B’nai mitzvah kids almost all do some kind of “mitzvah project” these days; but few do one that is unprecedented.
Carli Madeline Shapiro, who celebrated her bat mitzvah this past February at Congregation Beth Israel, is one who has. She raised funds for the creation of an endowment fund at the Jewish Community Foundation — and according to JCF Executive Director Caren B. Goldberg, this is the first time a bar/bat mitzvah kid has done this kind of mitzvah project at JCF.
Shapiro’s fund, established this past October, is called Kids 4 Kids @ Camp JCC Scholarship Fund. Its purpose is to provide scholarships for children to attend any of the summer camps of the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center.
Carli is the daughter of Sharon and JCC Executive Director Mark Shapiro. In a telephone conversation Nov. 23, her father said she has worked on the project for about a year-and-a-half and is still raising money for the fund primarily by selling camp stationery that she designed and had printed. He added that it takes $2,500 to start an endowment fund at JCF, and that the fund is open to other contributions and contributors.
The JCF is the endowment development program of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation.
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