>> welcome and good morning. i'm rabi eric wise. i am honored to be your host. we are talking about a the dillard team. and we are joined by nicole miller who is a representative of the team, and we have the junior counselor. welcome nicole and doria. >> what is the dillard team initiatives.

it has two programs. thanks to the fill lap throw pi and the initiatives. it started in san francisco about 1 years ago. it was created to be a leadership program to help identify the children to give them the tools and the resources to care about our community, to care about israel, and to go out and make the world a better place. it has evolved tenfold, and sit now in 8 communities in north america and israel. and it is based on partnership and people hood, we have hundreds and hundreds of alumni all over the world to do amazing things.

>> the program started 14 years ago in san francisco, and about five years ago, the foundation commissioned a study of the alumni to evaluate the core of the program. and look at what the impact was in the long term range, and the results were so compelling they decided to help the program nationally and internationally. >> what made you want to be a fellow? >> i guess israel. it's a huge draw. and there is something different about the program, and i have had a lot of friends that have been through the program, and it's a rep tiew a rep

pew tab program. it's something that really interested me. when you see people like yourselves come in to their own leadership, what does that mean for you. >> i know throughout my time in the program, i developed my own leadership stipe -- style, and how i interact with people, the people i am leading the colleagues, the authorities, and other figures, and that is really unique to the program. i am learning to lead in all type of situations, planning, programming, events, activities, and it has helped me so much in the past few years, moving on to college throughout the dillard world with. >> you mentioned that israel

was a draw for you. i went when i was two years old, and i don't remember anything before on that trip, but it is something that everyone heres in a religion school, it was a map on the wall that i am supposed to love. it was difficult for me to think about israel to think of something that is more than an abstract place. i was interested in getting to know the culture of israel and getting the connection that they are talk about. >> we just -- flew back last night, it's a year long experience. and we had about 300 kids at the congress in i israel this summer.

>> internationally? >> correct. >> it's based on partnerships. there's one on the north america side and one on the israel side. >> what is the latest one? >> pittsburgh. >> how old is that? >> this is the first year. >> we are off to a wonderful start, please join us when we come back here to mosaic. >> in the power of we.

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>> good morning, and thank you for joining us. we are discussing the dillard team initiatives, and we have doria who is part of the alumni and initiatives. thank you for joining us nicole and doria. >> you were a fellow, and now you are a junior counselor. >> i was really interested in being the junior counselor of san francisco because of how much i grew personally as i was the junior participant. we developed skills, styles, tools, and i felt as though i could contribute to this year's fellows, turning in it to what it was like and how it

was applicable to the world outside. the program is a bubble. and i thought it would be interesting to learn about behind the scenes, and learning more about the educational programs that are helping me so much. >> they are based on a city in north america and israel. can you talk about the unique aspects of that kind of partnership? >> it's beyond being diversity in the north america and israel side, and within the communities we go through a selection process, and we intentionally choose kids that have a background in the leadership to their community, but also teams where we see

those who are coming from backgrounds and a spark, and they have may have experienced time on the student council, or those who don't have a connection with the community, but they have interest in to the program. it's coming from the different social economic backgrounds, and we are not affiliated with the equipment, and we are learning that from all of the perspectives, and we are evaluating the models. >> do you have clarifying issues on how to understand the diversities and the issues, and do you understand more about what you want to learn on that day. >> we learn about and watch

the movie unsettled. and we met with one woman who was forced to move away from the strip. and that provided a lot of series and conversations, and for a lot of people it provided them to understand things, it matched with their own ideas and thoughts. for me, it made it more complicated. i went out to find about the middle east conflict. it's not a quick fix, but it shows how much more we have to learn and what to do. i always tell the fellows that i expect them to go out of the program with more questions than when they came in. it's not meant to be a quick fix, it's not meant to be

everything you need to know in the jewish community, it's to inspire a long term relationship and to think about the big questions and to understand how much they have yet heartbreak -- to learn. >> so if you have someone that comes to the program and they have launched what they have just learned in their lives, what do you hope they will do in the community? >> i am hoping we are giving the resources and expose them to a lot of opportunities, and then help to identify their own personal passion. doria can combine her own personal passion, resources, and interests, and then she can combine it with the tools

at of the network, with the north america network, the israel network and all of those who are out in the network and then project those to her world. >> what do you hope for in the community that you experienced so far and the skills you have gained. >> which community? >> jewish community and yourself in the world. >> i don't know, i think that there are a lot of things that i am personally interested such as the human right's development and registration, academic, career path type of position, and hopefully that would have ramifications all over in the world especially in the jew wish community, and -- jewish community, and i

think coming out of the program, i don't know what the future holds for me or the jewish community, but i am confident for the fact we are able to handle any of the situations that would arise. i am going to have leadership opportunity miss -- opportunities in the future, and i am going to carry on with that. >> thank you for joining us, and please join us when we return for mosaics. >>

