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Community Impact
Bay Area Initiatives Fund
New Initiatives to Address Community-Wide Challenges
The three initiatives to be funded under the Bay Area Initiatives Fund are:
- Reducing Barriers and Increasing Participation in Jewish Life: Helping Jews in our community participate in Jewish life by addressing affordability, quality and inclusiveness. Examples of the projects and initiatives here are:
Affordability Project: Providing more than $1,000,000 in Jewish school and camp scholarships to our community's families.
Early Childhood Education Initiative: Increasing the quality of our preschool programs, developing the next generation of Jewish educators, building the Jewish identity of our children (e.g., PJ Library program), and making this vital entry point more accessible for interfaith and other potentially marginalized families.
Special Needs Initiative: Helping 47 Bay Area Jewish organizations become more accessible to over 6,000 special needs children and their families.
- Bay Area Jewish Service Network: Connecting Bay Area Jews to a compelling menu of meaningful service opportunities that will make a significant impact on community needs and deepen engagement in the Jewish community. The board directed staff to engage in the development of specific projects that will address this important work.
- Regional Impact Grants: A new model for regional grantmaking focused on local challenges and designed to re-invigorate this important role of the Federation throughout our service area.
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
