Programmatic Grant Application 2025-26

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The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven is pleased to announce the recipients
of the 2025 Impact Grants.

Established in 2023, the goal of the Impact Grants is to build sustainable collaborative programs to educate, engage, and provide long-term impact and positive change in our Jewish community.

The 2025 Community Impact Grants include: 

Community Meal Delivery: Harnessing Volunteers for Community Connection
The Towers has initiated a Kosher Shabbat Meal delivery program.  Those who are identified by Jewish Family Services, local synagogues, and the Jewish Community Center as more isolated, at-risk, or in need of community connection were recipients of this program.  The goal of is to provide vulnerable older adults to be more socially connected, more Jewishly connected and educated about resources they made need through referral by providing a consistent volunteer visitor with a Kosher Meal. This initiative provided an opportunity for social connection and broader referrals to those in need.

CTeen U
CTeen U is a joint initiative between the International Chabad Teen Network and Yeshiva University to provide a pluarlaistic teen educational program for teens grades 10-12. The program provides an enriching environment to enable young adults to connect with their Jewish heritage and peers. This program provides the learning to strengthen Jewish identity while preparing our Jewish teens for college where they may be forced to defend Israel and fight misinformation and anti-Semitism. The program offers a variety of courses that allow students to earn college credits while still in high school.

Meeting the Moment
Three local synagogues; with Congregations Mishkan Israel, Temple Beth Sholom, and Congregation B’nai Jacob with the Jewish Historical Society, are expanding a collaborative Adult Educational Program Adult exploring the history of synagogues, intermarriage, antisemitism, and Zionism to understand the changes in Jewish life. 

Gospel Shabbat: Faith in the Future
Through three different programs, Gospel Shabbat: Faith in the Future, will bring people of different races and religions together to bridge differences and better understand one another.

1. GOSPEL SHABBAT SERVICE to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King

2. A RABBI, A REVEREND, AN IMAM AND A PSYCHOANALYST DISCUSS THE ROLES OF NARRATIVES IN OUR WORK.
   A series of five zoom lectures exploring the traditions of the three Abrahamic religions

3. CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY, A NEW HAVEN DAUGHTER
   A representation focusing on an African-American New Havener who was a major figure in the Civil Rights Movement.

Leadership

Allocations and Programmatic Grants Committee
Betsy Schulman, Co-Chair
Abi Vail, Co-Chair
David Hass, Federation Chair
Julie Krop
Anna Merin
Dena Schulman Green
Norman Ravski
Laura Roselinsky
Harry Schwartz