During the High Holiday season, Masbia staff and volunteers work tirelessly to meet various needs. Low-income and struggling families receive packages of special holiday groceries, while those who cannot cook for themselves get ready-cooked holiday meals with all the traditional foods. We even build a sukkah, and those days are some of our busiest. Masbia’s work during the High Holiday season has been featured in many media outlets. You can check them out here.

This year we are seeking to raise $963,000 to cover this High Holiday season. This includes $720,000 to sponsor 10,000 holiday packages at $72 each and $243,000 for cooked holiday meals ($54 a traditional cooked holiday meal x 50 people x 3 locations x 30 Seudas = $243,000). Considering volunteer labor and in-kind donations, the value of our total output for the High Holiday season is estimated to be closer to $2,000,000.

Thanks to a matching grant, we only need to raise two-thirds of the total for holiday packages—$480,000—and they will match it with $240,000, bringing us to a total of $720,000. The challenge is that the grant maker is very serious about only matching what is raised. Please help us make sure that we don’t leave any money on the table.

There are many meaningful sponsorship options. You can choose to sponsor holiday meals, even select the day and location; or you can choose to sponsor holiday packages with a matching grant, maximizing your charitable impact. You also have the option to turn your donation into a digital Shana Tova card or a digital Ushpizin gift to someone special.

For the High Holidays donate page, here.

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