>> good morning and welcome back. we are in the middle of a

wonderful k of a program that -- conversation that was based out of san francisco, and now it has groan nationally -- grown nationally and internationally. we have two more members to the diler community. just to give a little bit of a background to the awards, i understand that just this past year, 200 applicants applied throughout the state of california. and what happens is the committee is apprised of leaders, clergy and they go throughout the applicants and make a decision of the five teams. one is for their college education or to continue the particular project for which they have become an awardee.

erin, you want last year, and david, you are the current winner. >> i am about the educational advocacy about the sustainable living, green living for the schools and teams and communities. >> david, your project? >> it's called the vibe initiative. we are creating a teen lounge, it's a place where teens can go, hang out, have fun, get resources and get help. it's a new generation of the teen centers in the united states. >> you are from the sacramento area? >> and you are from ren

county? >> yes. >> and what gave you the interest to do what you did for the team initiatives and green issues, and how it lead to a fantastic set of projects. >> we talked about the community, and i have always had that sense of community. my idea came from the idea that i want to provide a sense of community for sacramento so that everyone has a place to call their own. a lot of my friends over the year because they have fallen out of it because of the drug and the alcohol abuse. to me, the idea of community pushed me what to create what we have today, the vibe organization, trying to provide that sense of

community for all teens. >> for me, i would like to say i grew up in a green bubble. it's about giving back, repairing the world, what can you better devote your life to? and when i was 13, i came in to contact with the products that were endangering my life. but this is to promote the greater good. >> erin, you are 19. and you won when you were 18. >> yes. >> >> how can you give them back to make them more globally

oriented. >> it has absolutely blossomed over the past four or five years. it has really globalled. i have had the chance to see it move in to global. it's extraordinary. i feel that my generation is taking the reigns and taking the world to a better direction. >> my rabi told me about the story. it's our job to pick up the pieces and put the pot back together.

when i was told the story, it ig nighted -- ignited my thoughts about the past and what is to come. when i was 14 or 15, ewe started the project, the idea of sitting in the living room on saturday night, there is no place to hang out, and be safe, and from there, it continued to go in to what it is today, it's a totally teen run organization. i think it is a first of its kind. it's been a process. who is the rabi that told you about that? >> rabi [ inaudible ] and ben

benoit of israel. it's repaired in a town of yes riews yes riews hum for israel.

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>> green living,

environmental, sustainability, there are a lot of words that refer to it. what kind of movement have you seen in your particular world? teen safe places and the green world, what have you seen out of your work so far in terms of trends and changes. >> well, it's really -- it started out with a little idea, and it has turned in to it's own non profit organization, but the biggest part of it is the generation to generation, taking the initiatives, taking the step, and why the teens don't want to come back, they are running off of the four year old plans, we want to make sure they have their hands in it, a

place they want to go, be involved in, and it's important to have the generational leadership. have one from the next to the next, and they are creating their own ideas -- ideas. we are getting there, and with we will be open soon. and the teens that we have onboard, they have been on their for four years now, what they are doing every day is blowing me out of the water. they want to do this, they want to do that, it's huge, it's totally taken off, and it's crazy. >> it has, and i have seen a huge boom of the environmental sustainability, and it is a

trend that has evolved all around the world. i'm going to study the world, my heritage, the culture, all of the environmental signs, policy change, everything it takes to be the leaders, and take our passion right now at age 19 and 18 and lead that to a change down the road. >> thank you so much. >> david and erin, believe it or not, we are at the end of our time together. it's like putting a comma at the end of our conversation, and i want to thank you for all of your hard work and leadership in the community. >> thank you. >> we want to let you know before the end of the program, is: if you are interested in the program, it's involves an

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