MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger is the only national Jewish social justice organization devoted to ending domestic hunger. With the support of 1500+ synagogue and community partners across America, MAZON builds a bridge between the abundance with which many American Jews are blessed and the deprivation suffered by millions of others, both Jews and non-Jews.
What is a MAZON Partner Synagogue?
A MAZON Partner mobilizes its members to help MAZON end the injustice of hunger through raising awareness, fostering advocacy and integrating tzedakah for hunger relief into holiday observance, community events and lifecycle celebrations.
Benefits of MAZON Partnership include:
• Being part of a dynamic national Jewish community movement with broad impact
• Recognition on the MAZON website Partner Honor Roll
• Acknowledgment in nationally distributed publications
Ways to engage your synagogue
Appoint a MAZON liaison as the link between your synagogue and MAZON. This liaison meets informally with families preparing for a simcha and with other groups planning synagogue functions. General responsibilities include providing materials and answering questions about MAZON.
Incorporate MAZON’s anti-hunger message into your synagogue holiday celebrations. Encourage your synagogue to participate in MAZON’s biannual campaigns - High Holy Days and Passover - to collect food for local charities and funds for MAZON.
Click here for step-by-step instructions.
Add a 3% surcharge to all synagogue events where food is served. Click here for more information about MAZON’s 3% concept.
If your synagogue has a standard facilities rental agreement, consider adding a "MAZON clause" suggesting that 3% of the cost of the rental be donated to MAZON.
All MAZON partner synagogues receive MAZON's semi-annual newsletters, annual reports, progress reports on MAZON’s work and other timely hunger- and social justice-related information.
The above is simply a list of suggested participation guidelines. Partnership with MAZON is entirely voluntary and, once established, does not obligate the congregation financially or administratively.
