TIKVAH MEANS HOPE


Tikvah Talk

January | 2025

HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2024

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.  

Tikvah By The Numbers in 2024


  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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!
  • 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.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

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.

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


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


For Friends & Family: Coffee with Rabbi Sandi Berliner @KleinLife

Wednesday, Jan. 29 | 2:00 3:00pm

Registration Deadline Jan. 22

Please register here

Zoom links for virtual events are sent via email one week prior.

COMMUNITY EVENTS IN THE AREA

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.

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

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

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

SPONSORS

Please click their logos to learn more

GRANTS


Warren Klein Memorial Fund

Edward and Marjorie

Goldberger Foundation

Nadine Hoch

Memorial Fund


The Tzedakah

 Foundation


Philadelphia Activities Fund,

City Council District 6, Councilman Michael Driscoll

City Council District 10, Councilman Brian O'Neill


Fegelson Young Feinberg Post 697 Jewish War Veterans


Temple University Hospital - Anna T. Jeanes Community Grant

Rotary Club of

NE Philadelphia, Cheltenham, Rockledge


Robert and Holly Lankin

LARRY A. REAL COMMUNITY PARTNERS

CORPORATE SPONSORS

DAVIS BUCCO & MAKARA

Freedman & Grinshpun, PC

THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS

Please click HERE to make a donation

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

BECOME A MEMBER TODAY

Please click HERE to become a member

Tikvah welcomes new members:

Nicole B.

Margaret M.

We appreciate your support which helps us provide

programming and events for our members and their loved ones.

Membership Type

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

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.


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.

CONTACT US

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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