SOCIAL JUSTICE and COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROJECTS
Community Outreach Co-Chairs
Debbie Gordon and
Gale Gradus
PURPOSE
Community Service is a fundamental part of the mission of BNC. Throughout the year, we collect items for various non-profit organizations in the greater Phoenix area, and your support is much appreciated. Additionally, our Mitzvah Mavens Study Group provides participatory activities for our members to volunteer directly with specific agencies.
This year, we will be focusing our main community support on collecting travel-size personal items for families, seniors, and individuals in need.
It is our hope that at EACH event you attend, you will bring one or two items for this Community Outreach Program. We will have a donation box or table set up at every event.
Needed: Travel-Size Personal Care Items
Items most needed are: shampoo, soap, body wash, body lotion, toothpaste, toothbrush, and deodorant. Take a moment and clean out those travel-size bottles from your last hotel stay and bring them to us! Feminine hygiene products are always needed and appreciated also, especially by high school students.
Laundry pods are another item that is very much needed. Pods are easier to transport when walking or taking the bus to do the family laundry. Any size container would be helpful as we will repackage large containers into mobile units for families to use.
Empty, clean pill bottles will still be collected as they are used for filling with personal hygiene products and handed out for single use. Please remove the labels before donating and bring them to an event.
For more information or questions, please contact us:
[email protected]
Knit a Mitzvah
Do you Knit?
Do you Crochet?
Help us make Scarves,
Newborn Baby Caps,
Lap Blankets and Chemo Caps
We donate newborn baby caps and lap blankets to Honor Health Medical Center, scarves to Sojourner Center and chemo caps to Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center.
If you are experienced or just a novice and want to participate in these efforts, please contact: Ronee Siegel at [email protected] or Joan Davis at [email protected] for more information.
Mitzvah Mavens
Participants in this study group volunteer at a variety of Valley non-profit organizations. We meet at the specific locations of the organizations on various dates, lending helping hands as needed. If there are activities that can be done at home, participants will be notified.
See the Study Group Guide for more information about this and other study groups.
YOU CAN VOLUNTEER FROM HOME
Do you have time on your hands? One of the pillars of the BNC Mission Statement is Community Outreach. Members who are interested in doing volunteer work for various charities from home, can contact [email protected].
