THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY 2010 ANNUAL REPORT

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THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY 2010 ANNUAL REPORT

contents Click on the links below:

What We Do A Year in Review Who We Are Financials

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what we do For 78 years, the Jewish Federation has supported, sustained and saved Jewish lives. Funds raised through our Annual Campaign are used to strengthen the Jewish community locally, nationally, and around the world.

The programs we fund fit into 5 areas of service, or buckets:

Locally, we fund programs through 11 different agencies. Agencies that enhance our lives at many ages and stages:

• Jewish Education & Identity

• BBYO • Village Shalom

• Safety Net Services • Youth & Family Services • Senior Adult Services • Israel & Overseas These buckets provide a road map for Jewish Federation to best meet our community’s present day needs, and plan for the future.

• CAJE: The Educational Arm of the Jewish Federation

PROGRAMS-AT-A-GLANCE

• Jewish Community Relations Bureau/American Jewish Committee

A few of the programs supported by the Jewish Federation include:

• Midwest Center for Holocaust Education • Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy • KU Hillel • Jewish Family Services • Jewish Community Center • Rabbinical Association • Jewish Vocational Service

Safety Net Services: Chesed and Gesher Emergency Assistance Funds, Jewish Employment Services, Life Crisis Assistance Youth & Family Services: Sasone, CHAI Program, After School Care Senior Adult Services: Heritage Center, Help@Home, Jewish Senior Network, Village Shalom Jewish Education & Identity: The PJ Library, Taglit-Birthright Israel, Adult Jewish Education Israel & Overseas: Leket School Lunch Program, Welfare Support for Seniors in FSU, Elem Youth at Risk Services

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year in review 2010 showed us what Kansas City’s Jewish community is made of...we continued to pull together to provide for the many in our community who still felt the aftershocks of 2009’s economic downturn. The Jewish Federation, alongside the community, worked diligently to assist those in need. Together, we helped fund Jewish Employment Services, a joint program of Jewish Family Services and Jewish Vocational Service to expand JVS’ career management services. Together, we ensured families continued to receive much-needed emergency assistance funds. Our Gesher and Chesed Funds continued giving 300% more in assistance to Jewish community members than in 2008. Together, we helped feed the hungry— local school-age children through the Women’s Division Annual Meeting PB&J Project, in Israel through the Leket school lunch program, and in the Former Soviet Union through the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Together, we all helped make a difference.

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who we are The Jewish Federation is here to help…wherever the need may be. Our Mission Statement: The Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City serves as “the common ground” to strengthen the Jewish community in Kansas City, the United States, Israel, and throughout the world. Encouraging people to live generously, the Federation fosters efforts to repair the world (tikkun olam), facilitates Jewish learning (Torah) and supports acts of loving kindness (chesed). We sustain the Jewish Community by effectively raising and leveraging philanthropic resources, planning, collaborating with organizations, providing essential services and activities, and developing leaders for our future.

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who we are

OUR VISION The Jewish Federation inspires generosity, improves lives and strengthens our community, within a framework of Jewish values.

CAJE: The Jewish Educational Arm of the Jewish Federation

Jewish Community Relations Bureau/ American Jewish Committee

CAJE’s lifelong learning mission includes diverse programs like the B’yachad: Jewish Teens Cultivating, Exploring, and Expanding Jewish Identity educational series, and the Sasone program, which helps specialneeds children participate in activities like Jewish preschools and Jewish summer camps. CAJE also offers The PJ Library, which provides a free book or CD to families each month to build the Jewish identity of children into their elementary school years, and Shalom Baby, which welcomes new babies into the Kansas City Jewish community. Through its Learning for Life program, the CAJE employs a variety of methods to engage young Jews, from third grade all the way into their professional lives.

The Jewish Community Relations Bureau/American Jewish Committee’s mission is to fight anti-Semitism and bigotry; to represent the Jewish community in building bridges with government officials, other faith and ethnic groups, business and civic leaders, the media, law enforcement agencies, educators, and minority communities to develop communication and understanding; to be the primary advocate on behalf of Israel in efforts to secure peace and understanding. The JCRB/AJC is a committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City.

