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What's In It For You: Less Tangible Benefits of Giving

Tzedakah literally means justice or righteousness...  What's In It For You: Less Tangible Benefits of Giving
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What's In It For You: Tangible Benefits of Giving

There are some tangible benefits for you when you make a donation to your federation...

What's In It For You: Tangible Benefits of Giving

Standing Up To Be Counted

Reni Gertner

Just a few minutes before struggling to quiet down the group that attended the Combined Jewish Philanthropies Young Leadership Division's Inaugural Chai Event, I stood at the podium and surveyed the room. What I witnessed was truly surreal. more

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$13 delivers a food package to an elderly Jew in the FSU

$250 delivers 52 weeks of kosher lunches at the JCC senior center

$25 delivers textbooks and supplies to one Hebrew school student

$365 delivers a scholarship for a teen to attend a Judaism and ecology seminar

$40 delivers a local family holiday workshop

$50 delivers medication for an indigent client

$1000 delivers 16 counseling sessions for a troubled teen

$30,000 delivers a cancer family care program

$750 delivers a JCC membership for a new immigrant family

$50 delivers three new books for the Jewish library

$1200 delivers plane tickets for a family of four from Kiev to Israel

$160 delivers a month's college living allowance for an Ethiopian student in Israel

$52 delivers two months blood pressure medication for a senior citizen

$1000 delivers a month-long stay at the home for the aged

$6000 delivers a year's scholarship for a toddler at the JCC early childhood program

$70 delivers special eating utensils for a Jewish nursing home

$75 delivers job interview clothes for a new American immigrant

$19,000 delivers an AIDS education program in Israel

$75 delivers a personal counselor for a special needs camper

$10,000 delivers 33 driver's education scholarships for new American immigrants

$100 delivers Shabbat dinner for 10 local college students

$25,000 delivers a new immigrant caseworker

$100 delivers one speaker at a Jewish education lecture series

$120 delivers a 5-month Hebrew-language program at an absorption center in Israel

$125 delivers two days of emergency food and shelter for a single parent and child

$2,000 delivers basic necessities for a new Ethiopian immigrant family in Israel

$300 delivers one month of pre-school for an Ethiopian child in Israel

$500 delivers one month of van service to take seniors to the hospital

$1500 delivers one day-school scholarship to a needy student

$13,200 delivers one person's temporary housing at an Israeli absorption center

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