INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews seeks to provide basic needs like food, heat, medicine, and security to Israelis and Jews in need around the world; to provide the opportunity for Jews living in poverty and threatened by anti-Semitism with the opportunity to find a better life in Israel by making aliyah (immigrating to Israel); to provide immediate and effective humanitarian response to those in need in times of emergency; and to build bridges between Christians and Jews by fostering dialogue, understanding, and active cooperation on issues of shared concern.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Guardians of Israel
Meeting the needs of Israel's poorest citizens remains a high priority for The Fellowship. Through its Guardians of Israel program, The Fellowship assists hundreds of thousands of impoverished people in Israel with basic needs as they struggle to overcome extreme economic hardship, find jobs, and provide for their families. The Fellowship is actively involved in 200 Israeli cities providing food, clothing, shelter, medical care, emergency funds, and other resources to those in desperate need. With more than 20 percent of Israel’s total population, including one in three children, living below the poverty line, and the Israeli government unable to provide for many of its poorest citizens, this assistance is absolutely essential. Through Guardians of Israel, The Fellowship also provides for Israel’s security needs.
On Wings of Eagles
Assists needy Jews in making aliyah (immigrating to Israel) from 25 countries from all over the world including the former Soviet Union, Argentina, France and elsewhere – to escape rising anti-Semitism, violent conflict and extreme poverty, and to realize the dream of living in their historic homeland. When they arrive in Israel, On Wings of Eagles provides them with klitah (resettlement) assistance in the form of temporary housing, job training, and financial assistance, to help them become full, productive citizens of their new home.
Isaiah 58
Throughout the former Soviet Union, tens of thousands of elderly Jews, orphans, and other desperately poor people struggle to survive. Survivors of both the Holocaust and years of Communist rule today still battle hunger, illness, and brutal cold. In war-torn Ukraine, the problem is compounded by continuous fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russian separatists. Many innocent civilians have been displaced and have lost everything they had. Working with partner organizations and local Jewish communities, The Fellowship’s Isaiah 58 program provides these suffering people with essentials like heating fuel, food, medicine, shelter, and companionship, and helps improve their living conditions. Isaiah 58 also rescues orphaned and abandoned Jewish children from the streets, and provides them with homes where they receive the support and love they need to succeed.
Stand for Isarel
Through the Stand for Israel website, social media presence, and daily emails, Stand for Israel keeps people informed about events affecting Israel, the Middle East, and the US-Israel relationship, and trains them to become active, engaged supporters of Israel, working both spiritually and politically on behalf of the Jewish state and the Jewish people.
Where we work
Awards
One of the Top 50 NonProfits to Work For 2011 2011
The NonProfit Times
One of the Best NonProfits to Work For 2021
The NonProfit Times
NonProfit Organization of the Year 2021
ANA NonProfit Association
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Total dollar amount of grants awarded
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Mission Services (allocations and disbursements)
Number of clients served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The Fellowship helped more than 2 million people in 2022 by providing basic needs to 1 million people, providing security to 800,000 people, and helping 9,000 Jews return to Israel.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Poverty: For a developed country, Israel has a very high poverty rate. According to Israel’s National Insurance Institute recent studies, 21.2% of the Israeli population lives in poverty, including almost 1 in 3 children. The elderly are also particularly vulnerable: among them, an estimated 1 in 4 Holocaust survivors live in poverty. Poverty in the former Soviet Union is likewise a serious problem, and Jews who live in rural areas – particularly those who are elderly and unable to take care of themselves – are among the ones who suffer most.
The need for security: As the world sees an alarming spike in anti-Semitism, Jews and Jewish institutions around the globe are at risk of attack. In Israel, the threat of terrorism and war is ever-present, particularly for Israelis who live near the borders of Gaza and Lebanon.
The need for aliyah: Many Jews around the world long to make aliyah (immigrate to Israel) in order to escape poverty and anti-Semitism, start a new life, and fulfill their dream of living in their ancestral homeland, but they lack the means to do so.
The need to build bridges of understanding: For millennia, the relationship between Christians and Jews has been characterized by misunderstanding and animosity. The Fellowship fosters cooperation and understanding between members of these two great faiths by teaching Christians the Jewish origins of their faith, educating Christians on Jewish faith and life, and bringing Christians and Jews together to support humanitarian causes in Israel and the former Soviet Union.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
- Grow our support and contributions by increasing our reach and impact through efficient and effective fundraising efforts
- Expand through development and cultivation of new geographic markets and new innovative programs
- Optimize and strengthen the implementation of our programs through key partnerships to effectively address the needs in key program areas
- Stay focused on our core mission of alleviating poverty, providing security, facilitating aliyah (immigration to Israel) and klitah (resettlement), and bridge building
- Unite as a global organization, creating efficiency and operational excellence
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Along with our programs of direct assistance, since its founding in 1983 The Fellowship has established longstanding working relationships with other NGOs and Israeli governmental agencies that have built a reliable and durable infrastructure to distribute aid in Israel. Our wide network of partners and volunteers allows us to deliver aid efficiently and effectively to those who need it most. As the largest provider of humanitarian aid in Israel, The Fellowship is a trusted non-profit with decades of experience supporting the nation’s infrastructure and needy population segments.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since our founding in 1983, The Fellowship has raised more than $2 billion to help Israel and her people. Today, The Fellowship provides humanitarian aid – essentials like food, medicine, and heating – to more than 1.7 million people in need worldwide each year, including the elderly, Holocaust survivors, children, and victims of terror. The Fellowship’s support of aliyah (immigration to Israel) has enabled more than 750,000 Jews to immigrate to and establish successful lives in the Holy Land. Thousands more are helped through dozens of security projects funded by The Fellowship around the world. Many of the poorest Jewish families in the world live in the nations of the former Soviet Union and small Jewish communities worldwide, where The Fellowship helps more than 230,000 of these people by providing vital food and supplies each year.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To inform the development of new programs/projects, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to identify actionable feedback
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS
Board of directorsas of 01/16/2024
Bishop Paul Lanier
Suzanne Peyser
Community Volunteer
J. R. Dupell
Community Volunteer
Steven Hefter
Community Volunteer
David Clark
Community Volunteer
Paul Lanier
Community Volunteer
Jacob Schimmel
Community Volunteer
Johnnie Moore
Community Volunteer
Michele Bachmann
Community Volunteer
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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