Organizations Filed Purposes:
Support isolated, emerging, and returning Jewish communities around the globe. Kulanu's work is done by a network of active volunteers, including board members, regional coordinators, and others with only three part-time staff.
Support isolated, emerging, and returning Jewish communities around the globe.
Religion-related, spiritual development: Abayudaya Jewish community, Uganda. Kulanu continued to provide most of the funding for the Hadassah Primary School in Uganda, which feeds and educates over 400 Jewish, Christian, and Muslim children. In addition, we installed lightning rods on each building, a solar water pump, additional computer lab security, and classroom desks. We supported computer labs and computer coding programs in two schools, continued to support education for six deaf children, a health and sex education program, and semiannual conferences of the Abayudaya Women's group. We sent a laptop to the new Beit Ha'am in Kampala.
Religion-related, spiritual development: other communities. Kulanu continued to support isolated, emerging, and returning Jewish communities around the globe. Over 50 communities worldwide celebrated Kulanu's 25 anniversary and learned more about far-flung Jewish communities during our "Kulanu Across the Globe" weekend. We funded four Global Teaching Fellows who spent a month in Nigeria, India, Gabon, and Brazil. These Fellows, from different Jewish denominations and backgrounds, are preparing for rabbinical ordination. Two of the teaching fellows are Africans preparing for the rabbinate who traveled and taught in other African communities. Additional smaller projects included: - Arranged extended placements of volunteers in India and Uganda and facilitated shorter visits to Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Nicaragua, and Uganda. - Supported conversions at Adat Israel in Guatemala City, Guatemala and in Calabria, Italy. - Sent a donated Torah, prayer books, and Judaica to communities in the Philippines, Italy, Brazil, India, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe. - Planned and implemented the first African Jewish Film Festival at the Jewish Africa Conference of the American Sephardic Foundation in New York City.
Religion-related, spiritual development: Lemba Jews of Zimbabwe. Kulanu continued to support the operations of the Harare Lemba Synagogue (HLS) in Zimbabwe. We assisted in publishing 500 copies of a uniquely African Haggadah in Hebrew, English, and Shona, their native tongue, and musical recordings of traditional Jewish prayers set to Zimbabwean melodies. We funded solar power and a borehole (well) for the synagogue and have partially funded a drip irrigation agricultural program to grow potatoes and beans in a related rural community to avert starvation.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Jeannette Orantes | Board Member | 2 | $0 |
| Elie Lehmann | Board Member | 4 | $0 |
| Genie Milgrom | Board Member | 4 | $0 |
| Daneel Schaechter | Board Member | 3 | $0 |
| Modreck Maeresera | Board Member | 6 | $0 |
| Judi Kloper | Board Member | 10 | $0 |
| Ari Greenspan | Board Member | 8 | $0 |
| Capers C Funnye Jr | Board Member | 4 | $0 |
| Stuart Leeder | Treasurer and Board Member | 15 | $0 |
| Barbara Vinick | Secretary and Board Member | 10 | $0 |
| Rabbi Barbara Aiello | Second Vice President and Board Member | 20 | $0 |
| Bonita Sussman | First Vice President and Board Member | 30 | $0 |
| Harriet Bograd | President and Board Member | 40 | $0 |
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