As the permanent giving arm of The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, the United Jewish Endowment Fund (UJEF) offers the donor the reassurance of decades of caring and planning for the vital needs of Jews locally, nationally, and overseas and the satisfaction of knowing that their dollars mean assistance is at hand, no matter the crisis. The permanence, growth, and continued vitality of the UJEF gives dedicated Board members and staff the opportunity to look at the needs and challenges of today's and tomorrow's Jewish community and provide seed money for exciting, innovative programs designed to address them; these are the very projects which might otherwise have no opportunity to prove their effectiveness.