Annual Community Campaign
AS ONE, WE CAN CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY
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Help us do 25% more for the Jewish community.
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Annual Community Campaign (Including Women's Campaign & Security)
The Annual Community Campaign ensures Federation and our partner organizations can provide the programs and services needed to build a flourishing Jewish community. It meets vital communal needs including: security, addressing antisemitism, supporting Israel and other global communities in crisis, community relations, and planning for the future.
Our 2026 goal is to increase support for the community by 25% with an audacious $2 million goal. We can do it together, as one. And we need your help.
Why $2 million?
$1.7 million: Demonstrated needs of our communal organizations – JFS, JCC, Hand in Hand Schools in Israel, and many more. $100,000 more than we could fund last year!
$25,000: Keep vibrant ShinShinim in Ann Arbor after a wildly successful first year.
$275,000: Offset a fraction of our community’s security expenses, like guards at synagogues. Security is an unfortunate necessity.
Your gift through May 2026 ensures this important work will continue. Donate through the form above or click here.
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 through the 2026 Annual Community Campaign.
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), camp scholarships, NEXTGen A2, Women’s programming, Israel-related programming, and community planning.
Click here to make a Federation-specific gift.
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.