The Project
    Our goal is to raise money that will be used to increase awareness about intolerance and injustice today, using the lessons of the Holocaust and focusing on other more recent examples of genocide, intolerance and injustice.
    Six towers have been placed in our lobby, alongside an educational display.  There you will see important connections between history and the Holocaust and the issues and choices that confront us today.
    We are seeking donations of any denomination, converting them into pennies, and collecting the pennies to raise $10,000 per tower for a total of $60,000.
    When the towers are filled, we will donate the proceeds to organizations that provide education and teach important lessons about intolerance and injustice today, using history as well as current events as an over-arching guide.
    The organizations which we have selected are diverse; they represent local, national and international interests and are Jewish and secular in their focus.  Below is some information about the agencies that we have chosen:

Jewish Community Center of the North Shore
    In keeping with its mission of maintaining and enriching Jewish identity, the JCC is committed to establishing a Six Million Memories endowment to ensure the ongoing delivery of Holocaust-related programming for its members and the North Shore community.

Facing History and Ourselves
    Facing History and Ourselves is an international educational and professional development organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development and lessons of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives.

Yad Vashem
    Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, is the Jewish people’s memorial to the murdered Six Million and symbolizes the ongoing confrontation with the rupture engendered by the Holocaust. Containing the world’s largest repository of information on the Holocaust, Yad Vashem is a leader in Shoah education, commemoration, research and documentation.

Boston Center for Independent Living
The Boston Center for Independent Living is a frontline civil rights organization led by people with disabilities that advocates to eliminate discrimination, isolation and segregation by providing advocacy, information and referral, peer support, skills training, and services in order to enhance the independence of people with disabilities.  BCIL concentrates its efforts in two areas:
1. Empowering people with disabilities with the practical skills and self-confidence to determine their own life choices in the community.
2. Promoting access and change within society, making full and equal participation by individuals with disabilities a reality.

Teaching Tolerance (or Tolerance.org)
    Teaching Tolerance is a principal online destination for people interested in dismantling bigotry and creating, in hate’s stead, communities that value diversity.  If you want to know how to transform yourself, your home, your school, your workplace or your community, Teaching Tolerance is a place to start — and continue — the journey.  Through its online well of resources and ideas, its expanding collection of print materials, its burgeoning outreach efforts, and its downloadable public service announcements, Teaching Tolerance promotes and supports anti-bias activism in every venue of life.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum stimulates leaders and citizens to confront hatred, prevent genocide, promote human dignity, and strengthen democracy. A public-private partnership, federal support guarantees the Museum’s permanence, and donors nationwide make possible its educational activities and global outreach.