Pictured with Tikvah Executive Director Abby Gilbert at our recent volunteer appreciation event are 18 of our event facilitators, office helpers, and phone squad captains. Interested
in volunteering with Tikvah? Contact Barbara@tikvahajmi.org to explore opportunities.
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Tikvah By The Numbers in 2024
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342 Program Participants This is an increase of over 200% since our emergence from the pandemic period in 2021 and our return to mostly in person programming. 47 of these are young adults in their 20s and 30s. Forty percent of our participants this year are older adults age 60+. Included in these numbers are adults with the lived experience and those adjacent to them in their lives such as parents, siblings, spouses, friends and care takers.
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124 programs These included arts & crafts, birthday and holiday celebrations, bowling, cooking, friends and family coffee & conversation, meditation, music, neighborhood brunches and dinners, volunteer opportunities, walking, wellness programs. Monthly trips with transportation from various neighborhoods to festivals, gardens, museums and shows were also offered and well attended.
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52 volunteers Thank you to our board of directors, committee members, program facilitators, office helpers and phone squad captains. We could not do what we do without you!
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26 partner organizations The following partnered on programs and/or provided resources to make our programming possible: ArtReach, Congregations of Shaare Shomayim, Congregation Beth Or, Har Zion Synagogue, Horizon House, House of Kosher, Jewish Federation Neighborhood Kehillot, JFCS Philadelphia, JEVS Human Services, JLV disAbility and Inclusion Consortium, Jewish Relief Agency, Kaiserman JCC, KleinLife, Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel HAMOTZI, NAMI Main Line, NAMI Montgomery County, NAMI Philadelphia, Ohev Shalom of Bucks County, PJF&M, Rotary Club of NE Phila Cheltenham Rockledge, RSVP VEC, Settlement Music School, Theatre Ariel, Theater Horizon, Tribe 12, Walnut Street Theater.
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Register for programs by clicking on the link below each event.
The same links appear on the calendar listings for those events on the Tikvah Website https://tikvahajmi.org/calendar/month/2024-12/ If you need assistance registering for a program contact us office@tikvahajmi.org or 215.832.0671.
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Cooking & Dinner with Drew @JFCS, Brodsky Center
Tuesday, Jan. 7 | 5:30 – 7:30pm
Registration Deadline Jan. 2
Please register here
January Birthday Lunch @KleinLife
Wednesday, Jan. 8 | 11:30 – 1:30pm
Registration Deadline Dec. 30
Please register here
Neighborhood Brunch with Friends @Pumpernick's Deli
Sunday, Jan. 12 | 12:00 – 2:00pm
Registration Deadline Nov. 5th
Please register here
Learn & Light Bites @Kaiserman JCC
Tuesday, Jan. 14 | 12:o0 – 1:30pm
Registration Deadline Jan. 5
Please register here
Virtual Living in the Moment Meditation
Wednesday, Jan. 15 | 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Registration Deadline Jan. 8
Please register here
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Tikvah Volunteers: JRA Packing & Pizza
Friday, Jan. 17 | 10:00am – 12:30pm
Registration Deadline Jan. 8
Please register here
Let's Get Crafty @KleinLife
Sunday, Jan. 19| 1:30 – 3:30pm
Registration Deadline Jan. 12
Please register here
MLK Day of Service | Lunch & Packing Blizzard Bags @KleinLife
Monday, Jan. 20 | 11:30 – 2:30pm
Registration Deadline Jan. 12
Please register here
Tikvah Trips & Shows: Driving Miss Daisy @ Walnut Street Theater
Sunday, Jan. 26 | 2:00 – 4:30pm
Registration Deadline Jan. 16
Please register here
Lunch and Film "How Saba Kept Singing" @KleinLife
Monday, Jan. 27 | 11:30 – 2:30pm
Registration Deadline Dec. 26
Please register here
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For Friends & Family: Coffee with Rabbi Sandi Berliner @KleinLife
Wednesday, Jan. 29 | 2:00 –3:00pm
Registration Deadline Jan. 22
Please register here
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COMMUNITY EVENTS IN THE AREA | |
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Coffee & Conversation
Tuesday, Jan. 21 | 11:00am – 12:30pm
Join Tikvah Executive Director Abby Gilbert for an overview about how Tikvah empowers adults with the lived experience of mental illness. A question and answer session will be part of this free program that is open to the community.
