

Grants in North America
Our Tales for Our Children
- Grant period: 2012
- Grantee link: Our Tales for Our Children
Launched in 2012, Our Tales for Our Children is a project that creates audio-recordings of Russian-language Jewish fairy tales and short stories by authors such as Sholem Aleichem, Samuil Marshak, and Yakov Taytz.
Once recorded, stories are placed online and made available for free download. Through these stories, Russian-speaking Jewish children are given an opportunity for independent listening and learning, and families spend quality time together in a Jewish context.
Financial support for Our Tales for Our Children is provided by Genesis Philanthropy Group.
Goals and objectives
- Produce Russian-language spoken word recordings for Russian-speaking Jewish families, thus encouraging the families to spend quality time together in a Jewish context.
- Provide Russian-speaking Jewish children with an opportunity to begin their Jewish journeys in the world of Russian Jewish literature.
- Encourage an active interest in the Russian-speaking Jewish community’s heritage, customs, and history.
Current Grants
- Brandeis-Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry
- Camp B’Yachad
- Center Without Walls by COJECO
- DAVAI!
- Folksbiene Yiddish Theater
- Generation R at the JCC in Manhattan
- Havurah Program at Tel Yehudah
- J.Academy
- Mishpucha Family Camp
- Moishe House
- NJY Overnight Jewish Camps
- Pathways to Engagement
- PJ Library
- Project Keshet
- RAJM Teenage Engagement Initiative (St. Paul, Minnesota)
- RJeneration
- Ru-Ju-LA - Russian Jewish Young Adult and Young Family Network in LA
- Russian Jewish Leadership Forum
- Russian Jewish Young Adult Engagement Initiative in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Russian-Jewish Community Outreach Initiative by The Foundation for Jewish Camp
- Russian-Speaking Jewish Community Engagement Project in Toronto
- Shalom Education Center
- UMCA Rich Tree Academy
Past Grants
- Blognik Beat
- Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater Exhibit at the Jewish Museum
- Ezra USA
- JAFI LA Russian Young Adult Engagement Program
- JChoice.org - Tzedakah: The Next Generation
- JIAS Decade-Plus Immigrants: Leadership Bridging Cultures
- Klein JCC
- LADDER
- Limmud
- Lives of the Great Patriotic War: The Untold Stories of Jewish Soldiers in the Soviet Red Army During WWII
- Our Tales for Our Children
- Outreach to Russian-speaking Children Attending JCCA Camps in the United States
- Project Gesher