Donation Options

Thank you for choosing to support the Jewish Community of Louisville and expressing your Faith in Our Future.

The JCL offers many options for you to fulfill your charitable goals. Please look at this list to identify the fund you would like to support and make note of the name of that fund so you can enter it on the donation form, then click here or at the bottom of this page to make your secure online donation. For more information about a specific fund, just click on the fund’s name. If you have questions, call (502) 451-8840 or e-mail jpillsbury@jewishlouisville.org.

JCL Annual Campaign

It’s your faith that has brought the Jewish Community of Louisville together. And it’s the gifts that come from your heart that keep Jewish life vibrant in our community and overseas. Thank you for supporting the JCL Annual Campaign. Click here to learn more.

Foundation for Planned Giving

Funds built by the community, for the community.  Foundation for Planned Giving provides an organized outlet for numerous endowment funds to support Jewish needs both locally, nationally, and abroad.  Choose an established fund to support or consider creating your own. Click here for a complete list of funds.

JCC Second Century Funds

Funds built by the community, for the community.  Second Century Funds provide an organized outlet for numerous endowment funds to support Jewish needs both locally, nationally, and abroad.  Choose an established fund to support or consider creating your own. Click here for a complete list of funds.

B’nai Tzedek Funds

Funds built by the community, for the community. B’nai Tzedek Funds provide an organized outlet for over 100 young adults to support Jewish needs both locally, nationally, and abroad.  Choose an established fund to support or consider creating your own. Click here to learn more.

Matanot La’Evyonim (Gifts for the Poor)

This Purim, join the JCL in performing the mitzvah of Matanot La’Evyonim (Gifts for the Poor) by making a gift that will help earthquake relief efforts in Haiti through Hope for Haiti.

Partnership with Israel

Partnership with Israel (originally Partnership 2000) is a Jewish Agency for Israel program that promotes regional development in Israel by “matching” communities there with those in the Diaspora. Click here to learn more.

Film Festival

The Louisville Jewish Film Festival has been showing award-winning international films for 11 years.  The Film Committee reviews over 45 films in order to present 8-10 films that will provide you with a means to experience and understand Jewish cultural complexity, richness and depth. Click here to learn more.

Festival of the Book

One of the most pleasant and surprisingly powerful things in life is opening a book and your mind by beginning the journey to another time, another place and another perspective.  Click here to learn more.

Performing Arts

Every year JCL funds support performing arts.  From the oldest Louisville Orchestra to the visually stunning and ambitious CenterStage theatre. Your donation can support the continued aspirations and cultural enrichment of the Jewish community.

Kesher Kentucky

Introduced in 1995, Kesher  Kentucky is a yearlong Jewish educational institute for a select group of 10th and 11th grade students from Louisville and Lexington. Students will gain an inside perspective from Jewish communal professionals and community leaders and explore contemporary issues of Jewish life locally, nationally and internationally. Click here to learn more.

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