2013
community report
OUR VISION A vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring Jewish community. OUR MISSION Inspired by Jewish values, we broaden and deepen engagement in Jewish life to strengthen Jewish identity, foster dynamic connections with Israel, and care for all Jews in need. We mobilize our community’s resources, leaders, and organizations to address the community’s most critical needs, creating profound impact locally, in Israel, and around the world.
YOUR FEDERATION IN ACTION In 2013, your Federation worked to strengthen and broaden the connection of the San Diego Jewish community to each other, the people and state of Israel, and the Jewish people around the world.
The Jewish Federation Annual Campaign supports: Jewish Connections • Next Gen • Young Adult Division • Jewish Community Relations Council • One Happy Camper • Jewish Community Center • Hillel • Jewish Day Schools • Birthright
ISRAEL & OVERSEAS • Sha’ar HaNegev • San Diego Celebrates Israel • JDC Community Building • Jewish Agency for Israel • World ORT
JEWISH CARING • Chaplaincy • Women’s Philanthropy • Seacrest Village • Jewish Family Services • JDC Rescue & Relief
AnD SO MUCH MORE...
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Shalom aleichem In 2013, thanks to the generosity of our supporters, the Federation has done some extraordinary things here in San Diego, in Israel, and around the world. Among the highlights: • In November 2012, along with AIPAC, ADL Stand With Us and FIDF, Federation’s JCRC rallied more than 1,500 members of the San Diego community to stand with Israel when she was under attack by Hamas rockets. Through the efforts of our Jewish Community Relations Council, we brought seven elected San Diego officials on their first trip to Israel. Our chaplaincy program comforted hundreds of Jews in their time of need. We strive to make new connections with Jewish young adults with our NextGen efforts. • Federation engaged thousands of San Diegans with our newly structured flagship events, Men’s Event and Options, by making them more about engaging the community. We welcomed a record-breaking 5,000+ people to our annual Yom Ha’atzmaut Festival, officially decreed by the city as “San Diego Celebrates Israel”. The result has been an enormous success!
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Your Federation continues to focus on our key impact areas: Jewish Connections, Jewish Caring, and Israel & Overseas.
Jewish Connections
Jewish Caring
Israel and Overseas
Broadening and deepening connections to Jewish life to assure an enduring Jewish community
Addressing the most critical needs of Jews in San Diego
Fostering dynamic connections between San Diego, Israel and Jewish communities worldwide
This report highlights some of our work in these critical areas. None of this would be possible without your support. Thanks to you, Federation executes on our mission to build a vibrant, caring, connected and enduring Jewish community. In the coming year, we will continue our efforts to meet the needs of Jews around the world and build our community for the future. We are committed to doing even more and look forward to working with each and every one of you.
Thank you for all you do for the community.
Theresa Dupuis Board Chair
Michael Sonduck President and CEO
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Jewish Connections
We work with our partners in San Diego to broaden and deepen connections to Jewish life and assure an enduring Jewish community.
Next Gen engages the next generation of Jewish community leadership. Next Gen brings together Federation young adults and community leaders who are dedicated to creating and sustaining Jewish life, community and philanthropy in San Diego. Together with our partners, Next Gen develops programs and connects individuals to social, professional and cultural programming through events, online resources and Birthright Israel experiences.
“We have convened over 20 young adult engagement professionals (representing nearly 20 organizations and programs) as part of The Network to serve as a platform to mobilize the local Jewish community around serving the Next Gen population.�
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YOUNG ADULT DIVISION
Young Adult Division Federation’s Young Adult Division (YAD), is the nexus of San Diego’s vibrant community of Jews aged 21 to 45. YAD offers various channels of engagement in order to be the most diverse young adult group in the county. Our mission is to encourage young adults in San Diego to connect to the Jewish community in ways that are most meaningful to them. Through this strategy, YAD is able to attract many brilliant and creative minds in San Diego and connect them to our Jewish community.
