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Introduction to 2001 Report Specially-Featured Heroes and Projects The Angel of Jerusalem (Rabbanit Bracha Kapach) Ranya Kelly — A Dream Come True Those Magnificent Mitzvah Steeds When You Wish Upon a Star (Second Wind Dreams) Life Savers (Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation, Inc) Stanly Manor — Biker Babes  Let the Revolution Begin! (The Eden Alternative) Bayit Cham: Caring, Hope, Dignity Songs Of Love Going to the Dogs (And Cats) (Humans and Animals in Mutual Assistance in Israel) Laughter Is The Best Medicine (Sweet Pea and Buttercup) Comfort Food (Rock and Wrap it Up!) Blue Suede Shoes (Shoes That Fit) Two Unique Ziv Programs HeroIsrael — A Mitzvah Tour of Israel  Ziv Mitzvah Hero Conferences Kids Finding Mitzvah Heroes Projects Relating to Homeless People Trevor Ferrell: The Book Calling Home (Mamma’s Hands) Peanut Butter and Jelly (The Frontline Foundation) Finding Mitzvah Heroes The Ziv Giraffe Curriculum   Our Elders Myriam’s Dream For 2¢ Plain (Project Ezra) Hatzilu (DOROT (“Generations”),) Dor L’Dor   Eldercare With Love (Beit Frankforter) May I Have A Ride? (Independent Transportation Network) Phone Chain (Yitav 109) Care With Menschlichkeit Support For The Caregiver (Connie Goldman Productions) Ziv’s Wish List Retrieving Perfectly Good Food-Bal Tashchit Gleaning In Israel (LEKET Lazulat) Saving Kosher Food (City Harvest) Rachel’s Table Potato Chips (Society of St. Andrew/The Potato Project) The First Principle of Tzedakah: Providing for Near-Poor, Poor, and Desperately Poor People Soup’s On (Tova’s Kitchen) Here a Chicken Trudi Birger — Part I Donating Your Talents Trudi Birger — Part II: The Romema Project  Oh, You Beautiful Dolls…And More Is There A Doctor? (Jewish Renaissance Foundation) Maimonides Comes to Central America (MayaWorks) Rock-A-Bye Baby School Aid (Educate the Children Foundation) More School Aid (World Care-Tools for Schools) A Jewish Service Corps Clipping Coupons (Learn Shop, Inc) A Warm Bed in Our Nation’s Capital (Village on N Street) Food With Dignity (Youngstown Community Food Center, Inc) Harvest Time (Migrant Association of South Florida, Inc) On The Road With John Fling Southern Hospitality (Christian Service Program) Farpitzt - Dressed To the Nines (Glass Slipper Project in Chicago) Ready-To-Wear (Street Clothes Project) Lechaim! (Rachel Chalkowski) Share Your Simcha (MAZON-A Jewish Response to Hunger) Let All Who Are Hungry Kevod Hamet (Hebrew Free Burial Society of Greater Washington) Projects Concerning Victims of Domestic Violence Saving Lives-Jewishly  Put a Smile on Your Face Warm Place to Stay (Project Debby, Inc) Lending An Ear (Counseling Center for Women) Linda Feldman Rape Crisis Center in Jerusalem Mitzvah Locksmiths The Kid Who Got It All Wrong in Class Reaching (Supposedly) Unreachable People Immigrants: New Israelis, New Americans Ethiopian Jews — NACOEJ  Welcome To The Land Of Milk And Honey (Ya’akov Maimon Volunteers) The Human Touch (Alice Jonah) Educational Opportunities (Keren Hanan Aynor) Keren Klitat Aliyah Neve Orot The Aftermath of the Shoah-Holocaust The Blue Card  The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Projects Relating to People With Disabilities Shalva ($19,500)   Jewish Education for All Children (Kesher L.D., Inc.) Special Bar and Bat Mitzvah Hadassah Levi Wonder Woman (A KIDS Exchange = Adoption, Knowledge, and Information on Down Syndrome) A Walk on the Wild Side (Wilderness Inquiry) The Jewish Deaf Congress ALYN Hospital  Refuah Shelaymah: Recovery from Illness Advocates for the Jewish Mentally Ill (AJMI) AIDS in Africa (Orphans Emergency Fund) Books, Bears and Bonnets AIDS in Israel VIP (Volunteers in Psychotherapy, Inc) One Fish, Two Fish (Casting for Recovery) A Ton of Bricks (The Breast Cancer Brick Project) Recovery Jewishly A Sorely-Needed Remedy Crutches, Canes, and Walkers - RACORSE (Recycling, Allocation, and Conservation of Operating Room Supplies) Hosts for Hospitals The Mitzvah Genius: Reb Osher Freund (Yad Ezrah) Shaul’s Vision Global Tikkun Olam Feeding the World How to be an Entrepreneur A Response to Worldwide Hunger (RESULTS - Responsibility, Ending Starvation Using Legislation) Mother Nature and Disaster Cuban Jews Jews in the Former Soviet Union - I Jews in the Former Soviet Union – II (Am Echad) Outreach and Inreach Animals and Mitzvahs How Much is that Doggy…? (Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind) Mitzvah Dogs (Canine Companions for Independence) More Mitzvah Dogs (Pet Assisted Therapy=PAT) Assistance Dog Institute (ADI)  The Cat’s Meow - CHAI (Concern for Helping Animals in Israel). Delta Society A Bird in the Hand (The Birds of Prey Foundation) A Mitzvah Monkey on Your Back (Helping Hands) Threatened and Endangered Monkeys Where the Wild Things Are Grassroots Tzedakah Funds Philadelphia (Female Hebrew Benevolent Society) Kavod Yad Chessed Tzedakah Fund Free Services Educational Materials Three Special Aspects of Our Work Our Managing Director   Our Man in Israel  Interns  A Brief Message From the Chairman  Ziv Financial Statement

