Day School Endowments
The Jewish Federation and the day school community have joined together in a unique partnership to help ensure that every Jewish family has the opportunity to choose a day school education -- regardless of financial ability and stream of religious commitment.
The Jewish Day School Endowment Program offers two ways you can participate:
- Jewish Day School Guaranty Trust Fund
Benefits all 17 Federation supported day schools by providing additional resources to each school. - Individual Jewish Day School Endowment Foundations
Designed for those who wish to support a particular Jewish day school participating in the program.
The sixteen Jewish Day Schools that benefit from the Jewish Day School Guaranty Trust Fund are:
- Akiba-Schechter Jewish Day School
- Arie Crown Hebrew Day School *
- Bais Yaakov Girls High School
- Chicago Jewish Day School
- Chicagoland Jewish High School
- Fasman Yeshiva High School (HTC)
- Hannah Sacks Bais Yaakov Girls High School
- Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School *
- JCFS Therapeutic Day School
- Ida Crown Jewish Academy *
- Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov/Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi *
- Ariella Joy Frankel Keshet Day School
- Lubavitch Girls High School
- Seymour J. Abrams Cheder Lubavitch Day School *
- Solomon Schechter Day School *
- Telshe Yeshiva High School Program
- Yeshivas Shearis Yisrael
* These schools have also established their own Endowment Foundations in partnership with the Jewish Federation and either the Associated Talmud Torahs or the Community Foundation for Jewish Education of Metropolitan Chicago.
Help inspire a child's life-long love of Jewish learning
For further information, please contact us at 312-357-4853 or legacy@juf.org.
Audio: Frontloading For The Future.
JUF/Federation President Steve Nasatir discusses Chicago's breakthrough approach to funding day school education.
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