Meet a JCF Fundholder: Lindsay Bressman

Lindsay Bressman is a community leader who currently serves as the Director of Communications and Strategic Partnerships at Civic Spirit, an organization she helped launch to foster civil discourse in faith-based schools. She has an MSW from Columbia University and an MPH in Healthcare Management from UCLA. An active volunteer and philanthropist, Lindsay is a…

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JCF’s Special Gifts Fund Provides Grants to Enhance Security at over 150 Local Jewish Organizations

Largest Jewish donor advised fund in country joins UJA-Federation of NY to keep centers of Jewish life safe Jewish Communal Fund, one of the largest donor advised funds in the country, announced today that its endowment, the Special Gifts Fund, has made an emergency grant of $141,500 to UJA-Federation of New York to help secure more than 150 local synagogues,…

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Meet a Fellow Fund Holder: Seth Siegel

Seth M. Siegel is a lawyer, serial entrepreneur, and author of the New York Times bestseller, “Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World,” which has been published in 50 countries and 16 languages. The longtime JCF fundholder lectures about water scarcity all over the world and is a Senior Fellow at the…

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Fundholders at Jewish Communal Fund Make an Average of 15 Grants a Year; Median Grant Amount is $600

JCF fundholders distributed 26% of assets to charity in FY 2017, with 67% of all grants going to Jewish charities Jewish Communal Fund (JCF), the leading collective of Jewish funders, released its inaugural Giving Report today, providing insight—for the first time ever—into the make-up, demographics, and charitable trends taking place among its generous funder network…

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JCF’s Special Gifts Fund grants in action: A tour of the YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood’s newly renovated auditorium

Yesterday we had the pleasure of visiting the newly renovated auditorium at the YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood, where nearly 100 seniors–many of whom are Holocaust survivors–gather each day for hot meals, wellness activities, and more. Jewish Communal Fund was honored to have provided the initial funding to launch this renovation project,…

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