Recent (and not so recent) articles about Jewish youth philanthropy from publications around the country.
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08/17/2008 Samuel M Goldston Teen Philanthropy Project to Receive Award The twenty-four local Jewish teenage philanthropists will be honored by the Western PA Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals on Wednesday evening, November 12, at the Sheraton Station Square Hotel. Read More |
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06/08/2008 Jewish teen group earns 'A' in Philanthropy SFGate.com Read More |
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05/15/2008 Youth Imagine and Raise Funds for Future Jewish Review - http://www.jewishreview.org/node/12395 Read More |
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04/25/2008 Learning To Give: Teens Explore a Philanthropic Future We often think of teens as spending time and money on iPods, videos and other electronic gadgetry. But Tribe Three-Sixty has faith in the inherent goodness of teens and knows that to ensure the future of Jewish philanthropy, it is imperative that teens learn not just the why of helping others, but also the how. From The Atlanta Jewish Times Online. Read More |
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04/08/2008 Young Dole Out Tzedakah New Jersey Jewish News Read More |
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02/20/2008 Youth Philanthropy Institute comes under PJLL umbrella Read More |
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11/08/2007 Learning to Give The youth philanthropy program, an initiative of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix, seeks to create and nurture the next generation of Jewish philanthropists, Cohen says. The program invites b'nai mitzvah to deposit a portion of their cash gifts to establish personal B'nai Tzedek endowment funds. The foundation adds its own contribution to the individual funds as well, and the teens then learn about how to choose causes and charities to fund. Read More |
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11/06/2007 After Bar Mitzvahs, Teens Keep Giving Rebecca Schwartz was featured in the Forward’s Giving section three years ago, around the time of her bat mitzvah. Back then, she was one of the first to participate in Give a Mitzvah — Do a Mitzvah, a program that helps teenagers use their coming-of-age ceremony to help others. The program is still going strong: About 125 kids have raised close to $1.5 million at their bar and bat mitzvahs in the past three years. But even more significantly, it has now spawned an offshoot philanthropy program for teenagers between the eighth and the 12th grades to continue their efforts long after their 12th and 13th birthdays. Read More |
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10/11/2007 Grant Aims to Make Students Into Lifelong Philanthropists The Abrams Hebrew Academy Student Philanthropy Program hopes to bring the notion of tzedakah -- "repairing the world" -- closer to its students. Read More |
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07/27/2007 Teens Tackle Tzedakah Dollars Courtney Teller knows all about giving. The high school sophomore won the community service award at Archer School for Girls, and her grandmother, Annette Shapiro, is a legendary volunteer and philanthropist in the Los Angeles Jewish community. As part of her participation in the Community Youth Foundation -- a program of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles where teens allocate $10,000 in grants -- Teller and her friends visited Shane's Inspiration, a West L.A. playground for the disabled. While she was moved by the hordes of kids, both abled and disabled, playing on the rubber-padded, accessibly designed equipment, the fact that it took her 30 minutes to find parking signaled to her that demand had outpaced supply. Read More |