Select your gift designation to one of the CBI Annual Funds listed below or click HERE to send by mail.
Planning a gift for our synagogue is a beautiful way to leave a legacy. We hope that all of our congregants will feel the importance of bestowing a gift to CBI that will help sustain our spiritual home for the future. There are so many ways to make a legacy gift at a level that is meaningful to you. Most legacy gifts do not require any immediate payment:
bequest in your will or family trust,
designating CBI as a beneficiary in your retirement accounts,
a life insurance policy with CBI as a beneficiary.
When you commit to a legacy gift to CBI you will become part of Greater Hartford's Life and Legacy Program, in partnership with the Jewish Community Foundation and the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, which promotes after-lifetime giving. I hope that our community will be inspired by philanthropic giving to CBI and will have those conversations about what is meaningful to you, to plant seeds for the future. Please contact our Development Director, Lauren Benthien, to learn more.
By giving to our Endowment funds, you can help ensure Congregation Beth Israel remains a vibrant center of Jewish life for future generations.
To discuss endowment contribution opportunities, please contact CBI's Development Director, Lauren Benthien, at lbenthien@cbict.org or 860-519-0611.
CLICK HERE for the full list of Established Endowment Funds as of October 1, 2024.
The following investment funds generously support CBI and can be donated to directly through CBI by clicking the 'Give Now' button above:
CBI Building / Commitment Fund
Cemetery Fund
The following endowment funds generously support CBI and can be donated to directly at the Jewish
Community Foundation where they are held (click below and you will be routed to the JCF website
giving page for that fund):
Congregation Beth Israel Endowment Fund
Congregation Beth Israel Trustee Fund
Congregation Beth Israel Cemetery Fund
Congregation Beth Israel Education Fund
Congregation Beth Israel Legacy for the Future Fund
Congregation Beth Israel Sisterhood Advisory Fund
CBI Tots Fund
Norman and Helene Alisberg Fund
Mike and Meg Aronow Fund
Honorable Arnold and Hermia Aronson Fund
Shirley and Harry Benowitz Memorial Fund
Benthien Family Fund for Jewish Education at Congregation Beth Israel
Beyard Ellis Family Fund
Lenore Blank Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Blechner Family Fund
James and Z. Riki Brodey Family Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
The Gusta Budyansky Fund
Frances Blumenthal Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Faith Lois Cohan Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Libbian and Jerry Cohen Fund
Margaret W. Cohen Fund
Sidney and Beatrice Cramer Fund
Harry and Diane Davidson Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Elissa and Elliott Donn Family Fund
Dr. Nathan Lewis Dubin Rabbinic Chair Fund
Eisen and Yass Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Clare and Barry Feldman Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Stanley and Susan Fellman Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Carol Gabrielson Fine Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Bruce and Debra Fischman Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Mostow Flaxman Fund
Four Devoted Deborahs Fund
Sheri and David Ginden Family Fund for CBI
Norton and Janice Glass Fund
Louis Gold Family Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Goldberg Frankel Family Fund
Harry E. Goldfarb Scholarship Fund
Eunice P. Hausmann Fund
Michael and Barbara Honor Family Fund
Rose Hurowitz and Anna Hurowitz Lublin Fund
The Jacobson Family Fund for CBI
Milton Jacobson and Wilfred Shapiro Memorial Fund
Johnston Family Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Sunny and Jeffrey Kagan Family Fund
Jerold and Ellen Kaufman Family Education Fund
Roberta and Stuart Kaufman Family Fund
Sidney J. and Bess Koppell Social Justice Speakers/Adult Education Fund
Sidney J. and Bess Koppell Memorial Fund
Alice Krall Religious School Fund
Nancy and Robert Kramer Family Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Barb and Bill Lavine Family Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Leshem Family Endowment Fund for Beth Israel
Sylvia Leven Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Mailly Family Fund
Mangs Family Fund
Jacob and Frances Mashkin Endowment Fund
David and Lauri Miller Family Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Miller Perpetual Dues Fund for CBI
Maxine Moncini Family Fund
Bennett Pearl Legacy Leadership Fund
Bennett and Libby Pearl Fund
Viola Phillips Fund
Pierce Family Camp Scholarship Fund
Pincus Family Fund
Laura Rapport Legacy for Our Future Fund
Sharon and Alan Reisner Family Fund
Lea and Richard Rubenstein Beth Israel Family Fund
Jeffrey Rudikoff Jewish History Fund
Jeffrey Rudikoff Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Daniel R. Schaefer Memorial Fund
Raphael and Natalie Schain Family Fund
Schlossberg Teaching Chair for First Grade Jewish Education at Congregation Beth Israel
Schneider Family Fund
The Shipman Family Religious Education Fund
Cantor Pamela Siskin Memorial Fund
Mark and Ruth Solomkin Fund in memory of Joan
Linda Bland Sonnenblick Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Edith Steinhauser Fund
Jerry and Eve Tarre Family Fund
Edee Tenser Fund for Holocaust Education
Ruth Tupper Fund
Van Winkle Family Fund
Milton and Frances Weinstein Fund
Genevieve and Joseph Weinstein Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Robert and Edith Whitman Family Fund
Michael Wilder Memorial Fund
Willa's Fund to Fight Hunger
Marjorie and Jeffrey Winnick Fund for Congregation Beth Israel
Smith and Zande Family Fund
For any questions about Endowment Giving, please contact CBI's Director of Development, Lauren Benthien, at Lbenthien@cbict.org or 860-519-0611.
