The Jewish Community Foundation’s Community Legacy Fund has awarded $77,640 in programming and emergency grants.
The grants will support new programs that aim to provide an innovative approach to an existing or emerging community need, or respond to financial or humanitarian emergencies.
The Community Legacy Fund consists of permanent endowments from which grants are awarded to community agencies whose applications are reviewed and evaluated by the Foundation’s Grants Committee and Board of Trustees.
Community Legacy Fund grants were awarded for the following programs:
- Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy: Security Upgrades
- Jewish Community Campus: Campus Emergency Manual
- Jewish Family Services: Kesher KC Mobile Food Pantry
- Jewish Federation: Ukraine Relief
- Jewish Student Union: Kansas Relief Mission Trips
- Jewish Vocational Service (JVS): Emergency Assistance for Clients
- KU Hillel Antisemitism Initiative
- Mitzvah Garden KC: Farm Coordinator
- Sasone: Religious School Peer Mentorship Training
Linda Lyon, chairperson of the Grants Committee, says she is particularly appreciative of the opportunity to fund the Sasone program to provide mentorship training. The training will be provided to teen mentors, or Madrichim, who work at all the religious schools.
Funding will underwrite training for these teen Madrichim so that they can better work with students with special needs already participating in each program and help everyone better appreciate what these peers bring to the classroom. The student mentors will cultivate strategies to better help all students, not just those with different learning styles.
In addition to innovation and emergency grants, the Community Legacy Fund also provides annual core grants which support operations central to the accomplishment of an organization’s mission or for funding unique services not otherwise available within the Jewish community that are essential to Jewish life.
For more information about the Community Legacy Fund, please contact Beatrice Fine at or 913-327-4618.