Welcome to the 2017 BlueCademy Awards Website
We look forward to seeing you at one or both of our amazing BlueCademy events this year. First, the BlueCademy Awards Gala on May 21st, 2017 at Congregation Har Shalom in Potomac Maryland and then the BlueCademy Breakfast on June 4th, 2017 at Congregation Beth El in Norfolk.
Why come to these events?
Our honorees have devoted incredible time and energy serving their clubs and communities. We reserve these occasions to celebrate their achievements and to thank them. What better way to say thank you than to be there to witness their honor, and to celebrate with them! Many of our honorees got motivated to serve their communities by attending an earlier Blue Yarmulke. This honor helped serve as a motivation to contribute. We call this the cycle of service and celebration; may it continue forever!
Yes, it is a fund raiser as well as a fun-raiser.
This is the Seaboard Region FJMC’s major source of funding for our programs. Below please find some of the main uses of our funds:
- Subsidies for our International Convention and Regional Retreat. It is here where our club and brotherhood leaders receive advanced training and motivation to serve you!
- Subsidies at the FJMC store. We provide money to help our clubs with books and other materials such as yads and tefillin to help their activities.
- Regional trainings.
- Loans for Shoah Yellow Candle Programs. This past year our loans resulted in more than 1600 more candles being lit to honor the Six Million. Moreover, these programs created almost $4000 in tzedakah for Holocaust Survivors, Interfaith Food Programs, and Religious Education…and we got repaid to do it all over again!
- Other philanthropy. We give to other Jewish causes around the world.
Please join us at one or both celebrations. Please, show your appreciation to your Blue Yarmulke Man of the Year in our Tribute Journal, which will appear on our regional website shortly after you submit it. You can also support the region itself by being a Director or Executive Producer Contributor.
See you on the dance floor!
Alex Pomerantz, Chair
Bob Watts, Co-Chair