2023 Good Deeds Day
March 26th, 2023 from 1-3pm
Come do a good deed with us! We have volunteer projects that are fun for the whole family.
At the David R. Kahn Community Campus
Register with the form below to volunteer for all the volunteer projects happening at the campus!
Kindness Bags & Collection: Help J Families make kindness bags for people experiencing homelessness. Sign up to bring a specific item here.
Wake Up and Read: Collect books and make bookmarks for children.
Kindness Rocks: Paint words of affirmation on rocks and leave them around your community.
Neshama Animal Rescue and Adoption: Read books to adorable kitties and learn how to adopt a rescue pet.
Carolina Jews for Justice: Learn about how to advocate for issues affecting our community.
Women’s Philanthropy: Meet from 10-11:30am to gather collections of items for Urban Ministries of Wake County, the Helen Wright Center, and Wake Smiles. Sign up to bring a specific item here.
JCC Campus Beautification Project: For those who don’t mind getting their hands dirty, we need 3-5 volunteers to help with removing small trees from wooded buffer between Norwood Rd and Pavilion Parking Lot. Click HERE to sign up!
Note in the Pocket: Collecting and sort donated clothing for homeless and impoverished children and families.
Busy that day?
You can still help! Click HERE for the JFS Food Pantry Wish List and order online!
Around Wake County
Can’t come to the campus? Check out these volunteer projects happening all over Wake County. For more information, contact the synagogue hosting that project.
Beth Shalom: Projects include landscaping, JFS Food Pantry & Life Stages Collection, Habitat for Humanity Interfaith Build, and projects in the Religious School. For more information, check out the Beth Shalom e-news or e-mail the office.
Beth Meyer: Hosting Good Deeds Day projects from 9:30am-12pm. Projects include cooking for meal trains, garden clean-up, crocheting squares to make blankets for Warm Up America, and the Habitat for Humanity Interfaith Build. Girl Scout troops will collect travel size toiletries, sort, and assemble kindness bags for the homeless. Click here for more information.
Temple Beth Or: Two groups will go to Oak City Cares with donations for the homeless and learn about the organization. Temple Beth Or’s Brotherhood and Sisterhood groups will be collecting men’s and women’s clothing for Healing Transitions on Good Deeds Day at TBO between the hours of 11am-1pm.
Chabad of Raleigh/Sha’arei Israel: Collection of Kosher for Passover foods and JFS Food Pantry items. Drop off items at the entrance of Sha’arei Israel at 7400 Falls of Neuse Road from March 12-26. For more information, check out the Sha’arei Israel e-news or contact Carlye Abitbol.
Shalom Clubs: Carolina Preserve, Carolina Arbors, and Traditions at Wake Forest will collect kosher for Passover foods to support JFS Families. To learn more about the JFS Food Pantry and how you can help, click HERE.
In a nutshell…
Good Deeds Day is an annual tradition of good deeds. All over the world, hundreds of thousands choose to volunteer and help others, putting into practice the simple idea that every single person can do something good, be it large or small, to improve the lives of others and positively change the world.
The Greater Raleigh community has been participating in Good Deeds Day since 2013. JFS plans and coordinates projects for the entire community to take part in. In 2022, hundreds volunteers participated in Good Deeds Day in Wake County through hands on projects. We look forward to seeing you in 2023!
The evolution of Good Deeds Day
Good Deeds Day is taking over the world! Since its launch in 2007, this annual tradition of good has grown from 7,000 participants in 2007 in Israel to almost 1 million in 2015. Going global in 2011 with 10 international cities, including many in the USA, Good Deeds Day began uniting people all over the world.
