Get an edge in leadership and life
Join one of the Bay Area’s Jewish Community Teen Foundations
The Jewish Community Teen Foundation process
Philanthropy isn’t easy. It requires training, experience and a commitment to tzedakah. The Jewish Community Teen Foundations offers select groups of Bay Area Jewish teens the opportunity to explore Jewish values and ideas, develop leadership skills, and the chance to practice informed and directed philanthropy. Teens who serve on one of the five Jewish Community Teen Foundations learn how to run their own non-profit foundations and to become strategic grantmakers.
As board members of one of the five Jewish Community Teen Foundations, participating teens develop a group funding mission and RFP’s (request for proposal) that are then sent to dozens of organizations. The teens then carefully evaluate grant proposals and invite agency representatives to make in-person presentations. After a thorough allocation process, the Teen Foundations announce their grants. Through this process, the Bay Area Teen Foundations have given more than $238,000 in grants to deserving community groups over the past four years.
Click here to learn about our overview and history and recent grants.
Jewish Community Teen Foundations board members:
- Connect with Jewish teens
- Enhance leadership skills
- Develop Jewish identity
- Debate tough choices and engage in social justice issues
- Contribute to a pooled fund being matched by the program’s funders
- Become effective grantmakers and strategic philanthropists
Participation in the Jewish Community Teen Foundations requires a one-year commitment. Ten board members dedicate themselves to a weekend retreat and attend seven Sunday teen board meetings held from 4 to 8 p.m. These meetings are part skill-building and part teen-led, and further the work of each Foundation.
Read about our teens in the press
Questions
Sue Schwartzman
Director of Youth Philanthropy
for the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
5150 El Camino Real Suite D11
Los Altos, CA 94022
650.919.2100 ext. 8007
Fax: 650.968.1389
SueS@sfjcf.org |
Advisory Committees
The Jewish Community Teen Foundations are mentored and guided by a talented group of lay leaders, community professionals, philanthropists, Teen Foundation alumni, Jewish Community Endowment Fund staff and each foundation’s project director.
Advisory committee members meet three times a year to advise the teens and may also participate in the interview process to select teen board members. The advisory committee offers advice to the project director and teen board on outreach and policy issues and grant processes, as well as potential sources of additional matching funds.
For more information contact:
Judy Bloom
Director of Imprint Giving
for the the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
415.512.6263
judyb@sfjcf.org
Other opportunities
There are also opportunities to get involved with youth philanthropy on a national level. Please check out Jphilanthropy.com and Jewish Youth Funders.org to learn about the latest national youth philanthropy activities.
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