SOCIAL ACTION PAST PROJECTS
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Social Action Past Successes:
Out of Gas or All Charged Up? 2008 Environmental Event
AniMeals 2008
CBI Feeds Many on Thanksgiving
Surf City Youths Share Hunger Project
CBI United for Equality at San Diego's Pride Parade
Generous Response to Spring Collectibles Project
Great Response to Caring for Kids Program
Global Warming and Green Fair Event
Darfur Walk to Benefit the IMC
Yad L' Yad Completes Blankets for ParentCare
Keep a Kid Warm Clothing Collection
Thanks for the Books
Thank You from CBI and Habitat
Summary of Social Action Programs for 2005-2006 (5766)
Our AniMeals Success Story
Other Social Action Web Pages:
Upcoming Social Action Projects
Ongoing Social Action Projects
About the Social Action Committee and How to Get Involved
Out of Gas or All Charged Up? Environmental Event
Sun., March 2 at 9:00 a.m.
 Join us for the 2nd Annual Environmental Event at CBI. We'll begin with the movie “Who Killed the Electric Car?” at 9:00 a.m., followed by the panel discussion “Out of Gas or All Charged Up?” with noted experts at 10:45 a.m. Panelists will expand on the movie’s content, with discussion on transportation, land use, sustainable energy, alternative fuels and vehicles. At 12:00 p.m. check out the car show sponsored by the Electric Vehicle Association of San Diego. The event is free and open to the community.
Guests Panelists wil be:
- Assemblywoman Lori Saldaña
California Legislator, Chair of Assembly Committee on Housing & Redevelopment, and a member of Committee on Natural Resources
- Gregory M. Newhouse
Director, Advanced Transportation Technology & Energy Center at San Diego Miramar College
- David E. Schumacher
Principal Transportation Planner, San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)
- Irene M. Stillings
Executive Director, California Center for Sustainable Energy
Click here to download a PDF of the Panelist Biographies.
Click here to download a PDF of the "Out of Gas" flyer.
Recycle San Diego will collect used electronic equipment at the event for FREE! Specifically, you may recycle the following: Batteries (household, automotive), Copiers (small), Faxes, DVD players, Servers, Server Racks, Power Cords/Cables/Strips, Computer Towers, Laptops, Telephones, Microwave ovens, Televisions, Stereos Systems, Keyboards, Mice/trackballs, Speakers, Uninterruptible power supplies, VCRs, Cell Phones, Printers, Computer Monitors, CRT Screens, Plasma Screens, LCD Screens, and Servers.
Please RSVP for seating by calling 858-535-1111, ext. 3800. There is no charge for the program. For more information, please contact , Program Director, at 858-535-1111, ext. 3800. Be sure to check Congregation Beth Israel’s web site at www.cbisd.org for information on this and all Social Action programming.
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AniMeals Collection
Month of February
 Please bring donations of dry and canned cat and dog food for the annual February collection for AniMeals. This program, operated by volunteers through the Helen Woodward Center, provides and delivers meals to the companion animals of elderly and other homebound individuals. AniMeals works in conjunction with more than seven agencies including Meals On Wheels and Jewish Family Services to identify homes that would benefit from pet food delivery.
Collection bins will be located by the Guard Station and outside the Religious School office in February. Monetary donations and zip lock bags are also appreciated. Please contact or Program Director for more information.
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CBI Feeds Many on Thanksgiving
CBI friends and families got out early Thanksgiving morning and ran and walked to help feed San Diego's hungry. For the fifth year in a row, CBI formed a team of parents, grandparents and children for the Pure Fitness Thanksgiving Day 5K/10K. The flat course twists through the streets of downtown San Diego and has several live bands playing along the way. Many adults and kids ran the entire race trying to improve their times from last year. It was a fun, relaxing morning full of friendship and smiles.
Surf City Squash Program Youths Share the Hunger Project Experience
Eighteen middle school students from the Surf City Squash program participated in the CBI Hunger Project on November 18th. Surf City Squash, a non-profit organization, inspires disadvantaged youth from the Preuss School to excel through a program combining academics, the sport of squash, and community service. They spent more than three hours serving food and drinks, handing out trays, cleaning tables and floors. The students found it to be an eye-opening and inspiring experience. As one of the students stated: "I am not tall but I feel tall and important today."
