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Mishloah Manot Fundraiser begins in February! Project Noah in April
 * Next Projects:**

Gabe's Bar Mitzvah Project: Cat Toys
 * Past Projects: **
 * Tzedakah Day 5776 - January 24 **
 * Hanukkah 5776: ** **EMBRACE A FAMILY - PICK UP A DREIDEL FROM THE BOARD BY THE SANCTUARY ENTRANC**E


 * SUMMER 5775 (2015) - Backpack drive has begun **
 * DANIELA GLOSTER BOOK DRIVE - Collection bin in 'lobby'. **

Kadima will be getting bags ready during our Selihot Kadima Kick off event. Bags will be distributed on Rosh HaShana Bring filled bags by Yom Kippur!
 * Project Isaiah - Kick off Sept. 20 **


 * Backpack Drive- deadline July 17, 2014 **
 * JET midsummer SATO and Meet up - Backpack Sort and Fill July 27, 2014 10 am **

[|Oz Fishman - Former Student !]
 * Dare to do Good **

Begins Weds - March 19th through Monday, April 7th.  Bins will be located in the Levy Family Campus as well as throughout the community.
 * Project Noah Passover Food Drive **

Send Purim sweets/greetings to your friends AND support the school's Myuhad - special needs program. $200 flat donation sends greetings to all CBD members OR $5 per bag to specific folks. Deadline March 9. See details at Yellow Comforter Culmination AT JCC
 * Mishloah Manot Fundraiser! Its a double mitzvah! **
 * Yellow Comforter Project **** Culmination on Feb 9 **[[file:Yellow Comforter Can Project Flyer 12-31-13.pdf]]

// *any will do - tin can, plastic tubs, yogurt cups // Free Rotation Station 1, 2 || 9:30 – 10:15 Station 1 || 9:30 – 10:15 Station 4 || 9:30 -11 Rotate Stations 1 & 2 || 9:30 – 10:15 Group 1 Store || Station 4 || 10:15 – 11:15 Station 1 ||^  || 10:15 – 11 Group 2 Store || Station 4 || 11:00 – 12:30 Station 2 and 3 || 11:15 – 11:45 Station 2 || 11 – 11:45 Station 3 || 11 – 11:45 Group 3 Store || Station 3 ||  || 11:45 -12:30 Station 3 || 11:45 – 12:30 Station 4 || 11:45 – 12:30 Group 4 Store ||
 * TIKKUN OLAMEINU on Jan 19 9:30 -12:3 [[file:mitzvah.tikkun olameinu.pdf]] **
 * Make MLK Day count by attending our Tikkun Olameinu Mitzvah Day **
 * BRING: Empty food container* for planting; Tzedakah donations for Yellow Comforter **
 * SCHEDULE: **
 * Station 1 - Planting Project and Recycle Art **
 * Station 2 - Blankets for Humane Society and Blessing Bags **
 * Station 3 - Make Two Give Too - Sandwiches for Sunnyvale Armory/Lunch **
 * Station 4 - **** Yellow Comforter Project Store **
 * Gan-Ganon || 1st-2nd || 3rd-4th || 5th-6th || 7th Leaders ||
 * 9:30 -11
 * ^  || 10:15 - 11
 * 11-11:45
 * 11:45 -12:30
 * 1:00 - Offsite Poverty Simulation for teens - adults **

@SATO RESOURCE PAGE:
 * KITA VAV-ZAYIN SOCIAL ACTION/TIKKUN OLAM PROJECTS: **


 * Blanket and Coat Drive - Complete **
 * Box in lobby! **

====**This is a school based program in Sacramento that teaches tolerance and how it affects, and has affected millions of people, including spending time discussing the Holocaust. Five years ago, the children in this group decided they wanted a way to represent not only the 6 million that perished in the Holocaust, but more specifically to remember the 1.6 million children that were murdered and created Bandage Project. Bandage Project 2012**==== ====**Look for the collection box at Barbara Biran's desk (main office) - lets collect as many bandages (of all shapes, sizes, patterns & colors) as we can to send to the Tolerance Kids! Collection will go through the end of November!**====
 * Tolerance Kids Bandage Project- Complete **

Jacob Ram is collecting **“New Teen Clothes” ** and **“Extra-Large Duffle Bags” ** for **Child Advocates of Silicon Valley (CASV) **. This organization provides volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates for almost 1300 Silicon Valley kids in the Foster Care System. Teens have the largest need as donations are usually geared towards smaller children.
 * Jacob Ram's Bar Mitzvah Project - Complete **
 * SILICON VALLEY (CASV) NEEDS “NEW TEEN CLOTHES” and “EXTRA-LARGE DUFFLE BAGS!” **

CASV has provided the below Amazon link to the type of Duffel Bags that would work best. These sturdy bags are for kids to pack up all their belongings when they move from home to home. They currently use garbage bags! Here is the link: []

A collection box will be in the CBD lobby as of Saturday, September 28th and will remain at CBD thru the following month. Please order these duffle bags or pick up ones similar along with new teen clothes and Jacob will deliver the items to their offices in Milpitas.

