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Scholarships, Loans, Financial Assistance
* Listings with an asterisk are part of the JUF/JF partnership of agencies serving the Chicago and worldwide Jewish community.
Academic Scholarships * |
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JVS Career & Employment |
Educational scholarship funds from grants administered by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago are available for Jewish full-time college undergraduate and graduate students who are pursuing careers in the helping professions. |
Ehrlich Student Loan Program * |
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Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago |
Provides subsidized, low-interest educational loans to students in the metropolitan Chicago Jewish community. First priority will be given to students who have limited access to other sources of funding, whether through federal, state or private loans, savings, or other sources of financial assistance. Made possible by a generous bequest from Mrs. Shirley Ehrlich to the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. Subsidizes the loan while a loan recipient is enrolled as a full-time student in an accredited undergraduate or graduate program. A loan recipient will make no payments nor accrue any interest on their loan while they are in school. A student may borrow up to $10,000 a year, up to a total of $20,000. |
Jewish Residential Summer Camp Scholarship Program * |
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Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago |
Supplemental funding, based on financial need, to help youngsters attend an eligible midwestern Jewish residential summer camp; applications available from camp offices. |
JUF Right Start * |
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Jewish United Fund |
JUF Right Start increases awareness and access to Jewish early childhood programs for Chicago-area families. JUF Right Start provides a financial voucher for families enrolling their children in a Jewish infant, toddler or preschool program for the first time. Sibling vouchers are also available if more than one child attends a program from the same family. |
JUF's Israel Scholarships * |
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Jewish United Fund |
Financial need-based (through age 28) and merit-based (through age 23) scholarships for high school and college students and young adults for approved Israel programs of work, study, and travel. Spring, Fall and Summer deadlines each year. |
Kehillah Jewish Education Fund |
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8180 McCormick Blvd |
Encourages and enables every Jewish child to pursue and receive a meaningful, passionate, enjoyable, superior Jewish and secular education. Kehillah Fund aims to make that education available and affordable through a funding system that will finance the education now and into the future, guaranteeing that our children and grandchildren remain Jewish. |
One Happy Camper * |
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Foundation for Jewish Camp |
The Foundation for Jewish Camp and the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago offer opportunities to make sure that every child has access to an unforgettable Jewish summer experience. One Happy Camper offers incentive grants of up to $1,000 for children attending nonprofit, Jewish overnight camp for the first time for 19 days or longer. |
Shomrim Society of Illinois |
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P.O. Box 59258 |
Society of Illinois is a fraternal organization of Jewish Law Enforcement Officers from Chicago and surrounding areas. |