During this past year, YAD: • Sent over 550 San Diegans to Israel via Birthright Israel Experience • Hosted over 100 events • Supported 310 Shabbat experiences • Welcomed 141 newcomers to our Jewish community • Engaged 3,530 young adults in meaningful Jewish experiences • Connected to 73 YAD volunteer leaders • Launched philanthropic 5K run, engaging more than 300 donors
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Jewish Community Relations Council The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) is a strategic resource that serves as the point of connection between the Jewish and greater San Diego community, fostering enhanced relations with local and national organizations. 9
JCRC IN ACTION: 2013-2014 • Lead a mission including seven local elected officials to Israel to promote greater understanding and support for the Jewish state • Initiated the San Diego Jewish Advocates Fellowship, a cohort of 12 highly accomplished young professionals, in partnership with JFS, JCF, NextGen, Leichtag and the California Jewish Legislative Caucus • Partnered with Jewish Family Service to launch Community Connections, a new initiative to bring the Jewish community together around critical public policy and governmental issues • Educated representatives from 27 different Jewish community partner organizations on key economic and social challenges facing our growing aging population • Joined 100 Jewish community leaders from across the state to support policy priorities during Sacramento Advocacy Day • Hosted a Capitol Hill briefing for members of the Latino-Jewish Coalition featuring U. S. Congressman Scott Peters and Captain Scott Adams, Commander of Point Loma Naval Base
One Happy Camper Countless studies have shown that Jewish overnight summer camp has lasting effects on campers, inspiring a lifelong commitment to Jewish life. Adults who were campers are 37% more likely to light Shabbat candles and 10% more likely to marry a Jewish partner. They are also 26% more likely to be members of a synagogue. Recognizing these documented connections between attending camp and becoming an active member of our Jewish community was the driving force that brought the One Happy Camper program to San Diego.
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This past year, Federation’s One Happy Camper program provided grants for 163 kids to attend residential Jewish camp.
Resident camp needs-based scholarships
We added four new camp partners and additional funding to our program as well as a volunteer arm for campers to give back to our community and stay involved all year long. We provided more than $35,000 in needs-based scholarship funds directly to camps. Your Federation dollars provide these kids an opportunity to connect to their Jewish heritage, build our community, and change their lives.
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Israel & Overseas
We work with our global partners to strengthen Jewish identity and take care of Jews in need in Israel and around the world.
We partnered with the JDC and JAFI to provide essential care for
over 160,000 elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union
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Sha’ar HaNegev Home to 7,000 residents, Sha’ar HaNegev is bravely situated just kilometers away from the Gaza border. Federation supports economic development, people-to-people exchanges, and provides social services for its residents. We are honored to nurture this 15-year-strong dynamic relationship and thus far have provided more than $11 million in funding to the region. In 2013, San Diego was host to three Sha’ar HaNegev delegations that impacted more than 1,000 San Diegans, and Sha’ar HaNegev was host to 300+ San Diegans who visited the region. This year’s San Diego Jewish Film Festival featured a screening of Sha’ar HaNegev Sapir College Film School’s “A Day in the Negev,” which exposed our community to six short films about life in the Negev region.
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San Diego Celebrates Israel Thanks to your generosity, Federation hosted the 2013 San Diego Celebrates Israel Yom Ha’atzmaut Festival, commemorating the 65th Independence Day of Israel. The 5,000+ people in attendance created a strong feeling of community and warmth that filled our new location, Nobel Athletic Field. The dozens of synagogues, organizations, merchants and vendors who participated in the event underscore the local community’s deep commitment to Israel. We have received tremendous positive feedback about the San Diego Celebrates Israel Festival, and recognize that it was because of the community’s participation and partnerships that this dream became a reality.
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Jewish Caring
Together with our partners, we address the most critical needs of Jews in San Diego.
Federation partner
Jewish Family Service’s On The Go
program has provided
Chaplaincy
The Jewish Community Chaplain responds to the acute pastoral and spiritual needs of unaffiliated Jews who are ill, at end of life, or experiencing life crises, including those in hospitals, long-term care facilities and prisons. Your Federation dollars ensure that every Jewish person in San Diego has someone to talk to in time of need. In just the last year, our Community Chaplain served more than 260 clients, officiated at or arranged more than 45 funerals or memorial services, and visited more than 590 Jewish patients in the hospital.
more than 100,000 rides to seniors
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Women’s Philanthropy Cares This was another red-letter year for Women’s Philanthropy, highlighted by the unparalleled success of OPTIONS. The extraordinarily generous underwriting of Pauline Foster and the Foster Family Foundation made it possible for the event to be accessible to all, resulting in record-breaking participation. OPTIONS was the largest gathering of Jewish women in San Diego history, engaging hundreds of new and younger women for the first time. OPTIONS also provided the year’s major opportunity for Women’s Philanthropy’s continued commitment to social action. Over 600 pairs of children’s pajamas were collected and then distributed to partners such as Jewish Family Service and to the immigrants of IBIM in our Israel partner community of Sha’ar HaNegev.
