Help Change a Life Today 2018 IMMEDIATE NEEDS As you determine your distribution allocations for 2018, we present the following ideas for your consideration. These are a few of our community’s most pressing needs. Your allocation can make an immediate and signi cant di erence in the well-being of our community.
Your gift will support our youth. Without it, Camperships a child misses out on a lifetime of memories.
BB Camp Camp Gan Israel 40 children need your help 55 children need your help
Research shows that Jewish summer camp has a Camp Gan Israel is dedicated to enriching the lives of tremendous e ect on children and their Jewish identity. children from diverse Jewish backgrounds through a No matter the activity — basketball, canoeing, crafts, or stimulating day camp experience. Camp Gan Israel is camp res — the social aspects of Jewish camp all play committed to providing every Jewish child with access to out in a vibrant Jewish milieu. Camp is a fun, educational their vibrant heritage, and to making sure that no child is experience that helps our children grow as Jews, but due deprived of the joys that s/he so rightfully deserves, to rising costs and fees, camp is not easily accessible for regardless of their parents’ means. The Torah teaches that the neediest children in our community. Your support will one who teaches a child, or provides for a child to learn help BB Camp accept all children regardless of their Torah, is considered to be their spiritual parent. Your families’ ability to pay. support will help Camp Gan Israel to foster a love of Jewish life for many children in the community, including newcomers.
NEED ...... $28,455 NEED ...... $9,500 JFM Campership Fund ...... $11,382 JFM Campership Fund ...... $3,800 Funding Received to Date ...... $0 Funding Received to Date ...... $0
Updated Sept. 2018 Your gift will support our youth. Without it, Your gift will instill Jewish values in our next generation. Camperships a child misses out on a lifetime of memories. Tuition Without it, a child will not receive a Jewish education.
Camp Massad Jewish Child and Family Service Gray Academy of Jewish Education – Gray Academy of Jewish Education 5 children need your help 11 children need your help Junior Kindergarten Bursary Support 18 students need your help
Camp Massad’s mission is to create a dynamic summer JCFS has 15 children in foster care. In addition to meeting 12 students need your help Every year, Gray Academy has some families who are camp experience that encourages the use of the Hebrew their physical needs, JCFS prioritizes the cultural needs of unable to meet even the minimum cost of accessing a Gray Academy’s Junior Kindergarten program (3- & language, promotes pride in Jewish identity, and these children through programs and activities that Jewish day school education for their children. With the 4-year-olds) has grown and is in high demand. The connects campers to their community and Israel in a safe, promote strong social skills, leadership skills and generous support of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg, Winnipeg Board of Jewish Education introduced bursary nurturing, inclusive, creative, and fun environment. Camp independence, positive self-worth, and a connection to the Winnipeg Board of Jewish Education has a parental assistance for this program in 2016 to help meet the Massad enjoyed record numbers in 2018 and more Jewish culture and community. Every summer, JCFS contribution model that takes into account family income needs of the community. This will be the third year that requests for subsidies. Among the many campers who sends as many of their foster children as possible to our and the number of children to provide bursaries that bursary assistance is available to students entering JK (a received subsidies in 2018, Massad had two families with local Jewish day and residential camps. JCFS receives makes a Jewish education a ordable. However, there are program that receives no funding from the province). This a total of ve campers who were unable to pay any $400 of provincial campership funds per foster child per some families with unique circumstances who cannot has helped attract families from diverse backgrounds. The portion of the camp fees. Your support will cover the fees year, which is well below the costs of Jewish summer even a ord the minimum cost fee. These circumstances majority of children come from working families who will of these children. camp. In 2018, JCFS sent 11 of its 15 foster children to include the death of a parent, job loss, living below the need to spend additional money on after-school care. camp. Your support will help JCFS cover the camp fees. poverty line, illness, bankruptcy, and more. Your support Your support will help these families access the JK will help Gray Academy provide Jewish education to program and begin their journey at Gray Academy. NEED ...... $9,615 NEED ...... $20,000 these children. JFM Campership Fund ...... $3,615 JFM Campership Fund ...... $8,000 Funding Received to Date ...... $6,000 Funding Received to Date ...... $0 NEED ...... $10,000 NEED ...... $18,000 Funding Received to Date ...... $0 Funding Received to Date ...... $0 Rady JCC 50 children need your help Arts & Culture Oholei Torah School The Rady JCC provides day camp experiences to youth who would otherwise not be able to a ord to participate. Your gift is a stage for our artists to perform. 