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Temple Emanuel Endowment To Guarantee Our Future


Dear Fellow TE Member,

I write to you today with a different appeal than TE has mounted before. Members of our synagogue have always been generous in supporting the day-to-day operations, the school, our building and grounds. In each of our last several years, while challenged with rising expenses, we have always raised sufficient capital to pay all our bills. I am so grateful to you for consistently stepping up with Fair Share contributions, High Holiday appeal, "Mitzvahs and Memorials" and other TE support, and for the very generous contributions for special projects, events and the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund.

Today I am asking you to support a TE Endowment - a fund set aside for future TE needs. We have established an Endowment Fund invested with the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven. The principal of this endowment fund is intended to remain intact, and the investment income from this principal is used each year to support our operational needs. Currently, the investment income we withdraw each year is approximately 4% of the principal. More of the principal is available as determined by the Board of Directors, if we experience an emergency need. The larger this fund grows, the more becomes available each year for our operations, and to guarantee the future viability of our TE community.

Today we are presented with a unique opportunity. Two of our member families have pledged $50,000 each as a challenge donation for the endowment, provided the figure is matched by the rest of the congregation. It is an incredibly generous offer and over $70,000 toward the $100,000 challenge has already been pledged!

Each Sunday morning, our TE school children, their parents and teachers come together before classes begin, in an asephah - a gathering to sing together, to focus on Jewish values together and to prepare for the day's study. The kids are excited, vocal, happy - - they clearly love being there and with one another. This is a vision of our future - the TE of our years ahead, with these kids and their kids sustaining our values and visions. The TE endowment is for them, for our future as a Jewish community.

I am writing to you in the hope that you will play a part in this exciting challenge. For each dollar you contribute in the next few months, the key donors will add their match. Growing the endowment is vitally important for the health and sustainability of Temple Emanuel.

I would like to support the TE Endowment Campaign!

Supporter: $18-$179
Builder: $180- $719
Sustainer: $720- $1,799
Guardian: $1,800 - $2,699
Visionary: $2,700- $4,999
Legacy: $5,000 +
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With best wishes for a happy and healthy new year.
Alan Kliger, 2nd Vice President
Temple Emanuel of Greater New Haven

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