2018 ANNUAL REPORT

JBI INTERNATIONAL

FOUNDED IN 1931 AS THE JEWISH BRAILLE INSTITUTE

Connecting the Blind and Visually Impaired to the Jewish World CO-CHAIRS’ LETTER

Dear Friends, We are pleased and excited to share the leadership of JBI, the world’s largest library of Jewish interest for individuals who are blind and visually impaired. We follow wonderful and inspiring leaders of this unique organization. All our services have always been FREE—and we are determined that they always will be. Led by Dr. Ellen Isler and her devoted sta and wonderful volunteers, JBI helps make the world a better place. We are privileged to help in that work.

None of JBI’s work would be possible without your continued generous support and understanding. By helping to provide free Braille, Large Print and Audio materials, you enable blind and visually impaired men, women, and children to play vibrant roles in their communities.

Because of you, children who are blind or visually impaired are studying alongside their peers, becoming Bar/Bat Mitzvah and participating in communal life. Adults access the written word for pleasure, information, and religious observance. Older men and women who unexpectedly nd themselves forced to adjust to severe vision loss are reconnecting to the world of reading, , and social and communal activities. Whatever materials they request from JBI are delivered right to their doorsteps.

Outreach remains one of our most pressing concerns. We want everyone who needs us to know of and to benet from JBI’s services. e JBI library is always expanding and adapting to meet our patrons’ needs.

rough your generosity, you are ensuring that JBI will continue to be there for all who call upon us. On behalf of JBI’s Board of Trustees, its sta , and all those whose lives are enriched by JBI’s free services, we thank you for your support and for your caring.

Steven P. Polivy, Co-Chair of the Board Susan L. Schlechter, Co-Chair of the Board

02 | 2018 JBI INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL REPORT WORDS OF THANKS TO JBI

Talking Books really make my day. Also the Large Print Prayer Books I use every Shabbos and Yom Tov. I just want to tell you how much I love the Robert K., Miami, FL and more are so enjoyable and a pleasure

to listen to—and everything is pertaining With your help, Leah is thriving in school. to something Jewish. I look forward to them coming. has needed this year in Large Print. I am Rhoda H., Daphne, AL so glad that we found JBI.

Melanie, New York, NY

My vision began to deteriorate eight years able to fully follow the Seder and read ago. While Large Print books helped at prayers. - ally disappeared. Always an avid reader, I Bella D., from a friend and started receiving Audio Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine - c hanging for me. Your Audio books keep my mind active and they alleviate the loneliness I feel living by myself. If you or a loved one could Florence N., New York, NY

please call 1-800-433-1531 Your books mean so much to me. I discuss or visit www.jbilibrary.org. really brighten my day. JBl's knowledgeable

librarians will be happy Phil G., Coconut Creek, FL to help.

