It's #GivingTuesday. As you consider which organizations you will be supporting this year, we hope that you will add The Gendler Grapevine Project to your list. In 2017, we will be adding to the 29 innovative initiatives we have supported thus far. Our projects continue to amaze us with the meaningful and important work they are doing. Examples of some of [...]

As part of their larger Gendler Grapevine Project initiative, Outdoor Shabbat and Holiday Program, on Sunday, October 16th, JCC Chicago held a community Sukkot program at the Chicago Botanic Gardens (CBG).   The event was held outside in the CBG’s vegetable garden where they built a sukkah that stayed up for the duration of the [...]

Happy shopper at the Gendler Grapevine Fresh Stop Market   New Roots, Inc. has been working on food justice issues for years in Louisville, KY, but in 2015, expanded their work into the Jewish community through a grant from the Gendler Grapevine Project. This continued into 2016 when they were awarded another Gendler [...]