2021 Annual Community Campaign Kickoff, Dec. 1!

by Karen Deutsch, Campaign Chair

We are getting close and I am very excited to remind everyone to join us for our first major seasonal event of the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples, the 2021 Annual Community Campaign Kickoff event, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, at 7 p.m.!

You will be able to enjoy this fun, entertaining and informative community event live from the comfort of your home via Zoom. If you have not yet registered, your evite is in your email inbox, waiting for you to click on the button that will redirect you to the registration link. If, for some reason, you have not received your evite, you can register through the evite on the weekly e-blast, or directly on our website, www.jewishnaples.org.

Musical entertainment by Rick Recht

Tomorrow begins today

You do not want to miss our event guest speaker, Mike Leven, legendary business executive, visionary philanthropist and co-founder of Jewish Future Pledge, highlight the importance of our 2021 Annual Community Campaign, and how your generous donation will transform so many lives, supporting individuals, programs, organizations and advocacy efforts.

Beneficiaries and Leaders will share impactful stories demonstrating the challenging times we still face and the continued growing needs within our community, throughout the world and in Israel for food, shelter, clothing, counseling services, medical attention and socialization programming. We hope you will be inspired and uplifted by the wonderful music of Rich Recht, national celebrity spokesman of PJ Library, and his songs of hope, love and community.

Guest speaker Mike Leven, co-founder Jewish Future Pledge

Tomorrow begins today

Even as we continue to be tested mentally, emotionally, financially, and socially (distanced), our Jewish story is still about a shared future, a brighter future and a commitment to making the world a better place through perseverance and continuity, keeping our community safe, healthy and supportive.

Your gift to the 2021 Annual Community Campaign provides religious school scholarships to our youth as well as allocations to our Jewish teens that ensure the future of Jewish education and identity, building a thriving community youth organization through BBYO. Your gift supports the Senior Center at JFCS with outreach, mental health counseling and Holocaust survivor aid for housing, trips to physicians, counseling and daily health supplements.

Your gift ensures that the Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center will continue teaching lessons of the Holocaust to all eighth-grade students in Florida and inspire action against bigotry, hatred and violence.

Your gifts continues to provide favorite and new programming to the community: The Jewish Book Festival, Mix and Mingle, JCRC, Israel Advocacy, Jewish Families with Children, PJ Library for Children, WCA and MCA cultural and entertaining programming and more! Tomorrow begins today Your gift impacts not only our local community, but nationally, overseas and in Israel, advocating key issues and providing humanitarian assistance through organizations, such as the Jewish Agency for Israel, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and World ORT, to name a few.

Your generous gift supports Leket Israel, which provides hot meals for Holocaust survivors and vulnerable seniors; Hatikvah preschool in Ukraine, that enables Jewish life to continue and thrive in Kiev; Neve Michael, a children’s home in Pardes Hanna, Israel, serving youth from 4-18 years old who have experienced trauma and abuse; Susan’s House, which employs youth between ages 15 and 19, providing many the only warm, encouraging environment they have known; Yad Lakashish in Jerusalem, providing meals and transportation for the elderly to a creative workplace; Yashar LaChayal, providing assistance to the Needy Soldier Fund; the Ethiopian National Educational Project; and so many more worthy programs!

Tomorrow begins today

We are continuing our Matching Challenge Grant for your gift, new or increased, to the 2021 Annual Community Campaign. Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) has launched a Human Services Relief Matching Fund, which was made possible, in partnership with seven national foundations, an $18-million match to the Federation system on a 1:2 basis. JFNA will match $.50 for every new and/or increased dollar commitment to our current Campaign.

Please help us raise $50,000 of new and/or increased gifts now, so that we will receive $25,000 from JFNA to help the needy. This challenge is only good through this calendar year! Please donate today for a better tomorrow!

Todah Rabah, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!