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Stepping Forward

On May 22, Federation's Board of

Governors approved the 2012-2013
allocations derived from a Campaign
dubbed "Step Forward!'
The intent is to engage as many
people as possible to step forward with
Federation to rejuvenate the Jewish
community and ensure its security for
the next 100 years, just as Federation
has responded to Jewish communal
needs as well as select global Jewish
needs for the past 100 years.
PASC allocation recommendations
comply with allocation principles set by
the boards of Federation and its bank-
ing and investment
arm, the United
Jewish Foundation:
• Expenditures
may not exceed
revenue.
• A baseline amount of unrestricted
reserves must be maintained.
• Donor, legal and contractual com-
mitments must be fulfilled.
• General fund reserves must not
be used to support allocations or
Federation operations.
"The entire alloca-
tions process is driv-
en by the sober truth
that, despite the
amazing generosity
of our community,
the needs of the
agencies always
Larry Nemer
exceed the amount of
funds available for
distribution," said PASC chairman
Larry Nemer. "The allocations process
therefore requires the PASC to make
important and difficult decisions as to
how to spend the funds that have been
made available to us!'
There are no simple rules that dictate
what to do when the need to support
one priority requires taking money
from another priority. "This is the most
challenging part of the process," Nemer
said.
"Even if there is enough money to
give everyone the same amount as last
year, we may be compelled to make a
different allocation because of changes
that have occurred in the community
or because other sources of funding
have evaporated."

• Helped Jewish Senior Life and JFS
provide 85,000 hours of in-home sup-
port services to 775 older adults so they
could stay in their own homes.
• Extended scholarship support so
1,550 students in need of financial
assistance could study at a Jewish day
school.
• Gave congregational schools
$500,000 in scholarship support.
• Helped JFS and Tamarack Camps
provide $1.672 million in Jewish camp
scholarships.
• Assisted Hebrew Free Loan in
writing loans for living expenses, trans-
portation and vocational training. The
agency has a total
loan receivable of $5
million.
Within Israel
this past year,
Federation:
• Supported Parents and Children
All Together (PACT) in Netanya to help
prepare 750 Ethiopian Israeli preschool-
ers so they could enter first grade as
other Israeli kids do. PACT is gradually
being incorporated into the citywide
and largely municipality-funded pro-
gram "New Beginnings," targeting
1,800 preschoolers from at-risk, low-
income and immigrant families.
• Helped Youth Futures with funding
to assist 400 at-risk youth in the Central
Galilee and 6,100 other at-risk youth
make it through grades K-12.
. Assisted 4,000 elementary- and
middle-school students in the Central
Galilee learn English.
• Helped Youth Aliyah Villages pre-
vent 1,000 at-risk youths from ending
up on the streets.
On a global scale, Federation this
past year assisted the Hesed in Kiev in
providing meals and medical support
to 16,000 frail elderly Jews.
When the Campaign is in full swing,
Federation asks agencies not to solicit
on their own. Agencies that do wish to
solicit at other times, entering certain
fundraising markets Federation can't
necessarily penetrate, are asked to
work in collaboration with Federation
to assure the integrity of the Annual
Campaign. Tamarack Camps, for
example, had to raise about $460,000
on its own for camp scholarships to add
to the more than $600,000 it got from
Federation.
The allocation process is one of
Federation's most important functions,
President Bloom said.
"It is the culmination of hours and
weeks of intensive work to assure our-
selves and the donors that the dollars
raised are being spent wisely," he said.
"It is truly the reason we exist as a
Federation."

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With dollars raised this past year,

Federation leaders cite these local suc-
cess stories:
• Helped Jewish Family Service (IFS)
provide 900 individuals and families in
crisis with emergency financial assis-
tance and case management.
• Helped JFS's Project Chessed extend
prescription assistance and access to
pro-bono medical care for 1,000 clients.

Related analysis and opinion: page 97