The Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation promotes the values of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity through leadership development, partnerships with educational and Jewish communal organizations, and provision of scholarships, financial support and programming for the betterment of AEPi brothers, their campuses or their community. Generous alumni and undergraduate members, parents, private philanthropists and foundations, and other “Friends of AEPi” support the AEPi experience through the Foundation. This is done by providing scholarships for academic excellence, attendance at leadership development conferences, and educational trips to Israel; chapter programming grants for leadership training, Israel advocacy training, and Jewish holiday programming; and subsidies for AEPi’s leadership development, Jewish identity and civic engagement programs The AEPi Foundation provides grants to chapters for such activities as co-hosting a Shabbat dinner with other campus organizations such as the local Hillel or Chabad. Undergraduate and alumni brothers are also recognized with several awards presented annually for campus, Jewish or community leadership.Included among those awards is the Gitelson Medallion, presented to undergraduate and alumni brothers who have Included among those awards is the Gitelson Medallion, presented to undergraduate and alumni brothers who have excelled in the area of Jewish communal service. The Medallion is presented in memory of the scholarship and communal activity of Nehemiah Gitelson, Talmudic scholar and father of M. Leo Gitelson, a 1921 graduate of New York University.