As a renowned artist and art therapist, Beth Goldberg knows that engaging people in painting and...
Beth Goldberg’s Fund Supports Holocaust Butterfly Art Project
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Grants Help Residents at Jewish Association for Community Living
A new lift-equipped wheelchair van provides daily transportation for Jewish Association for...
Safeguarding our Jewish Community Against Anti-Semitism
John Colangelo, Security Director for the Jewish
Hartford Secure Community Initiative, and John Stemen, SCN’s Director of Campus Safety and Security for Hillel International, attend an SCN event at UCONN.
Strengthening the Community During COVID
Rapid Relief and Recovery Fund Aids Greater Hartford's Jewish Community The pandemic created...
Exploring Philanthropy through a Family Fund
We engage families to explore their shared values and charitable interests. We helped Richard and Cyral Sheldon establish the Sheldon Family Advised Fund. Richard and Cyral’s children, Scott, Sloane and Stacy, share their experiences in selecting charities and making annual grants from their family fund.
Family Philanthropy During the Pandemic
When the world seems chaotic, Sean White finds solace by looking at a photo of his grandmother making matzah balls. This is Sean’s most treasured memory of Miriam Toubman. More than 30 years ago, the Toubmans began a tradition of family philanthropy to honor their father and grandfather, William, who passed away at age 52.
Expanding Behavioral Health Options at Hebrew Senior Care
The Foundation joined with many of our community’s major donors to assist Hebrew Senior Care (HSC)...
Powerful Together: Addressing COVID-19
We are always more powerful when we come together as a community to respond to a crisis. That’s why the Foundation and the Jewish Federation established the Jewish Hartford Rapid Relief and Recovery Fund (RRR Fund) in March 2020 to help people, agencies and synagogues impacted by COVID-19. The Foundation and Federation seeded the RRR Fund with $150,000. In the first months of the crisis, staff from the Foundation, Federation and Jewish Family Services (JFS) procured and delivered food each week, including hot kosher meals for Passover, plus Dignity Grows hygiene products to 125 Jewish families in need in 19 towns in Greater Hartford. The food program was eventually transitioned to JFS, which is doing a tremendous job serving the community’s needs.
Music Empowers Neighborhood Children
Donor Advised Fund holders are supporting Music Matters, a first of its kind program for underserved children in Hartford. Hosted the by Charter Oak Cultural Center’s Youth Institute, students in grades 4 and 5 enjoy free private and ensemble instrumental music instruction in a comprehensive afterschool program four days a week, as well as food and homework assistance.
Cumulative Grants Support Growth of JTConnect
The Jewish Teen Learning Connection (JTConnect) started in the early 90s as an afterschool...
Foundation and Federation Grant $600,000 to Address Pandemic-Related Needs
WEST HARTFORD, CT (December 14, 2020) – Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford and Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford have distributed more than $600,000 in grants to the people, agencies, and synagogues of Greater Hartford’s Jewish community experiencing financial hardship due to the pandemic. The grants were made through the Jewish Hartford Rapid Relief and Recovery Fund (RRR Fund), a joint initiative created in March 2020 in response to the pandemic.
Foundation Donors Pool Grant Money to Make Nonprofit’s Wish Come True
November 13, 2020 – ‘Tis the season of thanks and giving in West Hartford’s Jewish community.
When the Jewish Association for Community Living (JCL), a nonprofit that assists people with developmental disabilities, needed to purchase a new wheelchair van, philanthropists granted its wish through their funds held at the Jewish Community Foundation.