Annual Report

JWI is the leading Jewish organization
empowering women and girls –
through economic literacy; community training;
healthy relationship education;
and the proliferation of women’s leadership.
Our innovative programs,
advocacy and philanthropic initiatives
protect the fundamental rights
of all girls and women
to live in safe homes,
thrive in healthy relationships,
and realize the full potential
of their personal strength.
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Dear Friends,
It is a privilege to share this report with you – a chronicle of JWI’s programs and activities during the past two years. As you read the pages that follow, we know you will
feel the energy and impact of our accomplishments.
JWI’s programmatic initiatives anchor our commitment to safe homes, healthy relationships and strong women. We proudly lead the Jewish community in domestic violence prevention – teaching young women and girls about healthy relationships; helping all women develop economic literacy skills; giving women and children a voice
on Capitol Hill. We also lead in healing abuse victims, with children’s libraries in
domestic violence shelters and a brand new home for Israeli children undergoing intensive residential therapy. And through our award-winning Jewish Woman magazine,
JWI motivates every Jewish woman to explore and enrich her individual lifestyle.
JWI is unique among Jewish organizations in our determination to protect the wellbeing of women and girls – from physical safety to financial security; from personal
leadership to collective empowerment. Our diverse programs teach, engage, inspire
and save lives.
Members, donors and partners, both here at home and in Jewish communities around
the world, inspire JWI’s work every day. Because of them – because of you – our critical work goes on.
Susan W. Turnbull
Chair, Board of Trustees
Lori Weinstein
Executive Director
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The National Alliance to End Domestic Abuse uses webinars to bring critical training to desktops
around the world; since the start of 2008 we have hosted 21 training sessions. Participants now
represent more than 3,200 organizations; 50 states; and six foreign countries.
In April 2009, JWI convened the fourth international conference on domestic abuse in Washington, DC, with partners and participants from Israel,
Argentina, Australia, Canada and the U.S. The intensive three-day gathering offered expert-led training and workshops, and furthered the global
anti-domestic violence movement. The conference concluded with
Advocacy Day – a perfectly-timed opportunity for conference participants to make their voices heard on Capitol Hill, in meetings
with key legislators, as policies critical to women’s safety were up
for funding.
“Working for a small agency that often feels
the financial squeeze, my annual travel for trainings and conferences is limited. JWI’s trainings
are a logistical help, and the topics are on-target
and extremely pertinent for clinicians in many
types of agencies and skill sets, and (thankfully)
in any geographic area.”
– Rachel Gearhart, MSW,
Mental Health Clinician, Craig, Alaska
JWI’s Interfaith Domestic Violence Coalition, which cosponsored Advocacy Day, has grown into a powerful lobbying force
of religious leaders representing more than 20 faith communities.
In early 2008 the Coalition held a briefing on Capitol Hill, featuring and attended by a number of senators, members of Congress
and key staff. The following summer, they presented testimony at the
Democratic National Committee Platform Hearing urging the party to
fund anti-domestic violence measures and support victims.
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Training,
Education
& Advocacy
Our greatest obstacle is people’s
unwillingness to believe that the
nice guy next door, or the synagogue
board member, or the clergy they know
so well could actually be behaving so
differently in private than they are in
public. People tend to rally behind the
abuser... Until that attitude changes,
all we can do is help people who’ve
already been victimized.
– Naomi Tucker, executive director
of Shalom Bayit, San Francisco,
in JWI’s “Domestic Abuse
in the Jewish Community”
newsletter, June 2009
Domestic violence conference partners
from Shalom Bayit, Argentina
As a leader and partner in the public policy arena, JWI is hard at work in Washington – most actively
in a coalition advising legislators on the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.
Our fall 2009 survey of Jewish DV organizations helps us represent their needs to policy
makers. Members of our Advocacy Network have responded to our action alerts and
contacted members of Congress about key issues such as women’s health care,
abortion rights and domestic violence legislation.
Education is the key
“Domestic violence frequently involves physical beatto breaking the cycle of
ings, torture, false imprisonment, psychological
violence... and to that
abuses including threats to harm or kill the victim
end, JWI continually builds
and/or her children, and many other crimes; yet,
because these abuses often occur within the
on training opportunities that
protected social institution of marriage or in
empower clergy, social workers,
dating relationships, these criminal acts of
teachers, parents, lawyers, advoviolence are not viewed for what they are:
cates, mental health professionals
Human rights violations.”