I. To All Ziv's Contributors and Friends, Shalom!

This is our 20th anniversary year.  It is wonderful to look back, to see how much we have grown, particularly in the past few years, and to realize that our original vision is intact, though greatly expanded and refined. We continue to do what we do best: (1) receive contributions which we give to inspiring individuals and programs, (2) report on these Mitzvah heroes and their projects (there are more than 115 of them in this Annual Report) so we may all realize that they are our greatest Tikkun Olam teachers, (3) tell the story of these individuals in Naomi’s and my presentations to various communities, (4) expose many more people to our Mitzvah heroes through our conferences and our HeroIsrael trips to Israel — the First Annual having been successfully completed this past January, and (5) finally, distribute the curriculum, which is now in its second printing.

It is both exhilarating and humbling.  In percentages, it is 95% sublime, and only 5% or so, discouraging when crises occur.  Clearly, this is an enviable plus-to-minus ratio.

Naomi has once again given us an extraordinary document, this Annual Report.  Enjoy reading it from cover-to-cover, or just leaf through it. And, don’t forget to visit our website, www.ziv.org, for critical links to so many of our Mitzvah Heroes and their work.

Most of all: Lechaim…To Life! – Let us read and understand what a life-giving force Tzedakah and Tikkun Olam can be.

Summary of Ziv’s Financial Activities

                        4/13/81-3/31/00           4/1/00-3/31/01             Total to Date
Allocations       $3,628,049.59             $968,836.21                $4,596,885.80

If you would like more copies of the Tzedakah report to share with others, please contact Naomi.

Please note our annual reminder: we are not taking requests for funding of additional programs.  New projects are found at our own initiative. Please understand — we are a bare bones administrative operation and could not possibly accept, study, and investigate fully all the requests that we would receive if we invited everyone to submit suggestions. We appreciate your understanding.

If you would like to support our work, please make checks payable to “Ziv Tzedakah Fund,” and mail them to:

Naomi Eisenberger, Managing Director  
Ziv Tzedakah Fund  
384 Wyoming Ave.  
Millburn, NJ  07041

Also please note: We now have the capability to receive donations through the World Wide Web.  Go to www.helping.org, and select Ziv. 

How to read this report:

1. New programs that we have discovered this year have an asterisk (*).

2. Frequently, the total contribution any project receives is not a single grant.  As more money comes in, we give it away.  For example, the Rabbanit Kapach received 9 checks totaling $32,600 over a 12-month period.

3. Some of the projects could easily be categorized in more than one section.

4. Terminology: (A) Vocabulary relating to individuals with disabilities and gender terminology remain in flux, with little universal agreement.  We all struggle to find appropriate terms, some more satisfying than others.  For example, we use “hero” for both masculine and feminine forms, as in the usage of “actor” for both genders.  (Those who prefer using the word “heroine” should read “heroine” in the appropriate places.)  Words do make a difference. We are trying our best. (B) Some of the Hebrew words in the Report have many meanings. The following is the usage of our most frequent terms: \Tzedakah-Performing Acts of Justice, Doing the Right Thing; generally “a commandment,” here “A good deed”; Tzaddik, Tzadeket, a Good/Righteous Person; Tikkun Olam-Fixing the World, and Kavod-Dignity. 

5. A few of the sections have been copied from last year’s Report, several with the latest updates. (It is very difficult to think of new ways to sing the praises of our Mitzvah people and projects.)

6. A technical note — calls to Israel: When dialing from the United States, 011 is the international hook-up, 972 is the country code for Israel. For example, to reach Anita Shkedi’s cell-phone, you dial 011-972-51-759-121. (With international calls, you do not include the zero in the area code.) From within, Israel, you do include the “0” of the area code: 051-759-121.

7. Another technical note: a period, comma, or semicolon at the end of an e-mail address or website is not part of the address or website URL.

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