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Community Impact
The Impact Grants Initiative
The first round of grant recipients are engaging Bay Area young adults in Jewish life in a variety of innovative, inspiring and impacful ways.
Each organization was funded from a total of $1,000,000 from the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund which will be distributed over a three-year period.
And the Recipients Are...
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Kevah GroupsProgramCreates a grass roots Jewish learning movement through a network of 36 Torah study groups that build Jewish identity. The program enables adults to explore the spiritual and intellectual richness of the Jewish textual tradition in a comfortable setting regardless of background knowledge or level of ritual observance. Video |
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Hazon California Ride and Jewish EnvironmentalInitiativeUtilizing outdoor, environmental and food education to ultimately create healthy, sustainable Jewish communities. The program fosters Jewish leaders by strengthening their knowledge and relationships in local Jewish life. Video |
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Wilderness Torah
Activating Jewish life for young adults by reconnecting Jewish traditions to the cycles of nature, facilitating individual spiritual growth, strengthening multi-generational community, connecting people to nature, and empowering participants to take action through sustainable lifestyle choices. Video
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Moishe House – Expanding our San Francisco Reach
Providing meaningful Jewish experiences for young adults in the Bay Area by supporting leaders in their 20s as they create vibrant home-based Jewish communities. Video
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Idelsohn Society
An all-volunteer non-profit with a dedicated team from the music industry and academia who believe that Jewish history is best told through the lens of recorded Jewish music. The Tikva Project, inspired by Tikva Records (the most prolific Jewish record label of its time), will include a CD release and a month-long pop-up record store in SF. The pop-up store will sell and promote the CD and the stories behind the recordings and will deepen the relationship of this music to a new generation through panels, oral histories, live music, and other innovative programming. Video
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G-dcast Entertainment
By making quirky and charming cartoons of our classic Jewish texts, G-dcast is animating today’s telling of the Torah. Our new division targets educators and parents of young teens by creating films explicitly for a young adult audience to encourage conversations about Jewish life. Video
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Storahtelling, Inc. – StorahSteps SanFranciscoAn international network of educators and artists, invigorating Jewish identity through dynamic educational programs and performances for multigenerational audiences, Storahtelling is bringing its model to San Francisco teaching basic Jewish literacy, core sacred stories, and exposing families to the art of interpretive study in an accessible and age appropriate way. Video |
What’s Next?
The Federation will be applying the Impact Grant approach to our regional efforts in the Peninsula and North Bay, as well as in Israel.
If you’d like more information about IGI or would like to get involved, please contact Adin Miller, Director of Community Impact at AdinM@sfjcf.org
If you’d like more information about IGI or would like to get involved, please contact Adin Miller, Director of Community Impact at AdinM@sfjcf.org
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
