NECHAMA Receives $500,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to Support Capacity Building
- Operational Expansion: The $500,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. serves as seed funding to help NECHAMA double its operations team and increase its annual budget from $1.6 million to an estimated $4.0 million.
- Strategic Impact: The capacity-building initiative will enable the organization to manage two major disaster deployments simultaneously while expanding its efforts to combat antisemitism and engage Jewish volunteers in recovery work.
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NECHAMA just received notice of a $500,000 award from Lilly Endowment Inc. to support our capacity building efforts.
During 2025, NECHAMA engaged in comprehensive strategic planning to envision how we could substantially increase our operational capacity, including doubling the size of our operations team and being able to mount two significant deployments simultaneously, becoming much better known in the Jewish and general communities, and fully actualizing our projects to combat antisemitism in the disaster response arena and help contribute to the identity and engagement of our Jewish volunteers, and the necessary fundraising to advance these.
Successfully implementing these priorities will lead to a more than doubling of our budget from the current $1.6 million to an estimated $4.0 million. Lilly Endowment’s tangible support and confidence in NECHAMA helps launch our capacity building, providing crucial seed funding for these efforts. Please download the full press release for the full details.
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