7 students need your help The campership program ensures that camp is accessible Without it, the curtains will close. to children and families of all abilities and nancial Oholei Torah is a progressive Jewish day school from means. Rady JCC Days Camps are inclusive and Sarah Sommer Chai Folk Ensemble – grades Kindergarten through grade eight. Students integrated, and also serve those who face physical whose families cannot a ord tuition are provided with challenges. Rady JCC also provides camperships to many Hora-Hopak Tour scholarships. A signi cant portion of these students come rst-time campers from newcomer families. This number 8 performers need your help from lower-income families and Ohelei Torah struggles to continues to grow and newcomer families often require provide scholarships. Oholei Torah is unique in that it is nancial support for the entire summer. The need is rising the only facility in Manitoba that is speci cally geared to The Sarah Sommer Chai Folk Ensemble and Rusalka with more families coming from Israel, Turkey, Brazil, and preparing students for advanced Yeshiva education. Your Ukrainian Dance Ensemble will jointly represent Canada other areas of the globe. Your support will help keep Rady support will help Oholei Torah welcome all students, at Israel’s internationally renowned Karmiel Festival and JCC camp available for all. regardless of their families’ means. at various performances in Ukraine. There are eight performers who will not be able to participate unless NEED ...... $10,000 they can receive additional assistance, including recent NEED ...... $12,500 JFM Campership Fund ...... $4,000 immigrants. Chai’s performers devote countless Funding Received to Date ...... $0 Funding Received to Date ...... $0 volunteer hours to enhance our community through music and dance. Chai will subsidize half of the cost of this special tour. Your support will make it possible for all of Chai’s performers to participate.
NEED ...... $8,000 Funding Received to Date ...... $0
Updated Sept. 2018 Updated Sept. 2018 Your gift will support our youth. Without it, Your gift will instill Jewish values in our next generation. Camperships a child misses out on a lifetime of memories. Tuition Without it, a child will not receive a Jewish education.
Camp Massad Jewish Child and Family Service Gray Academy of Jewish Education – Gray Academy of Jewish Education 5 children need your help 11 children need your help Junior Kindergarten Bursary Support 18 students need your help
Camp Massad’s mission is to create a dynamic summer JCFS has 15 children in foster care. In addition to meeting 12 students need your help Every year, Gray Academy has some families who are camp experience that encourages the use of the Hebrew their physical needs, JCFS prioritizes the cultural needs of unable to meet even the minimum cost of accessing a Gray Academy’s Junior Kindergarten program (3- & language, promotes pride in Jewish identity, and these children through programs and activities that Jewish day school education for their children. With the 4-year-olds) has grown and is in high demand. The connects campers to their community and Israel in a safe, promote strong social skills, leadership skills and generous support of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg, Winnipeg Board of Jewish Education introduced bursary nurturing, inclusive, creative, and fun environment. Camp independence, positive self-worth, and a connection to the Winnipeg Board of Jewish Education has a parental assistance for this program in 2016 to help meet the Massad enjoyed record numbers in 2018 and more Jewish culture and community. Every summer, JCFS contribution model that takes into account family income needs of the community. This will be the third year that requests for subsidies. Among the many campers who sends as many of their foster children as possible to our and the number of children to provide bursaries that bursary assistance is available to students entering JK (a received subsidies in 2018, Massad had two families with local Jewish day and residential camps. JCFS receives makes a Jewish education a ordable. However, there are program that receives no funding from the province). This a total of ve campers who were unable to pay any $400 of provincial campership funds per foster child per some families with unique circumstances who cannot has helped attract families from