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Hire Sign Language interpreters for Deaf congregants at my Synagogue.Town & Village Synagogue in New York City

COMPETED FOR

$25K
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Competed in
March, 2010

Goals

  • To make our Services and events accessible to our Deaf congregants

Overview

We want to hire professional sign-language interpreters so as to make our Services and events fully accessible to our Deaf and hard-of-hearing congregants.

We often draw at least a "minyan" (10-person group) to our Services, and they deserve full, unfettered access to them, provided by the best, most capable interpreters around.

$5,000 in funds from a Refresh Project grant would make it possible to pay for a roughly monthly schedule for about a year.  The larger the grant, of course, then the more frequently we could offer interpretation, as well as the longer we could continue to do so.

(Please visit www.jdrc.org to see a slideshow of some photos taken at a recent ASL-interpreted Service of ours.)

How will the 25K be Used?

Budget Notes: Most of our publicity is done online and/or via email so there's no significant marginal cost there. The item with the greatest cost is the interpreting itself.
$ 25,000 American Sign Language/English/Hebrew interpreters
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