Jewish Community Federation 2009 Annual Report

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2009 IMPACT REPORTJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION JEWISH COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FUND

Building for the 21st centuryIt has been 100 years since a group of visionary leaders and emerging Jewish agencies created this Jewish Community Federation. For all of these 100 years, the Federation has promoted the ageless Jewish values of community (kehilla), intentionality (kavod), justice and care for our community (tzedakah), and repairing the world (tikkun olam) in order to ensure a thriving Jewish people here, in Israel and around the world. These guiding principles propelled our community forward this past year, and despite the devastating economic downturn, more than $22.8 million was given through the Annual Campaign to ensure our safety net and sustain our thriving Jewish community. In addition, tens of millions more dollars were contributed to the endowed and donor involved funds and foundations of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund. Emergency grants from the Jewish Community Endowment Fund’s unrestricted fund, our community’s precious emergency resource, provided front-line Jewish service providers more than $2 million in additional resources. In spite of the worst economy since the 1930’s, our JCF/JCEF community generously drove a combined $154,000,000 into vital Jewish and community projects around the world. Through JCF’s and JCEF’s leadership and engagement opportunities – the Israel Center, Business Leadership Council, Young Adults Division, LGBT Alliance, Russian-Jewish Community, Women’s Philanthropy, Young Funders Forum, Teen Foundations, Diller Teens, Foundation Council and the GET FED program – we have engaged thousands of our fellow Jews. And most importantly, we continue to be a communal hub for resources, expertise, Jewish philanthropic services, direction, guidance and investment. We have come far this past year, and face today’s challenges with a solid new leadership team committed to re-imagine the Federation for this century. This year we will undertake a journey of strategic change: processing our past and creating a vision of our future, to strengthen the relevance and value the Federation has to our community for the next 100 years. These are exciting times indeed. Together, we will work to sustain our unique and vibrant Jewish community, secure and strengthen Israel, build a new generation of Jewish leaders and repair our world.

Jim KoshlandPresidentJewish Community Federation

F. Warren HellmanChairJewish Community Endowment Fund

Jennifer S. GorovitzActing CEOJewish Community Federation

Mark ReisbaumChief Endowment OfficerJewish Community Endowment Fund

Figures below represent fiscal year end numbers as of June 30, 2009.

2009 Annual Report and Impact Statement

Total Assets Under Management

Total Funds Raised through Campaign and Endowment

$1,932,000,000

$76,627,000

Assets and Funds Raised

Number of donors

Campaign Fundraising Costs

The Federation’s operating costs include a total of $5,451,000 for the consolidated fundraising of the Federation and its Endowment Fund, of which $2,676,000 represents the work of the Campaign department, including overhead and the outreach and community engagement work of the Business Leadership Council, Young Adults Division, Women’s Philanthropy, etc. The $2,775,000 balance represents the fundraising work of the Endowment department and the associated indirect costs of outreach and engagement. The annual Campaign results of $22.8 million were supplemented by an unprecedented grant from the Endowment Fund to ensure the continuity of essential programs and services in our community.

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Operating Costs 5%

Community BenefitActivities

6%

Grants Made 84%

Fundraising Costs10.8%

Supporting Foundations’ Programs and Expenses

5%

Total Grants and Expenditures: $184,457,000

9,753

$2,676,000

Annual Campaign Funds Raised

Total Grants

Community Benefit Activities

Federation and Endowment Operating Costs

Supporting Foundations’ Programs and Expenses

$154,242,000

$10,740,000

$9,925,000

$9,541,000

$184,457,000

$24,645,000

Total Grants and Expenditures

Annual Campaign Fundraising: $24,645,000

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Category

Donor Advised Philanthropic Funds

Supporting Foundations

# of Grants

7,756

1,209

Amount

$33,018,000

$96,800,000

Donor Involved Grants through JCEF

BUILDING A LASTING INFRASTRUCTUREThis year the Bay Area community marked the opening of the Taube-Koret Campus for Jewish Life (TKCJL) in Palo Alto and the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Center at USCF in San Francisco, two projects in which the JCEF played a major role. In addition to the $10,000,000 capital grant for the TKCJL from unrestricted and restricted endowments, over 100 donors with JCEF-affiliated donor advised funds and supporting foundations contributed over $50,000,000 to the TKCJL project.

$68,000,000 IN UNRESTRICTED ENDOWMENT FUND ASSETS Visionary philanthropists, mainly through bequests in their wills and lifetime gifts, have left the Jewish Community Endowment Fund unrestricted assets that now exceed $68,000,000. These represent the community’s most essential funds for three purposes: responding to emergencies, seed-funding new initiatives, and providing capital grants for important new projects.

This year, these unrestricted assets enabled hundreds of children to stay in Jewish day schools and religious schools, provided crucial assistance to seniors, made emergency loans to families, and helped strengthen the Bay Area network of social services.

The Jewish Community Endowment Fund’s role as the community’s philanthropic engine and reserve was made all the more clear in this difficult time. The resources of Endowment Fund were granted to meet unprecedented needs, protecting those most vulnerable in our community while continuing to fund critical projects locally, nationally, in Israel and worldwide. With over $1.6 billion held in over 900 donor advised funds and 50 supporting foundations, donors recommended more than 9,000 grants to approved charities in their areas of interest.

Donor Advised Funds Grants Supporting Foundations Grants

Note: Some of the grants shown in the Campaign total flowed through Donor Advised Funds or Supporting Foundations, so the grant total of $154,242,000 as shown on page 2 is the correct total of all unduplicated philanthropy.

Federation Initiatives

Jewish Beneficiaries and Organizations

Synagogues

National and International Charities

Local Charities

29%

34%

32%

31%

2%1%

27%

24%

15%

5%

3

Category

Caring for the Vulnerable

Educating Youth

Engaging Our Diverse Community

Israel and Overseas

Special Grants1

Total

# of Grants

72

74

89

52

7

330

# of Agencies

33

56

58

38

7

174*

Amount

$6,776,563

$6,502,313

$6,826,115

$8,161,092

$1,034,732

Campaign and Endowed Funds Grants $29,300,821

1 Special Grants include dues to the United Jewish Communities, a security grant administered by the Jewish Community Relations Council, subscriptions to the J., the Jewish Newsweekly of Northern California, and a reserve for technical assistance to agencies and congregations.

Bay Area Jewish Social Service Agencies2

Jewish Community Centers

Bay Area Jewish Day & High Schools3

Synagogues including Chabad

Hillels

$6,039,510

$3,211,661

$2,593,742

$1,120,385

$765,300

Highlights of Organizations Served

Direct Grants in Israel

Emergency Economic Response in the Bay Area

Outreach and Engagement

Educating our Children3

Caring for our Elders including Transportation

Engaging Teens and Young Adults

Strengthening our Synagogues

Bay Area Jews with Special Needs

$4,246,717

$6,077,428

$4,625,000

$7,623,376

$2,610,903

$2,916,724

$1,120,385

$245,320

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Highlights of Funding for Priority Needs

2 Includes the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center, Hebrew Free Loan. Jewish Community Free Clinic, Jewish Family and Children’s Services, Jewish Home, Jewish Vocational Service, Menorah Park, Shalom Bayit, and the Jewish Chaplaincy at Stanford University Medical Center.

