The Jewish Community Foundation’s Community Legacy Fund recently awarded $73,472 in innovative and emergency grants.
The grants will support high-quality, new programs that provide an innovative approach to an existing or emerging community need or respond to financial or humanitarian emergencies.
The Community Legacy Fund consists of permanent endowments from which grants are awarded to community agencies whose applications are reviewed and evaluated by the Foundation’s Grants Committee and board of trustees.
Community Legacy Fund grants were awarded for the following programs:
- The J: Technology for emergency notification and social hall technical upgrades. This grant will underwrite on-screen notifications to enhance the safety of visitors and staff at the Jewish Community Campus should a weather or security event arise. Funding will also be used to improve sound technology for events in the social hall.
- Jewish Community Relations Bureau|AJC: Fighting antisemitism in the workplace. This grant will help JCRB|AJC provide business training on the history of antisemitism and demonstrate how people can be allies for Jewish coworkers.
- Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City: See KC. Funding will be used to help bring young families and adults on exploratory visits to Kansas City with the anticipated outcome that they will choose to move here and join the community.
- Jewish Vocational Service: Intrater Scholarship Fund to Benefit JVS. This grant will support a scholarship program which provides JVS staff with financial resources to help attain advanced degrees or licensing to help them advance in their careers.
- National Council of Jewish Women: Repro Shabbat. Funding will support a shabbat dinner hosted by NJCW and Congregation Beth Shalom where a national speaker will present about Judaism’s approach to reproductive rights.
In addition to innovation and emergency grants, the Community Legacy Fund also provides annual core grants which support operations central to the achievement of an organization’s mission or for funding unique services not otherwise available within the Jewish community that are essential to Jewish life.
More information about the Community Legacy Fund is available by contacting Beatrice Fine at or (913) 327-4618.
