This is Barbara Gross. She works with the Foundation here at Menorah Park. (She raises money.)
She also helps give money away. When I give money away, I don't smile that big.
But, she gives it away for good purposes. Actually, she gives other people's money away. (OK, I guess I'd smile, too.) On the day that this picture was taken, last Sunday, she spent her entire day at work locked in a small room with about 20 teenagers. She's also very brave.
The teens are members of the Teen Philanthropy Board.
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Here are most of them.
Every year, any department on campus can submit grant requests to the Teen Philanthropy Board. The teens consider all of the grants, make follow up phone calls, and then hear pitches from all of the people who submitted grants. That's what they were doing this Sunday.
They will meet again to determine how to divide the total sum they have. It's a difficult job. The total sum of all of the grant requests always exceeds the total sum they have to give. They need to make some hard choices and award grants to the projects they deem most deserving. It's difficult because, pretty much, all of the grant requests are deserving.
In this way, Menorah Park is not only serving our elders, but helping to shape the future. We are helping today's teens become tomorrow's leaders by giving them the tools they need to understand some difficult financial concepts, and the importance of giving. We are helping to cultivate a generation of philanthropists as their grandparents did for their parents.
L'dor v'dor.