3 Includes operating support, programmatic grants, and scholarships. The Federation’s scholarship funds were greatly supplemented by a generous Emergency Education Grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation. The scholarship awards are administered by JCF in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley, the Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay, and the Bureau of Jewish Education.

*Some agencies appear in multiple categories. See pages 22-24 for a complete list of all grantees.

In order to save paper and preserve the environment, detailed lists of all grants made are available on our website, at www.jewishfed.org/AR2009.

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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee projects in Israel

Building a Civil Society

Education

Israel Based Office

Jewish Identity

Mid-year reserves and other programs

Promoting Religious Pluralism

Workforce Development

$323,680

$340,000

$573,221

$732,026

$219,290

$930,000

$653,500

$475,000

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DIRECT GRANTS IN ISRAEL: $4,246,717

FEEDING 11,500 PEOPLE A DAYOur funds cover a portion of the operations at Table to Table, an innovative program that leverages volunteers to help feed more than 11,500 hungry people in Israel – every day – with food that would otherwise go to waste. The funded staff members in the Leket Work Program are previously unemployed Arab women – a demographic with the highest rate of unemployment in Israel, and for whom employment is one of the strategic imperatives of the Israeli government. Our grant amounts to about $60 a day.

HELPING AT-RISK YOUTHWe provide 1/3 of the funds for the Lasova-Kadima youth center in Tel Aviv, where over 60 poor, at-risk teens receive meals and homework assistance and other afterschool education. Our grant amounts to a little more than $1.52 per young person per day.

JEWISH AND ARAB ISRAELIS LEARN TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHERThere are 900 students attending school in four Hand in Hand schools in Jerusalem, Wadi A’ra, The Misgav Region of the Galil, and Be’ersheva. JCF grants provide scholarships for 75 of these students from low income families.

PREPARING STUDENTS TO BETTER PARTICIPATE IN ISRAELI LIFEECHAD is a strategic partnership of JDC-Ashalim, 4 government ministries and JCF, focusing on training of Arab Israeli early childhood education professionals, working with parents and children in developing skills, and touching more than 8,500 children, 3,600 parents and 1,100 community professionals. Our investment (representing 35% of the total budget) has proven itself, and the ECHAD program is now serving as the model for the Israeli government’s initiative to reach at-risk Arab-Israeli children of preschool age, which is expected to reach an estimated 35,000 young children in 22 localities in Israel. Our grant amounts to 15 cents per child per day.

45 GRADUATES GAIN SKILLS TO GET GOOD JOBS IN HIGH TECHTech-Career is focused on developing community leadership and economic empowerment among Ethiopian-Israelis, the vast majority of whom are working in very low-level jobs, and provides training for professional positions within high tech industries. The JCF grant represents 13% of the budget for this program where 45 students graduate and gain higher employment every year.

Combined philanthropy

resulted in 34 direct grants

to agencies in Israel

designed to strengthen civil

society, provide economic

security, help Israelis get

meaningful, good jobs,

promote Jewish identity and

religious pluralism, foster

early childhood development

and give children a head

start on education, and

support the work of multiple

Jewish agencies in Israel.


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To the place that my heart loves, there my feet take me.

- Talmud

EMERGENCY ECONOMIC RESPONSE IN THE BAY AREA:Emergency Client Financial Assistance Grants to Jewish Family & Children’s Services

Emergency Loan Fund Grants to Hebrew Free Loan

Emergency Operating and Programmatic Grants to Jewish Vocational Service

Jewish Preschool, Day School, High School and Camp Scholarships

$1,300,000

$300,000

$725,000

$3,752,428

$6,077,428

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SCHOLARSHIPSThanks to a generous Emergency Education Grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation, JCF administered funds in partnership with the Silicon Valley Federation, the Federation of the Greater East Bay, and the Bureau of Jewish Education enabling families to keep their children enrolled in Jewish preschools, day schools, and Jewish overnight summer camps throughout the Bay Area.

EMERGENCY FINANCIALASSISTANCEJCF emergency grants helped provide emergency financial assistance and meals through Jewish Family and Children’s Services. This direct financial assistance program serves 2,000+ individuals and families each year, including low-income Holocaust survivors. The average grant size is $500, and during the last year approximately 50% of all emergency grants have been directed to support the two most basic needs – food and shelter. The total financial assistance budget is approximately $2.7 million, and JCF funds represent 39% of that amount.

INTEREST-FREE LOANSJCF emergency grants helped hundreds of fellow Bay Area Jews with interest-free loans from Hebrew Free Loan. As a result of the economic downturn, Hebrew Free Loan saw a 33% increase in overall demand. JCF emergency grants enabled the agency to keep pace with this increased need, and HFL was able to approve loans which would have otherwise been rejected for lack of loan funds. As a result, the number of loans approved by HFL was up 17% and the dollars loaned increased 23% over the prior year.

60 UNEMPLOYED GOT GOOD JOBSOne grant was used to hire an additional full-time Employment Specialist at Jewish Vocational Service who assisted 120 unemployed people, resulting in 60 who secured good jobs.

560 JOBSEEKERS WERE HELPEDJCF support to Jewish Vocational Service provided the means for 360 people to receive technical assistance and 200 people to attend career development workshops.

As part of the Federation’s

rapid response to the worst

economic downturn in three

generations, the Jewish

Community Endowment

Fund approved a series of

emergency grants to help

Bay Area Jewish charities

and schools meet the

additional demand for their

services. These needs range

from increased demand for

counseling and placement

services for recently laid-off

workers to families who

can no longer afford

school tuition, or who

are at risk due to

financial hardship.

The Torah begins and ends with acts of loving kindness.

- Talmud

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JCF OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS:BASIS, an Israel-education program funded by The Jim Joseph Foundation

Early Childhood Education, LGBT, Russian and Other Outreach Initiatives

Israel and Overseas Department

Israel Center

$1,506,000

$936,000

$642,000

$1,540,000

$4,625,000

ISRAEL CENTERApproximately 42,000 Bay Area community members participate yearly in Israel Center activities, including the Israel Education Initiative, The Helen Diller Tzavta Young Adult Community, MASA Israel Journey, Israeli Arts and Culture programming, Mishmash for Russian-speaking young adults, and Israel in the Gardens. The Israel Center serves as the major clearinghouse for all Israel-related activities on campuses, day schools, and supplementary schools, in JCCs, arts and culture institutions, young adult programs, youth movements, many synagogues and 27 other Jewish and Israel affiliated

organizations from Sacramento to Santa Cruz.

BASISBASIS is an acronym for Bay Area Schools / Israel Synergy. BASIS brings Jewish students and their families closer to Israel, and strengthens their connection to Israel and the Jewish people by making Israel a core part of every school's academic program and culture. This program was funded by the Jim Joseph Foundation and launched with the help of Israel Center.

LGBT ALLIANCEThe LBGT Alliance serves the estimated 36,000 self-identified LGBT Jews residing in the greater Bay Area, supporting a broad spectrum of initiatives including advocacy work, commissioning an LGBT Jewish Needs Assessment study, and creating a Planning and Advisory group in partnership with the East Bay Federation.

INFORMATION & REFERRALFor over a decade, the JCI&R Hotline has been the first point of contact for many Jews and other members of the public seeking connection with, and information about, Jewish life. While “live” information and referral services are in large part replaced by online resources, for some, this is still the only source of Jewish information

and connection.

