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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  214-368-4405

                                                                                           korinasmith@ncjwdallas.org

 NCJW, Dallas Hosts Party to Launch New Book

An invitation — we hope you’ll come!

April 2, 2019

5 to 7 p.m.

Communities Foundation of Texas

5500 Caruth Haven Lane

  The hosts will be Dallas’ National Council of Jewish Women, a group that is marking 100 YEARS of focusing on some of our city’s root problems.  The centerpiece of the evening will be the launch of their just-off-the press coffee-table-book, Repairing Our World: The First 100 Years of the National Council of Jewish Women.  It will be a celebration of altruism by volunteers, something truly refreshing in these times of cheating to get into college and intolerance of anyone not-like-me. 

So what has NCJW accomplished in Dallas in those 100+ years?  Here’s a sampling (check out the book for more details!).

In the early 1900’s, they

•       Were the first to place volunteers in public schools
•       Were an important catalyst for moving mentally ill inmates from jails to hospitals
•       Established a free milk fund to battle tuberculosis
•       Assisted in founding the Visiting Nurses Association
•       Assisted in founding the Dallas County Society for Mental Health
•       Provided daycare and after-school programs for women working during World War II.

After World War II, NCJW, Dallas

•       Founded LIFT (Literacy Instruction for Texas) to teach adults basic reading skills.
•       Co-founded the Domestic Violence Intervention Alliance
•       Founded Foster Care Advocate Services (now CASA)
•       Introduced HIPPY, an early-childhood education program, to the Dallas Independent School District.
•       Etc., etc., etc.

This book not only catalogs past accomplishments and volunteers, it hopefully also provides a road map for future volunteers who continue to believe in working to better our community.  So please be part of the celebration at NCJW Dallas’ launch party! TOGETHER we’ll hoist a glass of wine to honor the past and look forward to a bright future of continuing to “repair our world.”