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Description of Organization:
The Ronald McDonald House of Long Island provides a home-away-from-home environment for families who have a child in the hospital with a serious illness.

Bnai Mitzvah Projects or Volunteer Opportunities offered by the organization for children ages 11 - 13:
Since most of the children they serve are in the hospital there a few children in- House. Therefore, their needs are for the residence itself. They most appreciate if participants would opt for table center-pieces of baskets of linens (full size sheets sets -white and white towel sets).

Description of Organization:
Rubenu, founded in 2004, seeks to effectively bring about significant reductions in unsafe, unhealthy or anti-social behavior in issues such as Smoking Prevention, Road Safety, Domestic or School Violence, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, and Racial Discrimination (Sefaradi-Ashkenazi, or Jewish-Arab). They do this by using science-based proven methods.

As opposed to using "scare tactics", or "awareness campaigns" which have been proven ineffective, Rubenu uses only positive approaches that build on the already existing healthy behaviors most people have in order to empower entire populations to become more safe and healthy.

Rubenu partners with organizations such as the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Transport, Municipalities, and non-profit organizations. By taking a holistic approach to their work, they seek to ensure the greatest likelihood for success.

Bnai Mitzvah Projects or Volunteer Opportunities offered by the organization for children ages 11 - 13:
Rubenu can give you valuable experience in researching and writing on issues ranging from Substance Abuse and Addictions, Bullying in Schools, Peer Pressure, Health and Halacha, Road Safety, Child Safety, Education and more.

Rubenu - The Israel Social Norms Resource Center has openings for volunteers to contribute articles to their health publications.

More info available at: www.rubenu.org/volunteer/york.htm

Description of Organization:
Our Mission Is Simple: run races, have fun, raise money. Running For Israel organizes people of all ages and abilities to participate in runs & walks in their own areas. The more people who run or walk with the organization, the more they can accomplish. The sponsorship money people raise from friends, family, and coworkers is distributed to four charities.

Bnai Mitzvah Projects or Volunteer Opportunities offered by the organization for children ages 11 - 13:
If you're between the ages of 11-13, join the growing number of young people that are making a difference. Ben Frank, 13, made Running For Israel his Bar Mitzvah project and ignited a community-wide campaign.

Description of Organization:
The Salvation Army of Greater New York serves more than 600,000 New Yorkers each year in over 140 community and social service programs. Through performing arts music programs, senior and youth services, food pantries, soup kitchens, day care, shelters and more The Salvation Army continues its mission to fight hunger and help New Yorkers lift themselves out of poverty. "There is no reward equal to that of doing the most good to the most people in the most need." - Evangeline Booth, 1919

Bnai Mitzvah Projects or Volunteer Opportunities offered by the organization for children ages 11 - 13:

Description of Organization:
A premier non-profit skilled nursing home and geriatric health care / rehabilitation facility employing skilled nurses, physicians, and other professionals to provide excellent long term care, adult day care, home health care, and health services and social / community services in the New York area. The nursing home provides health services for more than 5,200 senior citizens daily, through traditional medical health care, long term care, sub-acute care, rehabilitation services, community service, and senior housing programs. These health services are offered on the Home's three campuses in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Westchester at the Sarah Neuman Center for Healthcare and Rehabilitation, as well as through our Lifecare Community Services Division, which provides health care programs and social services throughout the metropolitan area. To learn more about the divisions of The Jewish Home and Hospital Lifecare System, visit our website.

Bnai Mitzvah Projects or Volunteer Opportunities offered by the organization for children ages 11 - 13:

Description of Organization:
Save a Child's Heart Foundation (SACH) mission is to provide urgent life-saving heart surgery for children from developing countries suffering from rheumatic and congenital heart disease, where adequate medical care is not available. SACH also seeks to provide outreach-training programs for medical professionals from partner countries, facilitating the improvement of each country's medical care system.

Since its inception in 1996, SACH has treated over 1,700 children from 27 different developing countries, and has trained over 50 physicians and nurses from these countries. 43% of the children come from Africa; 45% from the Palestinian Authority, Jordan & Iraq; 5% from Moldova, Russia and the former USSR and 7% from China, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

SACH's objectives are achieved through:

Providing life-saving cardiac surgeries for children from developing countries at the Wolfson Medical Center near Tel Aviv; Providing a full outreach training program for the medical personnel from these countries; Holding pre-operative and follow-up clinics, and leading medical missions to partner countries to conduct screening, operations and training.

SACH is totally dedicated to the idea that every child deserves the best medical treatment available, regardless of the child's nationality, religion, color, gender, or financial situation. As an Israeli humanitarian project situated in the Middle East, SACH aims to inspire cooperation between Israel and its neighbors, especially Palestinians. SACH believes that through providing life-saving heart surgery to children in the region, channels of communication will be broadened between families and medical professionals on both sides of the conflict, and each child treated will serve as an ambassador for peace--breaking down stereotypes and fostering tolerance and understanding within their community.

Bnai Mitzvah Projects or Volunteer Opportunities offered by the organization for children ages 11 - 13:
$10,000 is required to save the life of a child suffering from heart disease. This amount covers the costs of travel, hospitalization, room and board, and recuperation at the SACH Children's home. Hospital costs are $6,500; Room and board are $2,500, and travel costs are $1,000.

Bnai Mitzvah projects should attempt to raise money to contribute to any or all of the above costs.

Description of Organization:
The Center for Ecosystem Survival (CES/SaveNature.org)) is dedicated to creating global partnerships to inspire broad based participation in the conservation of biological diversity through ecosystem protection worldwide. CES works in partnership with schools, universities, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, natural history museums and science centers worldwide to protect wildlife in nature.

