The Charlotte Jewish News - August 2015 - Page 12
Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community Distributes $69,000
in Grants to Support Legacy Effort
The Foundation for the Char
lotte Jewish Community (FCJC)
distributed $69,000 ofunrestrieted
ineentive grants to nine Jewish
eommunity partner organizations
for reaehing their seeond year
legaey goals. These goals, estab
lished as part of FCJC’s Create
Your Jewish Legaey (CJL) initia
tive are rewards based on the
number of legaey eommitments
reeeived by eaeh organization
from Mareh 1, 2014 through April
30, 2015. The five organizations
reeeiving grants of $9,000 were
Jewish Family Serviees, Jewish
Federation of Greater Charlotte,
Levine Jewish Community Cen
ter, Temple Beth El, and Temple
Israel. Reeeiving grants of $6,000
were Charlotte Jewish Day
Sehool, Charlotte Jewish Pre-
sehool. Congregation Ohr Fla-
Torah, and Hebrew Cemetery
Assoeiation.
“We at FCJC are thrilled with
the sueeess of our CJL initiative,”
said Judy August, FCJC’s Board
Chair. “There is great enthusiasm
and eooperation from our partiei-
pating Jewish organizations that
has been met by the passion and
generosity of our donor eommu
nity. We are truly ereating a eul-
ture of legaey giving that will be
a positive and impaetful foree for
generations to eome.”
Sinee CJL’s ineeption over 490
unique legaeies have been ereated
by 231 individuals and families
with a future value in exeess of
$ 11.4 million. The CJL initiative
was ereated to foster a eulture of
legaey giving throughout Char
lotte’s Jewish eommunity. In eol-
laboration with ten eommunity
partner organizations, FCJC
works elosely with teams estab
lished by eaeh organization. These
teams reeeive training and support
from FCJC to assist with the mar
keting and implementation of
their legaey efforts.
The initiative is funded prima
rily through FCJC’s annual budget
in eollaboration with the Harold
Grinspoon’s Life & Legaey initia
tive, as well as additional support
from JFNA and loeal eommunity
funders. Eaeh of the partieipating
eommunity partner organizations
also eontribute finaneially.
“It is exeiting to aeeomplish all
of this while at the same time pro
viding $150,000 of unrestrieted
funding to our eommunity part
ners over the past two years,”
added Phil Warshauer, FCJC’s Ex-
eeutive Direetor. “This sueeess is
attributable to the hard work and
leadership of our CJL Coordina
tor, Naney Kipnis, the eommit-
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ment of our partieipating eommu
nity partners and donors who be
lieve in the future of Charlotte’s
Jewish eommunity.”
On May 1, the CJL initiative
entered Phase 2 with a eontinued
foeus on legaey eommitments and
additional emphasis on donor
stewardship and reeognition. An
additional two-year eommitment
was reeeived by the Harold Grin-
spoon Foundation to eontinue to
support FCJC’s legaey effort.
“Charlotte was one of the first
eommunities to sueeessfully eom-
plete the Life and Legaey pilot
program of the Harold Grinspoon
Foundation,” said Arlene Sehiff,
National Direetor of the Grin-
spoon’s Life and Legaey Program.
“You are also the seeond eommu
nity to partieipate in our expanded
partnership. You have begun to
ehange the language and land-
seape of giving in your eommu
nity and you have done so by
working eooperatively.” ^
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CHARLOTTE JEWFSH
COMMUNITY
Our Jewish
Community’s
Newest
Legacy Gifts
We thank the following indi
viduals/families who have re-
eently informed our eommunity,
through Foundation for the Char
lotte Jewish Community (FCJC)
or one of the ten Create Your Jew
ish Legaey eommunity partners,
that they have ereated a legaey
gift to support the future of Char
lotte’s Jewish eommunity or
added an organization to their
legaey plan. There are now 317
individuals/families throughout
our Jewish eommunity who have
ineluded a loeal Jewish organiza
tion in their legaey plans ereating
645 unique legaeies. Charlotte’s
Jewish eommunity now has esti
mated future gifts of more than
$24 million.
We weleome our newest
donors into our eommunity’s
Book of Life Soeiety:
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Melvin W.
and Caren N. Frank
Laura Milgrim
Nadine and Arthur
Oudmayer
Ruth S. Silverman
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