May 2024 Tzedakah Box
May Tzedakah Box: The United Effort Organization
The United Effort is a Mountain View-based non-profit whose mission is to help unhoused people move towards self-sufficiency and find a safe home in our community. The United Effort provides individuals comprehensive and integrated services to find affordable housing, public assistance programs, resources and mentors. United Effort's clients are people in our community who are facing extreme financial hardship. Most of them grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area or have been living and working here for many years before experiencing a single bad event which forced them to live in their cars or on the streets.
According to the 2022 Point-in-Time count, 25% of homelessness in Santa Clara County was caused by job loss and another 13% was caused by eviction. Our clients are resilient and are working hard to overcome these challenges to get back on their feet and become self-sufficient again, but they need help and support from their community. They deserve the chance to have a normal life like everybody else and they deserve to be treated with dignity, respect, and compassion.
Learn more about The United Effort Organization.
A donation can be made:
- on our website
- @Beth-Am on Venmo
- by check made payable to “Congregation Beth Am” mailed to the Administrative Office as follows:
Congregation Beth Am
Attn: Tzedakah Box — The United Effort
26790 Arastradero Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Thank you.
Thu, October 17 2024
15 Tishrei 5785
Schedule
Reproductive Justice Event: Post-Abortion Care Package Assembly
Sunday, Oct 27th 2:00p to 4:00pJoin Beth Am Women’s Reproductive Justice Group in assembling post-abortion care kits for Bay Area residents receiving abortion care.
Community Services Agency (CSA) Pantry Help
Monday, Oct 28th 9:30a to 12:00pHelp out our neighbors at the Community Services Agency in Mountain View.
Distribute Breakfast at Hope’s Corner
Wednesday, Oct 30th 7:00a to 9:30aBeth Am is part of an interfaith group providing meals to Hope's Corner in Mountain View. We are in need of adult (aged 16+) volunteers to do food preparation under the direction of Hope’s Corner staff.
Dayenu Chutzpah 2024: Encouraging Environmentally Interested Voters to Get Out and Vote
Wednesday, Oct 30th 6:00p to 8:00pAs we reflect during these Days of Awe and think about tikkun olam and what we can contribute to saving the world, YOU have an opportunity to join one of two “Dayenu - Chutzpah 2024” phone banks to make non-partisan calls to climate concerned voters to encourage them to vote.
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