Congregation re-envisioned its food drive by requesting non-perishables by assigned first letter.

Congregation “adopts” a school in a poverty-stricken neighborhood.

Genocidal acts are taking place in Sudan’s Darfur region even as we gather around our Seder tables this spring. To again help bring Pesach teachings to bear on a current moral crisis, the 2005 If Not Us Who Committee (INUW) of Congregation Beth El in Sudbury MA takes Darfur as the theme of this Passover Companion.

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.

Congregants bring the “spirit of Christmas” to needy families through gift-giving and by hosting an annual Christmas dinner.

Emphasizing Purim gift-giving to children in crisis.

High Holiday tickets had sign-up information for six upcoming social action projects.

Congregations and individuals donate surplus Judaica to developing Central and South American Jewish communities.

Congregants organized visits to local cemeteries for seniors who wished to visit the graves of their loved ones.

Integrates Passover observance with combating hunger by partnering with MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger.

Tzedakah project focusing on the mitzvah of tikkun olam during Chanukah.

Congregation and local NAACP co-sponsor annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative service at synagogue.

The Temple began conducting Shabbat services once each month at area prisons and also conducted a Passover seder.

This project is now in its third year at Congregation Shir Tikvah (Troy, MI). Congregants provide Chanukah gifts to less fortunate children, seniors and homeless adults in their community in a very personal way.

A congregation's inspiring program to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in the local community and to bring about support, healing, and comfort to those affected. The synagogue's Social Action Committee created a unique Haggadah, enumerating the plagues that hinder liberation from AIDS. This initiative has become an empowering vehicle through which many temple members have put their Jewish values to work.

The Temple opened its High Holiday services to people with hearing difficulties.

Confirmation class presents a Shavuot meal, researching how and where it was harvested.

A congregation's inspiring sense of community responsibility through their devotion to The Friendship House, a homeless shelter for abused women, children at risk, migrant workers, and the working poor, and the Sunrise Community, an agency for the developmentally compromised adults. The community's efforts were focused on three comprehensive projects: La Casa, a thrift store opened to help the Friendship House community become more self-sufficient, Breast Cancer Awareness, and the Annual Christmas Eve/Chanukah Party celebration.

The Giving Tree is an annual gift-giving program that benefits children, families, and seniors that would not normally have the funds to celebrate the holidays. This program has blossomed into a year-round programming project benefiting over 2,000 people.

An annual gift giving program that benefits children, families, and seniors that would not normally have the funds to celebrate the holidays.

A synagogue's initiative to work with the local Interfaith Shelter Network over the Christmas holiday to provide assistance to those who need the support.

Raise awareness of captive Israeli soldiers by leaving 3 chairs open at community events.

Congregation creates a year’s worth of programs and opportunities to think about and do tzedakah.