“Let’s fill the box and help give these kids a sense of pride and show them someone out there cares. Thank you!”

CBD Relay for Life Team Support the team at Havdallah at the Campbell community Center on July 13 at 9pm!
 * PAST PROJECTS: **

Donate new/gently used toys for InnVision. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 19px;">Box located in the lobby.
 * Jason's Bar Mitzvah Project **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 19px;">Social Action project at Beth David on April 14th at noon. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 19px;">Making sandwiches and soup:
 * S **** aratoga Serves! **

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley is committed to making a difference in our community. As we look forward to spring, we are already planning for our Passover Food Drive. Through Project N.O.A.H. (No One Abandoned Here) we will be preparing Passover food packages so "All who are hungry--come and eat. All who are needy--come and join the Passover celebration." Hundreds of these packages are distributed throughout our community to needy families and seniors.
 * PROJECT NOAH PASSOVER DRIVE **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">In 2012 JFS participated in the **Feinstein Foundation annual Campaign to Fight Hunger**. I’m happy to report that this campaign brought in needed funds and we will be participating again this year. For each pound of food that JFS collects and each dollar donated for Project N.O.A.H. in March and April 2013, the Feinstein Foundation will increase their dollar match to our Project N.O.A.H. Food Assistance Program. Community contributions will thus be //multiplied//.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">With community awareness of our need and your support we know that JFS will continue to provide for our community. **Please encourage your members and students to participate in the Passover Food Drive taking place** **Friday, March 1st through Friday, March 20th**. I will deliver bins and fliers after Purim so they are in place before the program begins in March. Bins will be located in the Levy Family Campus as well as at synagogues and schools in the community. Look for fliers from me in February; feel free to use them in your e-news.


 * Yellow Comforter Project **

All our Tzedakah money collected from Sept - Dec will be going to this project. Please help your child remember to help

give someone in our community something they need.

Each class will be choosing a "dreidle" from the JFS embrace a family project.

Representatives from each class will shop for the item and deliver it to JFS.

Photos will be taken so the class can see where their money goes!


 * Candle Fundraiser **

Starts mid-October - all your candle lighting needs - Shabbat, Hanukkah and Havdallah.

DOUBLE MITZVAH: Support Israel (Safed Candles) AND support our special needs programming!

R ** EMEMBERING OTHERS: **
 * You can participate in Rafi's Healing Mitzvot: **
 * Kids with special needs: **http://www.masorti.org/about/bbmitzvahspecial.php
 * Mayan Woman: ** https://www.mayaworks.org/
 * Kids who died in the Holocaust **: http://www.remember-us.org/index.shtml

A ** TMOSPHERIC AWARENESS **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">Be constantly aware of ways you can reduce - reuse - recycle. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">Check out: http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/index.htm

F ** OOD FIGHT ** This Thanksgiving, check out to see what you can do to help fight global Hunger! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">MAZON: http://mazon.org/get-involved/ways-to-give/

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">GLOBAL HUNGER SHABBAT on 11/3: We welcomed Aaron Dorfman, <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Vice President for National Programs at American Jewish World Service. Help the fight at: http://ajws.org/reversehunger/ghs.html

I ** NSPIRATION: Getting the word out ** Check out the plates student's came home with. Let that inspire your family to particiate in the Food FIght (above). Weds the 31st is Halloween. Kids coming to Religious School (and all should), should dress in crazy clothes just like for Purim! However, because on Purim we give, students should also bring gently used clothing to donate to InnVision! Also, in honor of Global Hunger Shabbat on Nov. 2, we will be doing a Food Fact Frenzy, followed by a dive into Rabbi Ohriner's Trick or Treat Trove!
 * FOOD FACT FRENZY **

Brighten a Child’s Day! Give the Gift of Music!


 * MAYER’S DOUBLE MUSIC MITZVAH **
 * Mayer Adelberg’s Bar Mitzvah Projects **


 * 1) 1. ** Collecting children’s musical instruments **
 * Please donate __new or gently-used percussion instruments.__
 * For children in __preschool or elementary school.__
 * To be given to __children’s shelters and hospitals.__
 * Examples: drums, rhythm sticks, tambourines, triangles, bells, maracas, toneblocks, cymbals, castanets, xylophones.
 * Place in box in Beth David Lobby.

2. Collecting gently-used band or orchestral instruments
 * Do you have a __gently-used instrument at home__ no longer being played?
 * Would you like to __donate it so a student can play music__?
 * If so, email mayersmusicmitzvah@gmail.com or call (408) 892-3691 to arrange for a pick-up.
 * __ Will be delivered to “The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation __ ,” where it will be refurbished and given to a needy school music program in in the United States.


 * THANK YOU FOR HELPING! **

MISHLOAH MANOT FUNDRAISER TO START IN JAN!