ISRAEL AND OVERSEASThe Israel and Overseas Department includes the costs of managing overseas work through JCF offices in San Francisco, Jerusalem and Kiryat Shmona. This includes planning, grantmaking, convening our Amuta (Israel-based volunteer committee), grant oversight, technical assistance to support grantees, development of strategic partnerships, and leveraging additional philanthropic and government support for programs vetted by our Amuta.

RUSSIAN OUTREACHServing the estimated 50,000 Russian-speaking Jews in San Francisco and the Peninsula, the program provides community planning and programming, leadership training and engagement programs for youth and adults, and creates an opportunity to engage a captive and eager audience with a strong Jewish identity.

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INITIATIVEThe ECEI is a joint program between JCF and the Jim Joseph Foundation (JJF). Key programs within ECEI include the Early Childhood Jewish Educator Training Program at Gratz College, which will result in 10 certified Jewish educators at the end of 2 years; Parenting Matters, a unique format for introducing Jewish learning to children under 5 and serving 100 families; and the PJ Library, an ongoing partnership with the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, JCF and JJF which provides free, age-appropriate Jewish books and music to 2,800 Bay Area families with children aged 6 months to 5 1/2 years old.

JCF funds outreach programs

to enhance Jewish identity.

The Federation also launches

community initiatives when

there is an unmet need.

As needs are met, these

programs may develop into

stand alone operating

agencies or become part

of another organization, as

was the case with BASIS

(now operated by the

Bureau of Jewish Education)

and JCI&R. The Federation

also strives to identify

areas of duplication to gain

greater community‐wide

efficiency.


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And you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

- Leviticus

EDUCATING OUR CHILDREN:Bay Area Preschools

Bureau of Jewish Education Operating Support

Congregational Schools

Day and High Schools

Day and Overnight Camp

Early Childhood Education

Educating Children and Youth in Israel

Other

$520,326

$1,311,429

$391,520

$2,920,120

$1,265,968

$578,793

$513,221

$122,000

$7,623,376

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BUILDING A LIFELONG AFFINITY FOR THE JEWISH COMMUNITYEarly childhood is the most formative stage in a person’s life. Research consistently shows that the first five years of life are crucial to our development and are indicators of future success. JCF grants go to 18 preschools in the core service area, where 1,091 children receive a quality pre-kindergarten education.

THE JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION EMERGENCY EDUCATION GRANT Federation and Endowment Scholarship funds were supplemented by a generous Emergency Education Grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation. These funds provided emergency assistance that enabled hundreds of families to keep their children enrolled in Jewish day and high schools and overnight camp.

1,786 BAY AREA STUDENTS RECEIVE A QUALITY JEWISH EDUCATIONJCF Funds provide critical operating support for the 7 Jewish day and high schools in our core service area where 1,786 children are enrolled.

DAY AND OVERNIGHT CAMPJCF provides operating support and scholarships enabling more than 1,000 children to take advantage of this vital learning experience. Scholarship assistance was given to 627 campers for day camp and 455 for overnight camp.

CONGREGATIONAL SCHOOLS$237,500 was granted to 23 Bay Area Synagogues for needs-based scholarships enabling 335 families to keep their children enrolled in congregational schools, and to supplement the other grants and support.

SCHOLARSHIPS FOR PRESCHOOL, DAY SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOLJCF, in partnership with the Jim Joseph Foundation, provided emergency scholarships to Jewish families facing economic hardship, and enabled these families to keep 290 children attending Jewish preschools and 241 students attending their Jewish day and high schools.

8,500 STUDENTS LEARN TO BETTER PARTICIPATE IN ISRAELI LIFEJCF is committed to early childhood education, in the Bay Area and in Israel. ECHAD is a strategic partnership of the JCF, JDC-Ashalim, and four Israeli government ministries focused on training Arab Israeli early childhood education professionals, working with parents and children in developing skills, touching more than 8,500 children, 3,600 parents and 1,100 community professionals for a mere 15 cents per child per day. JCF investment represents 35% of the total budget.

Funds from the Federation,

Endowment and Jim Joseph

Foundation helped keep

1,091 Bay Area children

enrolled in Jewish

pre-schools; 8,500 children

benefitted from early

childhood education

programs in Israel; 1,786

young people enrolled in

Jewish Day or High Schools

in the Bay Area; 335 families

were able to keep their

children enrolled in

Synagogue school, and 627

campers participated in

day camps; and 455

who benefited from

overnight camp.

Communities everywhere have an obligation to appoint teachers for their children.

- Sefer HaChinuch

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CARING FOR OUR ELDERS:In-Home Health Services

Jewish Home

Kosher Meals

Senior Activities

Senior Transportation

$85,000

$2,026,500

$105,855

$145,500

$248,048

$2,610,903

2 0 0 9 I M P A C T R E P O R T

MORE THAN A PLACE TO LIVEFor the 420 seniors living in the Jewish Home, the Jewish Home is more than a place to live, it is a dynamic community where the average age is 87 years. JCF provides operating support and $1,575,000 in subsidies for economically vulnerable residents, as well as $250,000 in vital services for the elderly to the Home, including JCEF seed-funding for a 24-hour geropsychiatry unit to serve the needs of seniors with psychiatric issues.

198 SENIORS RECEIVED ON-SITE AND IN-HOME MEDICAL SERVICESJCF funds provided for a Physician’s Assistant and Nurse Practitioner to perform on-site and in-home clinical services at Menorah Park, who performed 3,372 visits promoting successful aging, an average of 280 per month.

66 ÉMIGRÉS BECAME CITIZENSJCF funds contributed toward the cost of the Elderly Refugee Citizenship services program at Jewish Family & Children’s Services, where more than 100 elderly Jewish émigrés were supported through the naturalization process, attending citizenship orientation sessions, getting help with their applications, resulting in 66 elderly Jewish émigrés becoming citizens.

2,900 SENIORS WERE GIVEN RIDES JCF funds gave 700 frail elders the ability to enjoy life and “age in place” at home rather than at a care facility. These rides helped seniors who no longer drive to visit their doctor, go shopping, and have meaningful social interaction. Additionally, more than 2,900 seniors, many of whom live in care facilities, were able to get out and enjoy a recreational outing.

550 SENIORS WERE SERVED 17,500 KOSHER MEALSEvery week seniors at the San Francisco JCC are offered free or highly subsidized reduced cost kosher meals and a chance to socialize. JCF funds provide nutritious meals to low-income seniors who would otherwise be at risk of social isolation and nutritional deprivation.

Many of our seniors have

household incomes that are

insufficient for the Bay Area.

Many have inhibited mobility

and need assistance getting

out. Half the people over the

age of 85 living alone need

assistance. Transportation is

a glaring service need, in

addition to home health care,

social programs and assisted

living. JCF grants help better

serve our mothers and fathers

as they age, and are more

crucial than ever given the

reductions in government

reimbursements, restrictions

in subsidies, and the decline

in the economy in general.

When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage.

- Jewish proverb


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ENGAGING TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS:Bay Area Jewish High Schools

Leadership Programs, Higher Education and Other Teen Services

Northern California Hillels

Scholarships to Israel, Volunteerism in Israel

Youth Philanthropy

$405,398

$869,523

$765,300

$716,903

$159,600

$2,916,724

2 0 0 9 I M P A C T R E P O R T

956 COLLEGE STUDENTS MAKE A JEWISH CONNECTIONJCF funds provide 18% of the total operating costs for Northern California Hillels in 8 locations including UC Berkeley, Chico State, UC Davis, Stanford, Sonoma County, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz, where there is a core group of almost 1,000 students engaged in a wide range of activities, and thousands more engaged in exploring and celebrating Jewish life, connecting with the global Jewish community, and supporting Israel.

