Stacy Scheinberg

As a girl growing up, Stacy Scheinberg was aware of UJA-Federation of New York, but she didn't know too much about the multitude of activities under its umbrella.

But in 1997, she turned to UJA-Federation for help expanding Partners in Giving, a nonprofit organization she founded to host parties for children at hospitals and care centers, and she has been a committed volunteer ever since.

Stacy needed assistance for the organization and staffing of many Partners in Giving events. UJA-Federation agreed to become an active participant in this program.

Soon, Stacy joined the Women's Young Families Division, where she led many projects, engaging families in chesed. Then, during the second intifada in Israel, she made a weeklong "healing tour," visiting Israeli hospitals and distributing hundreds of stuffed animals made by UJA-Federation volunteers. UJA-Federation arranged the tour and provided all the logistical support needed to visit eight hospitals in five days. "It was a personal mission that I wanted to achieve, yet I couldn't have done it on my own without the enormous logistical support of UJA-Federation in Israel and New York," Stacy explains. "If you want to help people, it's hard to do it independently. But you can achieve it on a large scale with the help of UJA-Federation."