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Photo courtesy of Hand in Hand Center for Jewish-Arab Education.
The Foundation supports organizations that seek to maintain and enhance the core communal programs of the Jewish community of Greater Washington, with particular emphasis on programs that seek to engage Jews who are not yet affiliated with traditional Jewish communal institutions. The Foundation also supports national Jewish social justice organizations that mobilize philanthropic investments and hands-on volunteer support to help alleviate poverty in America’s inner cities and in developing countries worldwide.
Jewish Programs in the United States
*Adas Israel Congregationwww.adasisrael.org
The Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Endowment Fund at Adas Israel Congregation supports an annual lecture on "The State of the Jewish People" for residents of the metropolitan Washington community.
American Jewish World Service
www.ajws.org
American Jewish World Service supports more than 200 grassroots organizations working towards sustainable agriculture, increased access to education and health care, women’s empowerment, and economic self-sufficiency in 30 countries throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Avodah-DC:The Jewish Service Corps
www.avodah.net
AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps engages young people to live out and deepen their commitments to social change and Jewish life through a year of full-time work at anti-poverty organizations in Washington, DC.
*Birthright Israel Foundation
www.birthrightisrael.com
Taglit-Birthright Israel provides the gift of first time, peer group, educational trips to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26.
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington
www.imninc.com/jcrcgw/index.cfm
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington is the public affairs and community relations arm of the Jewish Federation and 210 regional constituent organizations.
*Jewish Council for Public Affairs
www.jewishpublicaffairs.org
The mission of the JCPA is to serve as the representative voice of the organized American Jewish community through national member agencies, local community relations councils and committees, and Jewish federations.
Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
www.shalomdc.org
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington develops financial and human resources, as well as programmatic initiatives and partnerships, all geared toward building and maintaining a strong Jewish community locally and worldwide.
Jewish FundS for Justice
www.jewishjustice.org
Jewish FundS for Justice educates and involves Jews in the problems of poverty by making grants and providing technical assistance to grassroots groups working to eliminate poverty and leverages Jewish money for investment in low-income neighborhoods that need revitalization.
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington
www.jhsgw.org
Jewish Historical Society houses the Washington Jewish community’s archives, a collection that archives local Jewry from the 1850s to today.
*Jews United for Justice
www.jufj.org
Jews United for Justice leads Washington-area Jews to act on their shared Jewish values by pursuing justice and equality in their local community.
*PANIM Institute of BBYO
www.panim.org
The Panim Institute works to train the next generation of Jewish leaders through the integration of Jewish learning, values and social responsibility.
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
www.sixthandi.org
Sixth & I is a non-denominational, non-membership, non-traditional synagogue that aims to reinvigorate connections to Judaism by offering outstanding programming and dialogue opportunities that speak to personal, spiritual, and social interests. As an incubator of innovation, Sixth & I primarily works to engage unaffiliated Jews in their twenties and thirties, while simultaneously serving as a multi-generational community resource.
* NNCF makes a limited number of board-directed grants to pre-selected organizations.
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PO Box 30100 . Bethesda, Maryland 20824 . 301.652.2230 . fax 301.652.2260 . info@nncf.net
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