SUPPORTED PROGRAMS & SERVICES

The following agencies, programs and services currently receive support from Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford. Your contributions to the Annual Campaign make all of this work possible. To learn more about our funding process, please contact Laura Zimmerman, Vice President of Planning and Community Impact.

Local Agencies & Programs

Education & Heritage

• Hillels: Trinity College Hillel: Shabbat at Trinity; UConn Hillel: Israel on Campus, Shabbat and Holidays; University of Hartford Hillel: Jewish Experiences and Student Leadership
• Jewish Day Schools: Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy, Hebrew High School of New England, Solomon Schechter Day School
• Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford: Archive
• JTConnect: JTScholars/Awakenings
• Manchester Advisory Committee
• Mandell JCC: Camp Shalom and Youth Programming, Early Childhood Education, Jewish Arts and Culture
• Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford: The Museum of Jewish Civilization: “Vilna: the Jerusalem of Lithuania”
• Mikveh Bess Israel: Educational Programs, Family Purity and Conversions
• UConn Center for Judaic Studies

Engagement & Outreach

• JTConnect: JTCommunity/WOW, JTConnect at FVJC
• Mandell Jewish Community Center: Community Engagement and Outreach, Family Room Parenting Center, Israel Programming, Special Needs Programming
• Reform Synagogues Grades 6 and 7 Shabbaton
• UConn Hillel: Post-Birthright Programming
• USY

Social Commitment

• Hebrew Senior Care: Working Capital Support
• Jewish Association for Community Living: Judaic Programming, Residential Services
• Jewish Family Services: Anja Rosenberg Kosher Food Pantry, Benet Rothstein Child Services/Family Counseling Program, Holocaust Survivors Program, JETS (Jewish Employment Transition Services), Older Adult Services, Special Needs Services, Volunteer Program
• Mandell JCC: Senior Adult Programming

Community Commitments

• Afula/Gilboa Sister Region Relationship (Partnership Together/SNEC)
• Association of Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Hartford
• Israel Action Network
• JFACT (Jewish Federation Association of Connecticut)
• Rent Subsidies for Jewish Family Services and Jewish Historical Society

Israel & Overseas Programs

• Afikim Family Enrichment Association: Afikei Shachar: Preparing Ethiopian Students for University
• Beit Issie Shapiro: Smart Snoezelen: Multi-Sensory Therapeutic Treatments for Children with Special Needs
• Beit Uri: Therapeutic Horse Riding for Residents with Special Needs
• Israel National Council for the Child: Ombudsman Program for Children At Risk
• JDC: Core Funding; Humanitarian Aid to Impoverished Elderly in the Former Soviet Union; L’merhak: Career Advancement for Ethiopian Israelis; PJ Library in the Former Soviet Union
• Jewish Agency for Israel: Core Funding; Summer Camps in the Former Soviet Union; Youth Futures Leadership Program in Afula
• Jordan River Village: Camping for Sick and Special Needs Children in Israel
• Leket Israel: Afula-Gilboa Nutritional Support Program
• Tebeka: Legal Advocacy for Equality and Justice for Ethiopian Israelis
• The Masorti Movement: Bar and Bat Mitzvah Program for Children and Teens with Disabilities
• World Emunah Sarah Herzog Children's Center, Afula: Clowning Therapy for Traumatized Children
• World ORT: Core Funding; Hodayot Youth Village Therapeutic Services for At-Risk Youth; KesherNet Vocational Training in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

Federation Initiatives & Partnerships

Commission on Jewish Education & Leadership

• Birthright Israel (with Taglit-Birthright Israel)
• CJEL Fellows
• EmployAbility (with Jewish Family Services)
• Israeli Young Emissaries
• Jewish Leadership Academy (with Jewish Community Foundation and other funders)
• Mitnick Jewish Education Conference (with Jewish Community Foundation)
• One Happy Camper Scholarships (with Foundation for Jewish Camp)
• PJ Library and PJ Goes to School (with Mandell JCC, the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, the Zachs family through the Jewish Community Foundation, and Federation’s Lions of Judah)
• Planning for Lifecycle Jewish Education
• Travel to Israel
• WOW!

Planning & Community Impact

• Anti-Semitism and Crisis Response
• Community Planning and Grantmaking
• Interfaith Outreach Planning
• Jewish Community Relations Council: Government, Community, Interfaith and Media Relations
• Security Planning and Training
• Senior Needs Planning

Community Engagement

• Affinity Groups
  • Brunch Bunch interfaith group
  • Community Trustees
  • Giving Societies
  • Jewish Professionals Network
  • The Club special needs group (with Mandell JCC)
  • Women of Impact
• Business Partnerships
• Community Calendar
• Community Missions to Israel
• Connecticut-Israel Technology Initiative
• Events
  • Advocacy: Anti-Semitism, Israel, Government Relations
  • Affinity Group Gatherings: Spill the Tea, Jewish Professionals Network
  • Community Campaign Fundraisers
  • Education: Civil Discourse, Interfaith, Israel, Jewish Leadership, Jewish History, Lunch and Learns
  • Volunteering: One-Off and Long-Term Opportunities
• JLink Monthly Community E-Newsletter
• Volunteer Engagement
  • Children's Reading Partners: Elementary Express, Preschool Pals, Reading Buddies, Reading Enrichment at Bloomfield Public Library
  • Jessie’s Community Gardens (with the Kostin family)
  • Shabbat Shalom Greater Hartford (with Jewish Family Services, Mandell JCC and Hebrew Senior Care)
  • The Dignity Project (with support from Jewish Community Foundation)