This grant request from the LGBT Alliance seeks $194,610 in operating support over one year to implement the recommendations of an LGBT Task Force and increase opportunities for LGBT Jews. Key activities include building the capacity of organizations to support LGBT needs, strengthening LGBT organizations, and engaging LGBT Jews through programs, online resources and leadership opportunities. Measurable outcomes include increased participation in Jewish life by LGBT Jews and strengthened LGBT-centric organizations in the community.

1. Grant
Request
2011
The mission of the LGBT Alliance is to increase opportunities for Bay Area Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender (LGBT) community members to fully participate and celebrate in Jewish Life. This JCF grant is
intended to provide operating support for the LGBT Alliance, with the structure and format to be determined
based on recommendations of the LGBT Task Force in May 2011. Primary areas of work will include: building
capacity of community organizations to meet the needs of LGBT identified Jews; enhancing access to resources
for community members; empowerment, leadership development, fostering engagement and reducing barriers
to involvement for LGBT Jews in the Jewish Community Federation and throughout the Jewish community.
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2. Organization Background
Address: 121 Steuart Street San Francisco, CA Organization's URL:
94105 http://www.jewishfed.org/community/lgbt
Phone: (415) 369-2863 Name of your organization or program: LGBT
Organization's E-mail Address: lisaf@sfjcf.org Alliance
Contact Information
Please provide the following information for the person who will be the primary contact for this proposal
(and potentially resultant grant): Ms. Lisa Finkelstein, Director lisaf@sfjcf.org (415) 369-2863
Please provide the following contact information for the Board President or Chair of the Organization
submitting this proposal: Mr. Arthur Slepian, apslepian@yahoo.com (415) 987-5119
Program Description
For which type of grant are you applying? Operating and Programmatic Support
Title or Name of the Program: For an operating support grant, please use "General Operating Support". Otherwise,
please include the word program, project or initiative (i.e. School Lunch Program, Israel Education Initiative,
Filmaking Project) - (10 words or less)
General Operating Support Jewish Community Federations' LGBT Alliance
Project Description
A statement related to the purpose of the grant. -- What work will this grant support? Please phrase your
response to complete the sentence, "This JCF grant is intended...." (ie. "To promote equal opportunity for Arab-
Israeli children under age six by minimizing risk factors that threaten their development and improving the scope
and quality of early childhood services and programs." or "To support teen engagement and leadership development
throughout the FSA with region-specific planning and collaboration.") - (150 words or less)
The mission of the LGBT Alliance is to increase opportunities for Bay Area Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender (LGBT) community members to fully participate and celebrate in Jewish Life. This JCF grant is
intended to provide operating support for the LGBT Alliance, with the structure and format to be determined based
on recommendations of the LGBT Task Force in May 2011. Primary areas of work will include: building capacity
of community organizations to meet the needs of LGBT identified Jews; enhancing access to resources for
community members; empowerment, leadership development, fostering engagement and reducing barriers to
involvement for LGBT Jews in the Jewish Community Federation and throughout the Jewish community.
Project Finance
Amount requested from JCF: Total over the term described below. (USD) $194,610
Total amount of project or program budget: 25% of total cost.
Please list your annual organization budget for the coming year (USD): $194,610
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3. For which term do you intend this funding request to cover? (Unless other factors suggest otherwise, please list
dates beginning with July 1 and ending with June 30.)
Project Start Date: 07/01/2011
Project End Date: 06/30/2012
Program Demographics
Please list the issue area this grant will impact: Demographic Information
Number of constituents that will be served by this program: Although 36,000 LGBT Jews live within the Bay
Area we estimate that 4,000 LGBT Jews are exposed to our grassroots media approaches.
Please choose the primary age group(s) this program (or organization, if an operating support grant request)
aims to serve. Age Groups:
● Young Adults (21-45) ● Seniors (62+)
● Adults (46 - 61) ● Youth (13-20
Please choose the region(s) in which this program (or organization, if an operating support grant request)
operates. Region(s) Served:
● San Francisco County ● South Peninsula
● Marin County ● Greater East Bay: Contra Costa County and
● North Peninsula Alameda County
● Sonoma County ● Israel
Access to Participation
Does your program work directly with participants? Yes
If yes, how do participants gain access to the program/services? In addition to traditional outreach efforts,
Federations' LGBT Alliance Director utilizes a variety of social media options directing attention to the resources
that Federation provides to the community. In the daily attention to multiple social media avenues the LGBT
Alliance provides a constant stream of relevant/accessible information to where the LGBT Jewish community
resides online. The continual focus of these diverse social media avenues is to attract attention to the events and
information listed at http://www.jewishfed.org/community/lgbt.
