Ways to Give

The Heilicher Annual Fund is the core of the school's unrestricted fundraising campaign. Your Annual Fund gift helps us continue to enhance our core academic, Judaic, arts, and athletics programs. Your gift also keeps our school financially accessible to any child in the community who wishes to attend.

Make your gift today

Participate in the Heilicher Annual Benefit — our largest fundraising event of the year, and an opportunity for our whole community to come together to celebrate our school! Whether through an event sponsorship, tribute gift, participation in the online or live auction, or by attending the event itself, there are many ways to be part of this wonderful evening.

Check out sponsorship opportunities for the Annual Benefit.

Read about our Benefit honoree.

Make a gift to Heilicher to honor or remember a loved one. We will send an acknowledgment card to the individual or family in whose name the gift is being made. Simply choose the "tribute or memorial" contribution option online, or send in a check with a note designating in whose honor/memory the gift is being made. Please do not forget to tell us where to send an acknowledgement.

Make a Tribute or Memorial Gift Donation

The goal of our Endowment and Planned Giving program is to provide for the long-term needs of our school. By supporting programmatic growth, teaching excellence, state-of-the-art facilities, technology, and the myriad of other factors that make Heilicher an exceptional school, we can ensure that it remains strong and vibrant for generations to come.

An endowment is a charitable fund that will be invested for generations to come. Each year, a percentage of the assets (generally 4%) will be distributed to the school. Donors may choose to donate to an existing endowment or create an endowment fund to benefit Heilicher (either unrestricted or for a particular program area). Over time, as the fund grows, the annual distribution amount will grow as well.

You do not have to be wealthy to help. You can begin with a small initial gift which can grow over time and ultimately provide important and needed funding for the school.

For information on establishing or contributing to an endowment fund, contact Kiel Majewski, Development Director, at 952.381.3503 or kmajewski@hmjds.org.

Heilicher Minneapolis Jewish Day School Endowment Funds as of June 2023

Anita and Julius Kieffer Family Education Fund 
Leonard and Betty Parker Endowment Fund 
Minneapolis Jewish Day School Designated Fund II 
Celebrate the Arts Fund
Herb and Betty Kohn Scholarship Fund 
Rose M. Aronson Scholarship Fund 
Emma F. Gilbert Celebrate the Arts Designated Fund 
Martin Van Adelsberg Memorial Building and Maintenance Fund
Alvin and Florence Greenberg Arts Fund 
Kozberg Family Staff Career Enhancement Fund 
Minneapolis Jewish Day School Scholarship Fund
Ceitel Beiner Frank Scholarship Fund 
Audrey Goldfarb Fund for Special Needs Education 
Minneapolis Jewish Day School Technology Fund 
Minneapolis Jewish Day School Building & Maintenance Fund 
Saul and Ada Graf Memorial Holocaust Education Fund 
William S. Rosen Jewish Education Fund 
Harold and Fleurette Spear HMJDS Scholarship Fund
Raella Weinstein Scholarship Fund 
Kenneth and Sally Leafman Appelbaum Science Endowment
Cornfield Family Judaic Studies Enhancement 
Adam and Mia Rafowitz Family Music Designated Fund 
Heidi and Brian Pergament Designated Fund for Inclusive Education
David and Eileen Kohn Family Professional Development Fund
Gerald Gottlieb Tuition Scholarship Endowment Fund 
Henry and Harriet Davis Family Endowment Fund 
Glassman-Kaufman Family Fund for Multicultural Programming  
Dr. Ray Levi Fund for Professional Development 
Leonard and Fay Ribnick Scholarship Fund
Beverly and Richard Fink Endowment Fund
Harold and Mickey Smith Judaic Studies Endowment Fund 
Wendy and Colin Smith Family Endowment Fund 
Heilicher Minneapolis Jewish Day School Endowment Fund