Some highlights of these 110 years show where we have been and set a path for where we will go in the future.

1903 - NCJW became the founding member of Federation of Jewish Charities, known now as the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland.

1907 - NCJW established, with CEA and Federation For Jewish Charities, Camp Wise, for needy children, mothers, and babies.

1919 - NCJW established Big Sisters, trains, volunteers as tutors, aides, and friends to Jewish orphan girls as the Jewish Orphan Home, forerunner of Bellefaire/Jewish Children's Bureau.

1938 - NCJW's Vocational Counseling Program leads to the establishment of Jewish Vocational Services (JVS)

1960 - NCJW initiates the first Cleveland Meals On Wheels with St. Luke's Hospital, East End Neighborhood House and City of Cleveland Division of Recreation.

1962 - NCJW breaks ground to establish Council Gardens, a model nonsectarian independent living apartment complex for the well elderly with moderate incomes. It is the first of its kind in Cleveland.

1970 - NCJW holds the first Designer Dress Days (DDD) in the lobby of the Shaker Theater. This annual fund-raising project earns additional dollars for distribution to community, national, and Israel commitments.

1971 - NCJW welcomes Jewish newcomers to the community through Cleveland Shalom.

1978 - NCJW launches, with the JCC and the Jewish Community Federation, Jewish Transportation Service, for conveying the elderly and disabled to their medical appointments.

1979 - NCJW opens Council House, co-sponsored with JFSA, a model group home for Jewish men with chronic mental illness.

1980 - NCJW launches Parent Resource Project/Totline, in cooperation with the Federation For Community Planning and the Center For Human Services. This telephone counseling helps develop positive parenting skills. Later renamed Bellflower Center/Tot Line.

1983 - NCJW undertakes the Holocaust Archives Project: videotaped testimonies of 136 Cleveland area survivors, liberators, and righteous gentiles.

1990 - NCJW, through its Soviet Host Family Project, sponsors new Soviet immigrant families.

1991 - NCJW allocates major funds over three years and provides volunteers to the only Jewish hospice in Cleveland, known as the NCJW/Montefiore Hospice Project.

1996 - NCJW established Parents As School Partners at Buckeye Woodland Elementary School to help parents of early elementary age enhance their children's reading skills.