Is there currently a limit on the number participants? No.
If you do not 'directly serve' participants, how do you track # of participants? Tracking participation is constant
through the following actions:
● Receiving written and verbal feedback from ● Tracking invitations for LGBT Alliance Director
community partner organizations to speak at community events
● Following the unique clicks and open rates to our ● Marking attendance at LGBT Alliance sponsored
social media listings, website, blog and meetings and events
registration sites
Staffing Information
Please state the total number of management staff for this program: 1FTE + .25 Department Support Staff
Shared FTE
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4. Section 1: Goals, Measurable Objectives, and Expected Outcomes
Please identify three measurable goals and objectives this project aims to achieve after the first year of funding
Goal / Objective 1
Implement recommendations of the LGBT Task Force, charged with evaluating the appropriate home for the LGBT
Alliance and core aspects of its work, given the Jewish Community Federation’s strategic plan and alignment around
3 primary functions: Strategic Investing; Capacity Building of Organizations and Synagogues; and Cultivating
Philanthropists and Leaders. The LGBT Task Force will make recommendations to the Jewish Community
Federation Board of Trustees in May 2011. Three models are being considered:
1. Model 1. Status Quo – Keep the LGBT Alliance as structured within the Federation
2. Model 2. Keep Core Competencies at Federation / Spin-off Programming and Other Strategies
3. Model 3. Outsource all LGBT Coordination and Support
Goal / Objective 2
Build capacity of Jewish organizations and synagogues to be inclusive, welcoming and supportive of the needs of
the LGBT Jewish community and strengthen LGBT-Centric organizations. There are significant unmet needs within
the Jewish LGBT Community, which inhibit the full participation in Jewish life of the more than 36,000 LGBT Jews
within JCF’s service area. The needs, and the opportunities to address them, were identified in The LGBT Study
and the LGBT Alliance Strategic Plan, both completed in 2010. LGBT Alliance and its Director provide expertise
and serve as a resource to the entire community in order to enhance understanding of the needs of the LGBT
community, advocate for inclusion, incubate programs and promote best practices to engage LGBT Jews, provide
resources that facilitate participation of LGBT Jews in the community, and train LGBT leaders to assume leadership
roles within a cross-section of community organizations.
Goal / Objective 3
Outreach to increase engagement of LGBT Jews in the Jewish community. Targeted programming to reach
unaffiliated LGBT Jews and create portals of entry into Jewish life. For those already connected, provide
compelling opportunities to increase participation, foster engagement with Israel, and cultivate LGBT leaders and
philanthropists. Continue to serve as a central access point and information channel to help LGBT Jews connect to
existing programs and institutions of the community, providing connection through effective use of social media and
up-to-date website content and resources.
Deliverable Outcomes
● Bay Area Jewish organizations will have the tools to be inclusive and welcoming, and meet the needs of LGBT
Jews, and the gap in awareness and engagement between LGBT Jews and the broader Jewish community is
narrowed.
● LGBT Jews feel more connected to each other and the Jewish community.
● The LGBT-centric Jewish organizations in the community will be strengthened.
● An increased number of LGBT Jews will engage in Jewish community organizations, Israel related programs,
community events and travel to Israel.
● Federation will be recognized by Bay Area Jewish communal professionals as a reliable resource on LGBT
issues.
● Emerging leaders see clearer pathways for their leadership within the Jewish community and an increasing
numbers of LGBT leaders serve on the boards of Jewish Bay Area organizations.
● Online content advanced for the needs of Bay Area LGBT Jewish connection with the Jewish community.
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5. Measurable Outcomes
● Tracking the online participation sources and avenues most travelled from our website, open rates of e-
newsletters, Twitter links, Facebook followers, LinkedIn Connections, and blog hits.
● Tracking participation in events and programs (those offered directly as well as those co-sponsored by LGBT
Alliance).
● Survey of LGBT participants in engagement, philanthropic education or leadership development programs.
● Feedback from community organizations that participate in capacity building activities and who receive direct
consultation from LGBT Alliance Director.
● Increased participation of LGBT members in JCF philanthropic programs and giving opportunities.
