Moving Traditions
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
Founded in 2005, Moving Traditions connects issues that teens care about, like body image and social/ academic pressure, to Jewish values through running mentor-led teen groups in partnership with Jewish schools, camps, synagogues, and other institutions. Last year it served 910 LA teens through Rosh Hodesh for girls; Shevet for boys; online groups for LGBTQ+ teens; a B-Mitzvah family education program; and a Hebrew high school curriculum for all-gender classrooms.
grant programs
2024 Human Capital Support Grant
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Jewish Life & Engagement, LGBTQ+, Vulnerable Populations, Young Adult Engagement
To advance staff wellbeing, talent development, and/or healthy, inclusive team culture
To launch a multipronged initiative that will help staff, lay leaders, and educators better understand and navigate racial inequities, white supremacy, and antisemitism. This program will allow Moving Traditions to have a more profound impact on Jewish teens of all racial and ethnic identities.
To mitigate the economic hardship resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and to help them achieve long-term organizational sustainability.
To scale and deepen its impact with Jewish teens in Los Angeles by developing its local fundraising infrastructure and strategically assessing and redesigning its partnership model with synagogues and local nonprofits.
The B’nai Mitzvah Program is a program for hundreds of 6th and 7th graders and their parents that explores what it means to come of age as a Jewish adult and serves to encourage continued Jewish education and involvement post b'nai mitzvah.