Sophie blogs on our first meeting September 13

This week was the inaugural session of the Youth Tzedakah Fund for this year. We spent a lot of time getting to know one another. We played games that helped us to understand one another, what is important to us, what inspires us and how we think. We spoke individually about our values and our beliefs. These conversations lead us to discuss how and why we construct a mission statement. The mission statement outlines our purpose and reason for being. We began the important work of crafting a statement as a group and had lively discussion about what should be included. Although we didn’t finish the statement we did narrow ideas that we want to include and what types of organizations we want to donate to. The types of organizations we want to serve focus on poverty and the environment. Next time we meet we plan to finalize the mission statement so that we can begin the challenging and exciting work of charity.