● Number of LGBT members recruited to or placed in community leadership positions.
Section 2: Strategy and Activities
Describe the specific program or service(s) that take place. Activities must clearly support the goals, objectives, and
expected outcomes identified in the previous question. Execution of the following Strategies and Activities for
Objectives 2 and 3 will be determined by the outcomes of the Jewish Community Federation’s Task Force,
described above.
Objective 1: Implement Recommendations of LGBT Alliance Task
Force
1. Realign work of LGBT Alliance in accordance with the recommendations of the task force, which may mean
outsourcing aspects of the program and function to other agencies and programs.
2. Oversee effective implementation of changes, and ensure clear and transparent communication to the
community.
Objective 2: Build capacity of Jewish organizations and synagogues
to be inclusive, welcoming and supportive of the needs of the LGBT
Jewish community and strengthen LGBT-Centric organizations.
1. Develop 4-6 community convening’s around key topics of Jewish/LGBT inclusion for synagogues, JCCs,
schools, Hillel’s and other community organizations.
2. Work in partnership with Keshet and Congregation Sha’ar Zahav to provide consultation and training directly to
organizations to support LGBT inclusion in the mainstream Jewish community.
3. LGBT Alliance Director to serve as a speaker and resource at community events and programs.
4. Provide subsidies and scholarship assistance for LBGT Jews to attend programs and conferences in the Jewish
community, where cost is a barrier to their participation (for example: Hazon food conference, Bay Area Jewish
Healing Center Grief and Growing)
5. Present ideas and resources to families and community groups to celebrate in a low-barrier and relevant way
both LGBT and Jewish holidays http://www.jewishfed.org/community/page/celebrate-holidays
Objective 3: Outreach to increase engagement of LGBT Jews in the
Jewish community.
1. Keep the community informed and engaged through effective use of social media, e-newsletter and effective
website content. Develop further online opportunities and tools to increase website visits (and subsequent
stays) to the Federation’s LGBT Alliance pages. Drawing LGBT Jews to the populated Federation LGBT
Alliance pages via a constant stream of social media avenues http://www.jewishfed.org/community/lgbt we then
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6. leveraged partnerships and resources focused on the intersection of Jewish and LGBT based identities to
welcome Bay Area LGBT Jewish newcomers http://www.jewishfed.org/community/page/newcomers
2. Offer targeted programs, primarily in partnership with other community organizations, to engage LGBT Jews.
Examples include: Annual LGBT Hannukah Party, Fun with Faygelahs.
3. Partner with A Wider Bridge on Bay area events that promote greater engagement of LGBT Jews with Israel.
4. Collaborate with Congregation Sha’ar Zahav and Nehirim to ensure that LGBT Jews seeking access to Jewish
worship, adult and children’s education and holiday celebration in an LGBT-centric setting are encouraged to
find community.
5. Offer series of 3-5 programs on topics related to philanthropy, leadership, Jewish identity and Jewish
community, modeled after YAD Club Fed or Young Funders Forum, for the purpose of strengthening
participation of LGBT Jews in philanthropy and leadership.
6. Recruit and engage LGBT community members in ongoing leadership programs, such as Wexner and Hartman,
and work in a targeted way with agencies and synagogues to include LGBT leaders on boards of directors.
7. Continue the subsidized scholarship program to augment all of our Federation financial assistance options to
address issues of affordability for the LGBT community http://www.jewishfed.org/LGBTScholarship
Results
Identify results that best showcase your program or organization's major accomplishments from November
2009 to the present. This response can cover aspects such as operations, management, governance, program
implementation, service delivery, financial management, and awards or recognition.
● 1,500 Twitter followers http://www.twitter.com/JewishLGBT (2500+ distinct tweets)
● 450 Facebook followers http://www.facebook.com/lgbtalliance
● 500 LinkedIn Connections http://www.linkedin.com
● Creation of qjew blog http://www.qjew.wordpress.com; 76 blog posts with 3,000+ unique visits.
● 250+ attendees at Federation's Annual LGBT Hanukkah party hosted and paid for by Jonathan Adler on World
AIDS Day http://qjew.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/party
● Co-sponsorship of events related to Israel, including two LGBT-specific events with A Wider Bridge, and the
month long Out in Israel festival co-sponsored with the Israeli Consulate and many other organizations.
