Moishe Alexander |
| President |
| Canadian Funding Corporation (CFC) |
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Canada |
About Moishe Alexander
Finding Causes
With an emphasis in helping others, Moishe Alexander conducts business and community service wholeheartedly. Moishe Alexander finds causes that are important to him, and offers assistance based on understanding. Because of his continued service, Moishe Alexander has established himself as a leader for several groups.
An Alternative Lending Group
Moishe Alexander opened Canadian Funding Corporation several years ago as an alternative lending group for those seeking to realize their dreams. In this industry revolutionizing company, Moishe Alexander has put together a team that focuses on specific client needs. Moishe Alexander's executives include an assets and acquisitions manager, market valuations expert, and a mortgage agent. Moishe Alexander uses his unique ability to network with people to bring the right lenders and borrowers together. As a fiscal matchmaker, Moishe Alexander facilitates relationships between people with private funds and those looking for funding to build their dreams. Canadian Funding Corporation is structured by Moishe Alexander to include new construction, bridge loans, and renovations. Moishe Alexander looks at the big picture in order to provide funding, and may often strike deals that traditional lending institutions cannot do.
Regular Donating
Even though Moishe Alexander has closed over 300 deals in the past few years, he donates much of company revenues to charitable efforts. Moishe Alexander uses company funds to give to non-profit organizations in the area that focus on family services. Often times, Moishe Alexander's donations go to food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and other supplies. Although Moishe Alexander has given time and money to several causes, he prefers to give anonymously and without any kind of fanfare. Moishe Alexander and Canadian Funding Corporation's help comes from the heart.
Religious Organization Involvement
Devoted to his faith, Moishe Alexander focuses much of his own community efforts on religious organizations that help those in need. Moishe Alexander donates to the United Chesed of Toronto, and gives time by placing Jewish people in need with the right services and companies. As "Jewish Unity in Action" is the organization's mantra, Moishe Alexander works with members of his synagogue on these Jewish centered help projects. Moishe Alexander also employs the principles of Chabad-Lubavitch, which is a movement, philosophy, and organization focused on enlightenment through daily Torah education. Giving is one way Moishe Alexander employs the principles of his faith.
Philanthropy Profile: Moishe Alexander
Moishe Alexander’s philanthropic activities all involve helping the underprivileged. Within this context, however, Moishe Alexander has a range of interests. Two of his primary charities are Jewish community organizations. Other interests include a green energy company with a humanitarian mandate and a medical foundation. Some of the organizations that Moishe Alexander contributes to are described below.
Chabad-Lubavitch
Chabad-Lubavitch is an Orthodox Jewish movement and organization. Founded by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi in 18th-century Russia, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement is a branch of Hasidic Judaism that is based on total emersion within Jewish spiritual and physical life. Currently headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, the Chabad-Lubavitch organization promotes Jewish welfare around the world. The Chabad-Lubavitch organization was founded in the early 1940s by the sixth leader of the movement, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn.
Chabad is a Hebrew acronym for Chochmah, Binah, Da’at, or “Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge.” Lubavitch is the name of the Russian town where the movement was founded. Chabad-Lubavitch is one of the largest Hasidic movements in the world, with an estimated 200,000 members. There are over 1000 Chabad-Lubavitch institutions in more than 70 countries worldwide.
The Chabad-Lubavitch organization’s activities are centred around two main themes: outreach activities intended for non-observant Jews and community activities for the movement’s members. Chabad-Lubavitch manages a network of over 1000 children’s camps worldwide, over half of which are in North America. Additionally, Chabad-Lubavitch is active on college and university campuses and distributes Jewish literature through the Kehot Publication Society. Chabad-Lubavitch also maintains Chabad houses, which are Jewish community centres. The first Chabad house was founded on the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) campus.
The Chabad-Lubavitch organization was an early adopter of digital communications technology, founding a pre-Internet Chabad discussion forum in 1988. The organization also maintains Chabad.org, created in 1994, a comprehensive Jewish information portal featuring Torah teachings, special-interest blogs, news, recipes, and a full range of content aimed at the entire breadth of Jewish community life.
