(Note: This post was originally sent via email to Jewish Funders Network members. It is reprinted with permission). What can we do as philanthropists amid the horror of this recent tragedy? Can any parent be relieved? Can any mourner be comforted? Watching the news this week, I’ve wondered why pain isn’t a zero sum game.…
In trying to assist those displaced by Hurricane Sandy, Dave Weinberg of Silver Spring, M.D. organized his community to bus in and host families from Far Rockaway and Bergen County at his synagogue. This effort raised $14,000 in two days to buy relief supplies and send them back on the buses to Far Rockaway on…
Jewish Communal Fund is the largest Jewish donor advised fund in the country and the fifth largest donor advised fund overall, according to a recent study conducted by The Chronicle of Philanthropy. In 2011, JCF had a total of $1.1 billion in charitable assets and granted out nearly $300 million — more than 27 percent of charitable assets. This…
In 1964, thousands took the streets of Riverside Drive for an impromptu walk to celebrate the young state of Israel and began a tradition that continues to this day. This past Sunday, June 3rd, was no exception. As the sun shone high over the borough of Manhattan, tens of thousands of marchers prepared themselves to…
What are the most effective ways to transmit your philanthropic values to your children and grandchildren while also ensuring that your charitable legacy within the Jewish community continues to endure? That’s one of the key questions on our minds here at Jewish Communal Fund, the donor-advised fund of the Jewish community of greater New York,…