– everyone positioned to touch a
– IDVC testimony presented at the Democratic
National Committee Platform Hearing, August 2008
child, teen, adult or family at risk.
We also gain strength by joining
Each October, for Domestic Violence Awareness Month,
forces: Multi-faith, multi-denominaJWI builds a public awareness campaign around a timely issue: In 2008, a call for policy change before the presidential
tional and multi-media initiatives
election; in 2009, a demand for media responsibility in the
wake of Rihanna and Chris Brown’s much-publicized dating
help us raise public awareness
violence case. More than 1,000 people, inspired by our 2009
of domestic violence, and
action alert, wrote to newspapers to demand more accurate reporting
in domestic violence coverage.
make ourselves heard as a
clear and emphatic voice
As an international leader, JWI sends staff to Spain, Argentina, Israel
on Capitol Hill.
and Australia to consult with communities on creating Jewish domestic violence programs. Our Clergy Task Force brings together rabbis from
different denominations to provide trainings, networking and resources for
their peers in national and community settings. And our newsletter, “Domestic
Violence in the Jewish Community,” unites a diverse global network of DV workers.
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New campus of the Jerusalem Hills Children’s Home in Israel
Our 60-year relationship with the Jerusalem Hills Children’s Home reached
a milestone in March 2009 with the opening of a beautiful new campus in
Kyriat Yearim. The new campus has double the space for therapy, schooling, music and art, and picturesque views of the Judean Hills and the
Mediterranean Sea. There is room for up to 100 children, as well as
apartment-style residences for 17 staff and their families. JWI contributed $7.5 million for the project and will continue to provide
operating support.
“The Children’s Home represents our investment
in a partnership that anchored our commitment
to Israel and the most fragile and vulnerable
of its citizens — children whose lives had been
damaged almost beyond repair — to be brought
back to wholeness... You can’t help but think of
it as a healing place – a physically and spiritually uplifting environment for the children.”
– JWI Executive Director Loribeth Weinstein,
at the July 2009 Children’s Home dedication
“My parents and grandparents delighted
in making the world a better place because
they were fortunate enough to have wealth
as a tool. They taught us that we’re each
responsible for our own tzedakah. If someone does it on your behalf, you never have
the reward of discovering what it means
to make that kind of commitment.
Longtime JWI members and donors across the country are
especially proud of the new facility: Over the past 60 years their
dedication to the Children’s Home has inspired more than $75
million in giving. Their ongoing fundraising efforts – particularly
Day of Care events, which highlight the important work of the Home
– provide for its annual support. Chapters are also instrumental in
opening new children’s libraries, and raising money for the Mother’s Day
Flower Project.
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philanthropy
– Lee Meyerhoff Hendler, president of the
Harvey & Lyn P. Meyerhoff Charitable Fund,
in “JWI News,” September 2009
The National Library Initiative – JWI’s pledge to create 100 new children’s
libraries in battered women’s shelters – continually replicates our bright,
peaceful sanctuaries, and re-stocks the ones we’ve already built. The support of corporate partners like FirstBook and Verizon amplifies the impact of NLI funds. As of fall 2009, 33 libraries are open nationwide.
Young leaders in the NLI’s Library Ambassador program – bar
mitzvah students, religious school classes and more – have collected thousands of books and dollars to fill the shelves of JWI
libraries in their communities.
Protecting abused women
and vulnerable children in the
U.S. and Israel is JWI’s most
steadfast commitment. As our
philanthropic initiatives expand
their reach, diversity and impact,
supporters are increasingly inspired
to become our partners – to personally get involved in creating
safe homes and brighter, more
independent futures for women
and children at risk.
“Our tradition tells us that when you give charity
during the first year after a loved one’s passing,
you elevate her soul. My mother loved children...
I also have fond memories of her taking me to the
library and reading to me when I was a child. I
thought the best way to honor her was by doing
something positive for the Denver community.”
