My Fundraising Goal:
$7,000.00 |
Money Raised to Date:
$4,877.00 |
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| www.hazon.org | | Join me in Hazon's 9th annual NY Jewish Environmental Bike Ride!
| Double your donation! For the month of June I will match all donations. I believe in the cause and will put my money to back it up - so join me in supporting a better world!
Please sponsor me on this marvelous 4-day fundraising event, 2-day Ride that takes place over the Labor Day weekend. It's an excellent cause - Hazon is at the forefront of raising awareness about sustainable food and environmental issues through a variety of initiatives.
I believe in the cause so much - I am on the Steering Committee for the second year, I started Team Brooklyn, and have donated much time and money to Hazon’s cause of creating a more sustainable world.
To further show my support I am starting it off with a $300 donation and will be matching all donations in June. Please support my in my goal by funding Hazon’s important work.
You can sponsor me through the link on this page or write a check made out to Hazon, and mail it to my office at:
Howard Levy
Red Rooster Group
36 East 23rd Street, Suite 301
New York, NY 10010
212-673-9353
And of course, if you would like to join me on the ride (or as crew), that would be fantastic too. And the free training rides held on Sundays during the riding season are open to all cyclists.
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Your donation supports:
-> Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) program supporting local, sustainable agriculture around the United States, in which individuals purchase an entire season of produce from an organic family farm. This supports local farming and gives people access to fresh, organic food from a farmer they know. Hazon is the first Jewish CSA project in North America, and since 2004, they have launched 19 CSAs across the country. As a result of your donations from the NY and DC Rides Hazon will launch 13 new Tuv Ha’Aretz sites in 2009 to help transform how this country grows its food.
-> The Hazon Food Conference, held first in December 2006, was launched with a seed grant from Ride proceeds and is the premier event of the new Jewish food movement. A record 565 participants came to the conference in 2009. They represented our partner day schools, as well as educators, food lovers, farmers, home gardeners, chefs, and community organizers from across the country. In 2009, the Food Conference moved to the west coast. The conference brings people toegether to explore the intersection of Jewish food and contemporary life.
-> Min Ha’Aretz, Hazon’s family education initiative, uses food and Jewish tradition as thefocus of innovative programming for Jewish day school students and their parents. With a classroom curriculum for students, an evening program for parents, and education events for the whole family, Min Ha’Aretz aims to strengthen intra-family conversations about food, Jewish tradition, and the world around us. Min Ha’Aretz launched in 2007 and will run in seven schools in Spring of 2009, including a Congegration school in Los Gatos California.
->Hazon’s award-winning blog “The Jew and the Carrot” at www.JCarrot.org. The blog is the first port of call on the web for all things Jews, food, and sustainability. It also serves as a front page for all of Hazon’s food work, bringing the discussions between Jewish farmers, day school educators, food enthusiasts, chefs, and families to far reaching corners of the Jewish community.
Hazon also funds:
-> The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies – the pre-eminent professional leadership program for environmental leaders in the Middle East.
-> ADAMAH: The Jewish Environmental Fellowship is a 3 month leadership training program for Jewish young adults — ages 20–29 —that integrates organic farming, sustainable living, and Jewish learning. Funds from the NY Ride have been used to put a down payment on the house where the Adamahniks live, and also to build a greenhouse and pickling kitchen. The Adamahniks are in have launched a commercial pickling and canning business; their motto is “Changing the world, one Jewish farmer at a time”. Every year, Adamah alumni and current fellows participate in the NY Ride.
-> The Teva Learning Center runs week-long outdoor education experiences for day school children at Isabella Freedman, as well as doing family shabbaton programming for synagogues. Teva has taught over 5,000 Jewish children about Jewish roots of environmentalism and activism over the past 13 years.
And other initiatives. To find out more, check out the Causes page on Hazon's website.
Thanks for your support!
Howard |
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