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who we are SERVING THE COMMUNITY The Jewish Federation continued to lend support in response to the increased need in the Jewish community. We worked alongside our partner agencies to ensure the community services continued to best meet the needs of our community. Highlights from 2010 include:

Feeding the Hungry at Women’s Division 2010 Annual Meeting: Feeding Hungry Children, One PB&J Sandwich at a Time: Thanks to co-chairs Kristin Schultz and Cindy Singer, nearly 100 Kansas City women gathered—not only to elect incoming officers, but to feed hundreds of hungry teens and families in Kansas City through their hands-on Harvesters project. Many generous gifts of money and peanut butter were donated that day to give to the Yachad Kosher Food Pantry as well. (continued)

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who we are Helping the Unemployed

Serving Israel & Overseas Communities

Our support of Jewish Employment Services, a joint program of Jewish Family Services and Jewish Vocational Service to expand JVS’ career management services. JES was developed in response to the increased need in the Jewish community. It gives clients of JFS and JVS a onestop resource to get the services they need – from counseling and emergency financial assistance to career management assistance and job networking.

The Jewish Federation continued helping our brothers and sisters around the world too. In 2010, we worked to:

Engaging Our Community Business & Professionals Group: 2010 was a banner year for the Jewish Federation’s Business & Professionals group, which celebrated its second year. Created for Jewish professionals, ages 21 – 45, the motivated B&P committee brought in speakers that ranged from Mayors Peggy Dunn, Carl Gerlach and Mark Funkhouser, to great business minds like Barnett Helzberg and owner of the Kansas City Culinary Center, Laura O’Rourke. This growing group attracted as many as 150 participants for each event.

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• Ensure more than 160,000 elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union had access to basic needs, including food, clothing, shelter and medical assistance through our partner organization American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee • Provide medicine and medical assistance to Jewish children in Romania, part of our partner region of Romania/Bulgaria • Help 1500 at-risk teens in Israel graduate with critical information technology career skills through the Jewish Agency for Israel’s Net@ program • Bring Israel to the hearts and minds of thousands of Kansas Citians through our Israel Emissary program

financials TOTAL FINANCIAL RESOURCES FISCAL YEAR 2009-2010 Annual community campaign . . $4,600,000 (78%) Special gifts & grants . . . . . . . . $939,699 (16%) Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 382,500 (6%) TOTAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,922,199 The Annual Community Campaign of the Jewish Federation is the core financial vehicle for meeting needs in the Jewish community. Through your generous donations, we have been able to meet community needs in new and innovative ways. Looking to the future, the growth of endowment and legacy giving means our Jewish community will be able to build for the future with a solid base of support. We want to thank all of our donors for their continued support through our various financial vehicles, including: • • • •

Annual Community Campaign Special Gifts Legacy Giving Special Campaigns

Other (6%)

Special Gifts & Grants (16%)

Annual Community Campaign (78%)

For more information about any of these funds, click here.

Note: Total Financial Resources are based on budgeted figures for 2009-2010. Audit available upon request.

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financials TOTAL FUND DISBURSEMENT FISCAL YEAR 2009-2010 Local . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,932,149 (67%) Israel & Overseas . . . . . . . . . . $1,627,948 (27%) National . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 227,102 (4%) Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 135,000 (2%) TOTAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,922,199

The Jewish Federation allocates funding to a variety of programs that are run by agencies—local, national and overseas. Our fund disbursement is set up in such a way as to best facilitate and support an effective network of service delivery systems to meet identified priority local, national and international needs. Please see pages 9-12 for a complete listing of allocations.

Note: Total Financial Resources are based on budgeted figures for 2009-2010. Audit available upon request.

