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Community Grant Applications are Rolling In

Many communities have submitted their first grant applications for exciting Jewish Programming. Grants have come in for Yom Haatzmaut Parades, Youth Group activities, Meals on Wheels for the Aged / Mitzvah Projects, Klezmer Concerts and many others.

Jewish Summer Experience Subsidies have been awarded to nearly 50 Michigan Youth for summer ‘08!

The Ed Ravitz Foundation's Michigan Small Jewish Communities Initiative's First-Time Jewish Experience Subsidy Fund provided a partial subsidy for nearly fifty Michigan Jewish youth to attend Jewish summer camps and Israel trips this summer.

Proving that there is something for everyone, the nearly 50 Jewish students from 12 different communities will use their subsidies to go to camps in ten different approved Jewish summer camps and six different approved Israel programs.

Mazel Tov to the nearly fifty recipients of the subsidy!

Have a great time this summer!

Also, a very special mazel tov to the winner of the 2008 Summer Camp Full Scholarship Lottery...

And the full-scholarship lottery winner is…

The Winner!Kayla Lett, 7, of Traverse City is the winner of the 2008 Summer Camp Full Scholarship Lottery. Mazel Tov, Kayla! Kayla is a second grader at Mill Creek Elementary in Elk Rapids and is active at Congregation Ahavat Shalom in Traverse City. Kayla will go to Camp Tamarack this summer, where her father went to camp when he was a boy! Kayla is excited that she can “go somewhere where there are so many other Jewish kids” since “Jewish experiences aren't as readily available as some other [bigger] communities.”