– Rivka Yerushalmi, founder of the JWI children’s library
at Gateway Battered Women’s Services, Aurora, Colorado
In 2009 the Mother’s Day Flower Project attracted its largest
and most diverse coalition of volunteer fundraisers yet. In its first
dozen years the project has given thousands of Mother’s Day bouquets to battered women’s shelters across the U.S.; this year JWI
partnered with OPI to deliver personal care gift baskets as well. Project
donors can have JWI send beautiful Mother’s Day cards – featuring Jewish woman artists, a new one every year – to their mothers, daughters, sisters and friends. Organizations that partner with the Flower Project receive
$5 for every $25 donation they raise.
2008 & 2009 Mother’s Day
Flower Project materials
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Our Strong Girls programming is now in use at camps, day schools and religious schools nationwide and has
been adapted for public school settings. We’ve sold over 200 copies of our materials since the start of
2008. JWI trains and consults with educators across the country; now available in Spanish, our
materials are making their way into schools in South America and Spain.
JWI and United Synagogue Youth (USY) formed an unprecedented partnership
in 2009 to help teens navigate interpersonal relationships. The special curriculum we authored for USY includes training delivered at their International
Convention. With planned follow-up programming, this alliance could
bring healthy relationship training to more than 14,000 USY members
– and countless more as our collaboration grows.
One experimental program
piloted nearly five years ago –
healthy relationship training for
young adults – has burgeoned
into a suite of popular abuse
prevention programs. Today JWI has
“Thank you so much for this blog. I’m recently
something for everyone: girls and
out of a very abusive relationship. Although it’s a
boys; 12-year-old tweens to college
cycle that is hard to break, I find it getting easier
seniors; students, campers and
as time goes by… Your stories gave me hope that I
youth group members alike.
can make it alone and that eventually there will
Our goal is to guide all teens
be a sensitive, respectful and reliable man out there
who spend time in any Jewish
that I can be with.” –Shelly, 19
setting through an open disThe JWI blog, first created as a public awareness project for Domestic
cussion of the relationships
Violence Awareness Month, touches untold numbers of women – of
in their lives.
every age, every demographic, everywhere – who read both the personal
Our newest curriculum, Good Guys! Partnership & Positive
Masculinity, is designed as a companion piece to our Strong
Girls programming; it gives boys a similar chance to discuss relationships in a safe Jewish environment. The two programs
can be used separately, but when implemented together they
create an invaluable opportunity for coed healthy relationship
education.
abuse stories that we share throughout October, and other essays, reports
and action alerts posted year-round.
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Students in Sydney, Australia participate in JWI dating abuse programs, spring 2008
Each issue of Jewish Woman magazine reaches thousands of women in print and online, offering resources that
enhance their Jewish identity, personal spirituality and lifestyles. Award-winning JW’s recent honors include the 2008 Gold Excel Award for General Excellence from the Society of National Association
Publications, and multiple Rockower Awards from the American Jewish Press Association in
2008 and 2009. In the summer of 2010 JW will launch its new website, bringing our readers rich content and new means of community interaction between quarterly issues.
women’s
leadership
Success is not luck. It’s believing you are lucky – that you can
conquer, solve, persevere and do whatever it takes to make
it happen. It’s the unique combination of our experience,
our skills and, most of all, our personal ownership of the
opportunities and the problems that are going to come
our way in equal measure.
– Laurie Ann Goldman,
JWI champions and celebrates
women’s achievements – past,
CEO of Spanx®; 2009 Women to Watch honoree
present and potential. We invite
Jewish women to look closely and
Our signature Women to Watch awards, now celebrating the
12th class of 10 outstanding Jewish women in a range of profind inspiration in one another as
fessional fields, generates greater buzz every year. Sponsored
professionals, volunteers, mothers,
by OPI in 2008 and Spanx® in 2009, the annual Women
to Watch gala luncheon in Washington, DC, draws sold-out
daughters; as unique individuals,
crowds, while readers across North America anticipate each
and also members of a community.
fall issue of Jewish Woman, which profiles the honorees.
