The 6 Million Lights Campaign

A joint project of OrLanu and The Illumignossi Project

The 6 Million Lights Campaign is a joint 50/50 project of two nonprofits.  OrLanu is the official fiscal sponsor and The Illumignossi Project is a co-partner.

The Illumignossi Project (TIP), a 501(c)(3) founded in 2016 by David Moss, MD brings light to the world through innovative light-making workshops that bring inspiration and comfort to life’s challenging passages or celebrate its important milestones.  In workshops fostering conversation and community, participants create beautiful, illuminated paper lamps embodying intention and meaning, while exploring and nurturing their inner light so they can reflect and share it with the world.  

In 2019 David and Rabbi Moishe Steigmann co-founded OrLanu, a 501(c)(3) which illuminates the Jewish journey.  OrLanu, Hebrew for “Our Light,” explores the “light” that can be found in Judaism and its wisdom that can be shared with the world.  In various Jewish and multi-faith workshops, we use our innovative light-making approaches to forge better understanding of one of the world’s oldest religions while encouraging our participants, no matter what their faith, to put more light into the world.

The two nonprofit organizations came together to organize and sponsor the  6 Million Lights Campaign, which aims to honor the memory of the 6 Million Jewish victims of the Holocaust through 6 million living lights to help create a kinder, more just world, and 6 million lamp lights, each serving as a reminder of that intention.  In addition, the 6 Million Lights Campaign will also create sustainable forward funding for each of the two nonprofits. 

But the 6 Million Lights Campaign also seeks to collaborate with other organizations, whether of Jewish, secular, or other faiths, finding commonality in our desire to create a better world.