CBI Marched in San
Diego's Pride Parade
CBI's Social Action Committee members and congregation members
joined J*Pride, local synagogues, and hundreds of community organizations in
marching in the largest parade in San Diego in July. CBI members were proud to stand together and
show support for equality.
Generous Response to Spring Collectibles Project
At least 63 cartons of clothing and a multitude of books were donated by CBI members in our Spring Collectibles Project. Children ages 6-17 served by the New Alternatives program and readers all over the world served by the The Bookman will benefit from the donations.
Many thanks to everyone who participated in the collection, especially to Project Captain Glenn Farber and the 12 hard working sorters and packers who completed their job in less than two hours! View more information about these two programs at: www.newalternatives.org and www.thebookman.org.
Great Response to Caring for Kids Program
CBI’s Caring For Kids Program, working with Voices for Children finds services and funds needed by children in foster care. Our winter recruiting effort yielded many generous offers from CBI members, for which we extend heartfelt thanks. We look forward to adding more names to our CBI Volunteer Service List in the future. A special thank you to Deborah Fox for donating the registration fee and tuition for a boxing program requested by a foster child on our Wish List. View the many items still on the list, along with a description of the children requesting them. To help by either donating services or funding, contact Marsha Janger.
Outstanding Turn-out for
Global Warming and
Green Fair Event
About 200 people spent their pre-Super Bowl hours at CBI's Tu B'Shevat event on Sun., Feb. 4. Early birds viewed Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth". Panelists David Bookbinder, Cory Briggs, Miriam Kastner and Saran Kirschbaum then presented the legal, political, scientific and Jewish issues involved in addressing global warming. Afterwards, Green Fair exhibitors were nearly overwhelmed by the enthusiastic crowd that gathered around each exhibit.
Special thanks to project organizers: Seekey Cacciatore, Deb DeBow, and Anita Hosenpud. Event volunteers included Sandy and Larry, Segulayah Almah, Karen Coleman, Paul Dickstein, Judy Fisher, Gladie Jaffe, Julie Fox, Bob Metz, Beverly Miller, Sarah Schrier, Jay Shirley, Ben Weissman and Joe Wexler.
See Photo Gallery.
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Thank you From Yad L' Yad For All the Blankets to ParentCare
Thank you Yad L' Yad for the 16 lovely little blankets that were turned in to Vista Hill ParentCare in December. Everyone there was so grateful and it was just in time for their holiday party. Thank you to everyone who completed a blanket, and especially to Carol Golden and her daughter Evie - they each did several quite quickly to meet our deadline.
If you are still interested in helping, there are about 6 more little bags containing squares and yarn in the lobby of the Evelyn & Ernest Rady Family Administration Center at CBI. Just pick one up, then bring back any completed blanket to the same spot. Hopefully these can be ready in time for our next visit to ParentCare in January.
Keep a Kid Warm Clothing Collection
Thanks to everyone who donated coats and sweaters to the Keep a Kid Warm campaign. Your generosity means that many children will be a lot warmer this winter. A special thanks goes to the J² Youth Group who donated clothing at their October gathering.
Thanks for the Books
HIPPY Book Drive volunteers say "thanks" as they load boxes of books donated by families arriving for the first day of Religious School. The books will be used by local disadvantaged families. Thanks are also in order to Book Drive Chair Madeline Cohen and volunteers Sarah, Renee, Dana, Charlotte and her dad, and Ben and his mom.
Due to organizational changes, HIPPY could not use the books collected in the recent book drive. Happily, thanks to the work of Madeline Cohen and Phyllis Cohn, the books have been donated to two organizations that can use them. Words Alive is an organization that serves all age levels in promoting literacy. Farr Elementary School has a low literacy rate and an under-stocked library.
Please continue saving books for the Spring Collectibles project benefiting The Bookman.
A Thank You from CBI and Habitat
To the hot and dirty dozen:
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My sincere "Thank You" for your blood, sweat and tears donated to the CBI Social
Action Habitat for Humanity work party at the steamy and dry Escondido site on
Sunday, Sept. 17, 2006.
You were all great putting up with the very physical labor outside and I am sure your muscles will remind you of your donation for the next week. Looking forward to seeing you all again on December 17.
