Founded in 1985, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger is a national, nonprofit agency that allocates donations from the Jewish community to prevent and alleviate hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds.
Each year, MAZON grants over $4 million to more than 300 carefully screened hunger-relief agencies, including emergency food providers, food banks, multi-service organizations and advocacy groups that seek long-term solutions to the hunger problem.
Click here to learn about MAZON’s grantees. MAZON (“food” in Hebrew) believes its dual purpose is to provide for those who are hungry today and to address the systemic causes of hunger and poverty, both domestically and globally. Although grants are provided to many organizations serving the Jewish poor, in keeping with the best of Jewish tradition MAZON believes it is important to respond to all who are in need.
Click here to read more about hunger and the Jewish response. MAZON is supported by nearly 900 synagogues throughout the United States that have affirmed "partnerships" with MAZON, thereby embracing the traditional Jewish commitment to sustain the hungry.
Click here to learn more about becoming a MAZON partner. MAZON also enjoys the support of over 100,000 individual donors who incorporate social justice and hunger relief as crucial components of their everyday lives. MAZON’s supporters help hungry people by donating three percent of the cost of weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs and other joyous and life-cycle events; by contributing to MAZON at the High Holy Days, Chanukah and Passover; and by making contributions in honor or in memory of friends and loved ones.
Click here to learn more about how you can help fight hunger.