As women from every walk of life
JWI’s Brain Power for Girl Power Think Tanks have sparked
honor today’s Jewish heroines, read
a powerful response to teen girls’ struggles with sexuality, body
our award-winning magazine,
image and self-esteem. Previously held in Chicago, Detroit and
Washington,
DC, Think Tank roundtables are building on a new
think critically and collaboramedia literacy initiative to help parents help daughters process distively about their daughters’
empowering images of women in magazines, on TV and online.
well-being... they seize
Each summer in Washington, DC, JWI offers a Summer Series for
every opportunity to
young women – interns from colleges across the country – to learn about
connect with JWI.
the issues central to our mission (dating abuse; financial literacy; the portrayal
of women in the media) and make plans to bring related programming back to
their schools and communities.
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Based on the success of our work, JWI
received a two-year grant from the New
York Jewish Women’s Foundation
to develop a teen girls’ curriculum
on financial literacy in New York.
We are creating LIFE$AVINGS®:
Financial Literacy for Teen Girls
– workshops ideal for post-bat
mitzvah classes and for girls in
other Jewish settings. The pilot
project begins in early 2010 and
will include discussions about Jewish values and money and a special
mother-daughter event.
economic security
A woman’s personal security is largely dependent on her financial independence – which is
why economic literacy must be a cornerstone of
every woman’s education. Initially developed for
young women entering the workforce, JWI’s popular financial education programs now bring
tomorrow’s earners into the fold – teaching
Jewish teen girls about the value of
money, and its role in creating
a self-sufficient future.
“Our parents were determined
that we should never worry about
money – the way they did as kids
– so it was never discussed in our
house. They had the best intentions, but
a lot of important lessons went unlearned. I
was at least 12 before I understood that my
mother’s checkbook wasn’t just a fancy pad of
paper. Financial literacy would have helped.”
– Diana, 32, Washington, DC
Sigma Delta Tau sorority chapters across the country
participated in the Mother’s Day Flower Project – feeding a growing national partnership that now includes
financial literacy training for SDT members and support
for the National Library Initiative.
LIFE$AVINGS®: Financial Literacy for Young Women is appearing in more and more colleges nationwide,
reaching young women who are beginning to handle
money of their own. In the last two years, the program
was also presented at a number of national leadership
trainings, including Schusterman Insight Fellows, the
Reform Action Center Machon Kaplan intern program,
Sigma Delta Tau (SDT) Leadership College and the
Kivun Leadership Program.
“At the end of every month, I used to close my
eyes and hope I had enough money to pay my
bills. Since your LIFE$AVINGS® program,
I’m adding it up every week.”
– Rebecca, 21, University. of Maryland
Recent features in
Jewish Woman
magazine
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Financial report
Financial Year 2008 Sources of Income
Current Assets
2008
June 2009
Cash and cash equivalents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,870,677
$2,956,998
Investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,083,105 1,531,132
Accounts receivable:
Pledges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906,441 626,578
Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,329 44,608
Note receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
800,000
Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,067 24,067
Prepaid expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,589 133,708
Total current assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,983,208 6,117,091
Noncurrent assets
Property and equipment, net of accumulated
depreciation and amortization of
$128,378 and $107,068, respectively . . . . . . . . . 1,123,623 Land held in trust for
Jerusalem Hills Children’s Home . . . . . . . . . 3,750,000 Total noncurrent assets . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,873,623 Financial Year 2009 Sources of Income
1,117,366
3,750,000
4,867,366
Total assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,856,831 $10,984,457
Current liabilities
Accounts payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $111,346 Accrued expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596,213 Pledges payable, current portion . . . . . . . . . . . 4,050,000 Deferred dues revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135,318 Current portion of annuities payable . . . . . . . . . . 6,935 Other liabilities
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total current liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,899,812 $56,282
403,638
3,775,000
88,840
6,935
114,700
4,445,395
Noncurrent liabilities
Pledges payable, non-current portion,
net of discount to present value . . . . . . . . . . . . 267,301 Annuities payable, net of current portion . . . . . . . . 47,988 Excess of projected benefit obligation
over pension plan assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159,187 Deferred rent liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,469 Total long-term liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . 566,945 183,339
35,806
573,946
83,087
876,178
Total liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,466,757 5,321,573
Net assets
Unrestricted
Undesignated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,246,379 Board designated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720,000 Total unrestricted net assets . . . . . . . . . . 4,966,379 Temporarily restricted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,650,774 Permanently restricted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772,921 Total net assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,390,074 2,253,018
720,000
2,973,018
1,960,791
729,075
5,662,884
Total liabilities
& net assets . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,856,831 $10,984,457
(2009 unaudited)
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donors
$25,000 and above
Christadelphian Israeli Children’s Fund
The Hadassah Foundation
Joseph & Harvey Meyerhoff Family
Charitable Funds
OPI Products Inc.
