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• Early Childhood Scholarship funds are given to Jewish Early Childhood Centers throughout Nashville, including programs at Chabad of Nashville, The Temple, Congregation Micah, West End Synagogue, and The Gordon Jewish Community Center. These grants are to be used for scholarships for those families in need of financial assistance.

• Gordon Jewish Community Center PJ Library is an outreach program that engages Jewish families with young children and provides age-appropriate books each month centered around Jewish values.

• The Gordon JCC’s Camp Davis serves campers from kindergarten through 10th grade and is built on Jewish values delivered through five central venues: sports, art, music, nature, and Israeli culture.

• Jewish Federation One Happy Camper program provides grants to send kids to Jewish overnight camp.

• Scholarships are given to Akiva ( K-6), Jewish Middle School (5-8), and Kehilla Jewish High School (9-12). Nashville’s Jewish Day Schools provide an exceptional academic experience while fostering critical inquiry with a focus on Judaic Studies and informed Jewish living.

• Congregational Grants are for every synagogue in the Nashville Jewish community to be used for educational and Jewish programming for its members.

• Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools is the network for Jewish day schools across North America that partners with day schools, yeshivas, philanthropists, and communities from all denominations, helping them grow and tackle the challenges on their path to success.

• Jewish College Campus Life including Vanderbilt Hillel, Chabad Vanderbilt, UTK Hillel, Hillel International, and Taglit Birthright helps pave a pathway for college students to celebrate and participate in Jewish life.

“I grew up watching my parents and grandparents help develop the Nashville Jewish community, and they showed me what it meant to be part of something larger than myself, as well as how to create pluralistic spaces. Furthermore, the community they built allowed me to explore and love my Jewish identity through Akiva School, BBYO, and the synagogues, to name a few. Now back as a young adult, I’m honored to continue their legacy in fortifying the Nashville Jewish community.”

NowGen,

Jewish Federation, is in greater Nashville. Through NowGen, Jewish Professionals have the opportunity to participate in social, educational, philanthropic, and network initiatives.

Other Supported Programs geared toward Young Jewish Professionals:

• East Side Tribe is a grassroots Jewish community with Shabbat dinners, Torah studies, holiday celebrations, and other casual events hosted in members’ homes and in local businesses throughout the vibrant neighborhood of East Nashville. East Side Tribe is a welcoming environment for anyone interested in learning about and participating in Jewish life.

Federation helps the next generation of leaders under age 40, build community and discover new and innovative ways to celebrate Jewishly. We help build community and strengthen relationships to ensure our Jewish community thrives for generations to come.

• Moishe House residents provide a vibrant Jewish community for young adults by creating meaningful homebased Jewish experiences. Located in Cleveland Park in East Nashville, they provide a welcoming space for all of Music City’s Jewish community to gather, meet, and eat. The house is passionate about making the world a better place and is eager to build partnerships within Jewish Nashville and the community at large.

• Jewsic City Shabbat creates a space for people to come together for Shabbat services in the style of Jewish summer camps. The goal is to maintain a thriving, growing group of young professionals who want to experience their own Judaism in a meaningful way through music, prayer, and community.

With overseas partners such as the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) and the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), our Nashville community has strong connections with Jewish communities across the world. Through P2G (Partnership2Gether) we build people-topeople relationships with Israeli teens and adults alike in our partnership region, Hadera-Eiron.

The Women’s Journey to Israel brought 16 diverse women to Israel for 10 days experiencing unique programs led by women, visiting museums, schools, and historical sights, and hearing from women leaders, innovators, business owners, and government officials.

Israel and overseas funding go exclusively to non-governmental organizations,

such as:

• Krembo Wings is a youth movement and a leader in social change for children and youth with and without special needs. Krembo Wings holds weekly social-educational, informal activities that are mostly led by teens. The joint activity contributes to increased awareness of special populations and social accessibility while integrating those with special needs into society.

• Maksam network of neighborhood centers is committed to improving the future of Hadera’s young children of Ethiopian origin and children of other immigrant communities by promoting their successful integration into Israeli society. Maksam delivers educational reinforcement and enrichment to elementary-aged school children, providing them with the skills and tools they need to complete elementary school with confidence and ambition.

• Ethiopian National Project Hadera Space Program works to reduce scholastic gaps and realize the full potential of Ethiopian-Israeli schoolchildren, thereby enabling their fullest integration into Israeli society while helping them emerge from the cycle of poverty.

• Hadera Young Adults Center focuses on the personal development of Hadera’s young adults ages 18-35 social and cultural development.

• Hand-in-Hand builds partnership and equality between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel through a growing network of integrated Jewish-Arab schools and communities in Israel.

• Leket Israel, the National Food Bank focuses on rescuing healthy, surplus food and delivering it to those in need.

$782,708 invested to keep our community safe.

“Federation leads efforts to improve the safety and physical security of our Jewish facilities. In 2022, we received more than $700,000 in Federal grants to fund improvements in camera systems, fences, gates, window coverings, upgraded doors, bollards, and other equipment to help better secure our community’s synagogues and schools. Additionally, an Alertus Network system has been installed community-wide to share vital information quickly and efficiently in times of emergency.

Our security committee has established a close working relationship with local, state, and federal law enforcement for assistance in threat identification and alerts as well as training on security matters.”

- STEVEN HIRSCH Chair, Security Committee

Federation spearheaded the successful effort to receive security grants.

Regular Security and Active Shooter training sessions teach agency leaders and community members what to do to help protect themselves and others.

“I am thankful for the security funding provided to Akiva through Jewish Federation. Knowing that this funding has enabled additional layers of security gives me greater peace of mind that my children are safe.”