Archive for the ‘Guest Bloggers’ Category
Wendy Wins $1000
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Congratulations to Wendy Paler of New York City who won the JGooders – Play Your Part in Tikkun Olam challenge at the General Assembly earlier this month. She received a $1,000 Giving Card and was able to donate to the projects of her choice on the JGooders site….
Sukkot, Tikkun Olam and Climate Change
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Carmi Wisemon of Sviva Israel writes in his guest post, “Rather than focusing on ourselves, we do tikkun olam, praying for the resources needed by the global community, not just for ourselves, or even for the Jewish community alone.”
How to Research a Nonprofit With Social Media
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
A guest post from Debra Askanase of Community Organizer 2.0
One of the best things about social media is its transparency. It’s hard to “get away” with untruths nowadays because everything an organization writes, uploads, and talks about online is available for scrutiny. The great part for you, as a donor, is that you can use all of this information to inform your decisions…
In the Shadow of the Attack
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
A guest post from Mikie Goldstein, Chair of the Board, Jerusalem Open House for Pride & Tolerance: The Hebrew month of Elul heralds a period of introspection, culminating with Yom Kippur. Together with the regular new year ruminations of LGBTQ people in Israel, our community leaders must also reflect on the aftereffects of the Tel Aviv attack and what that means for our future…
Help Yana Fight Cancer
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Yana Pavlyuk is an 8th grade student in ORT Kiev Lyceum. Like many of her Jewish peers in the former Soviet Union, Yana had little knowledge about Judaism or Jewish culture until she came to study in the ORT school. Yana’s home is filled with love and care, and she lived in a perfect world until last spring when she developed severe pains in the back. Not knowing what caused the pain, Yana’s parents took her from one doctor to another, until the horrible news…Yana has spinal cancer…
Green Prophet for Green Nonprofits
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
We are very excited to have caught the attention of Green Prophet, an environment news site reporting on the Middle East, Israel and the Arab world. Green Prophet reporter, Marcus Sopher, just published an article about JGooders is helping to raise funds for the projects of environmental NPOs, such as Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership, Kishorit Goat Organic Dairy, Sviva Israel and Canfei Nesharim…