Spanx & The Sara Blakey Foundation
Esther Weingarden
Estate of Ruth Messias
Estate of Carol Michaelis
Estate of Dr. Arthur Leonard Singer –
Ann Kudysh Singer
Estate of Bernard G. Stein
$10,000 to $24,999
Albin Family Foundation/Joyce Rappeport
Atlantic Health
Brenda & Phil Rever
Aaron & Cecile Goldman Family Foundation
Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York
Lifetime Entertainment Services
The Toby & Nataly Ritter Family Foundation
Stacy Schusterman
Deena & Lawrence Silver
Celina Spiegel
Verizon Foundation
Weil, Gotshal & Manges Foundation Inc.
Frances Zeitler
Estate of Harry & Sue Rattner
Estate of Duke A. & Terry S. Rosenberg
Estate of Erika Saphier
Chapter 0461, Maplewood - South Orange
Chapter 0803, B. L. Levinthal/Lynnewood
Chapter 0849, Skokie Valley
Chapter 1039, Hudson Valley
Chapter 1313, Monticello/Fallsburg
Chapter 1723, Zahava
Chapter 1853, JWI Of Greater St Louis
$5000 to $9999
Daniel Abrutyn
Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore
Vivian & Raymond Bass
Bender Foundation, Inc./ Sondra & Howard
Bender, Julie & David Silver, Barbara Bender,
Nan & David Bender, Eileen & Rich Greenberg
B*tween Productions, Inc.
The Mervyn L. Brenner Foundation
Charles & Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
David Katz Foundation of Honesdale, Pennsylvania
Evergreen Partners
Clara & Jerome Feldman
Sharon E. Friedman
Joyce & Irving Goldman Family Foundation
Barbra Hirsh
Jewish Women’s Foundation of
Metropolitan Detroit
Roger C. Lipitz
TMG Custom Media
Estee & Elliott Portnoy
Diane & Charles Radin
Random House, Inc.
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Dr. Amy Robbins
RST Development, LLC
Schaeffer Family Foundation
Susan & Bruce Turnbull
Elisse B. Walter
Washington Hebrew Congregation
Loribeth Weinstein & Charles Bethel
Rivka M. Yerushalmi
Estate of Betty Rashkov
Chapter 1474, Clearwater
Chapter 0473, Grand Rapids
Chapter 1785, Hills
Chapter 0870, Sheepshead
Chapter 0939, Princeton
Chapter 1736, JWI of Greater Cleveland
Chapter 0785, Independence
Chapter 0766, West Orange-Tzedek
Chapter 0506, Long Beach
Chapter 1612, Simcha
Chapter 0941, Springfield
Chapter 1525, Gila
Chapter 1868, Traditions
Chapter 1003, New Milford
Chapter 1581, Avodah
$1,000 to $4,999
Anonymous
Vickie Abrutyn
Stephanie Abrutyn
Acme-McCrary, Inc.
Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation
Lois Alperstein
Amcha for Tsedakah
Muriel Bach Diamond
Bethesda Systems
Linda & Joel Beren
Bernstein Family Foundation
Blake Real Estate, Inc.
Ruth Braslow
Susan & Hyman Bruck
Rita Chipkin Trust
The Manny & Ruthy Cohen Foundation
Nonie & Robert Cohen
The Ryna & Melvin Cohen Family Foundation, Inc
Audrey G. Cohen Sherwyn & Steven Sherwyn
Ann & Bobby Copeland
Jillian & Scott Copeland
Burton & Beatrice Dermer Family Foundation
Dona & Jack Diamond
Sara & Max Efron Memorial Fund
Diane Eichner
Margaret & Mark Eichner
Susan Eisenberg
Naomi Ruth Eisman
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Ellen S. Fawer
Andrew Fawer
David Fawer
Mark S. Fawer
Adrienne & Robert Feldstein
Lillian Felsenfeld
Susan Kay & Barry Flax
Jefferson L. Ford III Memorial Foundation, Inc.
