Karen & Rick Zakalik

Karen & Rick Zakalik were presented with the Endowment Leadership Award at the 2023 Annual Meeting. Click on the video below to watch the touching tribute. The Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies would be honored to assist you and your family in preserving your...

TELLL Fund

TELLL FUND The TELLL Fund, established in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Shatkin, ob”m, provides honorarium for Torah lectures, sponsorship of local Jewish workshops and talks, as well as Jewish educational and cultural programs and materials for dissemination....

Surdam

Anne Alford & Manson Fiske Surdam Charitable Foundation Historic Gift will Forever Support Buffalo City Mission, FeedMore WNY and Friends of Night People The Surdam family has been a part of Buffalo’s history for more than a century. Lewis Surdam – Manson’s...

David Feuerstein

David Feuerstein (1952 – Present) David credits his parental upbringing to making him the man he is today. His parents taught him the meaning of Tzedakah. In his father, Irving’s words: It doesn’t matter what you haveWhat matters, is what you do with what you...

Nathan Benderson

Nathan Benderson (1917 – 2012) November 20, 1917 was an auspicious day for the City of Buffalo. Nathan Benderson, who became one of the most important philanthropists in Western New York, was born on that date to Isaac and Minnie Benderson. Sixteen years later he...

Theodore Hofeller

THEODORE HOFELLER (1854 – 1930) Theodore Hofeller was a well-known businessman and philanthropist born on March 17, 1854 who emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1869. He attended the Buffalo schools and initially entered the clothing business. In 1881 he...