DEVELOPING NEXT GENERATION OF JEWISH LEADERSIn existence for 12 years, the Diller Teen Fellows Program, supported by the Helen Diller Family Foundation and the Federation, is now in over 16 American cities and Israeli regions. The Israeli counterpart, Manhigut Esreh, has 40 high school Juniors and Seniors participating in a year-long program, developing a stronger sense of Jewish identity, gaining skills to be effective leaders, and incorporating values of tikkum olam and tzedakah in their lives.

TZAVTA (“TOGETHER” IN HEBREW)

Tzavta, supported by the Helen Diller Family Foundation and the Federation, offers programs for young adults in Hebrew and English focused on Israeli cinema, arts and culture.

SCHOLARSHIPS TO ISRAEL Taglit-Birthright Israel seeks to increase the annual number of Jews visiting Israel by providing the gift of first-time, educational trips to Israel for mostly unaffiliated Jews aged 18-26. JCF funding was enough to send 70 Bay Area young adults on this life-changing “journey to our Jewish roots.”

800 BAY AREA TEENS MAKE UP THE JEWISH TEEN ALLIANCEThe Jewish Teen Alliance (JTA)at the Bureau of Jewish Education, was founded to serve as a hub, convener and coordinator of all Jewish teen program providers and educators in the greater SF Bay area. JTA serves as a community organizer, fostering collaboration among teen-focused organizations, programs and services. JCF funds represent 33% of the budget.

TEEN PHILANTHROPYThe Jewish Community Teen Foundations offer competitively-selected groups of Bay Area Jewish teens the opportunity to explore Jewish values and ideas, develop leadership skills, and the opportunity to practice informed and directed philanthropy. Teens who serve on one of the four Jewish Community Teen Foundations experience leading their own non-profit foundations in order to become strategic grantmakers.

According to recent

studies, only 13% of

12-17 year-olds in the

Federation service area

are enrolled in some form

of formal Jewish education.

The purpose of these teen

and young adult programs

is to ensure the continued

existence of the Jewish

people by strengthening

their connection to Israel,

to Judaism, to worldwide

Jewish communities, and

the core principles of

tikkun olam (repair of the

world) and tzedakah

(justice, charity)

The teen program helped both of my children connect to Judaism.


- Parent of teen

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OTHER COMPELLING COMMUNITY NEEDSAdult Education

Arts & Culture

Healing & Spirituality

Seed-funding, other innovative programs

Technical Assistance to Agencies and Synagogues

$415,000

$322,100

$238,400

$191,800

$69,991

$1,237,291

2 0 0 9 I M P A C T R E P O R T

SHALOM BAYITShalom Bayit is one of the first Jewish domestic violence programs in the country. Studies show that domestic violence impacts 20-30% of Jewish families – the same rate as the general population. JCF funds helped Shalom Bayit provide free, accessible counseling and emergency financial assistance.

JEWISH COMMUNITY FREE CLINICThe JCFC is a free, volunteer medical clinic offering medical care for anyone in need and serves children and adults in Marin and Sonoma Counties who are in dire need of immediate medical care. It is the only Jewish free clinic in the country. Each week approximately 200 patients are seen in four weekly clinics.

BAY AREA JEWISH HEALING CENTERThe Bay Area Jewish Healing Center is dedicated to providing Jewish spiritual care to those living with illness, to those caring for the ill, and to the bereaved through direct service, education and training. JCF funded the Grief and Growing Camp weekend, a unique residential retreat for individuals and families in mourning. 38 participants attended

this past retreat.

JEWISH CHAPLAINCY AT STANFORDThe Jewish Chaplaincy serves patients and families at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford University. JCF funds supported the program’s expansion.

REBOOTReboot believes that every generation must grapple with the questions of Jewish identity, community and meaning on its own terms. Reboot is committed to creating opportunities for Jews to gather, to engage, to question and to self-organize with their own networks, in their own way, in their own time. JCF funding supported local programming led by 60 Bay Area Reboot alumni.

UPSTART BAY AREAUpStart's mission is to advance early stage non-profits that offer innovative Jewish engagement opportunities. JCF funds provided an initial year of seed-funding to help expand support services designed to help increase the likelihood that innovative, new organizations will emerge serving Jews in the Bay Area.

LEHRHAUS JUDAICALehrhaus Judaica is a unique non-denominational Jewish studies adult school. JCF provides operating support. Hundreds of adults participated in Lehrhaus programs and attended classes ranging from basic "Introduction to Judaism," modern and prayerbook Hebrew, a history of the Middle East conflict, and an in-depth exploration of classic Jewish texts.

JCF funds supported

museums, domestic

violence prevention,

health and spiritual care,

interfaith engagement,

adult education and

seed-funding for unique

and innovative projects

meeting many otherwise

unmet needs throughout

the Bay Area.

Happy is he who performs a good deed, for he may tip the scales for himself and the world.

- Talmud

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Board of Rabbis, Bureau of Jewish Education, Synagogue/Federation Partnership

Chabad

Synagogue programmatic support

Synagogue school scholarships

$571,900

$59,865

$71,070

$417,550

STRENGTHENING OUR SYNAGOGUES & CHABAD $1,120,385

The Synagogue Federation Partnership has helped initiate, develop and deepen the relationship and sense of trust between JCF and synagogue leaders. During the past year, synagogue and JCF leaders have regularly gathered, and together they are shaping a new era in which synagogues and JCF will be collaborating to help create a more vibrant Jewish community.

Our community’s synagogues are dedicated to providing opportunities for all those in our community to gather together to learn, to worship and to rejoice. Within the walls of the synagogue one will find preschools for tots, religious schools for children, youth activities for teens, family programming for young families, social and learning activities for adults and much more. Our synagogues provide emotional and financial support for members of the Jewish community and their families who find themselves in need. The doors of our synagogues are always open.

The Jewish Community Federation has played a leadership role in raising awareness and providing resources to build our community’s capacity to support, include and welcome children with special needs and their families. JCF grant-supported programs include: the North Peninsula Special Needs Initiative (a pilot under the auspices of BJE), Opening the Door: A Special Needs Day of Learning, Friendship Circle, BJE Special Needs Educational Consultant and Shabbat Weekend for Jewish Children with Disabilities, the Kesher Program at Congregation Beth Jacob, and an afterschool reading program at the Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day School.

The Jewish Community Federation’s Regional Councils provide opportunities for leadership development, community planning and grant-making at the local level. The Councils have approved regional grants supporting programs such as the Mikveh in Marin (Congregation Rodef Sholom) and Shulchan Shabbat (Jewish Milestones) in Marin County; Simcha Sunday and Jewish Meditation (Sonoma JCC), and Russian River Outreach in Sonoma County; and synagogue-based programs including Synaplex Shabbat (Peninsula Temple Beth El), Kesher Program (Congregation Beth Jacob), My Jewish Discovery (Congregation Beth Am), Gateways to Community (B’nai Israel Jewish Center); the Jewish Chaplaincy at Stanford, and Social Action at Hillel of Silicon Valley on the Peninsula, and other innovative local programs.

