Montreal – January 16, 2023 – Federation CJA launched the second cycle of a new grant funding called Working Together: Community Impact. The grant is an investment encouraging sixteen organizations to launch short-term collaborative initiatives lasting up to 12 months that can effectively strengthen partnerships, identify new solutions, maximize resources, and reinforce strategic learning in how organizations are working to address community issues in areas that align with Federation CJA’s three impact priority areas:
“Montreal’s Jewish community and the population in the surrounding areas will benefit from new and innovative projects being implemented during the next 12 months. These initiatives are in response to a request for proposals from Federation CJA's Working Together: Community Impact grant,” says Yair Szlak, President and CEO of Federation CJA. “This is a new model of funding for our organization and impact partners that will help us increase the effect we have upon our community and all the beneficiaries of our partners’ services,” Szlak adds.
Pamela Teitelbaum, Chief Strategy & Impact Officer, explains why Federation CJA is launching this grant program. “We created the Working Together program to strengthen our impact across the community and beyond,” Teitelbaum says. “We seek to support longstanding and new or emerging impact partners, strengthen evidence-informed practices and processes, identify and build stronger partnerships through alignment of community programs and services with Federation’s Impact Priority areas, and build our capacity and that of our impact partners that we hope will lead to greater impact, and enable us to collect meaningful data through monitoring, evaluation and learning” Teitelbaum says. “By changing our funding approach, we are aiming to shift the community mindset to see each partner and service provider as part of an ecosystem working together for the greater good. My goal is to improve relationships with others.”
“Our goal is to build the vision for the long term by working with partners across the community spectrum,” Szlak says. “We are injecting nearly $700,000 into the community through this initiative in the next 12 months, touching all areas from cultural initiatives, food security, populations in need, and diverse populations and addressing issues of growing antisemitism.” Szlak adds, “This is a shift in how we do things.”
The seven collaborative initiatives actively being launched and funded through this new cycle are being led by Atelier Jem Workshop, Auberge Shalom, Chabad Lifeline, Mile-End Chavurah, The Segal Centre, Yaldei, and the Museum of Jewish Montreal. Nine other collaborating partner organizations are also involved with these seven initiatives.
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For over one hundred years, Federation CJA has been at the heart of the organized Jewish community in Montreal. In partnership with a vast network of agencies and organizations locally, nationally, and internationally, Federation CJA builds and sustains this community by providing leadership and by supporting the delivery of services and programs to care for the vulnerable and those in need, to ensure a bright Jewish future, to represent communal interests, and to positively affect issues in the wider society.
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