Your legacy. Their future. Our community.
Strong Jewish institutions require both immediate support and long-term sustainability. While JEF’s General Fund helps address immediate needs and crises by serving as our community’s “rainy day” fund, endowments create something equally important: predictable annual income that grows over time.
Your contribution to a designated endowment fund becomes principal that is never spent. Instead, annual distributions (typically 4% of the fund balance) provide ongoing support while the endowment continues growing through investment returns.
Imagine what all our Jewish agencies and institutions could accomplish with guaranteed funding streams.
Through your continued contributions, the amount of the annual distributions will grow over time, ensuring that Jewish life thrives for future generations.
Ready to secure our community’s future? Donate to any of the endowment funds held at JEF today or through your estate planning.
Endowment Funds:
- Avodah New Orleans Endowment
- Hadassah New Orleans Endowment
- Howard and Susan Green JCDS Permanent Charitable Fund
- Hugo Kahn Designated Fund for benefit of JFGNO
- Hugo Kahn Designated Fund for the Benefit of the New Orleans Jewish Community Day School
- Hugo Kahn Designated Fund for benefit of Shir Chadash
- JCC Endowment
- Jewish Community Day School Endowment
- Jewish Children’s Regional Services Endowment
- JFGNO Endowment
- Jewish Family Service Endowment
- Janice Weinstein Kahn Endowment IMO Boruch, Chasey, Israel, Henry, Bessie & Isadore Weinstein for benefit of Anshe Sfard
- Limmud North America Endowment Designated Fund for benefit of Limmud New Orleans
- Moishe House Endowment for benefit of Moishe House New Orleans
- Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience Endowment
- NCJW Greater New Orleans Endowment
- New Orleans Jewish Day School Scholarship Designated
- Tulane Hillel Endowment
Donate to an endowment fund today: Use our donation form, select “A donor fund” and enter the name of the endowment fund.
Contact Bobby Garon (bobby@jefno.org) or Debbie Berins (debbie@jefno.org) at 504-524-4559 to:
- Establish an endowment fund for an organization you are passionate about.
- Discuss leaving a legacy through your estate planning.
- Establish a Lion of Judah Endowment or Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment Fund to support the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans’ Annual Campaign in perpetuity.