REGIONAL COUNCILS

As Jews, we are commanded to care for one another, no matter where we happen to live. In addition to the critical work we do in the Bay Area and Israel, the Federation, through the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) supports urgent and needed programs around the world, including hunger relief in the Former Soviet Union, and direct grants in Israel and around the world. Through the generous support of the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, the Federation is able to support the innovative work of the Jewish Heritage Initiative in Poland, in rebuilding the Jewish community there.

SUPPORT FOR JEWS WORLDWIDE

$205,320

$1,489,320

BAY AREA JEWS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS $245,320


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JCF Outreach and Engagement Programs1

Communal Capacity Building and Benefits2

Jewish Community Endowment Fund Services3

$4,625,000

$3,816,000

$2,299,000

COMMUNITY BENEFIT ACTIVITIES $10,740,000

1 Outreach and Engagement Programs include the work of the Israel Center, JCF offices in Jerusalem and Kiryat Shmona, the Israel Emergency Campaign, the annual Israel site-visit and consultation trip, Early Childhood Education Initiative, Parenting Matters, PJ Library, LGBT and Russian outreach programs, and a one-time $1.5 million expense for BASIS, an Israel-education project funded by the Jim Joseph Foundation. See details on pages 9-10.

2 Communal Capacity Building and Benefits include capital planning, grantmaking, community needs assessments, convening, training workshops, and technical assistance; grants management for 1,200 grants made by Supporting Foundations, 7,756 grants made by Donor Advised Funds, and the 293 community grants made by the Jewish Community Federation and its Endowment; benefits administration of health insurance, retirement and other welfare benefits for 1,600 non-Federation employees in 20 other Jewish agencies; and over 700 staff-hours spent on assisting beneficiary agencies with strategic planning, consultations and other technical assistance. JCF also acts as the lead named insured for between 6 to 20 beneficiary agencies providing access to more advantageous terms for Directors and Officers Liability, Foreign Liability, and basic Property and Liability insurance.

3 Endowment Services include planning in the areas of emergencies; seed-funding for new initiatives and capital grants; grantmaking, grants management and grants research for donor involved funds; and other donor services that facilitate philanthropic activities.

Supporting Foundation Programs and Expenses5

131 Steuart Street Foundation6

$7,377,000

$2,164,000

SUPPORTING FOUNDATION PROGRAMS & EXPENSES $9,541,000

5 General administrative expenses and specific foundation expenses, which are borne by the assets of each foundation, and include the direct costs, if any, of dedicated foundation staff salaries, non-standard and standard professional administrative and investment fees, awards, and other expenses directly related to the foundations’ activities and programs, including the Mount Zion Health Fund, Diller Teen Initiative, Israel Strategic Alternative Energy Fund, Jewish Heritage Program in Poland, and the Machiah Fellowship.

6 131 Steuart Street Foundation holds title to the building adjacent to the Federation, which houses many nonprofits, and its expenses are covered by rent from tenants. Over the past 3 years, a surplus of $2,500,000 has been distributed back into the unrestricted Endowment Fund that had been used to purchase the building.

Management and Administration

Fundraising including Campaign and Endowment4

Building Costs (121 Steuart Street)

$3,128,000

$5,451,000

$1,346,000

FEDERATION AND ENDOWMENT OPERATING COSTS $9,925,000

4 Total Fundraising expenses include $2,676,000 dedicated to the Annual Campaign Fundraising effort and $2,775,000 in fundraising efforts of the Endowment department. These expenses include both direct and indirect costs including overhead, as well as the outreach and community engagement programs and events offered by each department.

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Bureau of Jewish Education: $2,196,435

Bureau of Jewish Education

Jewish Home

Jewish Family & Children's Services

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

Jewish Vocational Service

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco

Jewish Community Relations Council

$2,196,435

$2,035,620

$1,876,540

$1,713,000

$1,289,400

$1,235,911

$1,021,323

INDIVIDUAL AGENCIES GRANTED OVER $1,000,000

Jewish Home: $2,026,500

Jewish Family & Children’s Services: $1,846,540 Joint Distribution Committee (JDC): $1,713,00

