The Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund responds to Forward Article Entitled “REVEALED: Canary Mission Blacklist Is Secretly Bankrolled By Major Jewish Federation.”

San Francisco, CA – The Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund would like to respond to the article published today October 3, 2018 by The Forward entitled “REVEALED: Canary Mission Blacklist Is Secretly Bankrolled By Major Jewish Federation.”

The Federation seeks to support the philanthropic needs of our donors and the broad range of views that they represent. To ensure that all grants are consistent with our mission to be a force for good in the world, we implemented guidelines in 2010.

A one-time grant was made in 2016 by the Helen Diller Family Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Federation, to the Central Fund of Israel and earmarked to support the work of the Canary Mission. In 2017, we strengthened the implementation of our review process and determined that the Central Fund of Israel is not in compliance with our guidelines, which apply to donor-advised funds and supporting foundations. Both the Helen Diller Family Foundation and the Federation will not support the Canary Mission in the future.

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