NYNonProfit Look Back: Eric Schneiderman

Looking back through the early NYNonProfit days – I stopped to read NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s editorial.

The issue Eric wrote his editorial for featured three amazing nonprofit organizations.

Connect2’s founder, Sheva Tauby is a friend of mine and someone I truly admire.  Sheva founded Connect2 when she was barely out of her teen s. This wonderful organization matches volunteers to Holocaust survivors living in Brooklyn. (This organization is now called IVolunteer and matches volunteers to Holocaust survivors living in different parts of the city. I am proud to be on the Advisory Board of this important and inspirational organization.

I was fortunate enough to meet some of the Holocaust survivors through this organization – I have survivors in my family, and this was a deeply moving and meaningful experience to me.

Areyvut’s founder, Daniel Rothman is deeply committed to the values of the organization he founded.

Areyvut’s mission is to infuse the lives of Jewish youth and teens with the core Jewish values of chesed (kindness), tzedakah (charity), and tikkun olam (social action), so that they become thoughtful, giving members of the Jewish community of tomorrow.

Areyvut accomplishes this by developing meaningful, fun, and unique programming that get Jewish youth involved, while also helping them to realize the immense power they have to make their community and the world a better place.

The Jewish Outreach Institute is an independent, national, trans-denominational organization reaching out to unaffiliated and intermarried families, and helping the organized Jewish community better welcome them in.  They service as a national training institution for Jewish communal professionals and volunteer leaders.

The institute has created innovative programs such as The Mother’s Circle for Non-Jewish moms raising Jewish children,  How Should I Know, a program for Jewish men with wives of other religious backgrounds, and The GrandParents Circle, for Jewish Grandparents with interfaith grandchildren.

All of these organizations promote tolerance, understanding, compassion and generosity.

I am so fortunate that I have the opportunity to connect with and learn about all of your good works!