Local
and Regional Allocations Recipients:
 Camp Impact: This is a five-day camp, sponsored by Congregation Beth Shalom Youth Group (ARFTY) for homeless, battered, and indigent children ages 5- 12 years. This program received $5,000 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
Teacher Training: Each year we help send religious, day school, and preschool teachers to the Annual CAJE Conference(Coalition for Alternatives in Jewish Education.) This program received $4,000 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
Texas/New Orleans Consortium of Hillel and Regional Hillel of North Texas (UNT, SMU, TCU, UT-D, and UT-A): Thousands of Jewish students are attending universities and colleges throughout this region. They are being provided with a vibrant Jewish life on campus. This program received $18,000 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
 Counseling and Support Groups: The Jewish Family Services offers individual and family counseling as well as support groups to the entire community. JFS also provides their services to the pre-school. Costs are based upon the client’s ability to pay. JFS received $217,045 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
Senior Adult Lunch Program: Approximately 150 hot meals are served every week (Mon.-Fri.) to an average of 35 senior adults per day. With lunch as its centerpiece, the program includes fun activities, such as games, movies, field trips, English as a second language and a weekly Kabbalat Shabbat. This program receives support from the JFS out of the $217,045 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
Financial Assistance: From time to time, members of our community may need some help to fulfill their basic needs, such as food and shelter. We help those in need to live with dignity. This program received $8,000 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
Jewish Education Agency:
Lil Goldman Early Learning Center: Approximately 100 children (infants-K), receive an early childhood foundation leading to a future of lifetime learning. The pre-school is devoted to fostering academic excellence, love of learning, the transmission of Jewish values and the affirmation of each child’s self worth.
Camp Shalom: Funding assistance for a summer day camp program which offers a safe, meaningful, and fun summer. The LGELC and Camp Shalom received $10,000 for scholarships from the 2009 Annual Campaign
 Community Wide Celebrations and Commemorations: During the course of a year, we are bringing our community together to celebrate Jewish Holidays and to remember important Jewish events. Among these are the Community Event, Chanukah, the Women’s Event, Yom HaShoah, Yom HaZikaron, Yom Ha’atzmaut, and the Kornbleet Scholar-in-Residence.
These programs received $26,597 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
Jewish Children's Regional Service: Providing need-based scholarship aid for Jewish overnight camping, Undergraduate college education, special needs, and out-of-home care, and Chanukah gifts for needy children. Serving Jewish youth from Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. This
program received $10,000 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
Other local and regional agencies that received allocations:
B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, North Texas and Oklahoma Region, $500
B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, Fort Worth Chapter, $600
Subsidy camperships (matching funds for CAS, BEC, CBS, and CBI), $5,500
Beth-El Film Festival, $350
Sylvia Gray Chaverim $2,000
Ahavath Sholom “Jewish Calendar Workshop” $750
Ahavath Sholom “Jewish Film Series” $200
Ahavath Sholom Intermediate Hebrew Program $900
Ahavath Sholom “Israeli Scouts Friendship Caravan” Program $1,200
Beth-El “92nd Street Y” Program $850
Beth-El Conversational Hebrew Program $3,000
Beth-El Stories Class $600
Beth-Israel Confirmation Trip $1,000
Beth-Israel Pajama Shabbat $575
Beth Israel Interfaith Education $800
Beth Shalom Tu B’shvat Seder $325
Chabad-Lubavitch of Fort Worth and Tarrant County $1,290
Shalom Fort Worth, Inc. $4,500
UNT Jewish Studies Program $7,000
Jewish War Veterans $1,000
Sylvia Wolen’s Jewish Daytimers $4,500
Allocation Fund for Special Requests $3,000
Fort Worth Jewish Archives $300
Multicultural Alliance $1,800
Institute of Southern Jewish Life $400
Tarrant County Women’s Seder $900
National and Overseas Allocations Recipients:
United Jewish Communities (UJC): The merger of the Council of Jewish Federations, United Israel Appeal, and United Jewish Appeal was realized to represent and serve the North American federation system. With funds allocated from community campaigns, UJC, in turn, allocates funds to the Jewish Agency (JAFI) and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to support their missions. In addition, UJC provides professional support for the federations including consulting, speakers bureau, and continuing professional and lay education. This program received $261,115 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI): Is the organization in Israel which carries out humanitarian programs to aid in the resettlement and absorption of immigrants. This program receives funding from the UJC out of the $261,115 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC): Provides basic life supporting services to Jews in communities in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. Provides transmigration for the aged, the handicapped, and underprivileged preschool children. They contribute fund to the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT). This program receives funding from the UJC out of the $261,115 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
Partnership with Israel: A program of JAFI that promotes regional development in Israel and forges relationships between thirteen American Jewish communities of the Central Area Consortium (Akron, Canton, Dallas, Dayton, Des Moines, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Louisville, Northwest Indiana, Omaha, San Antonio, Toledo, and Youngstown) and the Western Galilee Region of Israel (Akko and Mate Asher). This program received $2,297 from the 2009 Annual Campaign plus $18,000 of UJC designated funds.
Association of Jewish Family and Children’s Agencies: Represents 145 agencies that provide Jewish family and child resettlement and elderly services. This program received $450 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS): Since the mid-70’s HIAS has helped more than 300,000 Jewish refugees from the former Soviet Union escape persecution and rebuild new lives in the US. They also advocate on behalf of refugees and migrants on the international, national, and community level. This program received $250 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
Southwest Jewish Congress is the Attorney General of the Jewish community. It drafts and promotes legislation, litigates cases, and provides counsel to individuals and communities on such topics as religious freedom, discrimination, civil rights, and church-state separation. This program received $300 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith: Through research, counteraction, law, education, and public relations, it works to combat anti-Semitism and religious bigotry; to develop informed attitudes on Israel and the Middle East; to protect Jewish victims of bias; and to improve interfaith and interracial relations. This program received $1,300 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
Jewish Council for Public Affairs: The Jewish community’s national planning and coordinating body of public affairs. It provides guidance and consulting services to local Jewish Community Relations Councils. This program received $1,500 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
Jewish Education Service of North America: Serves as the UJC/Federation system’s planning, coordinating, advocacy, and service arm for Jewish education. It provides a range of services, development activities, and informational resources to enhance the impact and improve the quality of Jewish education. This program received $500 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
Birthright Israel: Provides a gift of first time, peer group, educational ten day trips to Israel for Jewish adults ages, 18-26. This program received $6,500 from the 2009 Annual Campaign.
Other national and international organizations that received
allocations:
National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL), $100
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism $400
North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry $270
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