Darchei Noam Synagogue
211 W. Butler Pike, Ambler, PA 19002
Free parking is available. Darchei Noam is located across from the Ambler train station.
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Wellness Wednesday: Resource Fair
Wednesday, Jan. 22 | 12:00 – 2:00pm
Join us every 4th Wednesday of the month at the NAMI MONTCO Office for a time for people to connect and have fun!
We will have light snacks and refreshments along with a planned activity and free time to socialize. Please register on your own here
NAMI MONTCO office:
100 W Main St UNIT 204, Lansdale, PA 19446
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Inclusion Shabbat
Sunday, Jan. 25 | 9:30 – 12:00pm
Tikvah Executive Director Abby Gilbert will give a talk about how Tikvah was founded, what the organization does and how those in the community can become involved.
A kiddush luncheon will follow the service and Abby will remain to answer questions.
This program is free and open to the community.
Ohev Shalom of Buck County:
944 Second Street Pike, Richboro, PA 18954
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HaMotzi Dinner
Sunday, Jan. 26 | 5:00 – 6:00pm
Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel invites you to a free community dinner. Home cooked meals, fresh fruit, produce and groceries. In Person Dinner begins at 5 p.m. - seating is limited to those who reserve by calling 215.887.8700 by Wednesday, January 22 to participate in dinner or to volunteer.
Using Septa? Bus Line 55 or 7, Regional Rail, Jenkintown Stop.
Keneseth Israel:
8339 Old York Road, Elkins Park, PA 19027
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SPONSORS
Please click their logos to learn more
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Warren Klein Memorial Fund
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Edward and Marjorie
Goldberger Foundation
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Nadine Hoch
Memorial Fund
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The Tzedakah
Foundation
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LARRY A. REAL COMMUNITY PARTNERS | |
THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS
Please click HERE to make a donation
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General Donations
Joseph Carney
In Honor of Neen Davis
BJ and Scott Snyder
In Memory of Marvin Pincus and Miss Dee Blanard
Leonard Dorfman
In Memory of Beulah Saideman
Laurence Saideman
Giving Tuesday
Pat Betz
Rabbi Gary Charlestein
Gary Freedman
Cheryl Harper
Mark Michaelman
Shelly Quigley
Barbara Ponczek
Laurence Seidemon
Judy Zon
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BECOME A MEMBER TODAY
Please click HERE to become a member
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Tikvah welcomes new members:
Nicole B.
Margaret M.
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We appreciate your support which helps us provide
programming and events for our members and their loved ones.
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Individual Member: $20 per year
Our Individual Membership entitles you to:
- Weekly free or subsidized social gatherings
- Biweekly phone squad check-in calls
- Monthly member check-in meeting
- Monthly newsletter
- Seasonal holiday events
- Periodic wellness programs
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Supporter Member: $50 per year
This membership is offered to those who wish to support our organization and help make hope happen for those we serve.
Your supporter membership entitles you to receive our Tikvah Talk newsletter. You also receive updates and invitations to Tikvah programming throughout the year.
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TIKVAH MISSION STATEMENT
Tikvah supports and empowers adults living with mental illness so that they may feel accomplished, independent, and fulfilled. We strive to reduce isolation through social and educational programming.
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Our Staff and Office Information:
Abby Gilbert, Executive Director abby@tikvahajmi.org
Barbara Ponczek, Program Director barbara@tikvahajmi.org
Orit Dolgushev, Outreach Manager orit@tikvahajmi.org
Brenda Kinnear, Membership Associate brenda@tikvahajmi.org
Ellen Levin, Bookkeeper/Registrar: ellen@tikvahajmi.org
Office Support: Irvin Apt, Sandra Frank, Mindy Freeman, Ellen Gorberg, Halie Hershman, Ileene Jaffe, Joyce Oxfeld, Rob Singer
Phone Squad: Chuck Allen, Irwin Bernstein, Michelle Bernstein, Matt Corchnoy, Jeff Gansheroff, Shari Simons, Mike Stape, Brandy Wasilewski
Program Facilitators: Rabbi Sandi Berliner, Rhonda Cohen, Rycki Joy Freedman, Drew Gold, David Karasow, Rabbi Ephraim Levin
General questions office@tikvahajmi.org or call 215-832-0671 Calls are answered and messages returned Tuesday - Thursday 9AM to 4:30PM, also three hours prior to and during programs.
Business Office: Tikvah@KleinLife, Suite 122, 10100 Jamison Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19116
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