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YoPhI Teen Board Rounds the Corner into a New Year of Grantmaking

With Rosh Hashana and the High Holidays comes a season of round challahs and lots of opportunities to renew, refresh, and start a new page. As the Jewish community turns a corner into a new year, the YoPhI Teen Board turns from year two to year three of the initiative with lots of new beginn…

PJ Library Helps JFGI Connect Jewish Families and Celebrate Jewish Life

Grants will strengthen social connections and increase opportunities for Jewish experiences and learning across the United States and Canada

Indianapolis area families raising Jewish children will now have more opportunities to participate in Jewish life, thanks to a grant recently awarded …

National Jewish Endowment Building Initiative Tops $1 Billion

Local Jewish organizations secure $32 million in legacy commitments

from 400 donors to date through LIFE & LEGACY® initiative.

INDIANAPOLIS — Around 400 local donors have made more than 700 legacy commitments to support the Greater Indianapolis Jewish community. These commitments are p…

JCRC Principles on Racial Justice & Equality

“I CAN’T BREATHE.” These words, the final gasp of a Black man dying at the hands of a police officer in the United States of America, reverberate in our consciousness. Today we say the name of George Floyd as we condemn the killing and call for justice. But his name is far from the fir…

JFGI Awarded $10K from Glick Philanthropies to Support Residents Amid COVID

INDIANAPOLIS, June 2020 – The Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis (JFGI) received a $10,000 grant from the Glick Community Relief Fund, a grant program of Glick Philanthropies to help local nonprofit organizations continue to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. JFGI supports residen…