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Support education demonstrating the positive role of the Jewish people across the globe.
O U R W H Y
The strongest guarantor for the future of the Jewish people is to provide young people with a Jewish education of boundless hope and intellectual integrity.
Your donation will help fund an education that every day, demonstrates the positive, historic role of the Jewish people throughout history and across the globe. An education of great ideas, places and people, filled with imagination, crossing boundaries and building bridges between “the other” and ourselves. An education this is fully integrated with the experiential and provides strong spiritual inspiration fueled by vision.
D O N A T I O N O P T I O N S
Kivunim (aka The Kivunim Institute) is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit educational corporation, and all contributions to Kivunim are fully tax-deductible.
Donate by Check
Make checks payable to Kivunim and send to:
Kivunim c/o Geffen 300 Central Park West #12J2 New York, NY 10024
Matching Gifts
Many employers have matching gift programs and will match charitable contributions made by their employees. Find out if your employer will help to double the impact of your gift to Kivunim.
Donate Stock
To make a tax deductible gift of stock, please contact Peter Geffen at pgeffen@kivunim.org.
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We devote up to 20% of our potential gross tuition to financial aid that allows us to distribute an annual average of $500,000 in a combination of needs-based scholarships and small interest-free loans.
Approximately 40% of our students receive financial aid ranging from $5,000 to $35,000 with the average award being $15,000. All awards are based upon the family's financial situation.
The process of applying for financial aid is simple and quick. Families submit a copy of the “Fafsa” form they have prepared for college aid and an indication of what amount they feel their family is capable of paying. Our scholarship funds are distributed on a first come, first considered basis. We encourage interested students to apply early and to contact us to discuss.
We rely on donations to help us make up the gap in tuition, and enable us to provide necessary financial assitance to students in need. We're grateful for your help!
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We have developed a unique educational approach to the distribution of scholarships, requiring each scholarship student recipient (not parent) to sign the following “Student Ethical Commitment” upon receipt:
"I agree that I will make every effort to repay Kivunim for the amount of my scholarship when I get older, thereby enabling another student to someday have the opportunity that is being provided to me today. I understand that this is not a formal promissory note, but rather an ethical pledge to do so as I grow older and become a donor to various causes and projects in the years ahead. I agree that Kivunim may remind me of this pledge in the future. If, at the time I am able to fulfill this pledge, Kivunim is no longer in existence I will seek out another program of comparable Jewish educational philosophy and provide the funds to them. (Repayment may be made in a lump sum or in smaller amounts over a period of years and these payments will be accepted as fully tax deductible contributions.)"