Jewish Vocational Service: $1,289,400

Operating Support: $1,311,429

Scholarship Adminstration: $345,216

Synagogue Support: $190,000

Diller Teen Fellows: $189,290

Special Needs: $47,500

Early Childhood Education: $50,000

Other Programmatic Grants: $70,500

Operating Support: $201,500

Vital Services for the Elderly:$250,000

Resident Subsidies:$1,575,000


Emergency Client Financial Assistance: $1,050,000

Single Parent Center: $110,000

Elderly Refugee Citizenship Services: $26,500

Grantmaking in Israel:$324,000

Hunger Relief in the Former Soviet Union:$557,000

Grantmaking in Worldwide Jewish Communities: $832,000


Jewish Employment Network: $150,000

Other Programmatic Grants: $417,000

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60%

57%

56%

32%

12%

49%

Jewish Community Relations Council: $1,021,323


Security Grant: $188,125

Programmatic Support: $113,40071%

18%

11%

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco: $1,235,911


Senior Services: $197,620

Other Programs: $122,763

16%

74%10%

19%

32%36%

6%

78%12%

10%

16%

9% 8%

2% 2%3%

1%

INDIVIDUAL AGENCIES GRANTED OVER $1,000,000

CAMPAIGN AND ENDOWED FUNDS GRANT RECIPIENTS1 A Different Lesson Gvanim for the Business Community $20,0002 Addison-Penzak JCC Early Childhood Development Center $15,0073 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Hunger Relief in the Former Soviet Union / Grantmaking in Israel & Worldwide $1,713,0004 Atidim Cadets for Public Service at Hebrew University $50,0005 B’nai B’rith Youth Organization -Local Operating Support $16,4006 Bay Area Jewish Healing Center Mental Illness Education and Outreach $25,0007 Bay Area Jewish Healing Center Operating Support $96,4008 Be'eri (Shalom Hartman Institute) Be'eri (Shalom Hartman Institute) $80,0009 Beit Tefilah Israeli Tel Aviv Outreach Program $50,00010 Beit Tefilah Israeli: Gan Yavneh Non-denomincational Jewish identity $13,50011 Berkeley Hillel Operating Support $110,00012 Beth Jacob Congregation Gan Mah Tov $6,43213 Beth Sholom Preschool Beth Sholom Preschool $3,14414 BINA in the 'hood - Be'er Sheva BINA in the 'hood - Be'er Sheva $30,00015 Birthright Israel Trips to Israel for Jews aged 18 to 26 $217,96816 B'nai Israel Jewish Center Gateways to Community $10,00017 B'nai Israel Jewish Center - Petaluma Gan Israel Preschool (2 grants) $2,51918 Board of Rabbis of Northern California Operating Support / Mikvah (2 grants) $74,10019 Brandeis Hillel Day School Operating Support / Scholarships $533,53920 Bureau of Jewish Education Operating Support + 11 programmatic grants $2,196,43521 Camp Newman Overnight Scholarships $109,52422 Camp Tawonga Operating support, programmatic grants and Scholarships $464,72723 Centropa To support an exibit and film at JCCSF $10,00024 Chabad Jewish Center Gan Noe Preschool $4,71725 Chabad Jewish Center of Sonoma County Jewish Learning Institute $3,60026 Chabad of Greater South Bay Social Services and Community Outreach $25,00027 Chabad of Marin Gan Israel Preschool (2 grants) $5,54228 Chabad of the North Peninsula Extreme Home Makeover Teen Edition $6,50029 Chai Preschool Chai Preschool (2 grants) $8,39630 Chico State Hillel Operating Support $19,80031 Congregation Adath Israel Adath Israel Preschool $1,28632 Congregation Beth Am My Jewish Discovery / Gan Ami Early Childhood Program $22,71633 Congregation Beth Ami Beth Ami Community Nursery School (2 grants) $12,08834 Congregation Beth El Beth El Nursery School $9,29035 Congregation Beth Emek Beth Emek Preschool $2,57336 Congregation Beth Israel Gan Shalom Preschool $3,43037 Congregation Beth Jacob Kesher Program / Beth Jacob Preschool (2 grants) $15,71738 Congregation Beth Sholom Congregation Beth Sholom Preschool $13,26639 Congregation B'nai Israel Jewish Center Monthly Tot-Shabbat $2,25040 Congregation B'nai Shalom Gan B'nai Shalom $2,85941 Congregation Gan HaLev Synagogue School Scholarships to Gan Ha Lev $65042 Congregation Kol Shofar Scholarships to Kol Shofar / Preschool (2 grants) $8,75143 Congregation Ner Shalom Celebrations $4,82044 Congregation Netivot Shalom Congregation Netivot Shalom Preschool $4,86045 Congregation Rodef Sholom Synagogue School Scholarships / Shulchan Shabbat (2 grants) $20,90046 Congregation Sherith Israel Preschool / Jewish Welcome Network (2 grants) $31,43247 Congregation Shir Hadash Shir Hadash Preschool $2,00148 Contemporary Jewish Museum Operating Support $100,00049 Contra Costa Community Day School Scholarship Funds $69,70750 Contra Costa JCC Contra Costa JCC Preschool $8,57651 Tech. Assist and Emergency Reserves Technical Assistance to Agencies and Congregations $69,99152 Facing History and Ourselves National Fdn. Develop courses about the Holocaust $6,00053 Friendship Circle Day Camp Scholarships / Kids in Action / Teen Club (3 grants) $17,95054 Gan Aviv South Peninsula Hebrew Day School $13,77055 Gan Israel SF Day Camp Scholarships $12,35756 Gan Israel SV Day Camp Scholarships $2,15057 Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Operating Support / Scholarships $334,58058 Gvanim Leadership Development and Action $300,00059 Hadassah Hadassah Hospital Medical School Rotation $3,000


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CAMPAIGN AND ENDOWED FUNDS GRANT RECIPIENTS


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60 Hagar: Jewish-Arab Education for Equality Hagar: Jewish-Arab Education for Equality $30,00061 Hamidrasha at Oranim Mirkam $70,00062 Hand in Hand Hagar: Jewish-Arab Education for Equality $30,00063 Hebrew Academy Operating Support / Scholarships $297,15164 Hebrew Free Loan Assocation Emergency Loan Funds + special fund $500,00065 Hillel at Davis and Sacramento Operating Support $70,70066 Hillel at Stanford Operating Support $108,00067 Hillel of Silicon Valley Operating Support $35,00068 Hillel of Silicon Valley Hillel Students Give Back! (Social Action Portion) $5,00069 Hillel of Sonoma County Operating Support $45,00070 Hillel of Sonoma County Welcoming Interfaith Students at SRJC $6,30071 Holocaust Center of Northern California Operating Support / programmatic support $75,10072 Institute for Jewish Spirituality Rabbinic Leadership Training Cohort $25,50073 Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues Dues $10,00074 International Assoc. of Jewish Vocational Services Operating Support $1,80075 Isracorps Year of Volunteer Service for Arab-Israelis and Jewish Youth $200,00076 Israel and Overseas / Israel Amuta Partnership Operating Support $15,00077 Israel Based Office Israel Based Office $732,02678 Israel Center Operating Support / Other programs (6 grants) $1,198,15279 j. the jewish news weekly of northern california Subscriptions to the J. $284,00080 JCF Early Childhood Education Initiative Infrastructure / Other Programs (6 grants) $578,79381 JCF Jewish Day School Scholarship Fund To provide need-based financial assistance $150,00082 JCF LGBT Alliance Operating Support / programmatic support (2 grants) $238,23483 JCF Middle School Israel Trip Scholarship Fund For the Middle School Israel Trip Scholarship Fund. $70,00084 JCF Russian Education and Engagement JCF Russian Education and Engagement $167,56185 JCF Synagogue Federation Partnership 3rd year funding for Synagogue Federation Partnership $300,00086 JCF Young Funders Forum Third year seed funding for Young Funder's Forum $34,60087 JCF Youth Philanthropy Initiative For Jewish Youth Philanthropy Initiative $125,00088 JDC-Ashalim ECHAD $449,88889 JDC-TEVET Training and Employment of Ethiopian-Israelis $120,00090 Jerusalem Open House Support for the LBGT community $15,00091 Jerusalem Venture Partners Community Program After-school learning centers for disadvantaged children $30,00092 Jewish Chaplaincy at Stanford Jewish Chaplaincy Program (2 grants) $40,00093 Jewish Coalition for Literacy Jewish Coalition for Literacy $25,00094 Jewish Communal Service Assocation Operating Support $90095 Jewish Community Center of San Francisco Operating Support + 11 programmatic grants $1,235,91196 Jewish Community Center of Sonoma County Operating Support + 8 programmatic grants $246,94797 Jewish Community Center of the East Bay JCC of the East Bay Preschool $6,86198 Jewish Community Day Schools Day School Scholarships $115,00099 Jewish Community Free Clinic Medical Care for Low Income Individuals $10,000100 Jewish Community High School of the Bay Operating Support and programmatic grants $205,452101 Jewish Community Relations Council Operating Support + 4 programmatic grants $1,021,323102 Jewish Early Childhood Education Initiative T'enna Preschool of the Albert L Shultz JCC $185,000103 Jewish Family and Children’s Services Op. Support/Emergency Support/Program Grants (10 grants) $1,876,540104 Jewish Funders Network Map out issues and challenges for the Jewish community $10,000105 Jewish Gateways Jewish Gateways $25,000106 Jewish Heritage Initiative in Poland Jewish Heritage Initiative in Poland $100,000107 Jewish Home Operating Support + Programmatic grants $2,035,620108 Jewish Labor Committee Operating Support $800109 Jewish Milestones Mikveh in Marin $7,500110 Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation Local teacher training $5,000111 Jewish Public Affairs Committee Operating Support $50,500112 Jewish Vocational Service Operating Support + Emergency Support + Programmatic Grants (10 grants) $1,289,400113 Judah L. Magnes Museum Operating Support $35,000114 Kehillah Jewish High School Operating Support / Scholarships $194,946115 Koret Israel Economic Development Fund Loan Guarantees for Economicall Disadvantaged Populations $80,000116 Lasova Kadima Youth Center for Children of Foreign Workers $33,333117 Lehrhaus Judaica Operating Support / Building Jewish Bridges $108,800118 Link to the Environment Evironmental Education for Jewish and Arab Teens $30,000

