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2023 FIRST QUARTER NEWSLETTER

2023 FIRST QUARTER NEWSLETTER

BECKERMAN FAMILY PACE CHALLENGE  Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment Planting the seeds for a long-lasting legacy Made possible by a grant form the Beckerman Family Foundation THESE FAMILIES HAVE MET THE BECKERMAN FAMILY PACE CHALLENGE  (as of 1/26/2023)  Norman &...

Create a Jewish Legacy

Create a Jewish Legacy

Create a Jewish LegacyWe all strive to leave the world a better place throughour children, our good deeds, our generosity.Create a Jewish Legacy is a program sponsored and presented by the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven and is a collaborative effort of our...

2023 Scholarship Opportunities

2023 Scholarship Opportunities

2023 Scholarship OpportunitiesCOLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS The Jewish Foundation offers needs-based and needs-blind scholarships for high school seniors from Jewish households. All applications must be completed online by May 15, 2023. All applications are confidential and...

Beckerman Family PACE Challenge

Beckerman Family PACE Challenge

About the Beckerman Family PACE Challenge Established in partnership with the Beckerman Family Foundation, the $2 million Beckerman Family PACE Challenge is a 1:1 match intended to secure the future of the Greater New Haven Jewish community through newly established...

Retirement Plans and Charitable Giving

Retirement Plans and Charitable Giving

Retirement Plans and Charitable Giving Retirement plans can present tax-smart charitable giving opportunities both (1) during a donor’s lifetime, as well as (2) in the donor’s estate plans. 1. Charitable Giving Opportunity with an IRA During a Donor’s...

Robert and Rena Grodd Established the 

Robert and Rena Grodd Established the 

Robert and Rena Grodd Established the Rena & Robert Grodd Fund for Preschool Education at the Jewish Foundation “L’dor v’dor…from generation to generation, each of us has the responsibility to pass traditions on and keep them alive.  We have had the great fortune to...

Women of Vision Grant Recipients 2022

Women of Vision Grant Recipients 2022

Women of Vision Grant Recipients 2022 The Jewish Foundation’s Women of Vision Society has been helping women and girls in the Greater New Haven area and Israel for over 20 years. This endowment, created by 100 founding members in our community, has tackled issues from...

Keeping PACE (and LOJE) with New Haven’s Future

Keeping PACE (and LOJE) with New Haven’s Future

Keeping PACE (and LOJE) with New Haven’s FutureThis year the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven distributed $517,000 the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven 2022 annual campaign from the Foundation’s Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment (PACE) and the Lion of...

Grants for the Jewish Elderly Enhance Life After 60

Grants for the Jewish Elderly Enhance Life After 60

Grants for the Jewish Elderly Enhance Life After 60Getting old may not be easy…but, with the help of the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven, it’s getting easier. Since it was established in 2020, $549,000 in Grants for the Jewish Elderly have been awarded to a...

A Meaningful Opportunity to Give Back

A Meaningful Opportunity to Give Back

A Meaningful Opportunity to Give Back“We learned about the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven’s Build a Tzedakah Fund while attending the bat mitzvah celebration of our son Henry's classmate.” “Creating a fund in honor of Henry's bar mitzvah was, for us, a...

Professional Advisors Networking Reception 6/23

Professional Advisors Networking Reception 6/23

Please join us!Professional Advisors Networking Reception Come join us for a fiesta-style outing at El Segundo on the corner of Orange and Audubon in New Haven. Bring your appetite and a colleague to this networking event: Thursday, June 23, 20225:30 pm – 7:00 pmEl...

We now hold  $75 in community funds!

We now hold $75 in community funds!

We now hold  $75 in community funds! Hear Jewish Foundation Executive Director Lisa Stanger on WNHH discuss the Foundation’s impact and successes,  as well as philanthropy in New Haven.

Tips to Keep in Mind for End of Year Charitable Giving

Tips to Keep in Mind for End of Year Charitable Giving

End-of-Year Giving Thanks to the CARES stimulus package, The current age at which you are required to take a Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) is 72; however, if you are 70½ or older, you can still make a qualified Charitable Distribution from your IRA.   WHAT...

Former Jewish Home Assets Benefit Local Jewish Elderly

Former Jewish Home Assets Benefit Local Jewish Elderly

Former Jewish Home Assets Benefit Local Jewish ElderlyWhen the Jewish Home for the Aged was sold to a Chicago firm in 2011, the Jewish Home Building Fund Corporation, which was a separate entity, continued to hold the former Jewish Home’s assets, including, many of...

One Happy Camper!

One Happy Camper!

One Happy Camper!This year, a total of $30,650 was granted for our local youth to experience Jewish overnight summer camp! Thanks to One Happy Camper and the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven, 23 campers received a total of $15,400 in needs-blind, first-time...

A Torah Scroll Finds a New Home

A Torah Scroll Finds a New Home

A Torah Scroll Finds a New HomeThis season, Camp Laurelwood has been able to welcome a Torah scroll to their camp. The scroll, along with seven other Torah scrolls, one haftorah, one megillot, and many other artifacts, belonged to the old Jewish Home for the Aged in...

Women of Vision Grant Recipients 2021

Women of Vision Grant Recipients 2021

Women of Vision Grant Recipients 2021 The Jewish Foundation’s Women of Vision Society has been helping women and girls in the Greater New Haven area and Israel for over 20 years. This endowment, created by 100 founding members in our community, has tackled issues from...

Fried Watsky Family Create Community Legacy

Fried Watsky Family Create Community Legacy

Fried Watsky Family Create Community Legacy Husband and wife, Dr. Kal Watsky and Dr. Debbie Fried, have always been generous in donating their time and money to the Jewish community. Over the years Kal, Debbie, and their children, Benjamin and Rebecca (Ben and Reba)...

Chabad of Westville  COVID-19/Maimonides Response Fund

Chabad of Westville COVID-19/Maimonides Response Fund

Chabad of Westville COVID-19/Maimonides Response Fund Since Covid-19 began impacting our communities, it has affected many families in different ways. Addressing these issues requires a flexible response, personalized to the needs of the individual. Rabbi Chanoch and...

Covid-19/Maimonides Response Fund Impact

Covid-19/Maimonides Response Fund Impact

$281,600 distributed in Emergency Grants for Critical Human Needs When Covid-19 hit our communities, many faced financial troubles with medical bills, unemployment, and food insecurity. The Jewish Federation along with the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven,...

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The Jewish Foundation can help you explore charitable opportunities that work for you. 

The Jewish Foundation is a trusted and expert resource for charitable gift planning and endowments and serves as a partner and resource for synagogues, local Jewish agencies, professional advisors and donors.

When you make a current gift or leave a bequest to the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven, you not only benefit our community, but you can also support the causes that are important to you.  You can designate that your gift be used to provide unrestricted funds to help meet community needs now and in the future or to endow a permanent fund to aid identified programs, your synagogue, agencies, organizations, or initiatives (Jewish or not Jewish, in Greater New Haven, Israel or beyond) that are of particular interest to you and your family.

Lisa Stanger, Esq., Executive Director
Tiberius Halai, Grants and Gift Manager
Beth Kupcho, Scholarship and Philanthropy Manager
Stephanie Licsak, Controller

Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven
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Woodbridge, CT 06525
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For Professional Advisors

If you are working with a professional advisor or advising a donor, here’s a useful guide for including the Don Bosco Prep in a charitable estate plan.