Congregation set up a school tutorial program for neighboring inner-city elementary school students.
Initiative to educate community about issues of gun control, safety measures and awareness.
Congregants pledged to volunteer 18 hours a year.
A synagogue's initiative to aid and assist children who are ill and are in need of support. They host three annual events at a local area Hospital and they encourage as many temple members and children as possible to participate in order to foster one-on-one relationships with the patients.
Red Cross Blood Drive organized at the synagogue.
Volunteers are trained to tutor local students.
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.
Creation of a week-long day camp for local homeless and battered children.
Distribution of toiletry kits to local homeless shelters.
Synagogue sponsors an annual charity 5K walk/run.
Congregants volunteer regularly at local soup kitchens.
Congregation “adopts” a school in a poverty-stricken neighborhood.
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.
GUCI campers worked throughout the summer in a Tikkun Olam project facilitated by Keep Indianapolis beautiful. They helped create parks, staffed the Boys and Girls Club, and fixed up neighborhood gardens.
Emphasizing Purim gift-giving to children in crisis.
Congregation feeds the hungry in the local community.
A synagogue and an African American Baptist Church united to create an after-school academic enrichment program.
A synagogue “adopted” a local low-income public school by donating school supplies and volunteering as tutors and mentors.
Congregation creates a safe space for homeless families.
Congregations and individuals donate surplus Judaica to developing Central and South American Jewish communities.
Shul-In educates youth about the special needs of physically and mentally challenged adults.
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.
The synagogue's B'nai Mitzvah students, teens, and adults work together to improve literacy through tutoring programs, donations of books and backpacks, and through volunteer at after school programs.
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.
The Temple works to provide shelter for the homeless and needy one night a week during the long winter months. They provide warm meals, a place to sleep, and breakfast in the morning for those who need to take shelter in the synagogue.
A congregation's community outreach program to support an impoverished community in rural America by using Maimonides' injunction that the highest form of tzedakah is to help people help themselves.
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.
A group of teens from NJ is dedicated to raising awareness about the kidnapped Israeli soldiers
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.
youth program modeled after the college Alternative Spring Break
Bar and Bat Mitzvah students participate in meaningful i-fundraising efforts with ORT America and help fellow students around the world.
A congregation's commitment to moral and social issues working in a variety of different agencies to raise funds to pay stipends for young people to do volunteer work in various community agencies such as nursing homes, camps, facilities for the disabled, and youth recreation programs.
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 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.
Volunteers from the Temple, staff the Traveler's Aid information booth at the airport.
