Welcome to the Jewish Heritage Foundation


The Jewish Heritage Foundation provides grant opportunities to promote health and well being in the Greater Kansas City area, with a priority to serve the Jewish community.

Our website will introduce you to the Foundation, let you know about some of our grantees, and help you find out how to apply for a grant.

Grant seekers, please go directly to Grant Programs for more information and to register.


JHF Compiles a Resource Guide for Jewish Older Adults

The Jewish Heritage Foundation recently surveyed local Jewish organizations about programs and services they offer to Kansas City Jewish seniors. Their responses are compiled in a booklet entitled:   A Resource Guide: Older Adult Services in the Kansas City Jewish Community .



Spotlight on Grantees





HARVESTERS -- THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK improves
older adults' access to nutritious food items and enhances
community-building through its Senior Mobile Food Pantry,
funded in part with a JHF grant.








KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS is one of the only
community gardens nationwide to focus solely on food
production. A grant from JHF has enabled KCCG to
expand its Self-Help Gardening for Low Income Seniors
Program
.