PJ LIBRARY Every month, nearly 5,500 children from 4,000+ families receive the gift of a PJ Library book that celebrates Jewish values.
EARLY CHILDHOOD 720 early childhood educators have access to Federation-sponsored specialized professional development, including attending conferences with our partners and receiving grants to host high-quality presenters. GMW’s Right Start program has given vouchers to 320 families enrolling a child for the first time in one of our Jewish early childhood centers, totaling $300K. SCHOOL AGE 30 congregational schools participate in our educational programming and professional development. Our nationally renowned Day School Initiative contributes to the success of about 2,500 students and faculty each year. The Quest for Teaching Excellence program has invested over $2.5M to enhance the work of faculty in all four Jewish day schools via professional development experiences, funding of faculty deans to oversee professional development, grants to address specific school goals, and a community-wide learning conference attended by nearly 500 faculty.
SUMMER CAMP Our Jewish Camp Enterprise has awarded over 4,500 grants totaling over $5M to date to send kids to Jewish overnight camps.
TEENS Approximately 16K teens have engaged in Federation’s volunteer, philanthropy, and leadership opportunities in the last 18 years. In its 20-year existence, the Iris Teen Tzedakah program has helped hundreds of teens deepen their understanding, ability, and desire to impact our community through philanthropy. Collectively they have allocated about $350K to over 130 initiatives. Over 150 local teens deepened their identities, knowledge, and leadership skills through immersive, multi-session travel and/or learning programs, many of which focused on combatting antisemitism, building interfaith understanding, or strengthening knowledge of and connection with Israel.
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