New Frontier USY
From the Bay Areas to the Sierras
United Synagogue Youth Region
Social Action/Tikkun Olam Vice President
Stacy Judson is your 2007-2008 Sa/To VP
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT STACY CLICK HERE
SA/TO CORNER!
We love SA/TO! We love SA/TO! We love SA/TO!
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN RUNNING FOR THE SOCIAL ACTION/TIKKUN OLAM VICE PRESIDENT POSITION READ THIS TO SEE WHAT THE JOB ENTAILS.
At ISS We talked all about good ways to treat the earth. Read more about what we did here
Check out an article by Rachel Levenson about the Darfur Walk many of us did at IC 2007. Read it here
Recent Updates:
We raised $416 at ISS!
NEW FRONTIER HAS RAISED OVER $1800 SO FAR THIS YEAR!!!!
Social Action / Tikkun Olam Defined
Social action n: a social policy of reformWhat this means; Social Action is helping out our community. There are different ways of doing this, but the basic idea is to improve the community we live in.Tikkun Olam: Repairing or healing the world
What this means; Tikkun Olam is the vehicle through which money is contributed to Tzedakah by the United Synagogue Youth. WE provide financial support for those causes we can’t necessarily directly help.
Here are some wonderful resources to help you: Check out the international SA/TO website at http://www.usy.org/yourusy/satoOther good sites:http://www.socialaction.comhttp://www.fundraisingdepot.comhttp://www.helping.orgJewish Family & Children’s Services- http://www.jfcs.org/Bay Area Federation- http://sfjcf.org/
Sacramento Federation- http://www.jewishsac.org/