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What Our Partners Have Done
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| How MAZON’s Partners Help
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Partner synagogues bring limitless determination and endless imagination to their support of MAZON’s anti-hunger mission. Below, some past and present, synagogue-based MAZON fundraising efforts that have helped bring a higher profile to the important cause of hunger relief:
- MAZON Community: In Tulsa,
OK, Congregation B’nai Emunah
and Temple Israel joined together to
develop a “MAZON Community.” As
part of the city’s commitment to hunger
relief, all Jewish institutions donate 3% of
special event costs to MAZON.
- Food Baskets: In Chevy Chase,
MD, Ohr Kodesh Congregation has its
bar/bat mitzvah students prepare baskets with
nonperishable food items and present them as
centerpieces or offer them on the bimah.
Families make a contribution of $36 for the
bimah basket and $18 for each centerpiece
basket. The money raised is donated to Ohr
Kodesh Congregation and to MAZON.
- Grocery Bag Appeal: Temple
Beth El of Boca Raton, FL, prints information
about MAZON’s High Holy Days fundraising
campaign on the grocery bags they distribute
during Yom Kippur. Synagogue members send proceeds
from the campaign to MAZON, and donate food
to local food banks.
- Hoops for Hunger: Ohr
Kodesh in Chevy Chase, Kol Shalom
and Adat Shalom in Bethesda and B'nai
Tzedek in Potomac, MD join forces to host
an annual "All Star" basketball tournament.
- Kiddush: In Teaneck, NJ,
Congregation Beth Shalom hosts a beautiful
weekly kiddush. But one week a month,
the normally elaborate Kiddush becomes a simple
affair, and leftover funds are sent to MAZON.
- Matching Contribution: In
La Costa, CA, The Elijah Minyan encourages
congregants to match the contributions the temple
raises during the High Holy Days. The total
sum is donated to MAZON.
- Mile Walk-a-Thon: Temple
B’nai Jeshurun of Short Hills, NJ,
coordinated a social action project for youth
group members that involved finding sponsors
for a walk-a-thon whose proceeds were then donated
to MAZON.
- A Million Pennies for MAZON:
Temple Israel in Melbourne, FL, initiated
this project with the goal of raising one million
pennies in loose change. Synagogue members decorated
5-gallon water bottles and placed them around
the shul. This event was so successful that
it is now a minhag (tradition): Congregants
walking into the temple drop their change into
the bottle.
- Mitzvah Mall: In Franklin
Lakes, NJ, Bernert Temple hosts an
annual fair. The synagogue invited charities
(including MAZON), food vendors, Judaica shops
and others to set up booths and hand out information
about the services they offer.
- Penalty Money: In Bellevue,
WA, Cantor David Serkin-Poole of Temple
B’nai Torah collected money for MAZON
by requiring bar/bat mitzvah students who lost
their practice tapes to pay for subsequent materials.
The “penalty” paid was donated to
MAZON.
- Restaurant Night: Temple
Solel of Paradise Valley, AZ, coordinates
with local restaurants to donate a portion of
the total cost of meals served to MAZON.
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