diverse backgrounds. The portion of the camp fees. Your support will cover the fees year, which is well below the costs of Jewish summer even a ord the minimum cost fee. These circumstances majority of children come from working families who will of these children. camp. In 2018, JCFS sent 11 of its 15 foster children to include the death of a parent, job loss, living below the need to spend additional money on after-school care. camp. Your support will help JCFS cover the camp fees. poverty line, illness, bankruptcy, and more. Your support Your support will help these families access the JK will help Gray Academy provide Jewish education to program and begin their journey at Gray Academy. NEED ...... $9,615 NEED ...... $20,000 these children. JFM Campership Fund ...... $3,615 JFM Campership Fund ...... $8,000 Funding Received to Date ...... $6,000 Funding Received to Date ...... $0 NEED ...... $10,000 NEED ...... $18,000 Funding Received to Date ...... $0 Funding Received to Date ...... $0 Rady JCC 50 children need your help Arts & Culture Oholei Torah School The Rady JCC provides day camp experiences to youth who would otherwise not be able to a ord to participate. Your gift is a stage for our artists to perform. 7 students need your help The campership program ensures that camp is accessible Without it, the curtains will close. to children and families of all abilities and nancial Oholei Torah is a progressive Jewish day school from means. Rady JCC Days Camps are inclusive and Sarah Sommer Chai Folk Ensemble – grades Kindergarten through grade eight. Students integrated, and also serve those who face physical whose families cannot a ord tuition are provided with challenges. Rady JCC also provides camperships to many Hora-Hopak Tour scholarships. A signi cant portion of these students come rst-time campers from newcomer families. This number 8 performers need your help from lower-income families and Ohelei Torah struggles to continues to grow and newcomer families often require provide scholarships. Oholei Torah is unique in that it is nancial support for the entire summer. The need is rising the only facility in Manitoba that is speci cally geared to The Sarah Sommer Chai Folk Ensemble and Rusalka with more families coming from Israel, Turkey, Brazil, and preparing students for advanced Yeshiva education. Your Ukrainian Dance Ensemble will jointly represent Canada other areas of the globe. Your support will help keep Rady support will help Oholei Torah welcome all students, at Israel’s internationally renowned Karmiel Festival and JCC camp available for all. regardless of their families’ means. at various performances in Ukraine. There are eight performers who will not be able to participate unless NEED ...... $10,000 they can receive additional assistance, including recent NEED ...... $12,500 JFM Campership Fund ...... $4,000 immigrants. Chai’s performers devote countless Funding Received to Date ...... $0 Funding Received to Date ...... $0 volunteer hours to enhance our community through music and dance. Chai will subsidize half of the cost of this special tour. Your support will make it possible for all of Chai’s performers to participate.
NEED ...... $8,000 Funding Received to Date ...... $0
Updated Sept. 2018 Updated Sept. 2018 Your gift is a lifeline to our seniors. Seniors Without it, a senior’s dignity is lost.
Jewish Child and Family Service Jewish Child and Family Service 50 Holocaust survivors need your help 3 seniors need your help
There are about 300 Holocaust survivors in Winnipeg, JCFS currently has three older clients in need of medical some over the age of 100. JCFS provides services to about equipment to help improve the quality of their lives. One 150 of them. Their needs increase as they age, and many client requires funding for a wheelchair ($3,600); a second have limited family networks and limited income. Most client requires funding for a new scooter ($2,000); and a live alone. Due to a lack of funds, JCFS has a wait list of third client requires funding for hearing aids ($2,400). four survivors currently awaiting various forms of Your support will lighten the load of a senior in our assistance. Needs include hearing aids, medical community. equipment, household supports, and dentures (to supplement the free dental care survivors receive from dentists in Alpha Omega, the Jewish dental fraternity). Holocaust survivors from the Former Soviet Union, who have recently settled in Canada to join their adult children, are in particular need of assistance. Your support will help Holocaust survivors in Winnipeg gain access to the services they need.
NEED ...... $20,000 NEED ...... $8,000 Funding Received to Date ...... $0 Funding Received to Date ...... $0
For further information, please contact Marla Aronovitch Director of Operations & Grants Tel: 204.480.7557 | US/Canada toll-free: 1.855.284.1918 [email protected] | www.jewishfoundation.org