Tzedakah Night Results
After a lively and informative discussion, Shir Hadash members settled on the following allocation of $1,425 of monies from the budget and other fundraising. If other funds are raised in the next couple of months, the monies will be distributed proportionally to the listed organizations:
- *Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights
$125
www.bcrhhr.org - *Center for Jewish and Arab Economic Development
$125
www.cjaed.org.il - Creccom
$175
www.nrcm.org.mw/creccom/ - Full Life Gospel Center Food Pantry
$200 - Grow Clinic
$225
bmc.org/pediatrics-growclinic.htm - Hillel
$125
www.hillel.org.il - Mathari Fund, Nairobi, Kenya
$125
www.mathari.org - Mali Project – Empowered Woman
$175
www.projectmuso.org - Yad Chessed
$150
www.yadchessed.org/
Social Action’s BOOK PROJECT
Several years ago, the Social Action Committee began to support a project of mine: collecting books for Reader To Reader. This wonderful organization with only two paid employees and lots of volunteers collects books and donates them, as you will read below. I have taken most of the description from Reader To Reader’s Web site.
Based on the campus of Amherst College, Reader To Reader, Inc. is a registered public charity dedicated to bringing free books to needy school libraries and public libraries across the U.S. It serves the poorest communities, including inner-city schools, Native American reservations, and poor rural towns. Reader To Reader has shipped almost 3 million books to schools
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