Grants Scholarships & Camperships

Summer Camp

We have funding available to make overnight Jewish Summer Camp a Reality.

Campership Award

The purpose of the Campership Award Fund is to enable eligible Jewish students in *El Paso and to experience the known benefits of accredited North American, USA based, Jewish overnight summer camps in the lives of the campers. The funds will be provided as subsidies and are not need based and will be awarded equally to all applicants up to $1,000 per camper. There is no annual limit as to the annual distribution of funds.

In the event that additional need-based funds are required to attend, the applicant is encouraged to apply to their affiliated congregation as well as to the specific Jewish overnight camp that is being attended, and importantly to the Jewish Children’s’ Regional Service (JCRS) based in New Orleans, Louisiana. (The mission of JCRS is to provide scholarships throughout the Southwest to allow all Jewish children the opportunity to attend Jewish Summer Camp. See www.jcrs.org for more information.)

Applications – which must be submitted to us for approval prior to submission to the camp – will be accepted after November 1 and must be received by March 1 annually and will be available as funds exist. All disbursements will be made directly to the summer camp.

*Campers must be full-time residents of Las Cruces or El Paso at the time of the summer program.

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One Happy Camper

Additional non-need funding available through its One Happy Camper program for first time campers attending Jewish overnight camp. Find Camps and Funding through One Happy Camper.

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Or Contact Us:

Email: LetsConnect@jewishelpaso.org
Phone: 915-842-9554

Current Approved Grants

We work hand in hand with our grantees to put creativity and strategy into action for our entire local community. We support the people, organizations, and agencies that move our mission forward locally and globally.

Current July 1, 2021-June 30,2022 Totaling $244,600 Approved Grants Include:

Congregation B’nai Zion: Book Zone

Congregation B’nai Zion/Temple Mount Sinai: Nava Tehila Shabbaton & Community Havdallah Concert

Chabad El Paso: Scholarship Grant – Gan Menachem School
Chabad El Paso: Education Grant – Gan Menachem School
Chabad El Paso: Camp Gan Israel Scholarship Grant – spring, summer, winter

Chabad Las Cruces: Camp Gan Israel Summer Camp
Chabad Las Cruces: Annual Chanukah Menorah Lighting and Concert
Chabad Las Cruces: Camp Gan Israel Scholarship Grant

The Cherry Hill School: Education Grant
The Cherry Hill School: Scholarship Grant
The Cherry Hill School: Bridging Young Jewish Communities
The Cherry Hill School: Greening the Desert

El Paso Holocaust Museum & Study Center: Grant Request

The J Center for Early Learning: Secular and Judaics Curriculum programs
The J Center for Early Learning: Education Grant
The J Center for Early Learning: Scholarship Grant
The J Center for Early Learning: Camp Shamayim Scholarship Grant

Temple Mount Sinai: Generational Event Series
Temple Mount Sinai: Feasting with Chef Katsuji Tanabe
Temple Mount Sinai: Building a Jewish Home and Values with The Bible Players and Jane Larkin

Includes direct costs only. Does not include allocations of staff time and other necessary overhead.

We are grateful to The Jewish Community Foundation of El Paso for its support of these programs.

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Or contact us directly:

Email: Grants@jewishelpaso.org
Phone: 915-842-9554

Scholarships

Bea Weisz Scholarship

It was the wish of Ms. Weisz that proceeds from the Beatrice L. Weisz Memorial Scholarship Fund would be given to a needy and worthy Jewish college student(s) in El Paso and Las Cruces to enable him or her to pursue his or her studies.

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Email: LetsConnect@jewishelpaso.org
Phone: 915-842-9554