Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland

The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland (Mandel JCC) is a fitness, wellness and community center that is welcoming to all people in the Greater Cleveland community, regardless of race, religion, identity or location. Since the 1960s, the Mandel Foundation has been an ardent supporter of the Mandel JCC, contributing to annual campaigns and staff trainings. The Foundation has supported several capital improvement projects, including a transformational gift in 2006 that provided physical renovation, expansion, refurbishment, redesign and upgrade of the Mandel JCC facility, which included the creation of the Simon and Rose Mandel Community Room. In response to the tremendous challenges faced by early childhood education centers following COVID-19, the Foundation approved funding to help JCC Cleveland meet the community’s demand for skilled educators and high-quality early childhood services. All of these investments are built on a long history of the Mandel brothers’ contributions to building a flourishing Jewish community in Cleveland, Ohio and beyond.