Canadian Friends of the Foundation for Jewish Heritage

The charity was just recently established - receiving its official notice from the CRA on Jan 13 2023. During the time we reconvened the board and started meeting working to establish our approach to generating donations and to identify and reconfirm core fundraising priorities. We established our bank account set up processes and governance for reviewing donations issuing receipts ensuring adequate oversight etc We started to convene a small group of volunteers to consider outreach for donations to fund our projects but then global events took place impacting the world and Canadian Jewish communities and we decided that soliciting for donations would be inappropriate at this time. After some time we decided that it would be appropriate to consider some very direct and minimal outreach to potential donors and in late March we sent letters to a few (7) prospective donors. No response has been received yet. We collected 1 donation this year (totaling $300 from 1 donor) which is currently in our bank account given it's not enough to start putting towards our 2 main priority projects. We are working with a small group of academic volunteers to scope the mapping project for Canadian Jewish heritage sights should some more donations come in. Happy to provide further details if interested.

See above - we're still very much in the nascent/development phase of the charity's work. The main program we are looking to support and fund is a mapping of Canadian Jewish heritage properties in order to identify assets across the country in need of rehabilitation of Jewish significance and potentially valuable from an educational and community learning perspective. Given our minimal donations to-date we are not in a position to begin this work. We developed - pro bono - a 'case for support' document to you to send out to potential donors. We also engaged 2 academics to pursue potential funding for our mapping of Canadian Jewish heritage assets project. They are currently exploring funding opportunities.