This report was originally posted in December 2013
By Repair the World
More than 200 Jewish not-for-profit organizations from across the country participated in a 40-minute survey designed to assess the state of volunteering in the Jewish not-for-profit community. The results establish important baselines for the field and also highlight opportunities for Jewish not-for-profits to make use of volunteering best practices.
This post originally appeared on Baltimore Jewish Times on December 5, 2013
By Marc Shapiro
Although it was one of the coldest mornings of the year, the group of nine was all smiles. This lot, one of six current projects, was being beautified by Baltimore nonprofit Civic Works. While these projects are usually staffed by AmeriCorps volunteers, there were two new faces in the crowd, Benoit and Avi Sunshine, fellows from Repair the World.
This post originally appeared on The Jewish News on November 28, 2013
By Ben Falik
On Nov. 10, Jewish Family Service and Repair the World partnered to go where Fall Fix Up had never gone before. Thirty Jewish young adults — of the 400 volunteers who participated in JFS’ 17th Annual Fall Fix Up — brought energy, inquiry and a 30-yard dumpster to one corner of Southwest Detroit.
This post originally appeared on Jewish Exponent on November 26, 2013
By jelkin
When Binah Malka Stinnett forgot her lunch one day while volunteering at a Boys and Girls Club in North Philadelphia, she stopped at a small grocery store in search of ingredients for a meal, but the business had little besides junk food. She ended up paying $3 for a banana and a bag of plantain chips. The lack of access to affordable, healthy food in the low-income area — a situation that sociologists describe as a “food desert” — is one of the issues Stinnett hopes to address by arranging dinners for teens who come to the club after school.
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