Besides being a great place to meet friends old and new, IMPACT d.c. assists
the community with regular service and fundraising projects.
On May 23, 2004, we held our annual fundraiser barbeque and raised $600 for this year's cause. This year we chose B'nai B'rith's own Camp Passport. Camp Passport is a program sponsored by B'nai B'rith that brings 10 Israeli children drastically affected by terror to the B'nai B'rith Perlman camp in Starlight, PA and the B'nai B'rith Beber Camp in Mukwonago, WI for 3 weeks to get a respite from daily life, but also to grow and learn about life in another country.
(See pages 6 and 7 in link below for a story about the Program last year)
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:yeFfT6v1leUJ:bnaibrith.org/pubs/bbt/04_01_02_aov.pdf+%22Camp+Passport%22+Perlman&hl=en
On June 29, 2003 we held our second annual barbeque to raise money for Magen David Adom, Israel’s equivalent to the Red Cross. We raised about $400 this year, bringing our tally from all our fundraisers for MDA thus far to over $1,000. 25-30 people drove out to a lovely residence in Ashburn, VA for this backyard bash.
In April 2003, IMPACT again contributed both money and volunteers to Project H.O.P.E. (Help Our People Everywhere). This is a B'nai B'rith project that supplies Passover food to over 500 households in Maryland and D.C. every
spring. Our fundraising contribution -- $668 – was the most we’ve ever
raised and the largest contribution from any B’nai B’rith unit in the
Washington area. About a dozen IMPACT volunteers also helped deliver the
food on April 13th, the Sunday before Passover.
On December 25, 2002, IMPACT led a group volunteers in serving lunch at
the Washington Hospice for the elderly. IMPACT has taken part in the DCJCC's
Dec. 25 project every year since 1995. This was a change for us -- we
usually do fix-it projects like painting halfway homes or cleaning up a
park!
In April 2002, IMPACT members and friends were among the 100,000 people
who gathered on the front lawn of the U-S Capitol for a rally in support of
Israel.
On September 15, 2001, IMPACT, the Georgetown Jewish Law Students
Association, the DCJCC, and more than 20 other organizations sponsored a
salsa dance at the DCJCC that raised more than $1000 to help victims of the
Sept. 11 attacks. The dance had been scheduled before Sept. 11th; we decided
to go ahead with it to aid the victims and show that the Jewish community
would not cowed by terrorism. More than 140 people attended, and the money
was turned over to the B'nai B'rith Disaster Relief Fund.