Forty Weeks
Arlene & Stephen Friedlander
Friedlander, Misler, Sloan, Keltzkin
& Ochsman, PLLC
Ilene & Ronald Fruitman
Gail Ross Literary Agency
Diana & Maxwell Garret
Annora Gilman
Diane & Israel Goldberg
Golden & Cohen LLC
Dorian Goldman
Goodman-Gable-Gould/Adjusters International
Harriet & Manuel Gordon
Toby Graff
Barbara & Leonard Hantman
Dora B. Herbert
Shelley L. Herman
Beth A. Hirsch
Home Box Office, Inc.
Meredith Jacobs
Susan & Jonathan Jerison
Jewish Community Board of Akron, Inc.
Jewish Community Youth Foundation,
Princeton, NJ
Jewish Foundation For Group Homes
Lois & Stanley Kaish
Beth Klarman
Susan Kornstein & Lee Krumbein
Leah & Philip Krueger
Senator Norman J. Levy & Joy Levy
Charitable Foundation
Lippman Kanfer Family Foundation
Jessie Lipson
Michelle Malis
Jamie & David Matyas
Nancy & Roy Mayers
Susan Memberg
Mental Health Association of Montgomery County
Merrill Lynch
Randi & Marty Meyrowitz
Carol & Barry Minkoff
Laurie Moskowitz
Hilda Namm
Carole & John Nannes
Ann Y. Newman
Ruth H. Ogulnick
Original Pancake House
Park Avenue Charitable Fund
Joy & Ron Paul
Pincus Paul Charitable Trust
Poppy Shapiro Philanthropic Fund/
Dr. Charles & Dara Schapiro Schnee
Norman Rabkin
The Raskin Family Foundation
Sylvia Rein
Marilyn E. Reinherz
Gayla D. Roden
Gail Ross
Gail & Gene Rubinson
Schrayer & Associates, Inc.
Lynn Schusterman
Tony Scolnick
Millie & James Sernovitz
Anna L. Shereff
Sigma Delta Tau - Upsilon Chapter
Sigma Delta Tau - Social
Sigma Delta Tau - Chi Chapter
Sigma Delta Tau - Alpha Beta Chapter
Sigma Delta Tau - Alpha Tau Chapter
Silver Marketing, Inc
Ileene Simon
Sanford & Doris Slavin Foundation, Inc.
Elaine & Jerome Snider
Lynn Shapiro Snyder & Jeffrey M. Snyder
Family Foundation
Yoav Spiegel
Rachel & Thomas Sullivan
Renee & Harry Swartz
Shirley T. Tartak
The A. Alfred Taubman Foundation
Ellen D. Tillman
Sandy J. Unger
Donald B. Vogel
Wachovia Nonprofit & Philanthropic Services
Washington Area Women’s Foundation
Emily & Maurice Weinger
Carol Weitz
Wells Fargo Community Support Campaign
Lorraine Whalen
Roberta Whalen
Martin Whalen
William, Morris & Betty Rashkov Charitable Trust
Estate of Florence Baim
Estate of Ella R. Baskes
Estate of Rebecca Beckman
Estate of Hildegarde Friedmann
Estate of Ruth F. Gordon
Estate of Bernice Halpern
Estate of Roseline Lissak
Estate of Marion B. Matzkin
Estate of Herman Robbins aka Hyman Rabinowitz
Estate of Bess Shanker
Estate of Miriam Wain
Estate of Thelma R. Worth
Estate of Ruth Yaffee
Chapter 0760, Al Jolson
Chapter 0321, JWI of Greater Hartford
Chapter 1559, JWI Of Omaha
Chapter 1036, Simcha
Chapter 1285, Chayalot
Chapter 1468, Tradition
Chapter 0909, Whitestone
Chapter 0368, Batim-Union
Chapter 1877, JWI of Greater Phoenix
Chapter 0839, Lillie Straus/Hope
Chapter 0577, Revere-Chelsea
Council 213, Bronx
Chapter 0489, Oxford/Abram Orlow
Chapter 0340, Albert Einstein-Brooklyn
Chapter 0633, Rappeport
Chapter 0828, Aviva
Chapter 1834, JWI of Hemlock Farms
Chapter 0524, Clara DeHirsch
Chapter 1317, Sunkist
Chapter 1730, JWI Of Pittsburgh
