The Charlotte Jewish News - January 2016 - Page 18
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ALLOCATES $3,651,420*
Jewish Federation
OF GREATER CHARLOTTE
THE STRENGTH OF A PEOPLE.
THE POWER OF COMMUNITY.
2016 FEDERATION CAMPAIGN ALLOCATIONS $3,651,420*
*total amount net of campaign shrinkage and reserves
2016 LOCAL BENEFICIARY AGENCIES
Anti-Defamation League $1,000
Historic organization stressing civil rights issues
Birthright Israel $9,000
Young adults traveling to Israel
B'nai B'rith Youth Organization $13,500
Youth-led, worldwide organization, promoting Jewish identity and personal growth
Butterfly Project $7,000
Educates the community on the lessons of the Holocaust
Charlotte Community Agencies $9,300
Crisis Assistance Ministries, Mecklenburg Ministries, Loaves and Fishes, Hospice Charlotte,
Safe Alliance and Urban Ministries
Charlotte Jewish Day School $160,000
Quality day school serving students from Kindergarten through S"" grade
Charlotte Jewish Film Festival $5,500
Illuminates globalJewish experiences through film
Charlotte Jewish Preschool $38,000
Quality preschool educational program and full day childcare facility
Consolidated High School of Jewish Studies $21,000
An enriched Judaic program for Charlotte-area teens
Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning $17,000
Promotes Jewish literacy through interactive 2-year comprehensive curriculum
Foundation of Shalom Park $349,748
Provides rent subsidies for Jewish agencies in Shalom Park, helping to keep operational
expenses to a minimum
Friendship Circle $10,000
Engages special needs children with volunteers for a one-on-one experience
Hebrew Cemetery $16,000
Provides a dignified final resting place for the Charlotte Jewish community
Hebrew Cemetery Indigent Funeral Fund $2,800
Provide dignified burials for Jewish families in need
Jewish Council for Public Affairs $2,700
Serves as representative voice of the American Jewish community
Jewish Council of Lake Norman $15,000
Community programming to enrich and strengthen Jewish life in the Lake Norman area
Jewish Educational Loan Fund $6,000
Provides interest-free loans to Charlotte area college students.
Jewish Experience Fund $10,000
Subsidies for summer camps and other Jewish experience opportunities
Jewish Family Services $260,000
Professional counseling, family education programs, and social services
Jewish Family Services Tzedakah Fund $15,000
Emergency financial assistance and loans to assist local Jewish families in need
Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte $874,369
Federation's campaign, operational, outreach, and community relations expenses
Jewish Preschool on Sardis $22,500
Quality preschool educational program
Levine-Sklut Judaic Library and Resource Center $75,000
Promotes the advancement of lifelong Jewish education, learning and literacy
Moishe House $20,000
Provides meaningful Jewish experiences for young adults in their 20's as they create
a vibrant home-based Jewish community
North Carolina Council on the Holocaust $10,000
Holocaust educational workshops and displays for public and private school teachers
North Carolina Hillel $39,000
Promotes Jewish life on college campuses across North Carolina
PJ Library $15,000
strengthen the identities of Jewish families and their relationships to the Jewish community
by offering free, high guality Jewish books and music to families raising Jewish children ages
six months through eight years
Sandra and Leon Levine Jewish Community Center $320,000
Enriches Jewish lives through cultural, educational and athletic programming
Shalom Park Freedom School $12,500
Embraces Jewish values and builds Jewish Identity by providing a summer enrichment
program for children of poverty in CMS schools
Supplemental Gifts and Special Distributions $238,338
Provides customized giving opportunities over and above Annual Campaign gifts,
enabling donors to maximize their giving potential and fulfill their philanthropic goals.
Includes Bernstein Leadership, Birthright Israel, Campaign Event Sponsorships, Community
Building Initiative, Community Leadership Program, Create Your Jewish Legacy Grant, Holocaust
Exploratory Grant, Gorelick Teens to Israel, PJ Library, Mission Subsidies and Special Fund
Tikvah Charlotte $7,000
Jewish education for children with special needs
Faced with the responsibility and challenge of effectively distributing
funds, the 2016 Allocations Committee (see below), under the leadership
of Brad Rabinowitz and Ira Slomka, worked conscientiously and tirelessly
to insure a thorough and impactful allocations process.
2016 ALLOCATIONS COMMITTEE
Co-Chairs; Brad Rabinowitz and Ira Slomka
Amy Augustine
Jill Balick
Gail Baron
Doug Benson
Steve Cohen
Stepanie Gitlin
Adrienne Gossett
Deidre Grubb
Jill Halverstam
Alison Lerner
Holly Levinson
Steve Raphael
Zack Schwartz
David Sheffer
Ron Townsend
JeffTurk
Bill Zimmern
2016 IMPACT & INNOVATION
FUND GRANTEES
The Jewish Federation's Community Impact & Innovation Fund grants are
intended to inspire individuals, organizations, synagogues, and agencies to
provide innovative and impactful engagement opportunities for the greater
Charlotte Jewish community.
Ballantvne Jewish Center: Provide one week of Jewish winter camp and
three weeks of Jewish summer camp to children in the Ballantyne area
Butterfly Project: improved website to enhance information and resources
for educators and visitors
Charlotte Jewish Teen Coalition: Collaborative series to educate, engage,
and excite teens about Israel
$8,000
$4,000
$6,500
$4,000
$2,000
$10,000
Charlotte Torah Center: Exposing college students to cutting edge Jewish
engagement and educational programming
Elon Jewish Studies Program: Engaging students to foster meaningful
Jewish-Christian dialogue about Israel
Friendship Circle/ZAB'S Place: Provide workplace training and experience
for Jewish young adults with special needs
Global Day of Jewish Learning: Collaborative celebration of community-wide $10,000
Jewish learning and cultural experiences
Israel Independence Dav Celebration: Community-wide celebration of
Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel Independence Day
Jewish Family Services: Part-time social worker to serve the Lake Norman
Jewish community
JCRC Speaker Series: Year long speaker series to inform and educate about
Israel and issues facing our local and global Jewish community
Jewish War Veterans: Video documentary of Charlotte area Jewish military
veterans
Moishe House: Jewish social justice and service learning retreat for young
adults
$11,300
$10,000
$15,850
$11,400
$5,000
$15,000
North Carolina Hillel: Part-time staff person to serve Jewish college and
university students in the Charlotte area
Shalom Green: Part-time staff person to manage operations for the community $7,500
garden and environmental programming
Temple Kol Ami: Quarterly Shabbaton in collaboration with the Institute of $5,456
Southern Jewish Life
Uptown Chabad: Provide networking and Jewish connections for Jewish $12,500
young adults
ISRAEL AND OUR GLOBAL FAMILY
Israel and Overseas $910,659
Meets the needs of Jews in Israel and world-wide through the
Jewish Federations of North America.
As a community, Charlotte is able to designate $354,300 of our overseas allocation
^ Aharai-Givat Olga
^ Chabad Soup Kitchen
^ Community Shaliach
^ Education for Excellence
^ Ethiopian National Project
^ Gidon Association/Maksam
^ Hadera Young Adult Center
^ Hand in Hand: Jewish-Arab Education
HIAS
^ JAEI: At Home Together
JAEI: Ulpanim in Ukraine
JDC: ESU Welfare
JDC: Supported Housing Hadera
JENA: Ukraine Emergency Assistance
Krembo Wings
PartnershipZGether - Hadera Eiron
Talpiot: Community Eor Its Children
Technoda
World Ort
Yerucham Association
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