The Centennial Fund for a Jewish Future (CFJF) is an endowment within the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh's Jewish Community Foundation that provides immediate and ongoing funding to make quality Jewish learning and experiences available to everyone. The CFJF supports a broad range of programs that instill a strong Jewish identity among participants and a desire to pass the love of Judaism on to the next generation. CFJF is the most significant philanthropic undertaking in Pittsburgh's Jewish history. No other Jewish community has ever developed such an aggressive, pre-emptive initiative to secure its Jewish future, and your commitment can have an immediate impact.
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10.28.11 Quarterly Update - October 2011
The Centennial Fund for a Jewish Future is the most significant philanthropic undertaking in Pittsburgh's Jewish history, providing immediate and ongoing funding to make quality Jewish learning and experiences available to everyone. Click Here to view our Quarterly Update on how we are creating impact in the community!
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9.28.11 Post Gazette Front Page Exclusive: Connecting youth to a Jewish life
As the Jewish community enters the year 5772, it does so with hopes for a good year for renewal through an ambitious outreach program
Meredith Cawley spent most of her 12 years disconnected from her Jewish heritage. But as Rosh Hashana begins tonight, she will celebrate the Jewish New Year as a member of a Reform synagogue and a seventh-grader at Community Day School, a Jewish K-8 in Squirrel Hill.
It happened because a new local endowment, the Centennial Fund for a Jewish Future, gave a scholarship for her to attend a Jewish camp and then paid for her first year at day school.
"Every time I attend services here in the morning, I think about how lucky I am that this was able to happen," Meredith said......
