Community Legacy Fund

The Community Legacy Fund awards grants which will enhance and maintain the quality of Jewish life in the Greater Kansas City area, and respond to emergency need for Jewish communities around the world. Grants are not limited to Kansas City area organizations or Jewish organizations, but priority is given for programs that will provide a benefit to the Kansas City Jewish Community.

Community Legacy Fund Objectives

In an effort to have the greatest impact upon the Jewish community, the Community Legacy Fund maintains the following objectives:

	To provide financial support for life-sustaining services in the fields of education, human services, health, community relations and cultural arts;
	To improve the quality of Jewish life by providing financial support for seed programs which meet and identified community need, but cannot be embraced by the regular budget of the organizations;
	To purchase capital equipment especially when it will significantly enhance an organizations general operations or the efficiency of a particular program;
	To fund capital requests for Jewish community agencies.

The Community Legacy Fund will not make grants for the following:

	General Fundraising campaigns
	Dinners, annual meetings or special events

The Community Legacy Fund has already given to the following programs this year:

Avila University: Pope John Paul II & the Jewish People Exhibit

CAJE/Jewish Federation: Teacher Education Initiative

CAJE/Rabbi Gershon Hadas Guardian Society: Summer Israel Program Scholarships and
     March of the Living Scholarships

Chillicothe High School/Chillicothe Arts Council: Courage and Love: The George & Erika
      Mandler Story

Coterie Theatre: And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank

Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy: Going Green Program Recycling Receptacles

Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy: Needs-Based Scholarships

Jewish Community Center: Maccabi Game Scholarships

Jewish Community Relations Bureau/American Jewish Committee: Freedom Seder

Jewish Family Services: Volunteer Management Program

Jewish Federation: 75th Anniversary Video

Jewish Federation: Israel Emissary Program

Kansas Humanities Council: August Bondi Program

Midwest Center for Holocaust Education: Kristallnacht 2008 Commemoration Concert

Midwest Center for Holocaust Education/JCRB: "Not Your Father's Anti-Semitism" Reading

University of Kansas: Hebrew Language Program

University of Kansas Hillel: Israel @ 60 Program

Village Shalom: Torah Portion Art Therapy

Grant Application: PDF    Word

Grant Budget Form (Excel)

Final Grant Evaluation Form: PDF  Word