Local clergy work together to create an inter-religious coalition to combat homophobia.
Series of events about gun violence in advance of a local NRA convention.
Initiative to educate community about issues of gun control, safety measures and awareness.
A program designed to sensitize the congregation's youth to anti-Semitism and racism develops into a multicultural dialogue program.
Distribution of toiletry kits to local homeless shelters.
Synagogue creates a committee to speak about issues involving Church and State.
Congregation Emanuel in Denver, Colorado created a Consultation on Conscience for the local community
Temple Sinai in Oakland, CA organized and launched the Consultation on Social Justice modeled after the Religious Action Center's Consultation on Conscience
Grassroots, community-wide advocacy and relief effort to raise awareness about genocidal conditions in Darfur, Sudan.
The High School created a curriculum in which the students learn about the issue of contemporary slavery in Sudan. The program included a slavery teach-in, student rally, and a letter writing campaign to public officials.
Visit a different social action website each night of Chanukah. Use these sites as a springboard for volunteer work and charitable giving.
Fill your mishloach manot baskets with Fair Trade products and create a more just and sustainable world while enjoying tasty treats.
To ensure a coordinated volunteer effort, a proactive committee was formed encompassing representatives from Brotherhood, WRJ-Sisterhood, Youth Group, and the congregation as a whole. This clearing house identifies community needs, organizes and coordinates activities and involves as many congregants as possible in social action projects.
Temple Beth Shaom in Santa Fe, NM has an on-going multifaceted program
Health fair provides important health, safety, nutritional, and insurance information to the local community.
High Holiday tickets had sign-up information for six upcoming social action projects.
The synagogue worked with other inter-faith religious groups to educate and speak out about gun control.
Synagogue works with an African American Church to ensure racial and economic diversity in the county juries.
social justice advocacy group on stem cell research
The goal of the “March for Dafur” program was, and still is, educating our community about the genocidal conditions in Darfur. Its purpose is to create awareness leading to advocacy.
The congregation created a Free Medical Program for those in their community who do not have access to afforable health insurance.
Congregation Rodeph Sholom's reproductive rights taskforce
The synagogue set up an inter-faith conference focusing on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and transgendered (GLBT) people.
The Temple seeked "to strip away all the excuses people have for not participating in social action" by offering its members an unusally wide array of social action opportunities.
Congregation B'nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim in Glenview, IL started congregation based community organizing.
Three-part program educating the Jewish and GLBT communities about homosexual victims and survivors of the Holocaust.
Congregation Emanu-el in San Francisco, CA created Project H.E.L.P.
A synagogue's initiative to infuse social action to its congregants by compelling the congregants, including its youth, to speak out and become involved in the Temple's activities. Temple members have been involved in an AIDS lunch program, repairing homes, collection of food and clothing projects, as well as various other social action programs and advocacy work.
126 New York Congregations worked together to create a New York State advocate for Social Justice similar to the efforts of the Religious Action Center.
The synagogue worked together with other interfaith groups to help those people who suffer from poverty and homelessness. They set-up a tent city as well as created a program to allow the homeless the ability to rent their own apartments.
By rotating where donations are directed, one's contribution to the tzedakah box can serve a variety of efforts.
High school students explore issues of local homelessness by spending a night in make-shift cardboard box shelters.
When all the food is being consumed during the Super Bowl- Why not donate a can of soup for those less fortunate.
Temple Committee Against Human Trafficking brought awareness on the issue of human trafficking to the community.
Temple Isaiah in Lexington, MA engaged in congregation based community organizing
World Food Day occurs in the middle of October. Certain restaurants will donate 7% of their proceeds on that day to fight hunger. Work with your local synagogue and restaurants to help end hunger in your city!
The Temple partnered with other faith groups in order to press a local school district to adopt a new policy on religion and schools. They also created a Diversity Brekfast and sponsored several inter-faith programs.
A congregation's initiative to help and assist the homeless. The community works in tandem with a local church two to four times a year to house homeless families for a week, supplying shelter, meals, supplies and emotional support. This congregation became a leading homeless advocate in its area by encouraging four other congregations to support the shelter.
The Temple created a multifaceted AIDS awareness/action Project. The project provides assistance, support, advocacy, and education for all who are infected, affected, at risk, or concerned about HIV/AIDS.
Raise awareness of captive Israeli soldiers by leaving 3 chairs open at community events.
The Temple revamped its Social Action Committee by creating pledge cards in which congregants can indicate which type of Social Action projects they are interesting in doing and how often they are available to do them.
A congregation's initiative to enthuse congregants to participate in community service projects. All of the projects, though, served to make Temple members more responsive to the needs of the community and to make the Temple more of a part of the community.
A new and successful program to educate congregants about diverse disaster relief initiatives and to raise funds to support people in need throughout the world.
