Grinspoon Israel Fund

Grinspoon Israel Fund. The initiator and operator of the Lantern Library program.

The fund was established in 2009 as a public benefit corporation. In order to expand the home library for children and their families. Promote a culture of reading and a love of books. The Fund’s programs encourage conversations about values and emotions. It starts in the educational framework and continues in the home and the surrounding community. In addition. IFAD’s programs create unique opportunities for children to celebrate the richness of their identities, cultures, traditions and heritage. The Grinspoon Fund’s activity in the country is focused on the Pajama Library Program and the Lantern Library Program and does not support any other programs in the country.

Lantern Library

In 2014. He founded the Grinspoon Fund. In partnership with the Ministry of Education and the Price Fund. A lantern library program that operates in kindergartens, orchards, and public schools in the Arab community. Each year, it distributes books to nearly 200,000 children in educational institutions in the Arab community.

Grinspoon Israel Fund LLC. (KGI is an independent organization that is not affiliated with any movement or current. The fund is registered with the Regulatory Authority as a public benefit corporation. It is certified by the Regulatory Authority (non-profit organizations). It must certify the management of accounting records and certify the deduction of tax at source. The Fund does not receive any profit from the distribution of the books. Including books that are distributed for a fee.

Grinspoon Israel Fund LLC. Has a public organization endorsement for donations as per Section 46 of the Income Tax Act.

The Grinspoon Israel Fund works together with partners and supporters:

Max and Marianne Mattress Box

Avraham and Sonia Rokhlin Fund

Jewish Community Fund of San Francisco

The Wiener Philanthropy

Receive awards:

Library of congress, literacy award winner 2020. Best Practices Honoree

The Library of Congress has selected the Grinspoon Israel Fund. The initiator and operator of the Lantern Library and Pajama Library program in partnership with the Ministry of Education. For the 2020 Honorable Mention in the “Recommended Ways of Working” category. The program has been identified as the world’s largest reading promotion program. The Library of Congress annually recognizes 15 organizations around the world. She works on reading enlightenment and develops unique reading teaching methods. and gives her an award in recognition of her work.

This is the first time that programs in Israel have won the award for promoting reading enlightenment since the award was established in 2013. The experts who presented the award to the Fund noted in their recommendation that the Lantern and Pajama programs “are the two most active book giving programs in the world. In terms of the high percentages of children in Israel who get books through them. In terms of the number of years children have access to books. Through the two programs. Each year, more than 3.5 million books are distributed to more than half a million children in the country.