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The Bay Area Jewish Community What makes our Federation dierent FEDERATION FIRSTS Our community was the first to have an LGBT Alliance designed to grow sustain and inspire the large and diverse LGBT Jewish community of the Bay Area. Our Jewish Teen Foundations are a successful model of engaging teens in philanthropic social action. We were the first to have an on-the-ground office in Israel strengthening the connection between Jewish communities in Israel and the Bay Area. Our pioneering Gvanim program promotes Israels democracy by creating a cadre of leaders to spread the message of Jewish pluralism to ever-widening circles of Israelis. We were the first large city Federation to have a woman CEO Jen Gorovitz guiding our organization to new heights and marking many accomplishments during her tenure. Our Israel Giving Circle engages new donors in meaningful and targeted philanthropy in support of Israel. Our Early Childhood Education Conference for Jewish educators convened teachers and experts in their field to deepen their knowledge of active outdoor and indoor learning. Jewish campers get the most meaningful summer of their lives. Camp Ramah is no ordinary camp experience. This new Jewish overnight camp hosts 150 campers during the summer in an ocean-front facility at the Monterey Bay Academy and offers a one-week special needs session and specialty tracks in ocean exploration performing arts and adventure sports. The community has reach from Bulgaria to Bolivia. We fund a program where Jewish volunteer medical professionals provide free eye examinations to underprivileged children throughout Bulgaria through a cooperative venture between the Federation-supported American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and Alexandrovska University Hospital. Teens can access transformative experiences. In 13 years the Federations Jewish Teen Foundations have raised 1.8 million through 710 participants making 274 grants to nonprofit organizations that do everything from providing safe drinking water in Africa to helping at-risk youth in Israel. Locally our Teen Engagement Initiative will significantly increase engagement opportunities in Jewish education and communal life for teens in our region. Here a Birthright trip is just the beginning. Onward Israel is another unique peer experience in Israel designed for Jewish undergraduate and graduate students. Onward Israel serves as a connector to less-engaged young adults and students showing them the tangible value of wider communal involvement. No one throws a better philanthropic party. Whether at the Palace of Fine Arts the Four Seasons Hotel or Ruby Skye nightclub events such as the Big Mitzvah Day of Philanthropy Business Leadership Council Breakfast Latke Ball and Donor Advised Fund Salons to name just a few provide front row seats to industry thought-leaders insights on cutting-edge topics and entertainment. We have a truly welcoming and accessible community. Whether its ensuring that Jews of color Russian-speaking Jews and Sephardic Jews are brought to the mainstream of our community helping single Jewish mothers gain access to services enabling children with disabilities to join local events or developing leaders among the LGBT Jewish community inclusion and diversity are central to who we are. Harnessing data to build and strengthen Jewish communal life. The Federations Community Study a Portrait of Bay Area Jewish Life and Communities will be a comprehensive and cutting edge assessment of community needs demographics and key aspects of Jewish life and engagement that will establish an important baseline for our larger goals and future initiatives. Connecting Jewish tradition nature and advocacy. Cause-driven Judaism has taken off in the Bay Area with pioneering programs like Urban Adamahs organic farming and Wilderness Torahs nature experiences. These programs offer meaningful training experience and connection to community in lasting ways. Groundbreaking new initiatives. One example is the Campus Initiative on Israel Engagement a grassroots approach to counter the increasingly anti-Israel climate on campuses by fostering positive Israel engagement opportunities for students on campuses throughout the area. This is done in partnership with Hillel International the East Bay and Silicon Valley federations JCRC and eight Hillels across Northern California. Our support goes beyond money. Our Pro Bono Consulting Practice connects a network of over 400 professionals who have shared more than 2000 hours of expertise in over 180 consultations at nonprofit institutions. This includes our new Jenerator program which seeks to build earned income sources for our partners. 10Reasons OUR FEDERATION AND COMMUNITY ARE AMONG THE MOST INNOVATIVE 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Since the first wave of Jewish immigrants to California over 160 years ago San Francisco has flourished in part because these Jewish pioneers came together with courage ingenuity and a unique entrepreneurial spirit. The early settlers were innovative leaders who joined with others to create something new and beautiful while consistently keeping one foot rooted in tradition. Today this Bay Area-wide Jewish community which is now some 400000 strong is thoroughly enmeshed in the life of the entire region. Jews have been so much a part of the dynamic fabric of San Francisco that the city has been described as an American Jerusalem. And as Jews have made their mark on the Bay Area the Bay Area has made its mark on its Jews. Our Jewish community is phenomenally diverse in its ethnic and cultural makeup its manner of religious observance its embrace of LGBT life and its relationship to Jewish identity. Our Federation views such diversity and range as a major asset and a key part of what makes us who we are. The Federation is blessed to support such an awesome hub of humanity creativity and compassion.