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Each year, we have several exciting programs for JYPI alumni, including Synagogue Education and the Incentive Grant Program. In the Incentive Grant Program, local youth groups and religious schools apply for funding (up to $300) to do social justice and community service programming. JYPI alumni choose the grant recipients.
If you are interested in participating in alumni programming or have any ideas for programs, please contact Leah Siskin leah@jypi.org.
“JYPI 201” is the next step for teens who have completed a JYPI youth philanthropy program!
In this exciting program, teens will have the opportunity to:
- Learn more about philanthropic decision-making from experts in the field;
- Work in small interest-based groups to develop funding priorities and research organizations whom you will invite to apply for funding consideration;
- Consider how Jewish values influence our giving decisions;
- Decide collectively about the final awards being made to a variety of organizations selected by you and your peers.
“JYPI 201” will build on teens existing JYPI experience in just 7 sessions from October to April.
JYPI gave away a total of $2,650!
- Adas Israel Kadima Chapter: To take the 7th grade class to a homeless shelter
- Adat Reyim Religious School: To learn about visiting the sick followed by a visit to families of wounded American soldiers
- Beth El Hebrew Congregation: To collect and fill backpacks for Volunteer Emergency Families for Children
- B’nai Shalom of Olney: To do a program on the Holocaust, the concept of genocide, and what is currently going on in Darfur. The curriculum will culminate with a Passover seder during which the participants will link what they have learned to Passover.
- B'nai Tzedek: To do a Darfur awareness program called "Not on Our Watch: The Darfur Youth Empowerment Initiative"
- Habonim Dror: To buy food to feed homeless families on Thanksgiving
- Northern Virginia BBYO: To do a social action fair
- Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation: To do a program on Jewish environmental awareness
- Shaare Tefila USY: To buy/rent supplies to run a carnival for disadvantaged children
- Shaare Torah Religious School: To fund a class about hunger and food stamps, and a field trip to the supermarket to purchase food which will be donated to a food bank
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