● LGBT Alliance Director invited as a guest of the Israeli Government to participate in diplomacy training in
Israel, July 2010; represented Bay Area community in Jerusalem Pride demonstration; created blog and
presented about experience to JCF groups upon return. http://qjew.wordpress.com/tag/israel
● LGBT Alliance Director was the keynote speaker at two National University-level student leadership
conferences , presenting on tools to breaking through barriers and how the work of the Federations’ LGBT
Alliance works towards social change in the Jewish community.
http://qjew.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/breaking-barriers/
● 12 gatherings of Kol Tzedek, a network of LGBT professionals co-created and hosted monthly by LGBT
Director Lisa Finkelstein
● Hosted community-wide meeting of 10 Jewish agencies with Director of Keshet (a Boston-based organization
working for the full inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Jews in Jewish life)
● Took action in Bay Area community to educate on the dangers of bullying and recruit participation in an anti-
bullying pledge throughout the Jewish community http://www.jewishfed.org/community/page/bullying
● LGBT Alliance members and Director participated in JCRC’s Year of Civil Discourse, in an effort to overcome
divisiveness and find common ground for support of Israel in the LGBT community.
Substantive Challenges
Report any substantive challenges or issues encountered (e.g., operational, management, governance,
programmatic, or financial) that significantly affected your organization since you last reported on grant
activities in November 2009. Include an analysis of how the organization responded or is currently
responding to the substantive challenges or issues.
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7. The LGBT Alliance was moved in July 2010 to the JCF Development Department, which called for a re-alignment
of focus in some areas in order to operate within this department. Divisiveness in the LGBT community on issues
relating to Israel and criticism of the Federation’s policies (continued fall-out from the Jewish Film Festival
incident) also hampered the LGBT Alliance’s positioning in the community. We have worked very hard in the past
year to rebuild trust and overcome this issue, and have seen great success as evident in participation in programs and
online communication. These challenges, coupled more recently with concerns about the future of the LGBT
Alliance given the Federation’s strategic plan and work on Task Force to evaluate LGBT Alliance, has directed
attention away from some of the priorities outlined for this year (including leadership development and cultivation
of giving).
Changes
State two to three major changes that you plan to implement under this grant in 2011-2012. This response
can cover aspects that fall under general operation support or specific program implementation and service
delivery.
As described in previous sections, we anticipate significant change to the LGBT Alliance in 2011-2012, based
on the outcome of the Task Force and recommendations to the JCF Board of Trustees.
Collaborative Partners
What program or service collaborative partners will your grant include? If you have collaborated with them
in the past, please describe how that worked and how long you have partnered with them.
The core outline of the Federations' LGBT Alliance is collaboration. Simply stated, no program or outreach project
exists without the collaboration, input and/or co-sponsorship of many of the Jewish organizations locally and
nationally. The groups the LGBT Alliance worked closest within the past 12 months are:
● A Wider Bridge ● Temple Beth Sholom
● Keshet ● Federation of the Greater East Bay
● Nehirim and National Union of Jewish ● Federations' Israel Center
LGBTIQQ Students (NUJLS) ● Congregation Sha'ar Zahav
● JQ International ● Camp Tawonga
● Jpride ● Chochmat HaLev
● The Jeff Herman Virtual Resource Center at ● Congregation Shomrei Torah
Hebrew Union College ● Consulate General of Israel
● Atlanta's Mercas Keshet ● Contemporary Jewish Museum
● World Congress for GLBT Jews ● Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
● Jerusalem Open House ● Hillel at Stanford's Jewish Queers (JQ)
● Congregation Beit Simchat Torah ● Jewish Vocational Services Transgender
● Teen and Israel Education Initiatives of the Economic Empowerment Initiative (TEEI)
Bureau of Jewish Education ● San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
● Jewish Community Federation of Palm ● Upstart Bay Area
Springs GLBT Affinity Group ● Jewish Community Relations Council
● The Agudah with Israel Gay Youth (JCRC)
Organization (IGY) ● Bay Area Jewish Healing Center (BAJHC)
● Jewish Federation of Tuscon's Inclusion ● Hazon
Project
● Be'chol Lashon
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8. Section 3: Evaluation and Technical Assistance
What types of expertise and skill sets you would welcome from the JCF in order to most effectively
implement your grant? (i.e., finance, planning, program evaluation, board development, leadership
development, fund development, IT or others)
Finance, program implementation, program evaluation, board development, leadership development, fund
development, IT, marketing, staff training, and collaboration with outreach efforts.
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