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Directed Giving
As a result of the generosity of past donors, San Diego Jewish Academy is able to benefit from a variety of enriched programs that include the following:
Brandes Merit Scholarship Program
The Tanya and Charles Brandes Foundation has created and funded a merit scholarship program at San Diego Jewish Academy, Maimonides Upper School. The program selects up to 10 students each year for a multi-year scholarship. The students learn that success is measured by ethical behavior, kind actions and a personal commitment to repairing the world through deeds of loving kindness.
Healthy Habits
This fund underwrites costs associated with promoting a healthy environment for our students through nutrition education, nutrition guidelines, physical education and activity and environmental awareness.
Levana’s Garden
This fund helps sustain the innovative learning garden created in memory of Levana Estline, beloved teacher who nurtured San Diego Jewish Academy kindergartners for 18 years. The person/s you wish to acknowledge will receive a beautiful tribute card.
Matthew Beaver Technology Fund
Matthew Beaver, a beloved member of San Diego Jewish Academy's Class of 2009, lost his life to Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare cancer, on January 14, 2009. A Technology Fund has been named in his honor, reflecting Matthew's passion for computers and technology. The fund will enable the Maimonides Upper School to offer additional computer classes and will help SDJA update and maintain its campus wide computers.
Senior Israel Trip
This fund helps underwrite the costs for the five week senior trip to Israel and Poland, which is the culmination of an SDJA education.
Zikaron V’Tikvah / Butterfly Project
This fund helps sustain the internationally renowned SDJA Butterfly Project (Zikaron V’Tikvah) that commemorates the lives of the 1.5 million children lost in the Holocaust.
Professional Development
Part of SDJA's mission is to hire, support and train the best faculty and staff. Supporting their professional development is an investment in knowledge and intelligence that ultimately finds its way into the most important place in school: the classroom.
Tikkun Olam
Participating in Tikkun Olam, or repairing the world, teaches students that we each have a responsibility to make the world a better place. Students learn that each individual working to do something good can lead to a community collectively making a difference in the world in which we live. Understanding what community means and feeling a sense of obligation to and respect for community are important goals at San Diego Jewish Academy. SDJA will often use current events and crises as learning opportunities to teach students that everyone has a responsibility to help when there is a problem or need.
Maimonides Upper School
This fund underwrites costs associated with specialized studies and activities in the upper school including Alufiyada-math field day, advanced science equipment, music and arts.
Golda Meir Lower School
This fund underwrites costs associated with specialized studies and activities in the lower school including Judaic Studies, music and arts.
Lions Athletics
Athletics is an integral aspect of the educational experience at SDJA. It provides our students an opportunity to set goals and work to achieve those goals as an individual and as part of a team. Presently, 75% of the student body participates in at least one athletic sport. Sportsmanship, dedication and teamwork are the cornerstones of the Lions Athletic Department. Through the experience of athletic competition, our students acquire life skills that will benefit them long after graduation.
Support Directed Giving Programs:
For more information about SDJA's Directed Giving programs please contact JoAnn Hardy (858) 704-3706 or via e-mail at jhardy@sdja.com
"SDJA has strived everyday to instill within me certain values and through these values I am proud to say that SDJA has provided me with the necessary tools for life."
Micah Frank, SDJA Class of 2009
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