It’s Your Legacy
4330 Cedar Lake Rd. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55416
Contact: Jenifer Robins
jrobins@mnjcf.org
It’s Your Legacy is an endowment program that benefits the Minneapolis Jewish community organizations, schools and congregations. This program is funded by the Minneapolis Jewish Federation in partnership with the Harold Grinspoon Foundation’s Life and Legacy initiative and enables donors to fulfill their philanthropic goals while strengthening the Minneapolis Jewish community, now and in the future. Legacies left by members of our community help sustain vital programs, services and institutions that assist the vulnerable and advance Jewish life locally, in Israel and around the world.
Harry Kay Center for Leadership Excellence (HKCLE)
4330 Cedar Lake Rd. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55416
Leadership development for the Jewish community
Director: Lauren Kaplan, 952-417-2340 or lkaplan@jewishtwincities.org
jewishtwincities.org
For more than 30 years, the Harry Kay Center for Leadership Excellence (HKCLE) has inspired and assisted emerging leaders in addressing the issues and challenges facing Jews as a community and individually. Harry Kay Leadership Institute (HKLI) brings together 30 passionate lay leaders (aged 30-45) from both sides of the river and introduces these leaders to the struggles and opportunities in the Jewish community and gives them the skills and tools to navigate them. HKLI runs for 18 months and includes an overseas mission to Israel.
Harry Kay Alumni Network (HKAN)
4330 Cedar Lake Rd. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55416
With nearly 350 Harry Kay Leadership Institute alumni in the community, we are creating opportunities for alumni to reengage with each other through leadership summits, salons, reunions and other programs.
Minneapolis Jewish Federation
4330 Cedar Lake Rd. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55416
952-593-2600
info@jewishminneapolis.org
jewishminneapolis.org
CEO: James Cohen
For over 90 years, the Minneapolis Jewish Federation has worked with people and partners across the globe to build a vibrant, inclusive and supportive Jewish community. MJF envisions a Jewish community that is empowered, engaged and inspired to realize its full potential. MJF promotes a culture of Jewish philanthropy, leverages financial and professional resources to meet local and global Jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future at home, in Israel and around the world.
Minneapolis Jewish Federation — Kulam
4330 Cedar Lake Rd. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55416
Judie L. Rothschild, Director of Inclusion & Engagement
952-417-2356
jrothschild@jewishminneapolis.org
We’re all in! MJF strives to cultivate a sense of belonging, connection and accessibility for the local community. … It’s your community, you belong.
Minnesota JCC
Chief Executive Officer: Michael Waldman
Board President: Roz Segal
minnesotajcc.org
• Sabes Center Minneapolis
Barry Family Campus
4330 S. Cedar Lake Road
St. Louis Park, MN 55416
952-381-3407
info@sabesjcc.org
Membership Sales: 952-381-3379, info@sabesjcc.org
Fitness Center Desk: 952-381-3404
Early Childhood: 952-381-3455
• Capp Center St. Paul
1375 St. Paul Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55116
651-698-0751
info@stpauljcc.org
Membership Sales: 651-255-4764, membership@stpauljcc.org
Fitness Center Desk: 651-255-4774
Early Childhood: 651-255-4760
The Minnesota JCC offers exciting and innovative educational, social, cultural, recreational, fitness and communal programs to thousands of members and participants each year at our two locations — the Capp Center in St. Paul and the Sabes Center in Minneapolis/St. Louis Park. We proudly celebrate Jewish holidays and heritage, while also embracing our entire community, providing events, programs and classes for everyone to enjoy. Our programming includes early childhood education, summer day camps, school-aged childcare, arts, culture and enrichment, senior supportive services, inclusion programming for adults with special needs, arts exhibits and workshops, and performing arts including the Twin Cities Film Festival and Humor Fest.
Minnesota Jewish Community Foundation (MN JCF)
4330 Cedar Lake Rd. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55416
952-417-2316
info@mnjcf.org
MN JCF Executive Director/Senior Director of MJF Charitable Gift Planning: Alene G. Sussman
mnjcf.org
The Minnesota Jewish Community Foundation (MN JCF) is the largest planned giving and endowment organization of the Minnesota Jewish community. MN JCF has approximately $165 million total assets under management in approximately 1,078 funds. With years of Jewish philanthropic experience under our belts, MN JCF provides individuals and families with unique expertise, advice and support, valuable tools and the professional know-how to make their philanthropic giving easier, personalized, thoughtful and tax beneficial. MN JCF offers a variety of planned giving vehicles, such as donor-advised funds. In 2023, we helped our individual and family fund holders send out over $9.5 million in grants to their favorite nonprofits locally and globally. We also hold and grow endowment funds for 17 Jewish organizations, helping them have a sustained and perpetual stream of income in a cost-effective and collaborative way. We serve professional advisers by helping them learn how to have or elevate their philanthropic conversations with clients. When advisers include philanthropy in their client conversations, they are serving their clients comprehensively, creating deeper relationships with them.
St. Paul Jewish Federation
790 S. Cleveland Ave., Suite 227
St. Paul, MN 55116
651-690-1707
jewishstpaul.org
President: Tom Frishberg
CDO: David Kaplan
The St. Paul Jewish Federation sustains the St. Paul area Jewish community and strengthens bonds with Jewish communities in Israel and around the world. The Federation fulfills this mission through an annual fundraising campaign, endowments, planning and partnership with social services agencies, educational institutions and synagogues. Committed volunteers work with professional staff to coordinate the fundraising, planning and budgeting for local partner agencies and overseas partners, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Jewish Agency for Israel, and World ORT.
St. Paul Jewish Federation — Life & Legacy
790 S. Cleveland Ave., Suite 227
St. Paul, MN 55116
Contact: Juliana Sellers, jsellers@stpaulfed.org, 612-810-1820
jewishstpaul.org/legacy
Life & Legacy is a program designed to build endowments for the Jewish community in St. Paul. It is in partnership with the Life & Legacy initiative of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, and it benefits Jewish community organizations, schools and congregations. This program allows donors to fulfill their philanthropic goals while providing financial stability for our Jewish community organizations, both now and in the future. Endowments and legacies left by members of our community will help sustain vital programs, services and institutions that promote Jewish life locally, in Israel and around the world. The St. Paul community started this program to honor and recognize Don and Rhoda Mains, who have been the pillars of our community for many years.
Twin Cities Young Adult Leadership Action (YALA)
Minneapolis Contact: Ivan Gil, igil@jewishminneapolis.org
St. Paul Contact: Tal Dror, tdror@stpaulfed.org
Facebook: facebook.com/yalatwincities/
Instagram: yalatwincities
Young Adult Leadership Action (YALA) is a community hub that supports the growth of young Jewish adults and organizations in the Twin Cities in the areas of leadership, volunteerism, philanthropy and community connection. YALA stewards individuals’ growth, supports community organizations in making their growth possible and believes in fostering long-term relationships to involve Jewish young adults as volunteers, leaders and visionaries today and for years to come.
Women’s Philanthropy of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation
4330 Cedar Lake Rd. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55416
jewishminneapolis.org
Contact: Jen Bucklew, 952-417-2327, jbucklew@jewishminneapolis.org
Inspired and guided by our tradition of tzedakah and tikkun olam, Women’s Philanthropy of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation is dedicated to building and sustaining Jewish communities — in Minneapolis, Israel and more than 70 countries across the globe. The passion and dedication of women not only strengthen our vibrant community, but they also send a powerful message to our daughters and granddaughters.
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