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CAJE 32 Tzedaka Challenge for Darfur
I am excited to be at CAJE 32, the Conference on Alternatives in Jewish Education, held Aug 5-9 in St. Louis. Giving Arts will have a presence in the EXPO (Booth 48) and I will also be a workshop presenter on Wednesday afternoon, teaching A Collaborative Creative Arts Approach to Teaching Social Action and Tikkun Olam.
I’ve conceptualized a Tzedaka Challenge to raise money for Darfur relief efforts.
Throughout the conference I hope that attendees will visit my booth and, if nothing else, give $1 into my great big tzedaka box that I’ve built. I will empty it every night and hand over the cash to a CAJE employee for safekeeping.
I believe that 1500 people will be at the conference and I am setting my goal at $1000.00 on behalf of CAJE 32 for a donation to Save Darfur, the coalition of 180 organizations working on relief efforts. Lets do it!
The start of it all
The day was sure to come when I would start blogging.
Part of the nudge came from the announcement that my online community, Omidyar, would be shutting down in September. Feeling a bit like the rug was being pulled out from underfoot, the end of the social entrepreneurial network has had most of us considering where to land and continue our online dialog and network weaving and sharing. The web has many places for like-minded connections to occur. At Omidyar there was a thread that linked us, and even though we may have been involved in very different activities and work, there was a cross-pollination that I found precious and priceless. We shall see where the winds of technology and human spirit take us.
Yet, perhaps the bigger and more compelling reason for me to start this blog is to plant the seeds of my own vision and invite more in-depth conversation and exploration about how to build creative, sustainable programs and projects to teach our next generation to be thoughtful, empathetic, questioning, giving and helping to make our world better.
I look forward to open sharing and working together with people, organizations and businesses who seek to do the same.
