Mitzvah Projects

We are honored to work with you as you plan for your Mitzvah Project. It’s important that you choose a cause you care about. JF&CS serves a wide range of people with different needs and our Mitzvah Project options reflect that, so we hope you can find a cause here to support.

View a list of options below or let us customize the right project for you by contacting us at volunteers@jfcsboston.org or 781-693-5007.

Use Your Project to Help

People Experiencing Food Insecurity

• Organize a Family Table collection bin at your school or synagogue.
• Advertise food collection to friends, classmates, and family.
• Collect your synagogue’s designated items to meet a goal amount.
• Count and sort donations using Family Table’s sorting guidelines.
• Help organize and prepare for Family Table distributions.
• Bring donations to Family Table once a month.
• Make centerpieces for your Bar/Bat Mitzvah: arrange shelf stable foods from our food request list to use.
• Gift food donations by asking for a food donation from each Bar/Bat Mitzvah guest.
• Gift monetary donations by asking that donations be made to Family Table in honor of your Bar/Bat Mitzvah.

Older Adults

• Raise money so that a person with Parkinson’s disease receives a year’s scholarship to our Okonow Parkinson’s Family Support dance program ($700 per scholarship) or our Parkinson's Family Support Tremble Clefs chorus ($200 per scholarship).

Holocaust Survivors

• Make homemade gifts, decorate gift bags, and write cards for Holocaust survivors.
• Perform at Café Hakalah, a monthly social gathering for Holocaust survivors.
• Create Caring Cards for birthdays and special occasions to bring comforting joy to Holocaust survivors. 

Basic Needs

• Collect back to school supplies or run a backpack drive.
• Organize a gift card drive for families in need or victims of abuse.
• Collect toiletries for families in need or victims of abuse.
• Raise money/awareness for Journey to Safety’s TeenSafe program to prevent teen dating abuse.

People with Disabilities

• Help JF&CS make it possible for people with disabilities to enjoy the Jewish tradition of welcoming Shabbat by baking challah and then delivering it on the Friday of the Shabbat dinner to a local Supported Living house.
• Help set up, serve dinner, socialize, and assist with clean up at our monthly Shabbat dinner at a JF&CS Residential home for program participants and residents.