Kids Can Help:
Olivia Reidy & Avalon Pelligrini
Emma Heiberger
Sophia Cross
Indian Princesses
Adam's Bar Mitzvah
Tzedakah Project
Contact:
Don Varney
(650) 568-7341
dvarney@peninsulahabitat.org
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Tzedakah Project
The Mid Peninsula Jewish Community Day School teaches students Jewish values such as
the responsibility to help "repair the world." Consistent with the school's hands-on,
integrated approach to learning, the seventh graders participate in a Tzedakah
Project (Hebrew for Righteousness). This is an integrated classroom approach to
philanthropy that ties secular curriculum goals with Jewish values during the
impressionable Bar and Bat Mitzvah year. The hands-on educational program trains
students to become prudent philanthropists; allowing students to connect with
nonprofit agencies, steeps them in Jewish texts and allows students to meet with
local philanthropists to learn about personal and social responsibility and how
philanthropy works. Students learn to leverage and allocate funds; learn to
cooperate as a board of directors; and most importantly students are compelled to
make a difference. This year 28 MPJCDS seventh graders gave out over $34,000 to
non profit agencies. The Habitat staff worked with Patrick, who gave Habitat a check
on behalf of his class at the school's "Celebration of Giving".
Seventh graders at Mid Peninsula Jewish Community Day School raised money to buy
building materials for the Rolison Road 36-townhouse development, planted and
decorated "welcoming" flower pots for seven new home owner families, and will serve
lunch to 25 volunteers in June as part of their community service commitment.
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