Glenn Farber
The official thank you from Habitat:
On behalf of San Diego Habitat for Humanity, I would like to thank Congregation Beth Israel for helping us last Sunday, September 17, 2006 at the Milane Lane construction site. Please express our appreciation for your group's hard work and enthusiastic participation! Your generous support enables San Diego Habitat for Humanity to continue to build safe, decent, affordable homes in partnership with local families in need.
Community support is crucial to accomplishing our mission of eliminating poverty housing in San Diego County, and we are grateful for your commitment to our cause. Through your gift of volunteering, we are transforming the lives of local working families who struggle to make ends meet. They now look forward to a brighter, more self-sufficient future through the benefits of home-ownership. Through volunteer construction efforts we have completed 22 homes during 2005 and we anticipate completing at least 18 homes during 2006. In addition, we are in the early planning stages on 3 other projects that will provide homes for an additional 37 families.
Past and future accomplishments are not possible without financial and volunteer support. We hope we can look forward to individual and organization support in both of these areas.
Thank you again for your generous support.
Take care
Don Kaiser
Volunteer Coordinator
(619) 283-4663 Ext. 311
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What a Difference We Have Made in Our Community
Summary of Social Action Programs for 2005-2006 (5766)
Thanks are due to the Social Action Committee, clergy and staff and to our many volunteers for making these projects a reality.
July 2005
Pride Parade
August 2005
CBI Hunger Project transitions to new format in partnership with St. Vincent de Paul
September 2005
HIPPY Book Drive with Religious School
Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts with Jewish Family Service
October 2005
Social Action Shabbat with American Jewish World Service and social action fair after services
CBI walking team for Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk raises $16,000
November 2005
Coats, sweatshirts and heavy sweaters collected for Keep-a-Kid Warm program for St. Vincent de PaulNon-perishable food drive for Mama's Kitchen with First United Methodist Church
CBI walking team in PureFit San Diego Cares Thanksgiving Day 5K Run/Walk
December 2005
Volunteer for a Volunteer program on Christmas Eve and Day
January 2006
All People's Breakfast in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
February 2006
Pet food and other items collected for AniMeals
March 2006
Collectibles Project for St. Vincent de Paul, Mama's Kitchen, Polinsky Children's Center, Second Chance/STRIVE, Rachael's Women's Center, New Alternatives and others
20th Anniversary of CBI Hunger Project – special thanks to Joan Kutner, director for 19 years
New SAC program, Advocate for an Advocate, in partnership with Voices for Children, provides needed items for foster children
April 2006
Co-sponsored showing of film, "Obsession" about radical Islam
St. Vincent de Paul Volunteer Appreciation Celebration for volunteerism with the Hunger Project
Throughout the Year
SAC grocery tote bag fundraiser
Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk orientations at CBI
Yad L'Yad Program knits/crochets blankets for Vista Hill
Habitat for Humanity home building events
Monthly dinners served to military families at downtown USO
Mitzvah activities at Religious and Day School Shabbat family dinners
Volunteers provided weekly for CBI Hunger Project
Judy Fisher and Susie Citrin Co-Chairs, CBI Tikkun Olam/Social Action Committee
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Our AniMeals Success Story
"Wow! You guys are incredible!" exclaimed Cindy Simpson, AniMeals Program Manager. For the second year, Congregation Beth Israel's pet food delivery to AniMeals was received with great enthusiasm.
The Tikkun Olam/Social Action Committee pet food collection which took place during the month of February and the first few weeks in March gathered approximately 200 pounds of dry and 150 cans of canned cat and dog food thanks to generous donations.
AniMeals supplies food to the companion animals of the elderly, disabled, ill and other homebound individuals. AniMeals currently supports over 250 clients working with Meals-on-Wheels, the Office of Aging and Independence Services, Being Alive San Diego (a service that supports individuals with HIV/AIDS), the Vista Senior Center, UCSD Psychiatric Services, Jewish Family Service, and Special Delivery, a meal delivery service for people who have terminal illnesses.
The Congregation Beth Israel collection goes a long way in helping people and their companion animals stay together. Special thanks go to the CBI Religious School Second Grade class, who made flyers to promote the pet food collection and donated more than $100. Thanks are also due to All About Animals of La Jolla for providing food at wholesale cost and making a generous donation, and to Georgy Jennewein for serving as the "poster dog" for the campaign. Thanks to Sarah Schrier, SAC Project captain for the last two years, Karen Coleman and Leslie Belden for helping to coordinate the collection.
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