Chapter 1737, Tikvah
Chapter 1371, South Bay
Chapter 1866, Hannah Senesh/L’Chaim
Chapter 0781, Charlotte
Chapter 1411, Skyview
Chapter 0412, Riverdale/Hudson
Chapter 1114, Albert Einstein
Chapter 0713, San Diego Bay City
Chapter 0876, Medina
Chapter 1519, Chai
Chapter 0323, Empire State
Chapter 1078, Galilee
Chapter 0401, Green Bay
Chapter 0036, Cheyenne
Chapter 1299, Gerri Kalb/Shalom
Chapter 1130, Tamar Marin
Chapter 0472, Bensonhurst
Chapter 1012, Centennial
Chapter 1750, JWI Of Greater Kansas City
Chapter 0221, Constitution
Chapter 1137, Akedah
Chapter 1309, Scott Towers
Chapter 1004, Pascack Valley
Chapter 1763, T’kiah
Chapter 1766, Judith Resnick
Chapter 0798, C Weizmann-F Meadows
Chapter 1651, Mission Viejo
Chapter 1402, Eternity
Chapter 1708, Minneapolis/Golda Meir
Chapter 0872, Norfolk County
Chapter 0873, Sunnyside
Chapter 1733, Century
$500 to $999
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Shari Ashman
Edith Bamdas
Julia S. Beck & Co., Inc.
Michelle Benaim
Lisa Benjamin
Barbara S. Berlin
BBYO
C. Richard Beyda
Judith Blank
Dale P. Citron
Arnold L. Cohen
The Community Foundation
for the National Capital Region
Congregation Beth Emeth
Jeanette & Oscar Cook
Melissa Cordish
Sandra Darrow
Dell Direct Giving Campaign
Idalee & Jack Diener
Peggy Drexler
Ginny Edlavitch
Glenda & Al Eisenfeld
Jeanne & Jeff Ellinport
Melvyn & Suellen Estrin
Dolores & Leonard Farber
Phyllis & Samuel Feder
Sharon Feldstein
Fife Family Foundation Inc.
Claudia Fleysher
Terri Michele Frances
Lisa & Scott Friedlander
Stephanie Friedman
Gay Gershberg
Estelle Friedman Gervis Foundation
Chip Gibson
Marilyn & Michael Glosserman
Judith & Richard Goldbaum
Roslyn Goldstein
Margery Gottfried
Harriet & Martin Gottlieb
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Deena Silver . . . . . . . . . Oldsmar, FL – Chair
Annora Gilman . . . . . . . . . . Atlantic Beach, NY
Toby Graff . . . . . . . . . . . . . New York, NY
Shelley Herman . . . . . . . . . . Long Beach, NY
Meredith Jacobs . . . . . . . . . . . Rockville, MD
Laurie Moskowitz . . . . . . . . . . Washington, DC
Amy Nisenson . . . . . . . . . . . Richmond, VA
Diane Radin . . . . . . . . . . . . Austin, TX
Joyce Rappeport . . . . . . . . . . Princeton, NJ
Amy Robbins . . . . . . . . . . . . Chicago, IL
Millie Sernovitz . . . . . . . . . . . Naples, FL
Deena Silver . . . . . . . . . . . . Oldsmar, FL
Sandy Unger . . . . . . . . . . . . Eagan, MN
Shelley Herman . . . . . . . L
ong Beach, NY Past Chair and Interfaith Domestic Violence Coalition
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Jill Lieberman . . . . . . . . Montreal, QC JWI Canada
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Millie Sernovitz . . . . . . . . Bonita Springs, FL National Training Institute and National Alliance
Ellen D. Tillman . . . . . . . Bethesda, MD Financial Literacy
Susan W. Turnbull . . . . . . Bethesda, MD Chair, Board of Trustees
Sandy Unger . . . . . . . . . Eagan, MN Children’s Home
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