2018 JBI INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL REPORT | 03 Jorgensen Foundation Kaller Family Foundation OUR THANKS FOR YOUR Irwin Kallman The Kaplen Foundation Kirschner Trusts GENEROUS SUPPORT IN 2018 The Kenneth A. Lattman Foundation Hortley G. LeBlang Charitable Foundation Jessia Leonard in memory of Lowell Scheiner LEADERSHIP GIFTS FRIENDS Dr. Richard M. Levey $100,000 OR MORE Mr. & Mrs. Irwin B. Levin Livingston Foundation in honor of Barbara B. The Marc Haas Foundation Dr. Jeffrey Aaronson Friedman Ruth M. Levine Philanthropic Fund Audrey Abecassis Frederick Marek The Agnes Varis Trust, in honor of Ellen David and in Gloria S. Adelson Michael Mason Foundation memory of Martin Zeiger Richard I. Adrian & Erica Abeel Metzger-Price Fund Mark J. Altschuler Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation BENEFACTORS Steven Howard Amster Memorial Fund Gerd & Dorothy Miller Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Apelberg Morris Morgenstern Foundation The David Berg Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Mitchel Ashkanazy Mr. & Mrs. Lester S. Morse The Derfner Foundation Lovey Beer, The Beer Family Foundation Moskowitz Family Foundation Barbara B. & Stephen Friedman Beit Tikvah Messianic Congregation The Nash Family Foundation Bengualid Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Alan Neustadter PATRONS Dr. Maxwell & Florence C. Blumenreich Foundation Mario and Sara Rafalin Foundation Samuel C. Cantor Charitable Trust Charles S. Raizen Foundation Anonymous Dr. & Mrs. Jerry Carle The Albert B. & Audrey G. Ratner Family Foundation Joseph Alexander Foundation Marcy & Leona Chanin Foundation Abraham & Sonia Rochlin Foundation The Sandra Atlas Bass and Edythe & Sol G. Atlas Lionel Cherry in honor of Jesse Cherry Edward E. and Hilda C. Rosen Foundation Fund Arnold Lewis Cohen The Bertha & Jacob Rosenberg Foundation Frances & Buddy Brandt Yvonne Cohen Martin Rosenfeld Paul & Pearl Caslow Foundation Barbara Cohn in honor of Judy E. Tenney Robert Russell Memorial Foundation Mirrel Davis Trust and Rebecca Davis Trust Beth Crandell David S. Sabih & Anna Swartley in honor of Be Leroy Fadem Dr. Linda R. Dagi & Dr. T. Forcht Dagi Swartley, Dr. Allan Smith, Dr. David Auerbach & Dr. FJC, Foundation of Philanthropic Funds Kenneth I. Daniels in memory of Jeannette Daniels Astrid Holberg Bernard Gans, B Gans Management Inc. Chait Dr. Mervin Livingston Schloss Fund The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Ellen David in memory of Martin Hoppy Zeiger Ruth Shapiro Leo Oppenheimer & Flora Oppenheimer Haas Nathaniel de Rothschild Lynn Sheeley Foundation The Ruby Diamond Foundation Jack Shlachter & Beverly Post Debbie and Howard Jonas Family Foundation The Elbirt Family Foundation Arlene & Dr. Sheldon Simon Thomas G. Kahn Sandy Fainbarg Mr. & Mrs. Warren Sinsheimer Moses L. Parshelsky Foundation Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield The Smotrich Family Foundation Idalia Roth Charitable Trust County, Bridgeport, CT Stephen D. & Elsa Solender Susan & Bruce Schlechter Dr. Theodore Feintuch Cari Sommer Charitable Fund Adolph & Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation Eugene and Estelle Ferkauf Foundation Sidney Stern Memorial Trust Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation The Feuerring Foundation The Philip and Lynn Straus Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Irwin Shapiro Rochelle & Ilan Forster in memory of Phyllis S. Dr. Abraham Sudilovsky The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation Schachter Toby Talbot The Paul Singer Family Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Jason Frand Benny Talpalar Mr. & Mrs. Norman Sturner Bernice F. Friedman Newman Tanner Foundation Judy E. Tenney David Furman Alice J. Tenney in honor of Judy E. Tenney Stephen J. Garchik Amy Tenney-Levere in honor of Judy E. Tenney Gerson Family Foundation Tidewater Jewish Foundation SPONSORS Doris and Abraham Getzler Familly Foundation Lorraine Trachtenberg & Jeffrey A. Dankberg Edythe Gladstein Mr. & Mrs. Michael Turok Gene, Rosalie and Susan Goldberg Endowment Fund Raymond P. Cohen & Rosalin W. Cohen Viterbi Family Fund William P. Goldman & Brothers Foundation Albert E. & Birdie W. Einstein Fund Wallach Foundation Patricia & Bernard Goldstein Fried Family Charitable Foundation in memory of Alvin Warsaw Dr. Joseph Gordon Helen Fried Kirshblum Goldstein Judy & Leon Yehuda Herman Goldman Foundation Sylvia G. Gordon in memory of Morris & Anna Gates Judith & Frank Greenberg Gottesman Philanthropic Fund in honor of Judy E. DONORS Malka & Paul R. Herman Tenney Barbara Freid Gottesman Jill & Myron Kaplan A.C. Israel Foundation Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation in honor David and Alan Greene Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. William K. Gross Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Abel of Thomas G. and Marilyn Kahn Chris & Susan Anderson S & R Kleiman Family The Dr. Lewis A. Hare & Ruth Lerman Hare Charitable Foundation Stuart S. Applebaum Giving Foundation in honor of Benjamin F. Kursman Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Cohen Diane & Burton Lipman Henry and Myrtle Hirsch Foundation The David and Barbara B. Hirschhorn Foundation Corinne Bagatell Dennis M. Meyers in memory of Alfred V. Meyers Stuart G. Baker Steven P. Polivy & Annette Orenstein Jephson Educational Trust #2 Ronald M. Jericho Phyllis A. Barber in memory of Fred Lee Barber, Rabbi Charles & Mildred Schnurmacher Foundation Joel Wasser & Mr. William Cheng Baseball Writers' Association in memory of Gertrude Siwoff 8 Ira B. Beer make it impossible to list the many gifts under $250. If your name is not listed, or there is an error in the way you Joan Bellows are listed, please accept our apologies and let us know how to correct the error. (Please call Beth Rudich at 1-800-433-1531.)

