havesome:
The model I have been promoting is for communities/shuls to compensate people who produce date #2/#4 for the slightly older girls.
It is irrelevant whether the person who set up the dates is a “proffesional shadchan” (whatever that means) or not.
In fact the a key success of the model lies in it’s empowerment of people on the local level such as Hight School teachers, alumni, friends etc. who may have been inclined in the past to put in the effort but have been burned and quit. This model would empower them to stay the course.
Success breeds Succes.
Mr. and Mrs. Community are any individual or group of people in any community who would like to make a huge difference in the shidduch scene for the girls of their community.
The city that was the first to do it and has been running it for 9 months now has seen
300+ shidduchim redd
64 different dates set up
18 girls dating seriously
7 engagments (there where other local engagments, but not related to the project)
and the cost……..
over 9 months
around 11K
and it is only getting better as the program initally started by reaching out only to shadchanim, and now they are reaching out to HS teachers, local boys and girls who got married in the last 5-10 years etc.
Tzippi: As i’ve said before. If you would like details contact NASI. They have a game plan and they are following it. I guess your “need” to know isn’t part of their game plan.
Dunno: you mentioned that you are a single girl. As such I have no need to scare you with the facts. Bezras Hashem you will be a beneficiary of the tremendous efforts being extened on behalf of you and all the other single girls out there.