community Centre Song Shul Nature Canada Prostate Cancer Canada Sonlight Christian Reformed Church Nature Conservancy of Canada Queen’s York Rangers Regimental Council South Muskoka Hospital Foundation Ne’eman Foundation Canada Rabbinical Seminary of America Southlake Regional Health Centre Foundation Ner Israel Yeshiva of Toronto Rainbow Refugee Society Special Olympics Ontario Neshama Hospice Randy Starkman Charitable Foundation St. Andrew’s United Church Netivot Hatorah Day School Reconstructionist Synagogue of Montreal St. Anne’s Parish New Glasgow Pastoral Charge Reena St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church New St. James Presbyterian Church Reena Foundation St. Joseph Health Centre Foundation Nipissing Regional Community Residential Hospice Regent Park School of Music Foundation St. Mary’s Hospital Foundation Nishma-Societal Endeavor in Understanding Torah Regesh Family & Child Services St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation North York General Hospital Foundation Robbins Hebrew Academy St. Michael’s Parish North York Harvest Food Bank Roman Catholic Bishop of Thunder Bay St. Paul’s United Church North York Women’s Shelter Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation Stella’s Place Assessment and Treatment Centre Northumberland United Way for the Diocese of Toronto Stephen Leacock Foundation for Children Sarah Canada Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation Sterling Hall School Ohr Chaya Charitable Organization of the Diocese of Charlottetown Stop Community Food Centre One Family Fund Canada Ronald McDonald House Charities Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada Ontario College of Art & Design Rotary Club of Kingston, Ontario (Service Fund) Summerland Refugee Sponsorship Society Ontario Educational Communications Authority Rotary Club of Toronto Charitable Foundation Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Ontario Headwaters Institute Royal Conservatory of Music Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation Ontario Jewish Archives Foundation Royal Ontario Museum Sustainability Institute of Canada Ontario Lung Association Royal Ontario Museum Foundation Synod of The Diocese Of Edmonton Operation Smile Canada Foundation Ruchama Fraidel Relief Organization Syria-Antigonish Families Embrace (safe) Society ORT Canada Salvation Army T.J.E.E. - The Jewish Educational Experience Osteoporosis Canada Sanctuary Ministries of Toronto Technion Canada Ottawa Community Foundation Sashbear Foundation Temple Anshe Sholom Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization Save a Child’s Heart Foundation Temple Har Zion Ovarian Cancer Canada Scholarship Bursary & Education Committee Medical Alumni Association of University of Toronto Temple Kol Ami P.O.M. - United Schwartz/Reisman Centre Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto Pancreatic Cancer Canada Foundation Scott Mission Thornhill Woods Shul Parachute Leaders in Injury Prevention Second Harvest Food Support Committee Threshold Theatre Group of Kingston Parkinson Canada Senior Peoples’ Resources in North Toronto Tides Canada Initiatives Society Paroisse St Remi Shaarei Shomayim Congregation Paths of Torah School 5 TNO-The Neighbourhood Organization Wellspring Cancer Support Foundation Together We Stand Military Families Foundation West Muskoka Food Bank Torah in Motion Westwood Community Church Torah Learning Centre White Rock Baptist Church Torath Emeth Jewish Centre Art Gallery Toronto Botanical Garden Wishing Well Sanctuary Toronto Women’s Brain Health Initiative Toronto Children’s Chorus Women’s College Hospital Foundation Toronto Eruv Corporation Women’s Healthy Environments Network Toronto Foundation Women’s Hostels Incorporated Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation World Renew Toronto Jewish Film Foundation World University Service of Canada Toronto Mikvah Society World Wildlife Fund Canada Toronto Partnership Yachad the Canadian Jewish Council for Disabilities Toronto Public Library Foundation Yaldei Aharon Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation Keser Torah Toronto Sephardic Kollel Yeshivas Nefesh Dovid Toronto Symphony Orchestra Yeshivat Yesodei Hatora Toronto Teachers’ Center of Torah Umesorah Yonge Street Mission Toronto Vegetarian Association York Region District School Board Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy Toujours Ensemble York University Tower of Light Children’s Foundation Yu Torah Mitzion Beit Medrash of Toronto Trails Youth Initiatives Zaka Foundation Trinity-St Paul’s United Church Zichron Chaim Charity True Patriot Love Foundation Canada United Chesed of Toronto and Vicinity United Church of Canada United Canada of Canada of Greater Toronto United Synagogue of United Way of Greater Toronto Unity Charity Universalist Unitarian Church of Halifax University Health Network University of - Booth School University of - St. Antony’s College University of Toronto University of Waterloo University of Western Ontario Uptown Chabad Vancouver Firefighters Charitable Society Ve’Ahavta Victim Services of Durham Region Villa Charities Foundation Village Shul & Learning Center of Toronto War Amputations of Canada Water First Education and Training We Charity

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