Raising money to provide food, clothing, furniture, car seats, and tutoring for the welfare recipients assigned to specific caseworkers.
Congregation set up a school tutorial program for neighboring inner-city elementary school students.
Congregation re-envisioned its food drive by requesting non-perishables by assigned first letter.
One congregant realized that many children began school wearing shabby clothes and without school supplies. The Temple created a committee in which families would "adopt" a student and buy clothes, school supplies, and other necessities for the start of the school year.
Congregants pledged to volunteer 18 hours a year.
Creation of charitable centerpieces for a B'nei Mitzvah celebration.
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.
Congregation sends non-perishable kosher food to hungry Jews in Ukraine.
Distribution of toiletry kits to local homeless shelters.
Congregational families with children visit a local senior community.
Synagogue sponsors an annual charity 5K walk/run.
Synagogue members cut coupons to donate to agencies that purchase food for the needy.
Cultivating produce on synagogue grounds to serve at a local soup kitchen.
Congregants volunteer regularly at local soup kitchens.
The Temple has built a strong social action program which has seeked to mazimize opportunities for members to be involved.
The congregation collaborated with the administration of a local inner city school. Congregants tutored students, others provided supplies and money for field trips, while others gave their time during after school projects.
Synagogue works in tandem with a local church organization to provide assistance and resources for homeless families.
Congregants provides monthly dinner to residents of a local apartment complex for citizens with physical disabilities.
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.
Congregation built a food pantry for a local homeless shelter, decorated their dining room, and assisted in serving meals.
Health fair provides important health, safety, nutritional, and insurance information to the local community.
Congregants provide support services for HIV/AIDS patients and their families.
Congregation creates a safe space for homeless families.
The Temple created a tuition free learning center that allows the economically disadvantaged to gain important job skills allowing them to move towards economic self-suffiency.
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.
Congregants worked together with First AME Zion Church to mentor and tutor 4th grade students at Main Street Elementary.
The congregation created a Free Medical Program for those in their community who do not have access to afforable health insurance.
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.
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 began conducting Shabbat services once each month at area prisons and also conducted a Passover seder.
Project Ezra is a non-profit organization that serves the Jewish elderly of the Lower East Side in New York City.
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.
The synagogue worked together with other community members to help revitalize a Day Care Center in the inner-city.
By rotating where donations are directed, one's contribution to the tzedakah box can serve a variety of efforts.
Temple Sinai in Atlanta, GA created a food rescue program.
The congregation along with other religious groups created a day care center for the elderly. The synagogue members help support the community center through money, time, and other efforts.
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.
Congregation sends donations to help support our troops.
youth program modeled after the college Alternative Spring Break
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!
A grant program available for public school teachers for educational programs that address community needs.
The synagogue has partnered with a local elementary school to improve the literacy of the students. By donating money for new books, buying books, and creating tutoring programs, the synagogue has shown what it means to be "The People of the Book."
The Potato Project works to save millions of pounds of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and other products that are wasted in the fields.
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.
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.
A synagogue can work to gather cold weather garments for area homeless shelters.
Throughout the year, the congregation had a "Mitzvah of the Month" which provided supplies and caring for the Wimauma community of farmworkers.
With a focus on congregant’s social justice interests, synagogue provides numerous programming and advocacy opportunities all year.
Congregation creates a year’s worth of programs and opportunities to think about and do tzedakah.
Congregants sign up for three month commitments to buy an extra can of food each time they shop. Donations are brought to the Temple and donated to local food banks.
