Each year, community leaders work together to determine where funds raised from the previous year's campaign should be allocated. Efforts are made to ensure that dollars are strategically distributed to meet community needs. Everyone benefits.

Locally, the Federation assists many "partner" agencies and institutions with programs to help people in need and to further educational, social and cultural Jewish life. Overseas, annual campaign funds fuel initiatives in Israel and in worldwide Jewish communities.

Beneficiary Agencies and Programs at Home:

Jewish Community Center of Allentown
Jewish Day School of the Lehigh Valley
Jewish Family Service of the Lehigh Valley
Project Yachad
Jewish Continuity Grants (camp scholarships, teen experience scholarships, teacher training/conference scholarships, community sederim project, Jewish family life education synagogue grants)
Institute for Jewish-Christian Understanding
Hillel Societies at Lafayette College, Lehigh University, Muhlenberg College and Moravian College
Bethlehem and Easton community grants
Lehigh Valley Kashrut Commission

Beneficiary Agencies and Programs Overseas:

Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI)
Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
Organization for Rehabilitation and Training (ORT)
Partnership programs in Israel including Yoav and Maalot
Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA)


Federation helps to fulfill a sacred Jewish promise which has shaped our culture for generations: the promise to build and care for our community here and around the world. The JFLV strives to meet the community's needs today, while planning for the future.

Your participation in Federation and all of its activities will assure that future.

Doing a world of good. Making a world of difference.

$18 provides healthy, fresh vegetables for the JCC's Early Childhood Education Program one day a week

$50 provides one scholarship for the Jewish Day School's Girls on the Run program

$180 provides 10 food packages to elderly Jews in the FSU

$365 delivers a six-month supply of diapers for a low-income mother through Jewish Family Service

$500 brings Jewish educational materials to a kindergarten in Poland

$750 provides six months of vitamins and medicines for a Jewish newborn in Argentina

$1,000 sends a talented young athlete to the national JCC Maccabi Games

$1,700 installs one air conditioning unit in an Israeli public bomb shelter


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