Initiatives Push

ladies and gentlemen we've reached a part of the evening that we've all looked forward to over the weekend we started this weekend off with the messaging of we need to raise our hands we need to count you need to count us all in for the initiatives that project Inspire is offering once again as a refia mentioned and has been mentioned here reaching out to Jews to become across with is already simple stuff for us but now many of you are sitting in the room and saying maybe I'm not that scary lady on the plane maybe I'm not able to do that maybe I don't have the ability as a lawyer as a firm lawyer to change my entire life around and to take trips with less Affiliated Jews to Israel maybe you're not and we're not capable of doing that but we have to think about what we are capable of doing and I want to mention a few initiatives now and by tomorrow morning our goal is when I stand up at this post ium that we sign up 100% of the people in this room everyone here can do something and even if I go through an initiative that's not for you for whatever reason tell us what your initiative is tell us what you can offer tell us what you can get involved in our first initiative which you will see out in the hallway is conference connections there are dozens if not not hundreds of students in the area in our area who need a place to meet up with in a conference room in a place in your office many of you work in offices and even if you're not a cir of magician or a cir of professional but you have a space to offer raise your hand offer your space just this past few weeks Josh Brody Eric yanal levage doie wiser just to name a few open up their conference rooms a project Inspire for students for from universities around the New York area and have inspired dozens of students the next initiative was what we're calling leaders Hub there are Professionals in this room there might even be Prof uh retired Professionals in this room who would like to interact to inspire to connect with students you're a lawyer you're a doctor you're an accountant you're an interior designer there are students there are families there are people who are looking to inter interact with you and even if you heaven forbid don't know what to say or speak to to a less religious Jew can you offer your services for the purpose of Outreach and for the purpose of kirv this is our leaders Hub if you're in this category raise your hand and maybe you're not even that and maybe you don't have a profession and maybe you don't you don't have that space to offer but maybe you could come on the road with project Inspire maybe you could join us in many campuses and communities let's go to the next slide on the road with project Inspire I was sitting at a table today where a couple was discussing the initiatives I mean maybe they W in heart of sight and it was actually right in front of their faces over shabas I said what a great idea our kids are older we all we would love to interact with students we reach a point of our life where we can get away for a shabas or two spend the time a shabas or two or three in a community in a university somewhere where you could use your shabas or your time to inspire Jews on the road and maybe you're not even that and you don't have the ability to travel on the road maybe you're scared of flying or you're scared of driving but maybe you can be a community Ambassador can we rely on you as we run initiatives from our office and as you recommend initiatives to us to be a point person for the community Ambassador maybe you're a woman at home who's maybe not working in an office with a boardroom and maybe you're not a professional by trade and maybe you're not ready to go on the road but can we rely on you to be a community ambassador to inspire others in your community to get involved with our initiatives and maybe you're not even that I don't have access to my sh WhatsApp groups and I'm not on the n and I hope they never call me about the N but maybe I could just be a host maybe I could open up my home to host someone for shabas just this past week let's go to the next slide just this next uh oh we're good sorry maybe I you could open your home in this room the barracks family T barracks and his family opened up their home even on a moment's notice we got a call from University that's running a program we went to our database which we're trying to grow and we found people in that area who are ready to host and we were able to inspire students by hosting maybe you can't host for a shabas you can host for a kalalake in your house and maybe you can host students to show them how to cook for shabas but if you could be a host on any level we need you as part of our Army to be able to service all the needs of the community and maybe you're not even that you're homeless jobless conference roomless you don't have a car and you're scared of flying can you learn oneon-one with a Kusa on the phone is there anyone here without a phone can we sign up and raise our hand and say I can learn with someone half hour a week I can do that ladies and gentlemen we're here this entire weekend we've heard from Rabbi loic about the need in the greater cure of community we've been contacted by dozens of programs and communities and we're looking for people who want to raise their hand and get involved so that we can use our office and our staff and our resources to get all of you involved ladies and gentlemen in the hallway tonight you you will see and you will be approached by our staff to sign up Don't Be Afraid sign up we won't call no we will call you and we will involve you because this is not only our mission this is your mission this is our responsibility I urge you all of you that tomorrow morning I can announce that 100% of us raised our hand to get involved in the project Inspire initiatives thank you