Find Your People
Giving circles bring people of all ages and backgrounds together to make a difference. Members connect, learn, and give collectively to support causes they care about. Giving circles offer a safe, supportive Jewish community, providing a way to give generously at any level while connecting with others who share your values and interests.
Federation Giving Circles
Founded in 2018, Jewish Pride Fund (JPF) is committed to supporting the intersecting needs, values, and interests of the LGBTQAI+ and Jewish communities in the Bay Area, nationally, and in Israel. This giving circle is open to all members and allies of the LGBTQAI+ community.
Note: Donors can also contribute to the JPF grant pool without participating in the giving circle activities.
The Young Jewish Fund (YJF), founded in the wake of October 7th, is a philanthropic initiative designed to engage Jewish young adults in the Bay Area.
Each year, a select group of Jewish high school students joins Jewish Teen Foundation (JTF) to become empowered, confident, and effective leaders who learn how philanthropy can effect change. These teens cultivate skills in philanthropy, fundraising, leadership, social justice issues, confidence, communication, and collaboration. The JTF teens focus on and raise money for issues they collectively choose together each year.
In April 2024, we offered the second iteration of The Global Jewish Citizens Fund as an online, collective giving event with a Passover theme. Participants were invited to learn, donate, and give to organizations supporting those effected by the crisis of global forced migration—one of the most profound modern challenges of our time. This was all done via an online platform. Donors funded four organizations committed to improving the lives of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, including Canal Alliance, HIAS California, Project Kesher, and Tebeka.
Pop-ups are one-time giving circles that can take place at the Federation, in a donor’s home, in a park, or pretty much anywhere that like-minded donors can learn, give, and celebrate together. Let’s collaborate and bring your ideas to life.
Giving Circles in the Media
- Federation’s giving circles allow smaller donors a bigger say
- 2024 Giving Circle Wrap-Up: Connections, Contributions, and Common Causes
- Giving Circles: Collaborative Philanthropy Is Powering a New Era of Jewish Giving
- The Jewish Pride Fund: Deep Connections, Deeper Impact
- S.F. Jewish Pride Fund gives $56K in grants, visits LGBTQ grantees in Israel
- Jewish Pride Fund: A Giving Circle Success Story
- New Jewish Pride Fund Grants Give Agencies Hope
Partnerships
We partner with organizations building new collaborative, inclusive models of collective philanthropy.
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Events
Community Event
Hebrew Free Loan – Annual Business Circle Luncheon
San Francisco - details pending
Community Event
Hebrew Free Loan – Gala
San Francisco - details pending