"#Colby’s Center for #SmallTown #Jewish Life has recently received $1 million in #grants from major national #funders, signaling significant recognition and support for the center’s innovative and far-reaching work.

Allocated late last fall, the grants will enable the Center for Small Town Jewish Life to strengthen its national programming, expand its lay leadership training initiative, and initiate a large-scale #storytelling project about small-town Jewish life, while building organizational capacity.

“To receive a million dollars in gifts in three months shows that we’re hitting this inflection point. That the Center for Small Town Jewish Life has graduated from being a special hidden gem at Colby, a beautiful #Maine story, into an organization that has now gained the trust and the attention of the national Jewish community,” said #Rabbi #RachelIsaacs..."

https://news.colby.edu/story/center-for-small-town-jewish-life-more-than-colbys-hidden-gem/