The Foundation is celebrating another record-breaking year of grantmaking: 

  • 4,900 distributions
  • $67 million awarded and facilitated

Since 1967, the Foundation has endeavored to ensure a vibrant and secure Jewish community in San Diego, Israel and around the world.

San Diego community leader and philanthropist Emily Einhorn assumed the position of Foundation Chair on July 1st succeeding Murray Galinson who served for two years with distinction. Emily has been active at the Foundation for more than 15 years and is a lifelong community volunteer and philanthropist. 

 

The generosity of the Foundation's donors fuels our grantmaking as individual interests and experiences meet community needs. This partnership supports critical areas such as the arts, health and human services and education.

 

A bequest to the Foundation for the benefit of children with physical and developmental disabilities established the Lawrence Family JCC’s Inclusion Program in 1994. Almost two decades later, the program has created opportunities for hundreds of challenged young people to learn and play alongside their typically developing peers.

 

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I had been giving a gift and volunteering at the Federation for several years before a UJC mission to the Former Soviet Union really opened my eyes to how crucial our gifts are to the survival of the Jewish people.

 

This experience solidified and justified my commitment of both time and money to the United Jewish Federation. Now I endow my gift to ensure that the support I give today will last in perpetuity.

 

Read more from the Book of Life.

 

The Foundation's ELI program was featured in an article in the national magazine Contact. Authored by Foundation CEO Marjory Kaplan and Director of Endowments Gail Littman, the article focused on San Diego’s recently established partnership with the National Areivim Philanthropic Group to share the ELI model around the United States. Read more about Arievim.

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