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COMMUNITY PARTNERS Organizations A Culture of Peace Adopt a Family American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) American Jewish Joint Distribution Council (JDC) American Technion Society Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Association of Reform Zionists of America (ARZA) Aztecs for Israel (SDSU) Bible Raps Chesed Home Hope Village San Diego Foundation for Jewish Camp Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces (FIDF) Friendship Circle G’Mach Jewish Gift Closet Hadassah Hillel of San Diego House of Israel J Street Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) Jewish Community Foundation Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) Jewish Family Service (JFS) Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) Jewish Historical Society at SDSU Jewish Multimedia Xperience Jewish National Fund (JNF) JTeen KEN Jewish Community Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center (LFJCC) Moishe House
San Diego Jewish Gift Closet
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National Conference of Synagogue Youth (NCSY) National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) New Life Club North County Jewish Seniors Club Ohr Ami/Lightbridge Hospice ORT America Paiche’s Place Passport NYC PJ Library San Diego Jewish Genealogical Society San Diego Jewish War Veterans, USA Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Seacrest at Home Seacrest Village Retirement Communities Sha’ar HaMayim South African Jewish American Community Stand With Us Taglit - Birthright Israel Tarbuton Training and Education about the Middle East (TEAM) Tzofim Shevet Galim United Hatzalah Victor Center Jewish Gene Screening Waters of Eden World ORT World Zionist Org Young Israel of San Diego Young Judea Youth Organization of Hadassah Young Latinos for Israel Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)
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synagogues Beth Eliyahu Torah Center Beth Jacob Congregation Chabad Alef Center Chabad Hebrew Academy Chabad HQ (at Scripps Ranch) Chabad La Costa Chabad of Carmel Valley Chabad of Coronado Chabad of Downtown Chabad of East County Chabad of La Jolla Shores Chabad of Oceanside Chabad of Pacific Beach Chabad of Poway Chabad of Rancho Santa Fe Chabad of Scripps Ranch Chabad of SDSU Chabad of Temecula Valley Chabad of UCSD Chabad UC Chabad Without Borders: Chula Vista & Tijuana Congregation Adat Yeshurun Congregation Beth Am Congregation Beth El Congregation Beth Israel Congregation B’nai Chaim Congregation B’nai Shalom Congregation B’nai Tikvah Congregation Dor Hadash Congregation Etz Chaim of Ramona Congregation Havurim Congregation Kehillas Torah
Kahal Am — The Humanistic Jewish Community of San Diego Kehillat Ahavat Yisrael Magen Abraham Sephardic Synagogue Ner Tamid North County Conservative Ohr Shalom Synagogue Sephardic Kehillah of San Diego Temple Adat Shalom Temple Beth Sholom Temple Emanu El Temple Etz Rimon Temple Solel The Elijah Minyan (Jewish Renewal) Tifereth Israel Synagogue Young Israel of San Diego
Camps Camp Alonim Camp JCA Shalom (Malibu) Camp Mountain Chai Camp Newman (URJ) Camp Ramah Camp Yofi (Orange County/Angelus Oaks) Habonim Dror Camp Gilboa Wilshire Blvd Temple Camps
Schools Chabad Hebrew Academy Kavod Elementary San Diego Jewish Academy Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School Southern California Yeshiva High School Torah High School of San Diego
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2012-2013 Board of Directors BOARD CHAIR* Theresa Dupuis
Immediate Past Board Chair* Claire Ellman
Vice Chair — PHILANTHROPY* Laura Tauber
Women’s Philanthropy board chair* Leigh Johnson
Vice Chair — community partnerships* Caryn Viterbi
