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Foundation of Shalom Park Announces Security Enhancements
September 2024
By Jessica Goldfarb, JFGC Communications Specialist
The Foundation of Shalom Park (FSP) is excited to announce a major capital project that will significantly enhance the security of our entire campus: the Shalom Park security lobby. This project represents the latest effort in the ongoing commitment to implementing robust security measures for the Shalom Park campus and the community it serves.
The newly expanded lobby will encompass both the outside area and the interior foyer of the existing main building entrance, providing controlled access to Shalom Park facilities and advanced security measures such as a guest registration system, package control, and metal detection. The project will also refresh the social lobby within the main building as well as entrances to the Levine Jewish Community Center (Levine JCC), Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte (JFGC), and Shalom Park event spaces. The new entrance will not only offer enhanced security measures, but also improve functionality, welcoming visitors with a sense of safety and community.
The Leon Levine Foundation proudly supports the Charlotte Jewish community’s thoughtful approach to further strengthening security efforts with a generous $550,000 grant, $350,000 of which has been dedicated to the security lobby. $100,000 of this donation will support JFGC’s LiveSecure initiative, a comprehensive security program ensuring that our greater Charlotte Jewish community has a best-practice security plan customized to meet our community’s unique security needs.
Another $100,000 has been committed to Federation’s Outshine Hate initiative to identify, confront, and counter antisemitism and anti-Israel bias through educational programming, training, and professional development, as well as legislative advocacy at the state and national levels.
This grant from the Leon Levine Foundation will further drive the vital work of FSP and JFGC, to enable our community to confidently engage in Jewish life and endorse funds already raised in support of the $900,000 security lobby project.
Thanks to The Leon Levine Foundation’s generous support of this essential project, FSP is well on its way to meeting its fundraising goal and will continue its efforts to secure the remaining funds necessary to meet the project’s November 2024 construction timeline.
If you wish to invest in this vital effort, you can donate online at www.shalomcharlotte. org or contact Terri Beattie, executive director of the Foundation of Shalom Park at tbeattie@ shalomcharlotte.org or (704) 944-6840. Gifts of $5,000 or more will be acknowledged on a special recognition wall in the new space.
