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Local Organizations
Receive State
Security Grants
Andy Gotlieb | JE EDITOR
G ov. Tom Wolf announced on Dec.

15 nearly $4 million in funding to
support security enhancement proj-
ects for 93 nonprofits, including several
Jewish institutions in the Philadelphia
area. “While it’s a shame this has been
necessary, I’m proud to have secured
nearly $20 million over the past three
years to protect Pennsylvania’s diverse
and vulnerable communities from
hate-driven violence,” Wolf said in a
prepared statement. “I look forward to
the day when the goodness of human-
ity prevails.”
tion category for single bias hate crime
incidents,” as identified by the FBI’s
Hate Crime Statistics publication, such
as race/ethnicity/ancestry, religion,
sexual orientation, disability, gender
and gender identity.

Applicants could apply for grant
awards ranging from $5,000 to
$150,000 for security enhancements.

The money can be used for safety and
security planning, safety and security
equipment and technology, training,
building upgrades, vulnerability and
threat assessments, and other security
enhancements. Local organizations receiving grants
include: THE UNWANTED
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Bucks County
Mid-States Habonim Camping
Association, Inc., $24,000
Delaware County
Judith Creed Horizons for Achieving
Independence, $75,000
Montgomery County
Brotherhood Temple Brith Achim,
$24,814 Congregation Beth Am Israel,
$25,000 Kaiserman Jewish Community
Center, $40,000
Kohelet Yeshiva, $108,419
Governor Tom Wolf licensed under CC BY 2.0
Gov. Tom Wolf
Wolf signed House Bill 859 to create
the Nonprofit Security Grant Program
in November 2019, one year after the
Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue com-
plex shooting.

Administered by the Pennsylvania
Commission on
Crime and
Delinquency, the program supports
grants to nonprofits that principally
serve individuals, groups or institu-
tions included within “a bias motiva-
Philadelphia County
Drizin-Weiss Post 215 Jewish War
Veterans of the United States Of
America, Inc., $84,333
Penn Hillel, $25,000
PCCD plans to release another
Nonprofit Security Grant Fund
Program solicitation in January. More
information about PCCD’s Nonprofit
Security Grant Fund Program and the
application process can be found on
PCCD’s website at pccd.pa.gov/. JE
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