Jewish Federation Of Greater Dallas

Community engagement: a main component of the mission of the federation is to build community in addition to raising and allocating funds. Through engagement of hundreds of volunteers across various departments of the federation, the federation inspires and connects community members who might otherwise not be actively involved in the organized jewish community including the campaign department, israel and overseas, planning and allocations, finance, community security initiative, and others.

Jewish education: jewish education ("je) serves as a resource, facilitator, and conveyor with community; to enrich existing programs, and serve as a catalyst for new jewish education initiatives; and to promote jewish education as the critical link to ensuring jewish continuity and the increased engagement of all members of the greater dallas jewish community. Je works with other federation departments particularly in areas involving educational planning.

Jewish federations of north america: the jewish federations of north america is the international umbrella organization for the north american federations. They provide numerous services to each local federation including consulting and recruitment, marketing and branding guidelines and tactics, national young adult and women's philanthropy programs, missions and vip travel support, leadership development, financial resource development consulting and other vital programs and services that ultimately benefit the entire community through the success of the local federations.

Community security: expenses related to providing security to the campus of the federation and various other community initiatives.

Community relations: the jewish community relations council (jcrc) is the central umbrella organization for public affairs that brings together jewish organizations and religious institutions in the greater dallas area. The jcrc seeks to develop organized jewish community consensus on issues affecting the security and continuity of the jewish people as well as concerns affecting the local dallas jewish community and the community at large.

Missions, israel and overseas: the mission, israel and overseas program works to build awareness and momentum in dallas around the case for israel and overseas by maintaining living connections between dallas and jewish communities in israel and around the world. Israel and overseas initiatives create meaningful program, travel, and engagement opportunities for the dallas community. Missions include programs and trips sponsored by the federation to explore jewish life in other communities, israel and other countries, and to address ongoing communcal needs by recruiting and educating young men and women to be active and effective participants in the jewish community in the years to come.

Planning and allocations: planning and allocation activities are associated with identifying, selecting, and monitoring programs, agencies, and organizations requesting and receiving allocations as well as allocation of the dollars raised in the annual campaign.

Shared and other: occupancy, professional services, and other expenses shared by the major programs listed above and various smaller programmatic functions for which allocation to individual programs is not reasonably determinable or material to the financial statements.