Protecting Communities-at-risk: Organizations receiving funds

The following six community organizations from Quebec received contribution funding to support their efforts to enhancing various security infrastructure needs. Additional funded organizations will be announced separately.

• Beth Zion Congregation (Côte St. Luc - $15,568) maintains a house of worship reflecting Orthodox Judaism, as well as a cemetery and a community centre for its members.
• Congregation Beth Israel Beth Aaron (BIBA) (Côte St. Luc - $16,466) maintains a house of worship, a community centre for the development of the welfare of its members, and the cultivation of Jewish thought and action.  BIBA fosters and encourages the organization of social and cultural groups among its members, children and the community for the purpose of continual social development.
• Congregation Beth Ora (Saint-Laurent - $27,100) maintains a house of worship, and a community centre for the development of the moral, mental, social and physical welfare of its members and the larger community.
• Corporation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews (Montreal - $23,274) maintains a house of worship and community centre for the development of the moral, mental, social and physical welfare of its members, and to cultivate Jewish thought and action.
• Federation CJA, Cummings House (Montreal - $50,535) is the central funding, planning and coordinating body of services for the Jewish population of Montreal.  FCJA supports a family of constituent agencies and associated communal organizations offering innovative programs, meeting health and welfare, education, cultural, spiritual and social needs.
• YM-YWHA Jewish Community Centre, West Island Branch (Pierrefonds - $11,540). YM-YWHA's mission is to be the central force in the Jewish community, by providing, in a Jewish ambience, quality services that promote the social, cultural, recreational, physical, and intellectual needs of members and users.