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Given is brought to you by Tzedakah
Works, a not-for-profit operation, started by our family in 2005. Much of the information in the game is
based on the excellent work of renowned author Rabbi Alfred Koltach and his informative books
The Jewish Book of Why and How to Live a Jewish Life. The information used in the
game was also reviewed by two Jewish scholars.
Half of the
net profits of Tzedakah Works will be donated to charity. If
you would like to donate money to Tzedakah Works, we will use
your money to accelerate the distribution of Given by sending
free sample units and donated units to Jewish institutions and
schools. Order Given today.
People often ask us which charities we support and donate to and we reply,
"Mostly the ones we recommend in the game," which are listed on the Library page.
Although we have not generated a profit from Given yet, in 2007 we donated part of Given revenue and
part of our income to:
2007 & 2008 Donations
Save the Children: $318
Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley: $140
American Jewish World Service: $57.68 & $15.75
Jewish Foundation for the Righteous: $57.68
Ziv Tzedakah: $57.68
Hebrew Free Loan Association: $57.68
Buddhist Temple of San Jose: $45
JCC Palo Alto: $200
Rotary International: $200
Rotary Foundation: $160
Students Rising Above: $448
International University of Japan: $110
Goodwill: $60
Chai Lifeline: $57.68
Magen David Adom: $16
DonorsChoose.org: $100
Kiva.org: $100
Wikipedia: $35
JCC Los Gatos: $50
Jewish Community Federation: $275
Network for Good: $15
Jewish Family Service: $20.08
Hillel: $20.08
American Jewish World Service, Burma Cyclone: $20.08
Hadassah, Environment Fund: $20.08
Jewish Family and Children's Service: $20.08
Rabbis for Human Rights, Plant 2 Trees: $20.08
American Cancer Society: $20.08
American Red Cross, US Flood Relief: $40.16
Read the Recent Review of Given in The
Forward
Read the Recent Review of Given in J-News
Recent Tzedakah by Our Family
Visiting and singing to chronically ill children at an acute care hospital
Installing lights and cleaning gutters at a local youth center
Helping someone whose car had broken down and another out of gas
Volunteering at our schools, fundraisers, bake sales, driving
Organizing the high school participants for a speech contest
Staffing a fundraiser for the local education foundation
Playing guitar and singing to seniors at a convalescent hospital
Staffing a Families for Families holiday gift program
Chairing the university alumni scholarship committee for 2 years
Writing the newsletter and web site for a service club
Volunteering to drive wounded veterans and their families to events
Comforted a widow by having her over for Shabbat monthly
Actively helped three people looking for work, one of them was hired
Organizing a program to tutor high school dropouts for the GED
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Works appreciates the outstanding artistic contributions of :
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