What is Bontify?
We create meaningful bonding experiences between grandparents and grandchildren
Bontify values strong relationships between generations, yet oftentimes, it may be challenging finding engaging activities and mutual interests that grandparents and grandchildren can enjoy together.
In a world where social isolation has become a global challenge and technology could be levereged to help turn isolation into inclusion, meaningful connections across generations have become all the more crucial.
Bontify brings generations closer by incorporating a project-based approach where grandparents and grandchildren find mutual interests, plan these experiences together and bring them to life.
What Makes Bontify Special?
Learn
Encourage learning about and from each other
Empower
Empower grandchildren to be active in the relationship
Engage
Engages elders to share their skills and life experiences
Values
Reinforces values such as empathy and tolerance
Connect
Strengthens communities by connecting generations
With Bontify, we create meaningful bonding experiences between grandparents and grandchildren
The Program
Our program is designed around a simple concept – relationships become stronger through joint experiences, especially when both sides are actively involved in the activities.
The program creates awareness and provide tools for the joint activity.
Each grandchild will pair with a grandparent, they will learn about each other, plan together their activities, experience it and reflect on the process.
Bontify program includes a workshop aimed for children ages 10-16 through schools and organizations.
The workshop consists of three online or in-person sessions, combined with virtual activities for the grandchildren and their grandparents, in between sessions.
Bontify facilitators lead the workshop in collaboration with the school/organization staff.
All material is developed and delivered by the Bontify team.
Examples of previous activities done by Bonitfy participants
- Online chess games between a grandchild and their grandparent
- Spanish lessons taught by a Spanish native grandparent
- A cookbook based on the grandparents’ recipes along with stories of origin
- Joint book club where both grandchild and grandparent read the same book and discuss it
Testimonials
The program was successfully delivered in partnership with several private
schools and organizations in California including Gideon Hausner and JFCS
Our Story
Michal & Smadar, two women living on opposite sides of the world,
experienced the importance of fostering relationship between their kids and
their parents.
When Michal’s family moved closer to her parents for a few months, it became
clear to her that her parents could be a valuable asset in her homeschooling
endeavor. Her father, a retired banker, taught her daughter Economics while
her mother was playing brain games with her son. The experience was
amazing for both sides, who felt much more connected while sharing their
personal and professional skills.
When Smadar’s family moved to the United States, away from her parents, her
kids’ connection to their grandparents was through calls and regular visits.
Smadar felt something was missing in keeping the connection more lively.
She understood that knowing
more about each other’s life, hobbies and interests, is the basis for engagement.
Smadar wanted to enable a platform to enrich the intergenerational
connections between grandparents & grandchildren.
Michal wanted to replicate her experience for other families, and Smadar was
thinking about a platform to enrich the intergenerational connection. When
the two met, their visions aligned and Bontify was born.
Meet Our Team
Michal Miasnik
Co-Founder & Facilitator
Michal’s passion for working with older adults started early on,
with her bachelor’s degree in Social Work with a concentration
in Gerontology from Tel-Aviv University. Over the past two
decades, Michal combined work in technology entrepreneurship
at multiple venture funds where she held business development
initiatives with non-profit community work in education and the
Third Age. Bontify combines her two passions
Smadar Tzalalichin-Sabo
Co-Founder
Smadar brings vast experience in connecting business strategy to people,
enabling businesses to smoothly grow and scale up. Smadar developed her
career within the High-Tech industry leading complex operational initiatives
and managing merger and acquisition for large organizations. Smadar also
specializes as a human resource leader.
Smadar holds 2 Master’s degrees: Social Psychology from Bar Ilan
University, Israel and Organizational Learning from George Mason University,
VA, USA.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
The program includes a workshop that consists of three online or in-person sessions.
Each session, being 45-60 minutes in length, is followed by virtual activities for the grandchildren and their grandparents.
Bontify program is aimed for participants aged 10-16 through schools and organizations.
The workshop can be a good fit for organic classes or groups of 10-25 participants.
Grandchildren will connect virtually with their grandparents for joint activities, in between each session of the workshop.
Participants can do the project with any other adult family member.
Of course, you can do activities with more than one grandparent.
All material is developed by the Bontify team.
Bontify facilitators lead this program in collaboration with the school/organization staff.
A cookbook based on the grandparent’s recipes along with stories of origin.
Spanish lessons taught by a Spanish native grandparent.
Online chess game between a grandchild and their grandparent.
Anyone within the school or organization can initiate the program.
The login option is for Bontify program participants.
info@bontify.com
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