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Awards

Awards of Excellence - Program of the Year

The Jewish Community Federation values programs of extraordinary excellence. We wish to recognize an outstanding program that has made a significant impact on the Jewish community within the JCF geographic area (San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties). The winning program will address a need of recognized importance and be successful at maximizing community resources through the creative management of financial resources and interagency cooperation.
 

Nomination form

  • Program nomination form

Deadline

Nominations must be submitted no later than Friday, February 11, 2011.
 

Information

Learn more about the Awards of Excellence at
www.jewishfed.org/see-how-we-help/AE
 

Past program award winners

  • 2010 – JCC Maccabi Games (San Francisco Jewish Community Center)
  • 2009 – Institute for Curriculum Services: National Resource Center for Accurate Jewish Content in Schools (Jewish Community Relations Council)
  • 2009 - Jewish Community Teen Foundations (Jewish Community Federation)
  • 2008 - Kol Haneshama: Jewish End-of-Life/Hospice Volunteer Program
    (Bay Area Jewish Healing Center, Jewish Home, Zen Hospice)
  • 2007 - Communities of Learning (Jewish Community Federation)
  • 2006 - Kohn Summer Intern  Program (Jewish Vocational Service)
  • 2005 - Jewish Coalition for Literacy (Jewish Community Relations Council)
  • 2004 - Israel in the Gardens/Ballpark
  • 2003 - Late Shabbat (Congregation Emanu-El)
  • 2002 - Survivors’ Speakers Bureau (Holocaust Center of Northern California)
  • 2001 - Family Education Fellows (Bureau of Jewish Education)
  • 2000 - Grief and Growing: a Healing Weekend for Individuals and Families
    (Camp Tawonga, Bay Area Healing Center, Jewish Family & Children’s Services)
  • 1999 - Jewish Film Festival
  • 1998 - Sunday Coalition Lunch at Kol Shofar
  • 1997 - San Francisco High School Chavurah
    (Congregations Beth Sholom, Emanu-El, Sherith Israel, and the Bureau of Jewish Education)
  • 1996 - Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps (JCRC, Holocaust Center of N. California)
  • 1995 - Art for Recovery
    (UCSF/Mount Zion Medical Center and Brandeis Hillel Day School, Marin Campus)
  • 1994 - Chicken Soupers: Meal Delivery to Persons with AIDS
    (Congregations Sherith Israel and Beth Sholom with the sponsorship of JFCS)
  • 1993 - MAJYC (Osher Marin Jewish Community Center)
  • 1992 - One-to-One Volunteer Program (Jewish Family & Children’s Services)

Past programs of distinction

  • 2003 - Children’s Drama Service (National Council of Jewish Women, San Francisco Section)
  • 1995 - Feast of Jewish Learning (Bureau of Jewish Education)
  • 1993 - Survival in Exile: Tibetan/Jewish Cultural Exchange (Camp Tawonga)
  • 1992 - Women as a Force for Social Change: A Bay Area Jewish Women’s Conference
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