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Special Occasion Giving Fund >> GIVE NOW <<

You can celebrate a significant occasion, remember a loved one, commemorate a milestone or recognize someone special with an honorary or memorial gift in their name to the Jewish Community Endowment Fund. Your donation will honor your friends or loved ones and help sustain our Jewish community. Whether you make your gift online, by mail or by phone, we will gratefully acknowledge your thoughtful donation by notifying the person or family member you designate with a beautiful acknowledgement card (no gift amount is disclosed). For online gifts, your donation will be immediately acknowledged and donors will also receive an email message confirming your donation.

Benefit a special cause with your honor or memorial gift

You may also choose to donate to any of the endowment funds listed below:

For more information:
Please call 415.512.6209 or email tributegiving@sfjcf.org

The Women in Leadership Mentoring Fund (WIL) >> GIVE NOW <<

Your gift supports mentoring programs for Jewish women who aspire to leadership positions. WIL is a mentoring program pairing veteran women JCF leaders with mentees who have been individually identified as having leadership potential. This program is designed both to build intergenerational relationships and to provide Judaic education, JCF education and skills training for future leaders. For additional information, please contact Judy Bloom at judyb@sfjcf.org or 415.512.6263.

Holocaust Memorial/Education Fund >> GIVE NOW <<

Your contribution educates young people about tolerance and fighting bigotry through teacher training and programs in public schools. This Fund supports programs at the Holocaust Center of Northern California and Bay Area high schools, colleges, and universities that teach young people about racism, discrimination and indifference.

More than 400 non-Jewish educators have been trained to instruct young people in these areas. In addition, a select group of local public school teachers received grants to attend a conference in Washington, D.C., to learn from exhibitions at the Holocaust Museum and pre-eminent Holocaust educators how to teach a new generation the lessons it is imperative the world never forgets.

The Fund for Gay & Lesbian Causes >> GIVE NOW <<

Your contribution funds programs that support the Jewish gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in Israel. This fund lends support to members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities in Israel. A philanthropic fund of The Jewish Community Endowment Fund, it was established by participants of the “Journey of Pride” in April 1999 when members of the Bay Area gay and lesbian community participated in a Federation-sponsored trip to Israel.

“The San Francisco community has taken a lead in connecting to the gay and lesbian community in Israel,” says Alvin H. Baum, Jr., chair of the Gay and Lesbian Task Force. “Journey of Pride” alumni have supported a variety of gay, lesbian and transgender organizations and projects in Israel, including the Leo Baeck Education Center in Haifa, to support diversity training programs; Open House in Jerusalem, a gay and lesbian community center; the Israel AIDS Task Force; and the Aguda, the Association of Gay Men, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders in Israel.

The Jewish Community Endowment Newhouse Fund

Your donation to the Newhouse Fund will help address compelling needs in education, health, religion and aging in an innovative way with a focus on the Jewish community.

The Jewish Community Endowment Kohn Fund

Your donation to the Kohn Fund will support projects focused on education and youth with a preference for programs that address leadership development and training, children with special educational needs and at-risk youth, in the San Francisco-based Jewish community area and in Israel.

The Jewish Community Endowment Maimonides Fund

Your donation to the Maimonides Fund will help support new projects that address the unmet needs of Jewish elderly in the San Francisco-based Jewish community area.

Mount Zion Health Fund

The mission of the Mount Zion Health Fund, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund, is to advance programs designed to improve the physical, emotional and spiritual health of vulnerable populations and reflect the Jewish values and traditions of Mount Zion Hospital. For more information, please email karenst@sfjcf.org.

Gifts to a Specific Donor-Advised Philanthropic Fund >> GIVE NOW <<

Your donation not only honors a friend or loved one, but honors their passion for helping others. Your tribute donation to a donor-advised philanthropic fund is a very meaningful gift. It not only honors your friend’s or loved one’s special occasion, but honors their passion for tikkun olam, repairing the world. Your gift can celebrate a myriad of events — birth of a child or grandchild, weddings, b’nai mitzvahs, anniversaries, graduations, promotions, awards and honors.

For example, in honor of her friends’ anniversary, Barbara made a $100 gift to the donor-advised fund they had established. David sent $500 to the fund his niece established, in honor of her bat mitzvah.

For additional information please call 415.512.6230 or 415.512.6231.

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