Vice Chair — Finance (Secretary/Treasurer)* Gary Kornfeld
JCF BOARD CHAIR* Jeff Silberman
YOUNG ADULT DIVISION BOARD CHAIR Todd Kirschen 18
Jewish Community RELATIONS CENTER CHAIR Tad Parzen
WOMEN’S PHILANTHROPY CAMPAIGN CHAIR* Lisa Kornfeld
directors at Large Judy Belinsky
Lori Polin
Terri Bignell
Andrew Ratner*
Larry Bloch
Robert Rubenstein
Jeff Deverett
Jon Schneider
Ira Feinswog
Susan Shmalo
David Geffen
Steve Shulman
Jennifer Levitt
Brian Tauber*
Jack Maizel
President & Chief Executive Officer* Michael Sonduck *denotes members of the Executive Committee
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FEDERATION STAFF Aaron Truax Marketing Manager
Joseph Berman Senior Development Manager
Brenda Saunders
Kara Liederman
Receptionist
Development Manager - General Campaign
Brenda Silvers
Lance Yeaman
Camping Coordinator
Database & Community Campaign Manager
Candice Bucky
Larry Acheatel
Executive Assistant to President & Chief Executive Officer
Community Partnerships Consultant
Lee Wollach
Carly Ezell
Next Gen Associate Program Manager
Next Gen Community Engagement Manager
Carole Brewer
Linda Feldman Director - Jewish Community Relations Center
Accounting/HR Clerk
Corrie McCoy Accounting Manager
Dana Mekler Administrative Assistant Israel & Overseas Center
Debbie Kornberg Director - Israel & Overseas Center
Mandy Danzan Development Director
Michael Sonduck President & Chief Executive Officer
Miriam Norten Major Gifts Officer & Planned Giving
Nicole Sloane
Deena Libman
Senior Development Manager Women’s Philanthropy
Genie Bianchi Executive Assistant for Development
Events Coordinator
Phyllis Freeman Executive Assistant for Community Partnerships
Rabbi Ralph Dalin
Heather Wolfson
Community Chaplain
Next Gen Startegic Partnerships & Leadership Manager
Sarah Hoffman
Administrative Assistant
Jane Fantel
Manager of Israel Operations
Susan Halliday
Chief Financial Officer
Javier Lopez IT Support
Jenna Zetisky Graphic Artist
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FEDERATION’S SUPPORT OF THE WORLDWIDE JEWISH COMMUNITY
38% Jewish Connections in San Diego
19%
43%
Jewish Caring
Israel & Overseas
in San Diego
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$8,120,561 million* Total Funds Raised
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Grants & Programs Cost of Raising Funds Management & Administration Percent (%)
10 10
0 100
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2012-2013
Financials How the money is distributed
Where the money is distributed
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Israel & Overseas
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Jewish Connections in San Diego
in San Diego
Percent (%)
48
Israel & Overseas
19
Jewish Caring
46
San Diego Area
6
National
0 100
Percent (%)
0 100
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Sources of Funds
2013
% of Total
2012
% of Total
$7,588,736
93%
$7,562,712
95%
Program Revenue
$176,702
2%
$142,630 2%
Endowment Distribution
$290,000
4%
$172,000
2%
$65,123
1%
$52,635
1%
Total Funds Raised
$8,120,561
100%
$7,929,977
100%
Uses of Funds
2013
% of Total
2012
% of Total
Local Programs, Services & Grants
$2,530,994
37%
$3,578,444
47%
Israel & Overseas Program, Services & Grants
$2,612,270
38%
$2,119,082
28%
National Programs, Services & Grants
$343,283
5%
$155,587
2%
Cost of Raising Funds*
$719,835
10%
$1,188,213
15%
Administrative Expenses
$701,732
10%
$629,523
8%
$ 6,908,114
100%
$ 7,670,849
100%
Net Campaign Contributions/Pledges
Other Revenue
Total Uses of Funds
Increase/(Decrease) in Net Assets
$ 1,212,447
Selected information based on FY 2013 AND FY 2012 IRS 990 filings. These amounts will differ from the audited financial statements. *Includes both unrestricted and donor designated commitments.
$ 259,128
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