New Scholarship Fund for Principals Launched

Menachem is excited to announce the establishment of a Scholarship Fund for the Principal Leadership Program, scheduled to commence on December 11th, 2010. This fund is made possible by the generosity of a member of our community who wished to remain anonymous. The donor’s dedication to our community and his recognition of Menachem’s cause, of the importance in investing in the education of our children, is truly inspiring.

Thanks to the Scholarship Fund, 15 Chabad schools will receive grants to subsidize their participation in our Principal Leadership Program, enabling educators who could otherwise not afford the program, to step up and join the march toward improving our chinuch system.

The cost of a school’s participation in the Women’s Principal Leadership Program is $5,000, and the inability to pay this sum forced a large number of interested applicants to pull out of the program. The Scholarship Fund will pay up to $3,000 per school, for 15 schools, subsidizing the payment by 60%, bringing down the cost to only $2,000 per school

“He has always made investing in our community a priority, and it’s amazing, but not a surprise, to see him continue to do this now,” says Rabbi Motti Gurary, Director of Bnos Menachem School in Crown Heights. “It is an honor to be a recipient of his generosity.”

Schools that have been approved for this grant are extremely grateful to the benefactor. “This act of giving is incredible, but what makes it different is the eternality of this giving. It is a giving that will continue to give, and that is what makes this contribution so deeply beautiful,” says Rabbi Benjy Stock, Administrator of Beth Rivka Schools, a longtime friend of the donor, whose principals, Mrs. Jacobson and Mrs. Tiechtel are recipients of the grant. “He is donating money to a cause that will change children’s lives now, and continue to change children’s lives forever.”

“It is empowering to collaborate with an individual who sees the magnitude of what we are trying to do, who feels as strongly as we do that improvements are necessary, but whose feelings don’t stop there,” expresses Rabbi Zalman Shneur, director at Menachem Education Foundation. “This member of the community went one step further, translating his belief in our cause into action, into establishing a fund that will enable us to effect change in all schools, regardless of their financial ability.

To find out if your school is eligible for the grant, or for more information about the Scholarship Fund, please contact director@mymef.org (718) 663-7215