Two Great Ways to Make Sunday, March 15 SUPER
Join Miami’s Jewish community on Sunday, March 15 for Good Deeds Day and Super Sunday, a day filled with opportunities for people of all ages to volunteer and help others in need in locally and around the world. All activities will take place at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation’s Stanley C. Myers Building, 4200 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami.
Good Deeds Day is an annual celebration where hundreds of thousands of volunteers all across the globe choose to put 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. Starting in Israel in 2007 with 7,000 volunteers, Good Deeds Day was initiated by American-Israeli businesswoman and philanthropist Shari Arison, and has since included hundreds of thousands of volunteers in 50 countries. The Greater Miami Jewish Federation thanks the Ted Arison Foundation for making Good Deeds Day possible in Miami and around the world.
Super Sunday, Federation’s largest annual phonathon, is a marathon of good deeds, aimed at raising funds to create more good deeds 365 days a year through Federation programs and services. From 9 a .m. to 7 p.m., hundreds of volunteers will gather to make phone calls to Jewish households in Miami-Dade County, asking for participation in the Annual Greater Miami Jewish Federation/UJA Campaign. Chaired for the second consecutive year by the Halberstein family, Super Sunday raises funds each year to support vital social-service, humanitarian and educational programs in Miami, in Israel and in more than 70 other countries worldwide.
Super Sunday Vice Chairs are: The Ciment family, Miami Beach; Keith Ginsburg, South Dade; and Darci Cohen and Mallory Gold, the Young Leadership Division. Shana Russo is Chair of the Jewish Volunteer Center of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, which is coordinating the day’s volunteer efforts.
If you can’t be there in person, please answer the call on Super Sunday, and give as generously as you can. To make a gift online now to the Annual Federation/UJA Campaign, please click here.
To volunteer, click on any of the links below.
Making Super Sunday Phone Calls
Make phone calls to people in our community and ask them to participate in the Annual Federation/UJA Campaign. Volunteers ages 11 and older are welcome. Check in any time at Federation and be part of the excitement of Super Sunday.
Writing Super Sunday Letters
We reach thousands of homes on Super Sunday, but there are many more we are unable to reach via telephone. Join us in writing letters to people in our community, asking them to participate in the Annual Federation/UJA Campaign. Volunteers ages 11 and older are welcome. Check in any time at Federation and be a part of the Super Sunday excitement!
10:00 am (Ages 5 and younger): Create beautiful place mats for the elderly!
Get ready to brighten the day of an older adult who attends a Jewish Community Services Meal Site.
Volunteers will be creating bright, fun and festive placemats which will be donated to the Meal Site for the seniors to enjoy. All placemats have a Jewish theme, are easy to make and will enhance your creative spirit. Have fun, give back and enjoy doing a mitzvah!
Click here to volunteer.
10:30 am (Ages 12-14): WE NEED MITZVAH HELPERS!
Are you a B’nai Mitzvah student or a Middle School student?
We need your help! Please sign up to do a good deed and assist us a MITZVAH CAPTAIN for our placemat making project. You will help the children create the placemat, assist with cutting and pasting, and laminate each of their placemats. We will set up a reading station for captains to read PJ Library stories to the children and serve as a role model for our younger generation. In addition, you will have the chance to make phone calls in our AWESOME TEEN ROOM!
Community service hours are available.
10:30 am (Ages 9-12)- PJ Our Way and the JVC present: Brown Bagged Lunch creation to benefit our homeless in Miami.
Tweens and their families can make brown bagged lunches on site and create inspirational cards for the homeless in our community. These lunches will go to one of our local homeless shelters; they will be arriving with their van to pick up the bagged lunches around noon.
Click here to volunteer.
1:00 pm (Ages 14-18): Bake challah alongside special needs teens!
Bake Challah alongside special needs teens to take home to their families for Shabbat. High school teens will be paired with special needs teens to knead flour and braid dough to create a wonderful loaf of challah.
10:00 am (under the tent): Family project!
Families with children 5 to 8 years old are asked to bring BRAND NEW pajamas sized 5-14 and a gently read or new book to this project. Volunteers are also asked to bring non-perishable snacks like cookies or power bars! Together with your family, your child will make a book plate to place inside the book and a card to go with the package. Families will wrap up the pajamas with cellophane and ribbons. These packages will be given to women and children in need locally in our community.
