Voices: The Chicago Jewish Teen Foundation

Voices: The Chicago Jewish Teen Foundation is a selective, year-long program for Jewish high school students from across the Chicagoland area. Voices board members spend the year learning about philanthropy and grant-making through a Jewish lens. Members of the Voices Jewish Teen Foundation Boards allocate approximately $50,000 to organizations to affect real change on the issues they care about most.

Thank you for your interest in applying to Voices: The Jewish Teen Foundation’s 2026-2027 Cohort!

A complete application includes:

All required fields on this form (marked with a red star) completed by August 15th

Voices 101 Applicants Only: Schedule a 30-minute individual interview with Eli Mulligan here

Please note that you cannot save progress, so you may want to record your answers in a separate location and then paste them into this application. This application includes:

Demographic information for the applicant and parents, and school/extracurricular information for the applicant.

Short Answer Response:

Voices 101 Applicants: What cause do you care about most and why?
Voices Alumni Applicants: What are you looking forward to most about the Voices Alumni Board and what is an issue area you feel passionately about?

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Program I am applying for:*

Voices 101

Voices Alumni

Participant Information

Participant/Teen Name*

First Last

Participant/Teen Email*

Participant/Teen Cell Phone*

Participant/Teen Social Media Handles

We often post photos of our programs on Instagram @JUF_Teens and want to be able to tag you!

Participant/Teeen Address*

(used as payment address of record)

Street Address Address Line 2 City State ZIP Code

Participant/Teen Gender Identity*

Other*

Participant Date of Birth*

Participant Pronouns*

Parent Information

Parent/Guardian Name 1*

First Last

Parent/Guardian Email 1*

Parent/Guardian Cell Phone 1*

Relationship to Applicant*

Mother

Father

Other

Other*

Parent/Guardian Name 2

First Last

Parent/Guardian Email 2

Parent/Guardian Cell Phone 2

Relationship to Applicant

Mother

Father

Other

Other*

Teen Education & Leadership Experience

Grade for the 2026-2027 Year*

School for the 2026-2027 Year*

How do you Identify Jewishly?*

Reform

Conservative

Modern Orthodox

Orthodox

Reconstructionist

Culturally Jewish

Just Jewish

Other

Other*

Name of congregation you belong to if applicable:

Please list Jewish communities/activities you're involved in*

Please list the non-Jewish extracurricular activities you participate in*

Please list any leadership positions you've held. This can include club or youth group boards, team captain, camp counselor, etc.*

What cause do you care about most and why?*

Answers should be about a paragraph in length.

What are you looking forward to most about the Voices Alumni Board and what is an issue area you feel passionately about?*

Answers should be about a paragraph in length.

Additional Information

How did you hear about this opportunity?*

Hear About Other*

Do you have any dietary restrictions?*

ie. Kosher, nut allergy, etc. If you carry an epi-pen, please also include that here.

Please list any accommodations you may need:

What other commitments do you have that could potentially conflict with attendance?*

Please include approximate time per week/month Voices meets once a month for two hours on Sunday afternoons from late-August through early-June with monthly homework assignments amounting to about thirty-minutes of work outside the sessions. The program has an attendance requirement of 80%. The Voices 101 Board will meet from 2:30-4:30pm Voices Alumni Board will meet from 5:00-7:00pm. Please include approximate time per week/month.

Voices: The Chicago Jewish Teen Foundation

Participant Information

Parent Information

Teen Education & Leadership Experience

Additional Information

One fund. So much impact.