Jadä Foundation, Inc.
Founded in 1990 as Knapp Communication Engineering, Inc., the Jadä Foundation conducts scientific research in the sustainable energy industry. The Jadä Foundation’s core work consists of analyzing energy problems, reducing system inefficiencies, developing mathematical models, and creating practical applications of fundamental physics models. By focusing on quantum electrodynamics, condensed matter physics, and spintronics, the Jadä Foundation has developed non-polluting technologies for the green energy and semiconductor industries.
Additionally, the Jadä Foundation spearheads a range of humanitarian activities, including sponsoring an Indonesian orphanage, serving underprivileged families in South America and Southeast Asia, renovating women’s and children’s shelters, contributing to food banks, providing automobiles to working families in developing countries, and fundraising for natural disaster victims.
The Jadä Foundation holds four primary humanitarian goals. First, the creation of economically self-sufficient communities in developing nations and the United States, including opportunities for education and economic and social development. Second, the establishment of a series of worldwide fair-trade projects, in conjunction with the self-sufficient communities initiative. Third, an energy subsidy program for the developing world. Fourth, a scholarship program for higher learning.
The Jadä Foundation can be contacted via its website: www.jadafoundation.com.
United Chesed of Toronto
A registered, not-for-profit charity based in Toronto, United Chesed is a one-stop referral service that provides emergency support for Jewish families and individuals in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). United Chesed’s services include food, clothing, and shelter, as well as medical, financial, and social support. United Chesed also provides job-search assistance, free legal consultations, hospital visits, and assistance for the elderly.
Founded by Dentist, Dr. Brian Price in 2001, United Chesed aims to unify Jewish community service organizations, establish communication networks between synagogues, and create a general climate of Sholom Bayis (domestic harmony or good relations) within the North American Jewish community.
United Chesed partners with dozens of international, Canadian, and local Jewish organizations to achieve these goals. United Chesed’s network include Efrat, Jewish Women International, United Synagogue Youth, Bnai Brith: Heart to Heart, Torah in Motion, and Hillel of Greater Toronto, among many others. In 2007, United Chesed received donations with a total value of approximately $750,000. Further information on United Chesed can be found at www.unitedchesed.com.
Canadian Cancer Society
The Canadian Cancer Society is a national organization of volunteers that works on a community basis to eradicate cancer and improve the quality of life of those living with the disease. Founded in 1938, the Canadian Cancer Society grew out of the concerns of the Saskatchewan Medical Association, which felt that the general public lacked awareness of the signs of cancer, and that consequently cancer sufferers were often being diagnosed too late for treatment.
The origins of the society were the King George V Silver Jubilee Cancer Fund, a 1937 initiative that raised nearly $500,000 for the founding of the society. The Jubilee Cancer Fund and an annual grant from the Canadian Medical Association initially provided the financing for the Canadian Cancer Society. Now, however, the Canadian Cancer Society relies on volunteers, fundraising drives, corporate giving, and individual donations.
The Canadian Cancer Society sponsors research, advocacy, prevention, education, and support initiatives across Canada. The largest charitable funder of cancer research in the country, the Canadian Cancer Society’s research funds are distributed by the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute through a rigorous review process that ensures research monies are put to the best use possible.
Transparency and accountability are fundamental to the Canadian Cancer Society’s mission. The society complies with the Ethical Fundraising and Financial Accountability Code, a set of standards established to encourage financially responsible charities, both in its research endeavours and other initiatives.
The Canadian Cancer Society also maintains an information service, including a wide range of brochures and publications in more than a dozen languages. Canadian Cancer Society publications deal with issues including diagnosis, treatment, reducing the risk of cancer, and living with cancer. The Canadian Cancer Society also publishes statistics on cancer and maintains an information website, www.cancer.ca.
In addition to national offices located in Toronto and Ottawa, the Canadian Cancer Society maintains 10 provincial and territorial branches. With approximately 1,200 staff and 170,000 volunteers, the Canadian Cancer Society works at both the grassroots and advocacy levels toward the goal of permanently eradicating cancer.