Silicon Valley has been selected as one of 10 areas across the country to participate in a PJ Library pilot program called PJ Our Way.
Beginning this month, the new program will allow PJ Library and its funding agency, the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, to expand their reach to an older group of children, 9-to-11-year-olds.
Since its founding in 2005, PJ Library has provided free Jewish age-appropriate books to children ages 6 months to 8 years.
Designed to strengthen the identities of Jewish families and their relationship to the Jewish community, the program has grown dramatically and now sends books to more than 130,000 children per month in 200 communities across the United States and Canada.
PJ Our Way will allow participants to select one of four books every month. In the South Bay, support is coming from the Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley.
Other communities in the pilot program include Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Boston’s North Shore and St. Louis. The plan is to take the program national within the year. For more information, visit www.pjourway.org.