As experts in the field of philanthropic giving, the Jewish Community Foundation (JCF) recognized that there may be a gap in knowledge for some professional advisors. Your professional advisor can help, of course. These folks are financial or wealth advisors, accountants, or trusts and estates attorneys.

The Kelners have been involved with both Jewish Community Foundation and Minneapolis Jewish Federation for more than two decades… but the truth is that anyone can leave a legacy gift, decide on the timing of when and how to fund it, and know that it will make an immense impact during their lifetimes or after they are gone.

Young-reader appropriate books about the Holocaust are hard to come by. So, when the fifth-grade teacher at Golden Valley’s Good Shepherd Catholic School read the PJ Library book Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust, she wanted it for her classroom.

A letter to a bnai mitzvah

Outside-the-box gifts to charity: Real Estate

Winter 2006 | Drs. Eric and Sally Bressler believe their financial support of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation makes a statement about what is important to them. “Their goals are consistent with our goals,” Eric says.