Awards

Recognizing Excellence in Programming, Membership, and Social Action

Recognition for outstanding programs is awarded to sisterhoods on both the district and WRJ levels. All sisterhoods affiliated with WRJ are invited to submit applications for awards. Not only does this honor the work of the members of your sisterhood but it also enables excellent programs and recipes for success, to be shared across sisterhoods in order to easily replicate them.

Central District Awards

The Awards Committee of WRJ Central District proudly announces the awards for the Central District Convention of November 2010.

As a volunteer organization, we appreciate the hard work, dedication and creativity demonstrated by our members. The Awards Committee would like to pay tribute to women who especially deserve appreciation for the work they do. This is more than acknowledgment, but recognition of women and Sisterhoods which affect change and accomplish goals.

These four honors of distinction are:

The Deborah Honor—to honor one woman in each Sisterhood,
The District Emerging Leader Award—to honor one woman in the Central District,
The President’s Award—to recognize a Sisterhood in each of the categories of small, medium, and large for a unique campaign/event that increased membership by at least 10%, and
The Innovative Programming Award—to honor a Sisterhood in each of small, medium, and large categories for exceptional programming.

We proudly introduce the new Chai Five Tribute. The Chai Five will be given to each of the Sisterhoods winning The President’s Award, The Innovative Programming Award and the woman winning The District Emerging Leader Award. The tribute will be in the form of a $90 (5 x $18) credit toward a District event (see brochure for details).

Submit online. Download the applications (.doc), fill them out, and send as an attachment to WRJ Central District Chair Pam Levine at greeneyes21@roadrunner.com. Applications may also be filled out and mailed to Pam at 3967 W. Meadow Lane, Orange Village, OH 44122

WRJ Awards

The Women of Reform Judaism Or Ami "Light of My People" Awards for Excellence in Sisterhood Programming, presented at each assembly, honor sisterhoods and districts undertaking unusual and significant social action programs, community service, or educational projects.

WRJ website

The Kavod (“Honor”) Award in Memory of Helen M. Dalsheimer acknowledges sisterhoods who have demonstrated exemplary support of the YES Fund for three consecutive Assembly periods (six years).

The Achat [“individual”] Award is given to the one sisterhood with the largest per capita contribution through the sale of YES Fund items and/or cash contributions to the YES Fund during the two-year period prior to the Assembly.

The Avodah [“service”] Award is given to the sisterhood in each of four membership size categories that has made the highest total contribution through the sale of YES Fund items and/or cash contributions to the YES Fund during the two-year period prior to the Assembly.

The L’Chaim [“to Life”] Award is given to the sisterhood with the highest percentage of new Lifeline members during the two-year period prior to the Assembly.

The Ma’agal [“Circle”] Award is given to the one sisterhood with the highest percentage of new Circle of Service members (at any level other than Lifeline) during the two-year period prior to the Assembly.