Banot Buddies
Organization
Banot Buddies, St. Louis, MO
Grant Year
2008
Project Director
Ms. Ronit Sherwin
Type of Grant
Ignition
Grant Amount
$5,000 (1 year)
To expand an ongoing program that brings elementary and high school girls together for mentoring opportunities, Jewish enrichment, and community service projects. By the end of the grant, Banot Buddies was holding six events each year.
In 2010, Banot Buddies decided its programming should focus around “girlhood” topics” viewed through a Jewish lens. Activities during the grant period included a high holidays program asking the girls to reflect on themselves while looking in the mirror, a scavenger hunt for information on Jewish values, and an interactive session at a Jewish residential facility for the elderly. Some of the programs had a mother-daughter component as well.