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National (4%)

Other (2%)

Israel & Overseas (27%)

Local (67%)

financials LOCAL PROGRAMS

$3,932,149 (67%)

Agency

Adult Jewish Education After School Care Program BBYO CAJE Camp Scholarships Career Management Services Case Manager – New Americans CHAI Program Chesed Fund Child Development Center Community Chaplain Community Food Assistance – Simcha Box Program Community High School Community Religious Programming Counseling Subsidies Developmentally Disabled Family Life Education Financial Assistance Fund for Jewish Education Gesher Fund Guardian Society Help@Home Helzberg Leadership Fellows Heritage Center History of Jewish Kansas City Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy Indigent Elderly – TAP Fund Indigent Elderly – Medicaid Gap Intergroup Relationship Building JET Express Jewish Book Fair Jewish Community Center Jewish Community Info & Referral Jewish Cultural Arts

JCC JCC BBYO CAJE JCC JVS JFS JFS JFED JCC JFS JFED CAJE KU Hillel JFS JCC JFS HBHA CAJE JFED CAJE JFS JFED JCC JFED HBHA VS VS JCRB JFS JCC JCC JFED JCC

Star Indicators

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STAR INDICATOR KEY: Blank–Funded by annual allocation

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* (One star)–Funded by annual allocation and special grants/gifts

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financials LOCAL PROGRAMS (cont.)

Agency

Star Indicators

Jewish Senior Network Jewish Student Union Learning for Life Limudim Mikvah Out of School Program Panim el Panim Passport to Israel PJ Library Rabbinical Association – Administrator Rabbinical Supervision – Vaad Rosh Hodesh – It’s a Girl Thing! Sasone – Special Needs Selichot Program Student Engagement Student Leadership Development Surviving the Economy Teacher Education Initiative Teacher Education/School Outreach tovkc University of Kansas Hillel Village Shalom Women’s Division – Chit Chat and Chocolate Women’s Division – Yad B’Yad Series Yachad Kosher Food Pantry Young Professionals Initiative

JFED CAJE CAJE HBHA KI JCC JFED CAJE CAJE RA RA CAJE CAJE RA KU Hillel KU Hillel JFED CAJE MCHE JFED KU Hillel VS JFED JCC YKFP CAJE

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STAR INDICATOR KEY: Blank–Funded by annual allocation

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* (One star)–Funded by annual allocation and special grants/gifts

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financials NATIONAL AGENCY ALLOCATIONS

$227,102 (4%)

Star Indicators

American Jewish Committee American Jewish Congress Anti-Defamation League Association of Jewish Family & Children’s Agencies birthright israel Hadassah Medical Organization Hebrew Aid Immigrant Society (HAIS) Hillel-Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Jewish Community Centers of North America Jewish Council for Public Affairs Jewish Education Services of North America Jewish Telegraphic Agency National Conference on Soviet Jewry National Foundation for Jewish Culture United Jewish Communities

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OTHER

$135,000 (2%)

Star Indicators

Credit Card Fees Reserves for Bad Debt

ISRAEL & OVERSEAS PROGRAMS

$1,627,948 (27%)

Star Indicators

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Camp Szarvas Elderly in the FSU Ethiopian Medical General Funds JCC Oradea Jeans for Ethiopia Kshatot Self Loan Program Welfare Support for Seniors

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STAR INDICATOR KEY: Blank–Funded by annual allocation

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* (One star)–Funded by annual allocation and special grants/gifts

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financials ISRAEL & OVERSEAS PROGRAMS (cont.)

Star Indicators

Bulgaria Day Care Center & Canteens Family Club for Young Families & Middle Generation Israel Community Representative in Israel Congregation Birkat Shalom Creative Arts ELAM Gamal After School Program Israel Religious Action Center–Legal Aid Center for Olim KU Hillel Seminar Pinat Shorashim Table to Table Young Emissary

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Ramla Afternoon Child Care Facility Gishurim Leadership Development & Multi-cultural Activities Net@ Supportive Community Jewish Agency for Israel Youth at Risk General Use ISHA Net@ Sderot

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Romania Children’s Medication & Medical Assistance Educational Programs in Bucharest United Jewish Communities (or Jewish Federations of NA) Crisis in Georgia Hurricane Relief 2008 Iowa Flood Relief Israel Solidarity Drive

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STAR INDICATOR KEY: Blank–Funded by annual allocation

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* (One star)–Funded by annual allocation and special grants/gifts

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