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. Masbia’s emergency food distributions during the High Holiday season and all year round have been featured in many media outlets. You can check them out here.

To make sure that every family who comes for help this holiday season will not be turned away, Masbia Is bracing to distribute 10,000 holiday food packages. At $72 each, that means we urgently need to raise a total of $720,000 for the raw food alone. We need your help to buy the food.

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.

If you donate 2 holiday packages at $144 we will be able to distribute 3 (=$216). If you sponsor 200 packages, Masbia can distribute 300. To take advantage of this 2 for 1 matching grant, click here.

In total, 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.

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 of turning your donation into a digital Shana Tova card or a digital Ushpizin gift to someone special. Click here.

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