Highlights
2010 – 2011
The Jewish Community Foundation
The Jewish Community Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh enables donors to create permanent endowment funds that ensure a steady stream of funding to address community needs both now and in the years to come. Total Foundation assets currently under management stand at more than $150 million, which encompasses some 914 funds and reflects $14.4 million in new money donated during 2010-2011.
A vast array of programs and services are supported by the Jewish Community Foundation which, this year, disbursed more than $650,000 from its unrestricted funds. A sampling of those programs and services follows:
- Services for Economically Stressed and At-Risk Families – To ensure that Jewish Family & Children's Service can maintain its open-door policy to the Jewish community in the face of government cuts and increased service demand.
- Special Needs Inclusion – Evaluation and support to help the Jewish Federation and its agencies include individuals with special needs in their work.
- Teen Engagement Initiative – Reaches out to 60% of local Jewish teens to provide networking and leadership development opportunities that help connect them to the Jewish community and each other.
- Howard Levin Clubhouse Transportation Project – To provide bus passes to Clubhouse members to ensure access to Clubhouse activities, work, medical care, and other wellness-related activities.
- Jewish Genetic Disease Screenings – To educate Pittsburgh's college students about Jewish genetic diseases and provide them with screenings.
- Jewish Community Center Assistance – To address the unprecedented and unremitting need for assistance by those requiring JCC services ranging from day care and after school care, to health and wellness services.
- Generations: Intergenerational Visitation to Jewish Seniors – To deepen involvement in Jewish life among youth and seniors, and help youth fulfill the mitzvah of bikur cholim, visiting the sick, distressed and vulnerable.
- Support for Squirrel Hill Health Center Patients– To provide comprehensive primary and preventive medical and dental care to newly-uninsured patients who were covered by the Adult Basic insurance program for low income adults before it was terminated.
- Reshet Program – To provide high-quality education and facilitation services to synagogue leaders, with the goal of building congregational capacity to engage adults and families in Jewish life and learning.
