Ways to Give

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    1. Make a new gift or pledge for the 2025 Annual Community Campaign
      (Sept 1, 2024-May 31, 2025)
    2. Make a new gift or pledge to the LiveSecure Campaign
    3. Pay off an existing pledge

The Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor is our community’s center for philanthropy, engagement and community-building – an energetic network of organizations, programs, and services that maintain and sustain our Jewish community.

By making a gift to the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor, you enable us to take care of the most vulnerable members of the community and transform the lives of people in Ann Arbor, Israel, and in more than 70 countries around the world. Your gift makes an impact for people at all stages of life. You give the gift of a Jewish summer camp experience to young children and provide young adults away from home for the first time a warm Shabbat experience. You ensure our elderly, including Holocaust survivors, are cared for and enable our partners are able to act quickly in times of conflict and natural disaster. You uplift our entire Jewish community and support its strong and vibrant future.

Check out the 2024 Annual Impact Report here.

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Classic Donations

Annual Community Campaign & Women's Campaign

We need a strong local Jewish community in order to effectively respond to global needs. And to do that, we need to ensure we respond to local Jewish needs.

The Annual Community Campaign ensures our local partners can provide the programs and services needed to build and sustain an engaged and connected Jewish community.

The Annual Community Campaign ensures Federation is able to lead the community in addressing vital communal needs including: security, addressing antisemitism, supporting Israel and other global communities in crisis, community relations – representing Jewish communal issues and concerns in the broader community, and planning for the future.

Please consider making your gift or pledge by December 31.

LiveSecure Campaign

The LiveSecure Campaign supports community-wide security efforts. With the rise in antisemitism, everyone deserves to feel safe in Jewish spaces. That’s where LiveSecure comes in.

Through the LiveSecure fund, Federation hired the Ann Arbor area’s first Community Security Manager in spring of 2023. The Security Manager promotes best practices and collaboration among local Jewish organizations and works with law enforcement to respond to local antisemitic incidents.

Begun in spring 2023, LiveSecure is a 3-year 1:1 matching grant in partnership with Jewish Federations of North America. Every dollar over and above a gift to the Annual Community Campaign gets matched through spring 2026. After the match ends, it is our community’s responsibility to continue supporting this fund in perpetuity.

To ensure our Jewish spaces stay safe, please consider a gift to LiveSecure by clicking the button at the top of the page.

For more information or to discuss a security endowment, please contact Rachel Wall at rachel@jewishannarbor.org.

Federation-Specific Giving

If you’d like 100% of your gift to support the work of Federation, instead of being allocated to our partner organizations through the Annual Community Campaign, consider a Federation-specific gift.

Gifts specifically to Federation support programs like JCRC (Jewish Community Relations Committee), NEXTGen A2, Women’s programming, Israel-related programming, and community planning.

Corporate Giving

Corporate Giving

Through corporate sponsorship, our sponsors receive exposure to a valued base of Jewish philanthropists, businesses, and community leaders while also illustrating their organizations’ commitment to strengthening the greater Ann Arbor community. We offer several levels of sponsorship with various benefits and can also customize a sponsorship package to meet your organization’s philanthropic goals.

Learn more here.

Alternatives to checks & credit cards

Gifts of Stock

A gift of appreciated assets can offer tax benefits to you, while you support the community.

To make a gift of stock click here.

Employer Matching

Does your employer have a charitable match program? It might!

Asking your employer to match your contribution is an easy way to do even more good for the community – at no cost to you!

Let us know an employer match is on the way by contacting Robert Deschaine at robert@jewishannarbor.org.

Planned Giving

Life & Legacy

The greater Ann Arbor Jewish community is proud to participate as a Life & Legacy partner of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation. This forward-thinking program engages local Jewish organizations and congregations in a collective and collaborative endeavor to ensure the strength of our community now and for the future.

Many of you are loyal, long-time supporters of Jewish charitable organizations in Washtenaw County. Have you established a legacy with those organizations by including them in your estate plan? Life & Legacy allows you to realize your philanthropic dreams by creating permanent legacy gifts to support the Jewish organizations and congregations about which you care, for years to come.

All of us, regardless of age, wealth, or affiliation, have the ability to help sustain a vibrant Jewish community now and in the future.

Life & Legacy is not just for the wealthy – it is the means by which ordinary people can make an extraordinary impact.

Learn more about life & Legacy here.

Jewish Community Foundation

The Jewish Community Foundation is the planned giving arm of the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor, enabling donors like you to create Donor Advised Funds, bequests, and permanent endowment funds that address community needs in perpetuity.

You can also contribute to community-wide funds like the Irene Butter Fund for Holocaust & Human Rights Education.

Learn more about the Jewish Community Foundation here.