List of Funds

Donate to a Fund

This is a comprehensive list of the funds to which you can donate. (When you complete our online donation form, you’ll be asked to select a fund where your donation should be directed.)

General Purpose Funds

• Cantor’s Discretionary Fund

  The cantor uses this fund for charitable purposes and to support PTS projects and programming not otherwise budgeted.

• General Fund

  This fund is used where most needed, as determined by the Board of Trustees.

• Rabbis’ Discretionary Fund

  The rabbis use this fund for charitable purposes and to support PTS projects and programming not otherwise budgeted.

• L’Dor Vador Fund

  Supports the ongoing operations of the congregation into the future. It is requested that the minimum contribution to this fund be $1,000.

Care and Concern Funds

• Carter Deeds of Loving Kindness Fund

  Assists congregants who experiencing financial difficulty. Recipient’s names are kept anonymous.

• Caring Community Fund

  Supports the work of our Caring Community, who provides support and outreach to congregants who are ill, grieving, or lonely, and welcomes new members to our community.

• Mitzvah Moms Fund

  Mitzvah Moms are Preschool parents who acknowledge happy and sad family occasions, reaching out to Preschool families by giving support and lending a helping hand.

• Shaine Family Social Justice Fund

  Supports new social justice initiatives and ongoing programs at PTS that are not otherwise covered in PTS’ annual budget.

• Social Justice (and Home & Hope) Fund

  Supports programming related to social justice or social action issues, including Home & Hope.

Programming Funds

• Campus Visits Fund

  Supports rabbinic outreach and visits to congregants’ students on college campuses.

• Jack and Elisa Klein Adult Studies Fund

  Provides for scholars-in-residence at PTS.

• Holocaust and Historical Projects Fund

  Used for educational or other programming related to the Holocaust, Jewish History or PTS History.

• Layton Programming Fund

  Provides seed money for new temple programs for their first year.

• Lokey Educational and Programming Fund

  Supports educational and cultural programming for the temple.

• Myrna Jacobs Music and Performance Fund

  Underwrites music and other performances at the temple

• Monasch Program Fund

  Provides for educational programs at the temple.

• Helen Raiskin Concert Fund

  Underwrites musical programs at the temple.

• Raiskin/Reich Youth Fund

  Helps finance PTS teenage activities of a community, spiritual or learning nature.

• Cantor Barry Reich Tribute Fund

  Supports musical programs, songleader training scholarships. and social action initiatives close to Cantor Reich’s heart.

• Solomon Lectureship Fund

  Assists in bringing speakers or adult education programs to the temple.

• Teen Fund

  Helps finance PTS teenage activities of a community, spiritual or learning nature.

• Teen PARTY Fund

  Helps finance activities related to the temple’s youth group, PARTY.

• Wisialowski Leadership Development Fund

  Supports leadership development and programming for lay leaders.

• Zeichick Family Fund for Sukkat Shalom

  Supports educational, social action and other programming to enhance the Sukkat Shalom, the shelter of peace.

School Funds

• Preschool Fund

  The Preschool uses this fund to pay for non-budgeted special equipment and programs.

• Gage Family Religious School Fund

  Enables the Youth Education program to provide enrichment and to purchase equipment which is not provided for in the general budget.

• Youth Education Fund

  Supports Youth Education activities and purchases.

Operating Funds

• Peter Battat Memorial Fund

  Maintains the Peter Battat Memorial Fountain, enhances the Cantor Barry Reich Meditation Garden, and adds warmth to the synagogue entry.

• Beautification Fund

  Supports ongoing beautification of the temple.

• Jerry Ezrin Memorial Fund

  Supports technologies and tools to extend PTS services beyond the walls of the synagogue. such as streaming of worship services and special events.

• Financial Freedom Fund

  Funds to help eliminate the temple’s mortgage..

• Christopher L. Fishtrom Landscaping Fund

  Supports landscape planting for the exterior grounds beautification of PTS.

• Jeremy Friedman Memorial Library Fund

  Supports the purchase of books and library supplies, library programming and other expenses to improve the adult library.

• Hirschberg Children’s Library Fund

  Purchases books and materials for the Hirschberg Children’s Library.

• Hanne Kaufman Memorial Prayer Book Fund

  Purchases prayer books for use in the temple.

• Music & Technology Fund

  Used by the rabbis and cantor to purchase equipment that is used for temple performances and as teaching tools.

• Sephardic Minyan Fund

  Pays for special activities based on the recommendation of the Sephardic Minyan.

• Shabbaton Fund

  Supports PTS congregational retreats.

Scholarships and Camperships

• Barkoff/Weinstock Summer in Israel Fund

  Provides need-based assistance to students for their Confirmation trip Israel.

• Campership/Israel Scholarship Fund

  Need-based support for students wishing to attend a URJ summer camp or Israel experience.

• Barbara Cohn Preschool Scholarship Fund

  Used for Preschool scholarships.

• Alexa Paige Goldman Israel Scholarship Fund

  Provides an annual merit-based award for a Confirmation class student or students to attend a NFTY summer in Israel program.

• Ida and Sam Levin/Gail Lowenthal Memorial Campership Fund

  Supports students wishing to attend URJ Camp Newman and whose families are in need of financial assistance beyond grants or loans made by the camps and the Jewish Community Federation.

• Rabbi Gerald Raiskin and Helen Raiskin Preschool Scholarship Fund

  Used for Preschool scholarships.

• Sylvia Solomon Religious School Scholarship Fund

  Used for Religious School scholarships.