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ene Silv W ymour y eill tzberg erman W allner Sisterhood of Temple Beth Hillel, Valley Village, CA JBI INTERNATIONAL Bernard Small (ESTABLISHED AS JEWISH BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA) Robert H. Small Melody Smyth Jerome S. Soble Condensed Statement of Activities (Year ended December 31, 2018) Jeffrey Solarz JBI Programs Judy Soley LIBRARIES AND LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES Marshall S. Solomon SUPPORT AND REVENUE 2018 Paul J. Sperry Contributions and grants 2,255,225  Circulating library of more than 13,000 Talking Books as well as Lee Starr Legacies & bequests 940,633 several thousand Large Print and Braille titles Sephora Stein Investment activity (342,721)  Customized educational materials for students Jack and Eva Steinberg Endowment Fund 59,446  Special publications and liturgical materials Priscilla R. Stern Memorial Fund of Temple Other revenue and support  Volunteer recording studio program Emanu-El, Dallas, TX Total Support and Revenue 2,912,583 Audrey F. Steuer  Audio books and other materials: available in 9 languages distrib- George Stone EXPENSES uted globally Maxwell Strawbridge Charitable Trust Program services:  Online Hebrew Braille Translation Program Barry Stucker Libraries and library development services 1,280,102 Mildred Sudarsky Educational and cultural programs 106,815 OUTREACH TO THOSE IN NEED Dr. & Mrs. Jaime Sznajder JBI periodicals 268,932  Reaching out to blind, visually impaired, reading disabled and Rita & Burt Tansky Outreach to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union 86,428 physically handicapped individuals through schools, libraries, JCC's, Michael Taub Israeli assistance program 147,796 Temple Israel, Norfolk, VA senior centers, social service agencies, advertisements, etc. Outreach and Library recruitment 758,616 Sarah Tepper  Educating the community at-large about JBI's free and unique Paul Thermen services Christopher L. Thorn in memory of Gertrude Siwoff Total Program Services 2,648,689  Engaging blind and visually impaired patrons through JBI Talking S. Thurman Book Groups Joyce Toppel Management and general 237,237 Fundraising 371,562 Mr. & Mrs. Aron P. Trombka JBI PERIODICALS SERIES AND EDUCATIONAL AND Tropham Foundation CULTURAL PROGRAMS Mr. & Mrs. Mark Tryfus Total Expenses 3,257,488 Alan & Ety Tusher  Audio concert, drama and lecture series United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, VA Change in Net Assets (344,905)  Periodical selections in Audio format drawn from Jerusalem Re- United Synagogue of Conservative Tikun Olam Program port, Commentary, Moment, Tikkun, Hadassah and many others. Lauren & John Veronis Foundation  JBI Voice and Jewish Braille Review - JBI's own monthly anthology Marcia L. Warner Condensed Balance Sheet (Year ended December 31, 2018) of articles from a wide variety of publications, with separate and Ira & Barbara M. Warren distinct quarterly Russian and versions Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Weiner Samuel Weinstein Family Foundation ASSETS 2018 ISRAEL PROGRAM Jeffrey B. Weinstock Cash and cash equivalents 2,528,269  Kenneth & Carol Weiser Investments 13,202,213 The JBI Low Vision Clinic (including a dedicated Children’s Clinic) Melitta Weiss Contributions receivable 201,607 and Mobile Screening Program (Tel-Aviv) Yisroel Weiss Property and equipment, net 5,838,188  JBI sponsored recording studios at the Central Library for the Mr. & Mrs. Charles I. Weissman Other assets 1,585,998 Blind in Israel Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Weissman in memory of Israel A. Taub Dov Weitman Total Assets 23,356,275 OUTREACH TO EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION Whizin Foundation  Production and distribution of Audio and Large Print foreign Joan Wiesen LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS language materials throughout Russia, Ukraine, Hungary and Ro- James & Linda Wimmer Mr. & Mrs. Harold Wolf LIABILITIES: mania (in cooperation with The American Jewish Joint Distribu- Women of Temple Rodef Shalom, Falls Church, VA Accounts payable and accrued expenses 77,435 tion Committee) J. A. Wunderlich III Other liabilities 398,600 Abbe B. Young & Elisabeth A. Harris Gary Zaidenweber Total Liabilities 476,035 Edith & Robert Zinn FUNCTIONAL EXPENSES Mark Ziring NET ASSETS: Herbert and Grace Zwerner Philanthropic Fund Without Donor Restrictions General operating 438,317 FUNDRAISING Board designated reserve 500,621 JBI extends its gratitude to Board designated endowment 6,217,013 Investment in Property and equipment, net 578,154 12% Council Members Alan N. Maisel and Helen Rosenthal, and to the Manhattan Borough Total Without Donor Restrictions 7,734,105 President’s Office for their support in 2018. With Donor Restrictions 7% Purpose restricted 2,239,903 Beneficial interest in Trusts and Perpetual Trusts 1,302,046