CAMPAIGN AND ENDOWED FUNDS GRANT RECIPIENTS


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119 Marin Regional Council Regional Event Sponsorship Fund $1,200120 MASA Israel Journey Trips to Israel for Jewish Young Adults $150,000121 Menorah Park Operating Support + Programmatic Grants $95,050122 Mercy High School Enhanced testimony & second generation projects $5,000123 Middle School Scholarships to Israel Israel Scholarships $98,935124 Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace Year of Volunteer Service for Bedouin-Arab and Jewish Youth $50,000125 North Peninsula Collaborative for Special Needs Camp / staff development / challenge grant $159,000126 North Peninsula Regional Council North Peninsula Region Event Sponsorship Fund $1,000127 Northern California Hillel Field Services Operating Support $102,500128 Oakland Hebrew Day School Scholarship Funds $70,889129 ORT/Israel for the ORT School in Beer Hayil Paula Phillips Philanthropic Fund $225,000130 Osher Marin Jewish Community Center Operating Support, Scholarships, Programmatic grants $551,648131 Oshman Family Jewish Community Center Operating Support, Scholarships, Programmatic grants $573,014132 Overnight camps Overnight Scholarships $420,152133 Peninsula Jewish Community Center Operating Support , Scholarships, Programmatic grants $582,273134 Peninsula Sinai Congregation Shakshuka / Nursery School (2 grants) $8,359135 Peninsula Temple Beth El Synaplex / Ganon ECE Center (2 grants) $14,361136 Peninsula Temple Sholom Preschool Peninsula Temple Sholom Preschool $12,435137 Reboot, Inc. Support local follow-up programming $30,000138 Reserve for mid-year allocations / Israel Direct Grants in Israel and worldwide $1,400,000139 Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day School Operating Support , Scholarships, Programmatic grants $255,737140 Russian River Jewish Community Outreach Program $6,480141 San Francisco Citywide Hillel Operating Support $159,400142 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Operating Support / Young Adult Programming $81,900143 Santa Cruz Hillel Foundation Operating Support $103,600144 Shalom Bayit Operating Support, Programmatic grants $71,500145 Shalom School Shalom School $4,288146 Silicon Valley FACES Holocaust education $2,500147 Sonoma Regional Council Regional Event Sponsorship Fund $1,800148 Sonoma State University Jewish Studies Program $7,500149 Sonoma State Univ. - Hutchins School Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust $2,700150 South Peninsula Hebrew Day School Operating Support , Scholarships, Programmatic grants $290,320151 South Peninsula Regional Council South Peninsula Young Adult Strategic Planning Process $37,000152 Synagogue School Scholarship Fund Synagogue School Scholarships $237,500153 Table to Table Leket Work Program $25,000154 Taube Center for Jewish Studies Jewish Studies Graduate Student Scholarship Program. $130,000155 Tech-Career Training Ethiopian Israelis for Employment in High Tech $50,000156 Tehiyah Day School Scholarship Funds $99,808157 Temple Beth Abraham Gan Avraham Nursery School $8,576158 Temple Beth Torah Gan Sameach Preschool $1,715159 Temple Emanu-El Temple Emanu-El Preschool $25,872160 Temple Isaiah Gan Ilan $11,148161 Temple Sinai Preschool Temple Sinai Preschool $17,471162 The Yaacov Hertzog Center for Jewish Studies Pluralistic Jewish Leadership in the Orthodox Community $25,000163 Tirat Carmel Community Foundation Vocational Traninig for Ethiopian Israelis $25,000164 Traveling Jewish Theatre Operating Support $40,100165 United Jewish Communities UJC Dues $492,622166 United Jewish Communities Social Venture Fund United Jewish Communities (UJC) Social Venture Fund $50,000167 United Kibbutz Movement TELEM: Employment and Job Training for Ethiopian Israelis $30,000168 University of California Santa Cruz Undergraduate Jewish studies major at UC Santa Cruz $48,500169 University of California, Berkeley Oral history Project / Doctoral Program in Jewish Studies $162,000170 UpStart Bay Area Expand support services to innovative, new organizations $50,000171 World Council of Jewish Communal Svc. Assoc. Operating Support $2,500172 Yavneh Scholarship Funds $86,611173 Yesodot / BINA Year of Service and Promotion of Jewish Pluralism $15,000174 Yuvalim: Tel Hai College A Pluralistic Center for Jewish Culture and Identity $80,000 Total $29,300,822

Tom Kasten and Nancy Grand (2008/2009 Campaign Co-Chairs); Judith Goldkrand (President, Women’s Philanthropy); Anat Pilovsky (Campaign Chair, Women’s Philanthropy); Pascal Levinsohn (Chair, Business Leadership Council); Jordan Sills (President, Young Adults Division); Silvia Cheskes and Sharon Y. Goldstein (Campaign Co-Chairs, Young Adults Division); H. Michael Feldman (San Francisco Campaign Chair); Richard Fiedotin (San Francisco Major Gifts Chair) Ann Bear (Chair, North Peninsula Regional Campaign); Ardith Plimack and Ruthellen Toole (Marin Regional Campaign Co-Chairs); Carol Roberts (South Peninsula Regional Campaign Chair); Lawrence Moskowitz (Chair, Sonoma Regional Campaign); Abra Annes, Stephanie Brown, Roberta Catalinotto, Roxanne Cohen, Maxine Epstein, Dina Jacobs, Rosalind Franklin Jekowsky, Lisa Kron, Bruce Landgarten, Sofia Leybin, Jeanne Miller, Kirsten Miller, Gail Phillips, Larissa Siegel, and hundreds of volunteer solicitors.

CAMPAIGN VOLUNTEER AND PROFESSIONAL FUNDRAISERS

Rita Choit Adler, Travis Bernard, Judy Bloom, Karen Bluestone, Ali Sirkus Brody, Bab Freiberg, Julie Golde, Rabbi Rebecca Joseph, Laura Mason, Camille Menke, Tara Mohr, Amy Rabbino, Chris Sahagian, Karen Staller.

CAMPAIGN AND ENDOWMENT GRANTMAKERS AND GIFT PLANNERS

Tamar Alperovitch, G’vanim; Lital Carmel, Israel Center; Lisa Finkelstein, LGBT Alliance; Rabbi Marv Goodman, Synagogue / Federation Partnership; Janet Harris, Early Childhood Education Initiative; Elina Kaplan, Russian Jewish Outreach Initiative; Nicole Miller, Diller Teen Initiatives; Sue Schwartzman, Youth Philanthropy.

PROGRAM DIRECTORS

Capital Planning Committee – Dan Safier (Chair), David Friedman (Vice-Chair), Mike Adler, Rick Baum, Ann Bear, Natalie Berg, Steve Carroll, Adele Corvin, Sue Diamond, Jeff Farber, Steven Fayne, Howard Fine, Tom Kasten, Robin Kennedy, Jim Koshland, Mark Myers, Alex Novell, John Pritzker, Richard Rosenberg, Alan Rothenberg, Richard Seiler, Stuart Seiler, Scott Seligman, Gary Shapiro, Josh Smith, Gayle Starr, Joelle Steefel, David Steirman, Michael Strunsky, Sandy Tandowsky, Howard Zack.

Caring for the Vulnerable Commission – Lynn Bunim (Chair), Amy Morgenstern (Vice-Chair), Joan Levison (Vice-Chair), Karen Aidem Maring, Orit Atzmon, Meryl Brod, Ellen Brown, Roy Bukstein, Dana Corvin, Jim Davis, Marilyn Dobbs Higuera, Joan Eichler, Leslie Karren, Jan Maisel, Jeff Maltz, Marlyn McClaskey, Jordana Perman, Rabbi Lawrence W. Raphael, Janice Sternfeld, Sandy Tandowsky, Barbara Waxman, Kathy Williams.

