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 $7,000
from the 2007 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 2007 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 $23,650 from the 2007 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
$202,971 from the 2007 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 $202,971 from
the 2007 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 $16,000 from the 2007 Annual Campaign.
Jewish Education Agency:
Lil Goldman Early Learning Center: Approximately 75 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. These programs
received $25,000 from the 2007 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 $33,520 from the 2007 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 2007 Annual Campaign.
Other local and regional agencies that received allocations:
B'nai B'rith Youth Organization, North Texas and Oklahoma Region,
$600
B'nai B'rith Youth Organization, Fort Worth Chapter, $500
Subsidy camperships (matching funds for CAS, BEC, and CBS),
$6,200
Partnerships in Education, Inc., $1,200 (Star-Telegram Holocaust
supplement)
TCJU "JCC Without Walls" (1 mailing Fall), $420
Beth-El Film Festival, $500
Sylvia Gray Chaverim $2,000
Ahavath Sholom Adult Ed. Classes $1,170
Ahavath Sholom Parenting Program $3,300
Ahavath Sholom "Chronicles: A Jewish Life at The Classical Piano"
Program $2,000
Ahavath Sholom "What It Means To Be Jewish" Program $2,000
Beth-El "92nd Street Y" Program $1,000
Beth-El Conversational Hebrew Program $5,563
Beth-Israel Tot Shabbat Prayer Experience $200
Beth-Israel Scholar in Residence $1,650
Beth Israel 8th Grade Curriculum $500
Beth Israel Days of Awe Program $1,440
Beth Israel Shabbat and Bedtime Education Program $700
Beth Shalom Children's Shabbat Service $875
Beth Shalom Havdallah Spirituality Program $2,650
Beth Shalom Music Enrichment Program $1,375
Beth Shalom "Hebrew for The Synagogue" $1,800
Chabad-Lubavitch of Fort Worth and Tarrant County $2,000
Grow Fort Worth $6,500
UNT Jewish Studies Program $7,500
Jewish War Veterans $1,000
Sylvia Wolen's Jewish Daytimers $4,500
Allocation Fund for Special Requests $6,000
Fort Worth Jewish Archives $515
Kids Who Care (sponsor Israeli children) $1,900
Multicultural Alliance $2,000
Institute of Southern Jewish Life $400
Tarrant County Women's Seder $1,000
National and Overseas Allocations Recipients:
United Jewish Communities (UJC): 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 (JDC0 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 $312,535 from the 2007
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 $312,535 from the 2007 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 $312,535 from the 2007 Annual Campaign.
Partnership 2000: 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 $1,552 from the 2007 Annual Campaign.
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
2007 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 $500
from the 2007 Annual Campaign.
American 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 $500 from
the 2007 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 $1,500 from the 2007 Annual Campaign.
B'nai B'rith National Youth Services: Is a youth led, world
wide organization that provides opportunities for Jewish youth
to develop their leadership potential and a positive Jewish
identity. This program received $600 from the 2007 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 $1,650 from the 2007 Annual
Campaign.
Hillel: National Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: The largest
Jewish campus organization with campuses in the US, Canada,
Israel, Australia, Europe, South America, and the former Soviet
Union. Its commitment is to build a pluralistic community that
encourages intellectual challenge and growth. This program
received $1,000 from the 2007 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 $1,600 from the 2007 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 $8,664 from the 2007 Annual
Campaign.
Other national and international organizations that received
allocations:
Coalition for Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE), $800
National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL), $250
Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation, $2,250
American Jewish Committee $400
Jewish Labor Committee $200
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism $500
Israel Special Kids Fund $450
Tikva Children's Home $1,750
North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry $300
World Union for Progressive Judaism $400
Women's International Zionist Organization $400
National Conference on Soviet Jewry $200
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