About the Agencies

The funds raised at this year’s Swingin’ on a Star event will allow the three agencies to continue reaching over 50,000 New Orleans citizens of every race, religion and economic background.

We need your help to ensure that JFS, JCC, and Tulane Hillel can continue to provide excellent programs and services to our community.

Jewish Family Services of Greater New Orleans

• Provides over 4500 hours of counseling services to approximately 1200 people per year.
• Is one of the few agencies in the New Orleans area offering counseling services on a sliding scale basis depending on income.  A majority of JFS clients pay at the lowest level.
• Provides almost 18,000 hours of suicide prevention presentations to 6000 New Orleans area adolescents through the Teen Life Counts Program.
• Referred nearly 500 at-risk New Orleans area students revealed by the Teen Life Counts program to school social workers and guidance counselors in 2008.
• Affords 800 elderly residents in the New Orleans area the ability to delay entry into nursing homes and continue to live independently through the Lifeline and Homemaker programs.

New Orleans Jewish Community Center

• Reaches over 1500 children each year through award winning American Red Cross Swim Lessons, Summer Day Camps, JCC Nursery School, Day Care and Children’s Sports Leagues
• Provides a safe and fun environment for over 400 eleven to thirteen year olds at JCC Sock Hops, addresses childhood obesity and supervise over 60 teens participating in the JCC Maccabi Games, JCC Maccabi ArtsFest, Big Easy BBYO and more.
• Supports Alzheimer and early dementia patients, caregivers and families through the award winning ACE (Alzheimer Care & Enrichment) program for twenty years.
• Provides meeting space for non-profit agencies, government organizations and neighborhood rebuilding groups and a center for community cultural events.
• Offers exercise classes, transportation, lunches, and targeted activities for over 100 seniors in the New Orleans area
• Offers more than 35 Adult Classes in dancing, visual arts, dog obedience and more, reaching 300 adults each year.
• Grants over $100,000 in scholarships to approximately 80 households annually.

Tulane Hillel

• Serves over 2000 students, both Jewish and non-Jewish, with educational, cultural, and leadership development opportunities as well as service learning projects
• Strives to enrich the lives of Jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they can improve the world
• Increased participation greatly in the years since Hurricane Katrina—up to 5 times as many students are involved each week
• Sent over 200 students to Israel in the past five years to learn about and connect with the country and the people
• Provides an innovative leadership program which includes a series of seminars and workshops. Students have the opportunity to make a positive impact at Tulane and within the greater New Orleans Community through individual and group initiatives.  

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