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:
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To provide financial support for life-sustaining
services in the fields of education, human services, health, community
relations and cultural arts; |
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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; |
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To purchase capital equipment especially when it will
significantly enhance an organizations general operations or the efficiency
of a particular program; |
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To fund capital requests for Jewish community agencies. |
The Community Legacy Fund will not make grants for the following:
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General Fundraising campaigns |
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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 |