Endowment 6,344,152

Investment in Property and equipment, net 5,260,034 81% Total Net Assets 22,880,240 MANAGEMENT PROGRAM TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS 23,356,275 AND GENERAL SERVICES

2018 JBI INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL REPORT | 07 HIGHLIGHTS OF 2018 JBI MISSION STATEMENT  Through our annual Haggadah Outreach JBI International, founded in 1931 as The Jewish Braille Institute, seeks to empower blind, visually impaired and Campaign, we provided 1,578 free Large Print and reading disabled individuals to participate fully in educational, cultural and communal life by providing free access Braille Haggadot (in various languages and for to works of Jewish and general interest through its Braille, Large Print and Audio Libraries. Our global programs in different denominations) to visually impaired many languages serve people of all ages and backgrounds. people of all ages who would otherwise have been unable to participate in a seder. THE JBI LIBRARY

 JBI produced Braille, Audio, or Large Print materials – in accessible formats in English, Russian,, Spanish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Romanian and Polish. We educational materials for every blind and visually serve readers on six continents. impaired student who turned to us. These included preparation and JEWISH EDUCATION & JEWISH CONTINUITY anything else related to participation in Jewish life JBI enables blind, visually impaired and reading disabled children to obtain a Jewish education alongside their peers and learning. Last year, as always, the variety of by providing customized educational materials in Braille, Large Print and Audio. The JBI Library also helps adults requests was extremely wide-ranging. Braille blind from birth as well as those who have become visually impaired later in life to savor the joys of reading and requests included: a few chapters of a Hebrew lifelong learning. grammar book for a 14-year-old; Havdalah blessings for a college student so that he could ISRAEL PROGRAM participate in his sister’s Bat Mitzvah; and a 66 page Braille Hebrew book for a 10 year old. JBI’s In 1983, JBI established and has since continued to support the premier Low Vision Clinic in Israel, located at the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv. The Clinic seeks to maximize the residual vision of those with severe staff worked one-on-one with parents and impairment, whether it be the result of congenital disease, aging or injury. educators to make sure that each book was ready for a child when he or she needed it.  We circulated--free of charge--17,100 Talking JBI BOARD, OFFICERS & STAFF Books, 18,900 periodicals and cultural programs, and 4,060 Braille, Large Print and Audio liturgical BOARD OF TRUSTEES Ellen Y. Rosenberg OFFICERS Paul R. Herman, Esq. EXECUTIVE STAFF Mark J. Altschuler Florence Rubinstein Steven P. Polivy, Esq. Assistant Secretary Mickey Aboff and lifecycle publications. Frances Brandt Barbara G. Saidel Susan L. Schlechter Senior Financial Ellen David Susan L. Schlechter Co-Chairs of the  HONORARY JBI converted 360 analog Talking Book titles from Leroy Fadem* Arlene Simon Board OFFICERS Beth K. Rudich its archive to digital format. Barbara B. Friedman* Stephen D. Solender Dr. Ellen Isler Barbara B. Friedman Director of Frank Greenberg Dr. Jeffrey Spitzer President and CEO Judy E. Tenney Development William K. Gross Judy E. Tenney  JBI completed the transcription and production of Thomas G. Kahn Honorary Chairmen Barry Pelofsky Dr. Ellie Henkind Katz Selma Weintraub of the Board a Braille edition of the Reform movement’s new Paul R. Herman, Esq. Myron Kaplan, Esq. Production/ ADVISORY COUNCIL High Holy Day prayer book, Mishkan HaNefesh, in Hortense Hurwitz* Benjamin F. Kursman, Leroy Fadem Circulation Dov Kramer time for Rosh Hashanah. Thomas G. Kahn Esq. Honorary Vice Manager Naomi Kronish Myron Kaplan, Esq. Stephen D. Solender Chairman Jane Blecher Stephen S. Kutner, M.D. Nancy I. Klein Vice Chairmen Manager of Audio Phyllis Raskin-Hadley Benjamin F. Kursman, Production Dr. Dennis Shulman Frances Brandt Esq. Harold I. Steinbach Treasurer Norma U. Levitt* FOUNDER Diane Lipman Ellen David Leopold Dubov** Steven P. Polivy, Esq. Assistant Treasurer Diane Lipman * Honorary Life Trustee Secretary ** Deceased

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