Abstract
Starting in 2020, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has provided financial support to Federations to collect a standard set of financial related information as part of their community studies. The purpose of standardizing these measures is to facilitate the development of aggregated data across participating communities as well as to support comparisons across individual communities. By aggregating data, the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies (CMJS) can also analyze small groups (such as households experiencing poverty) in cases for which there are insufficient responses in individual studies to support detailed analysis.
The current report presents an analysis of the aggregated data that have been collected as part of this effort. This report includes data from 10 completed CMJS Jewish community studies that collected information as part of the Weinberg grant along with data from two additional community studies that included the Weinberg questions but did not receive the grant.