The goal of Center for Ecosystem Survival (CES) is to preserve plants, animals and natural communities by enabling the broadest possible public base to participate in halting environmental devastation through the preservation of wildlife and their ecosystems. To achieve this goal, a synergistic partnership of informal science institutions, in-situ conservation organizations, in-country non-governmental organizations, and the public in the form of families, individuals, and school groups has been designed.

Bnai Mitzvah Projects or Volunteer Opportunities offered by the organization for children ages 11 - 13:
The most direct way to save tropical rainforests and coral reefs is through the Adopt An Acre® and Adopt A Reef® programs offered by SaveNature.org. Habitat destruction is the greatest threat to wildlife today. Wildlife and wild places cannot survive without the preservation and protection of entire ecosystems. Support will help insure the survival of millions of species of animals and plants throughtout the world for future generations. Due to a strong commitment to help solve the crisis of vanishing wildlife and to deepen the involvement of children, students, the public, zoos and aquaria and their visiting public, SaveNature.org created, for the first time, a concrete bridge between the wonder of the natural world, the reality of wildlife endangerment, and the need to act to protect them. To accomplish this goal SaveNature.org created the Conservation Parking Meters and the first Adopt An Acre® program in the United States. Since its inception, the national headquarters has been coordinated and staffed on a volunteer basis.

Description of Organization:

Medical Development for Israel, Inc.'s, (MDI) objectives are to raise funds for and promote the activities of Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, the only hospital in Israel dedicated solely to children's healthcare. MDI's Board of Directors is comprised solely of volunteers from the business, public and social communities. It is registered as a public charity 501(c)(3) and all contributions are recognized by the US taxation authorities. Over the years, MDI has helped raise funds for construction, general operation purposes, services, equipment, research, employment, continuing education of physicians and nurses through advanced training abroad, and international medical conferences and seminars. It is safe to say that MDI has contributed significantly to the fact that Schneider Children's is acknowledged today as one of the leading institutions worldwide in pediatric medicine.

Bnai Mitzvah Projects or Volunteer Opportunities offered by the organization for children ages 11 - 13:

MDI's Bar/Bat Mitzvah Program has been designed specifically for American Bnai Mitzvah students and offers them the unique opportunity to develop a real and meaningful connection with Israel through its children in the spirit of tzedakah. Children can work on projects to support the hospital, and be instrumental in saving the lives of children in Israel. Students will have the option of supporting a specific project at the hospital including computers, toys, art supplies, hospital clowns and other projects that will benefit the children, or they can choose to support the general needs of the hospital.

Description of Organization:
Second Chance Toys is a community-based initiative, founded by a New Jersey high school student, which rescues and recycles plastic toys for needy children at local community organizations while at the same time, helping the environment. Many plastic toys are disposed of when they could still be used. Given the nature of plastic, these toys often show little signs of wear and are still in good working condition. When these perfectly useable toys are thrown out, they become waste in a landfill, take up a lot of space and do not biodegrade. Hand in hand with this unnecessary waste is the fact that many children throughout the United States, who could benefit from these toys, go without them. Toys can be important to a child’s development and can help with creativity and imagination. Second Chance Toys provides a waste-need solution to these problems. Unwanted toys, that are still useable, are rescued and prepared for distribution to children in need through local community organizations. Second Chance Toys hopes to bring some happiness to children in need, while making a contribution to the environment.

Bnai Mitzvah Projects or Volunteer Opportunities offered by the organization for children ages 11 - 13:
The goal for Second Chance Toys is to create interest around the mission [to rescue and recycle plastic toys for needy children] throughout local communities. This makes for a great Mitzvah project which is easy, fun and helps needy children and the environment at the same time. All you need to do is ask friends, family, neighbors, schools, and other community groups for plastic toys they no longer use, many of which are sitting in toys chests waiting for a place go. We will even help you prepare flyers to send out. Before these toys are thrown to the curb to clutter our landfills, you can rescue them and prepare them for donation to needy children through local organizations. We will provide you with the necessary tools, step-by-step instructions and help facilitate essential connections with local organizations who will accept the plastic toys you collect, so you can easily create your own local program. With your own project along with many others, the Second Chance Toys mission will be able to reach out to many needy children all over the United States and help our environment that much more.

Description of Organization:
Second Wind Dreams makes dreams come true from nursing home residents, thereby improving their quality of life and changing the perception of aging. They work with the local community in fulfilling those dreams.

Bnai Mitzvah Projects or Volunteer Opportunities offered by the organization for children ages 11 - 13:
Groups can go into a nursing home to interview residents and discover their dreams. Many groups have raised money for the dreams program.

Description of Organization:
Shalom Baby welcomes new Jewish Families to the Jewish Community of Northern New Jersey. We welcome expectant Moms or their relatives and friends to register with Shalom Baby prior to the birth of their first child. Moms or Dads will be visited by a friendly volunteer and be presented with a bag of goodies from the Jewish community and be oriented to the programs of the Jewish community appropriate to young moms.

Bnai Mitzvah Projects or Volunteer Opportunities offered by the organization for children ages 11 - 13:
Monies can be raised by children to support a Shalom baby playgroup or to provide supplies for the Shalom baby gift bags.

Description of Organization:
SHALVA is a domestic abuse agency that serves the Chicagoland Jewish community. They provide a number of services that include individual and group counseling, court advocacy, and prevention and education programming on domestic abuse for the community as well as the day schools.

Bnai Mitzvah Projects or Volunteer Opportunities offered by the organization for children ages 11 - 13:
A cell phone project where cell phones can be collected at a variety of locations in the Chicagoland area. Also, different synagogues create cell phone projects for their students to be involved with as a Bnai Mitzvah project.

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