Our Mission
The most essential human need is connection. The GROW Connection Network is creating the framework for personal and meaningful connection: where every woman and girl is seen and accepted for who she is, and knows she is not alone.
The GROW Connection Network is a global network dedicated to nurturing spiritual, mental, and emotional health, where giving and receiving are one and the same.
Through group meetings, virtual and in person workshops, retreats on our own property, the GROW prayer system, multiple publications, coaching, trainings and so much more, we are lighting up the hearts, minds, and souls, of women, girls, and their families.
OUR FOUNDER
Nechama Laber
Nechama Laber is the founder and global director of Jewish Girls Unite, an experienced educator, Judaic consultant, Bat Mitzvah mentor, curriculum designer, certified life and trauma coach, public speaker, and the author of Finding Song in Sorrow. Since 1996, she has co-directed Chabad of Southern Rensselaer County with her husband, Rabbi Avraham Laber, where they reside with their 11 children (ka”h) and run the beloved Jewish Girls Retreat.
Our Team
Founder & Director: Nechama Laber
Rabbinical Advisor, Treasurer: Avraham Laber
Art Director, JGR Program Director: Chana Laber
Graphic Designer: Leah Caras
Editor: Tzipporah Prottas
Global Strategy Advisor: Susan Axelrod
Founding Benefactors:
- Norman & Micki Massry
- Ory & Linda Schwartz
- Chananya & Sarah Rosenblum of TrafficTickets.com
- Sholom & Chana Zeldy Minkowitz
- Dr. Raphael & Shoshana Fox
- Shloime & Mira Greenwald
- Eli & Fraida Nash
- Azriel & Chana Wasserman
Educators Committee:
- Goldie Plotkin
- Leah Namdar
- Rochi Shemtov
GROW Connection Team Leaders:
- Julie Massry Knox
- Terri Klein
- Lisse Gerofsky
- Devorie Flohr
- Karen Sarto
- Shaindel Leanse
- Malkah Bracha Finkler
- Kate Friedman
- Ahuvah Coates
- Susan Axelrod
- Shoshana Fox
- Marnie Atias
Get in Touch
12 Thompson Hill
Rensselaer, NY 12144
518-727-9581
info@growconnectionnetwork.com
