What will you gain by being a Diller Teen Fellows Program Partner Community?

1. Participating communities will receive a $145,000 annual grant towards the program budget of each community from the Helen Diller Family Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Federation’s Jewish Community Endowment Fund.
   
2. An in-depth professionally developed curriculum that details every aspect of the program.  This is meant to be a guide for the regional coordinators to maintain quality standards, but all coordinators are encouraged to be creative and draw on their own expertise to personalize the curriculum.
3. Expose teens from your community to other teen leaders (from all over North America and Israel) and top-of-the-line educators and speakers.
4. New experiences and learning opportunities for teens from your community.
5. A San Francisco based National Director who will work in-person, by telephone, electronically, and through video conferencing with partnering communities to:
   1. Disseminate model curricula and marketing materials (including brochures and best practice models for recruiting, selecting participants, and program implementation).
   2. Training for local DTF program staff (including two professional development seminars each year where all local coordinators meet with each other and the national director).
      
   3. Help facilitate the Living Bridge program or other comparable programs to bring Israeli teens to the local community.
   4. Plan the Israel Summer Seminar and convene all the Diller Teen Fellows in Israel for three weeks each summer.
   5. Assist the regional coordinators in tracking and evaluating the local programs.
6. An Israel-based Diller Representative to help coordinate with your community’s Israel partner program and provide:
1. A model curriculum to be implemented in your Israeli partner region.
2. Professional development for the Israeli staff.
3. Consultation and support in catering this model to the needs and resources specific to your partner region.
7. Benefit to your community as a whole, by creating a transformative experience for teens, their families, and friends that will ultimately increase giving to your Federation, and create a culture of future Jewish leaders who are invested in giving back to the community.