Comments from your CEO

Jeffrey Feld Federation President/ CEO

Hurricane Ian relief update: Hurricane Ian was devastating. Even though it was three months ago, some members of our community are still recovering, and some may be recovering for a long time to come. Because of your generosity, Jewish Federation of Greater Naples has been able to provide help and assistance with items such as temporary housing, food, clothing and other necessities to those in the community. We have worked with several of our Jewish congregations, organizations and agencies, providing them with financial resources so that they may continue their “hands-on” help to even more people as they are identified.

To date, we received approximately $200,000 from local contributions, including $60,000 from The Jewish Federations of North America and $7,300 from the Greater Tampa Federation.

We continue to receive funds to allow our Federation to provide help to members of our Jewish community and to people of the entire community who are in need.

Thank you for your contributions to our Hurricane Ian Emergency Disaster Relief Fund and for being such a caring community! 100% of the monies received for that fund will be used specifi cally and exclusively for that purpose.

As calendar year 2022 comes to a close, we look to a new year in 2023, for a lot of things. First of all, the reality of the Nina Iser Jewish Cultural Center is upon us. We will have a new year, we will have a new home and we look forward to having everyone enjoy our new home.

Please accept my best wishes for each of you and all those dear to you for a happy and secure new year 2023.