Raising money to provide food, clothing, furniture, car seats, and tutoring for the welfare recipients assigned to specific caseworkers.
Congregation provides holiday meals and gifts to less fortunate families in their area.
Congregation built a house with Habitat for Humanity
The Temple participated in an interfaith youth trip to Nicaragua with a local Presbyterian Church. They helped build homes and spent time caring for the Nicaraguan children.
Distribution of toiletry kits to local homeless shelters.
Monthly social action activities for families with children grades K-3.
Congregation sponsors an annual Christmas Dinner for their local homeless, distributing meals, toys and care packages to families in need.
Congregants volunteer regularly at local soup kitchens.
The Temple put social action as the centerpiece of its culture. By creating on-going programs in many different areas the congregation enables its members to be involved in many different areas of Social Action work.
The Temple has built a strong social action program which has seeked to mazimize opportunities for members to be involved.
The Passover ritual of removing leavened products from the home provides an opportunity to collect soup kitchen donations.
Visit a different social action website each night of Chanukah. Use these sites as a springboard for volunteer work and charitable giving.
Synagogue works in tandem with a local church organization to provide assistance and resources for homeless families.
Congregation organizes 40 hours worth of volunteer activities around Passover.
A synagogue organized 12 churches, four synagogues, a Rotary Club, another faith-based community organization and a local aquatics club to sponsor a Habitat for Humanity home build in the local community.
Temple Sinai works with its local Interfaith Hospitality Network to open its synagogue doors for one week to provide shelter and food for homeless families with minor children.
Congregants bring the “spirit of Christmas” to needy families through gift-giving and by hosting an annual Christmas dinner.
Tzedekah collective to fund a variety of projects throughout the year.
A congregation's social action program which enables temple family members to participate in such programs, focused on inner-city residents. These intensified efforts resulted in greater participation in synagogue social action in and around the congregation.
A congregation's initiative that focused on three programs that have been particularly successful: a homeless shelter for men to assist them and offer support; an AIDS education program; Mitzvah Day program which supported and helped the wider community in meaningful and profound ways.
Congregation involves local Jews in building a house with Habitat for Humanity.
Congregation partners with a local church to bring resources to Haitian orphans affected by HIV/AIDS.
Combats the city’s homelessness problem by engaging in advocacy, education, marketing and direct service efforts.
A collaboration between two non-profit social service agencies and more than 30 faith groups, which volunteer to host dinner and/or provide housing at least one day a year to make sure that homeless individuals constantly have a place to stay and eat.
The Temple created an integrated social action program, where each "Mitzvah of the Month" column educated congregants of various social action programs and other approaches to pursue justice.
Creation of a local interfaith day of service.
Congregation provides winter respite site: meals, clothing and sleeping accommodations as part of a local interfaith homeless initiative.
The congregation continues to do tikkun olam projects through partnerships with various churches and other inter-faith groups throughout the year.
Congregation creates a safe space for homeless families.
A synagogue's Social Action Committee has implemented an ongoing program of tikkun olam. The synagogue creates year-round programs, demonstrating the congregant's unwavering commitment to those is need, at home or abroad.
Many congregants’ homes experienced serious destruction. The Social Action committee responded by formulating a plan for the congregants’ immediate and long term needs.
Hands-on service opportunities for families that include a strong educational component.
Families donate gifts or money to charitable organizations instead of exchanging gifts on the sixth night of Chanukah.
Transitional housing shelter for homeless women and mothers with young children which began in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Synagogue works to infuse congregational life with social justice, learning, and action.
The synagogue runs a homeless shelter from November until April in which guests are given a hot meal, a warm bed to sleep in, and a breakfast in the morning.
Synagogue provides bedding and personal materials for a homeless shelter.
The synagogue proves that bigger is not necessarily better! As a small synagogue, they were able to acheive significant results in the community through disaster relief programs, food drives, hosting a shelter, and an Intergenerational Mitzvah Day.
The congregation developed an overall social action program where the values of social justice were included in worship, study, communal activities, and board discussions. From these discussions, they devloped a comprehensive social action program that involved hundreds of congregants during the year.
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.
Synagogue helps improve the basic living standards of impoverished families in Mexico.
Congregants assist needy families in the area by preparing and delivering monthly packages of canned goods, preserved foods and family favorites.
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.
Teens in grades 7-12 across the state went door-to-door on the evening of October 31, Halloween, “trick-or-treating” for canned goods to donate to local shelters.
The synagogue's goals are to dismantle racism and economic injustice. They do this by working with other inter-faith groups, by mentoring at local schools, by helping out at Habitat for Humanity, and in many other ways.
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.
This congregation worked in partnership with Na Me Res (A First Nations organization) to commit itself to respond to homelessness.
Run/walk event to raise funds and awareness to combat chronic homelessness.
High school students explore issues of local homelessness by spending a night in make-shift cardboard box shelters.
The Temple sponsored a "sock hop" in which the admission fee was one package of socks, t-shirts, or underpants which were donated to various homeless shelters.
The Temple partnered with two churches in the South Bronx in order to foster connections between the communities. Through tutoring, blood drives, homeless shelters, and other means, the communities have worked together through iner-faith relations to help make our world a better place.
A synagogue co-partners with a local Presbyterian Church and other supporting congregations and organizations in a program to take working homeless families through proscribed steps or phases to make them self-sufficient.
youth program modeled after the college Alternative Spring Break
The congregation worked together with members of the Muslim community to build a home for a needy family while breaking down the barriers that existed between the two groups.
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 Temple has been able to transform its Mitzvah Day into a year-round opportunity for social action.
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.
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.
Temple members fulfill a mitzvah by picking up complimentary bottles of shampoo when traveling on vacation. Afterwards the collected items are donated to an area homeless shelter.
The Temple created a Tikkun Olam project for every grade of the religious school. In this way, students learned Jewish texts throughout the year, were involved in the project with their families, and were able to build ongoing relationships with other Temple families.
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.
Various houses of worship pledge to open their facilities throughout the winter to homeless men in the community who need shelter, food, and transportation.
Conservation project to save trees, educate about conditions of farm workers and teach value of gleaning.
The Temple began a program in which congregants teach what they know best to homeless residents at a neighborhood shelter. In addition, the Temple created a library for the homeless shelter and formed a tutoring program.
An interfaith county-wide rotating homeless shelter.
A synagogue can work to gather cold weather garments for area homeless shelters.
