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Jewish Family & Children's Service Announces Rose & Louis H. Linowitz Mensch Award
Princeton, NJ, January 2025—JFCS of Greater Mercer County announces the Rose & Louis H. Linowitz Mensch Award. This is a merit-based award for deserving Jewish eighth-grade and high school senior students living in Greater Mercer County. Candidates should exemplify what it means to be a mensch – a person of integrity and honor, a doer of good deeds, and an all-around good person. Students must be nominated by a member of the community such as a Rabbi, educator, youth group advisor, secular school guidance counselor, teacher, etc. Eighth-grade Mensch-In-Training and high school senior Mensch Award winners will receive prizes up to $500 and $3,500 respectively. This is not a need-based scholarship.
Selected winners are required to attend a recognition event to receive their Award on April 1st, 2025.
Applications are due by February 24, 2025.
For more information or to nominate a student, visit www.jfcsonline.org/awards-scholarships, or contact Joyce at 609-987-8100, ext. 201 / JoyceW@JFCSonline.org.
Jewish Family & Children's Service Announces Rose & Louis H. Linowitz Mensch Award
Princeton, NJ, January 2024—JFCS of Greater Mercer County announces the Rose & Louis H. Linowitz Mensch Award. This is a merit-based award for deserving Jewish eighth-grade and high school senior students living in Greater Mercer County. Candidates should exemplify what it means to be a mensch – a person of integrity and honor, a doer of good deeds, and an all-around good person. Students must be nominated by a member of the community such as a Rabbi, educator, youth group advisor, secular school guidance counselor, teacher, etc. Eighth-grade Mensch-In-Training and high school senior Mensch Award winners will receive prizes up to $500 and $3,000 respectively. This is not a need-based scholarship.
Selected winners are required to attend a recognition event to receive their Award on April 17th, 2024.
Applications are due by March 6, 2024.
For more information or to nominate a student, visit www.jfcsonline.org/awards-scholarships, or contact Joyce at 609-987-8100 / JoyceW@JFCSonline.org.
Jewish Family & Children's Service (JFCS) of Greater Mercer County is a nonprofit, non-sectarian agency providing social services, counseling and support to individuals, families, children and teens. Professional, licensed social workers offer one-on-one and group counseling, family education, crisis and domestic violence support, re-employment assistance, grief and bereavement programs, and services for special needs children and their siblings. Services include food vouchers, meals on wheels, the kosher food pantry and kosher cafes, which serve thousands of meals to the elderly. Youth programs include leadership, social skills and peer education. Visit the JFCS website for a complete listing of services www.jfcsonline.org