Israel and Jewish Peoplehood Commission – Deborah Mintz (Chair), Mark Abelson, Sophie Beraznik, Riva Berelson, Eve Bernstein, Barbara Farber, Michael Futterman, Nancy Grand, Rabbi Jonathan Jaffe, Linda Kurz, Rosanne Levitt, Brian Lurie, Larry Marks, Evan Muney, Brian Perlman, Harriet Prensky, Alan Rothenberg, Noa Eliasaf-Shoham, Ellen Saliman, Yoav Shoham, Mark Shulman, Victoria Shusterova, Susie Sorkin, Joelle Steefel, Greg Sterling, Carol Traeger, Carol Van Wijnen, Kevin Waldman, Kathy Williams, Murray Zucker.

Educating and Engaging Commission – Karen Perlman (Chair), Phil Strause (Vice-Chair), Al Baum, Michael Benjaminson, Mark Bernstein, Rick Burg, Paul Cohen, Barrett Cohn, Rabbi Daniel Feder, Nanette Freedland, Michael Futterman, Mimi Gauss, Brett Goldstein, Rabbi Micah Hyman, Rick Lenat, Rosanne Levitt, Lucy Milgram, Jamie Myers, Caroline Novak, Paul Robbins, Loren Saxe, Betty Schafer, Janis Sherman Popp, Judy Shulman, Josh Smith, Tony Smorgon, Martin Tannenbaum, Otto Weiss.

CAPITAL PLANNING AND COMMISSIONS

REGIONAL COUNCILSSouth Peninsula Regional Council Members:Lawrence Gallant (President), Jacques Adler, Robert Aptekar, Carol Blitzer, Ellen Bob, Reba Cohen, Vivian Distler, Nanette Freedland, David LeVine, Morry Katz, Janet Marder, Lisa Portnoy, Susan Sims, Sherry Solden, Stephen Tolchin, Marina Vinsky, Lisa Weseley, Sophie Cornfield, Bruce Landgarten, Sofia Leybin, Tara Mohr.

North Peninsula Regional Council Members:Kathy Williams (President), Mark Abelson, Liki Abrams, Susan Battat, Ann Bear, Marilyn Dobbs Higuera, Rabbi Dennis Eisner,Roger Feigelson, Tom Kasten, Mara Langer, Rick Lenat, Rosanne Levitt, Jen Liebhaber, Steve Lipman, Ron Mester, Leonid Mezhvinsky, Bob Newman, Josh Smith, Amy Sosnick, David Steirman, Phil Strause, Ilana Tandowsky, Sandy Tandowsky, Raziel Ungar.

Sonoma Regional Council Members:Phyllis Rosenfield (President), Alfred Batzdorff, Rick Burg, Rabbi Ted Feldman, Jan Levinson Gilman, Barbara Greensweig, Ben Klein, Anna Monene, Lawrence Moskowitz, Andrea Rubinstein, Marlene Stein, Janice Sternfeld.

Marin Regional Council Members:Diane Zack (President), Don Abramson, Paul Cohen, Brett Dick, Marc Dollinger, Rabbi Stacy Friedman, Joan Levison, Marlyn McClasky, Jordana Perman, Ardith Plimack, Russel Pratt, Marc Press, Joel Renbaum, Gabe Schwartz, Ruthellen Toole.

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President: James M. KoshlandVice Presidents: David Agger, H. Michael Feldman, Susan Diamond, Nancy Grand, Daniel GrossmanTreasurer: Steven N. FayneAssistant Treasurers: Thomas M. Kasten, John A. PritzkerSecretary: Dana CorvinAssistant Secretary: F. Warren HellmanActing Chief Executive Officer/ Assistant Secretary: Jennifer GorovitzChief Finance and Administration Officer / Assistant Treasurer: Deena Soulon Chief Endowment Officer/ Assistant Secretary: Mark Reisbaum

JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

F. Warren Hellman Chair Jewish Community Endowment FundLaura Lauder Chair Endowment AllocationsJohn Freidenrich Chair Endowment Development CommitteeJohn S. Osterweis Chair Investment CommitteeSusan Moldaw Chair Family and Health SubcommitteeJudy Huret Chair Education and Youth SubcommitteePhil Schlein Chair Culture and Public Affairs Subcommittee

ENDOWMENT FUND COMMITTEE

Liki AbramsRuvim BraudeValli Benesch Tandler Rabbi Allen BennettMark W. BernsteinElton BlumRobert I. BlumJohn Brown

Lynn B. BunimJames DavisRichard FiedotinNanette Freedland Michael FuttermanLawrence GallantJudith GoldkrandAdean Golub

Scott HartleyMichael JacobsDaniel LeemonShira LevineKathy LevinsonGalina LeytesJeff MaltzMark Myers

Raquel NewmanAdam NoilyJohn S. OsterweisKaren PerlmanLory PilchikLisa S. PortnoyKathy RebackJan Reicher

Dan SafierJosh SmithGina WaldmanKevin WaldmanKathy Williams Diane Zack

David AggerGerson BakarAlvin Baum, Jr.Riva BerelsonMatthew K. BerlerJerome I. BraunLynn B. BunimAdele K. CorvinDana Corvin

Annette DobbsSteven N. FayneRobert B. FriendJohn D. GoldmanRichard N. GoldmanNancy GrandFrances Green Douglas M. HellerThomas M. Kasten

Ron KaufmanRegina LawrenceLeonard LehmannJoan LevisonAlvin T. LevittWilliam J. LowenbergDeborah S. MintzMervin G. MorrisBernard A. Osher

Lisa PritzkerJohn A. PritzkerRichard M. RosenbergAlan E. RothenbergJaclyn SafierLela SarnatJack SchaferMark SchlesingerChara Schreyer

Donald H. SeilerLydia Shorenstein Sarah E. SteinDavid SteirmanPhilip E. StrauseRoselyne Chroman SwigValli Benesch TandlerDavid S. WagonfeldHarold Zlot

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Restricted Fund Advisory Committee Chairs:Mark Schlesinger Chair Jewish Community Endowment Newhouse FundJudy Huret Chair Jewish Community Endowment Kohn Fund Joan Davis Chair Jewish Community Endowment Maimonides FundAdele Corvin Chair Jewish Community Endowment Langendorf FundSusan Lowenberg Chair Jewish Community Endowment Holocaust Memorial/Education Fund

This report is printed on recycled paper, using soy-based environmentally responsible inks.

Printing costs were covered by a generous donor.

In order to keep the total page count to a minimum, the detailed lists of each area of grantmaking and priority community need, showing each agency, the program, and the amount granted,

is available on our website at www.jewishfed.org/AR2009

This report was prepared by Richard Miles, Senior Marketing Director, with the invaluable assistance of Travis Bernard, Grants Management Associate; Laura Mason, Senior Program Officer; Glen So, Marketing Department Graphic Designer; Debra Nelson, Research Contractor; Barbara Klapper and Jayne Sorensen in our Accounting and Finance Departments; as well as with great assistance from colleagues within the Program and Planning Development, Marketing, Campaign, and Endowment Departments.

Jewish Community Federation 2009 Annual Report

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