NCJW St. Paul is an all-volunteer organization. Our Board has made a commitment to use our funds for community purposes, thus we will continue to operate with no paid staff. We have 32 members on our Board, including 12 officers. Our current roster includes approximately 600 members, over 100 of them being very active volunteers.

We have a long-standing relationship with community partners throughout St. Paul. Highlights of past NCJW projects include:

• Shalom Outreach Services (now Jewish Domestic Abuse Collaborative) addresses domestic abuse in the Jewish community
• The McKinley Pre-School Project, which supported and influenced the development of Head Start in St. Paul.
• Counselors Aide Program at Mechanics Arts High School which provided guidance and established a career resource center.
• TLC – Teaching Language Communications, a program to teach newly arrived Hmong children the English language.
• Children Are People, a drug education program to improve self-image of elementary school children.
• The Holocaust Project, which brought the history of the Holocaust and the lesson of tolerance and the value of diversity to students.
• For Our Daughters, a Breast Cancer Awareness series provided by NCJW, United Hospitals and the St. Paul J.C.C.
• Ready- Set- Grow, education and self-esteem program for 3-5 year olds.
• Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, an educational program for students to lessen the incidence of hate and prejudice. Tolerance Minnesota, a state-wide educational program, has adopted this project.