Project Gesher – Boston
Organization
Project Gesher – Boston, New York, NY
Grant Year
2010
Project Director
Luda Yakhnina
Type of Grant
Signature
Grant Amount
$35,000 (1 year)
Website
To expand its New York-focused Project Gesher initiative to Boston. The project brings culturally appropriate, Russian-language Jewish education to pre-schoolers, families, and college students in the Russian-Jewish émigré community.
Launched in 2003, the current initiative’s predecessor Project Gesher allowed COJECO to enter the Russian-speaking Jewish community’s existing structure of daycare centers and through informal Jewish education provide meaningful identity-building experiences to émigré children ages 3-5. The program functions in daycare centers in Brooklyn and Staten Island.
In the beginning of 2011, COJECO Project Gesher was extended to Boston.