In this Issue:

• Fall Mitzvah Mania Projects Still Need Your Help

• Volunteers Needed at the JUF Uptown Cafe

• YLD Clothing Donation Event

• TOV MTV-Monthly Teen Volunteering

• Participate in The ARK's Annual Chanukah Gift Wishes Program

• Luggage for Freedom Pack & Delivery Day

• Volunteers Needed for Nurture's Healthy Living Program

CJE Lieberman Geriatric Health Centre

Escort residents to and from synagogue and assist during Shemini Atzeret services.

• Date: Saturday, October 10

Escort residents to and from synagogue and assist during Simchat Torah services.

• Date: Sunday, October 11
• Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
• Location: 9700 Gross Point, Skokie
• Ages: 13+

Pantry of Rich Township

Repack and distribute produce donated from the Greater Chicago Food Depository for The Pantry’s Fresh Produce Program.

• Date: Wednesday, October 7
• Time: 9:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
• Location: 22013 Governors Hwy., Richton Park
• Ages: 12+

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2010 Individual volunteer dates at the JUF Uptown Cafe are now being scheduled! We need your help to meet the growing needs in the community.

• All Cafe scheduling is done over the phone. To schedule your dates, please call the TOV Hotline at (312) 357-4762.
• Volunteers may serve one meal each month.
• If you would like to volunteer more often and you have a flexible schedule, sign up for the Emergency Volunteer List here: http://juf.org/tov/emergency_cafe.aspx.
• Volunteers must be at least 12 years old and accompanied by an adult if under age 18.
• Due to their popularity, only two Sundays a year are available to volunteers.

For more information about the JUF Uptown Cafe or to sign up to volunteer, please contact the TOV hotline at (312) 357-4762 or email tov@juf.org.

JUF’s Young Leadership Division, in partnership with TOV, is hosting a “Fall Closet Clean-out” event to collect donated clothing for The ARK thrift shop. Each month, ARK social workers dispense thousands of dollars in ARK Thrift Shop vouchers to ARK clients who use them to shop for clothing and household goods. All proceeds from sales of other goods help fund The ARK’s lifesaving services.

During this changing-of-the-seasons, please consider donating used clothing to this very worthy cause. For information regarding donation drop-off at the Jewish United Fund offices (30 S. Wells Street, Chicago) between now and October 23, contact Ariel Zipkin at (312) 357-4880 or email yld@juf.org.

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Join teens from around Chicago for the November hands-on volunteer group project.

Come help out at the CJE SeniorLife Lieberman Campus, a 240-bed nursing home facility in Skokie. We will visit with residents, escort them to and join in the day’s entertainment, serve snacks and have fun!

When: Sunday, November 22
Where: CJE SeniorLife Lieberman Campus 9700 Gross Point Road, Skokie
Time: 1-3:30pm

There’s no charge for TOV MTV opportunities, but space is limited and pre-registration is a must. Spots fill quickly, so please check the JUF Teen website to register. Questions? Email: TOVTeen@juf.org or call: (312) 444-2867

The TOV MTV-Monthly Teen Volunteering fall brochure will be arriving in your mailboxes and will be online soon! Use our new online registration form and make sure to grab your spot for this and other fall/winter MTVs. If you are active in a youth group or work as a youth group advisor, special TOV MTV programs can be coordinated for your group! Contact us at TOVTeen@juf.org for more information.

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The ARK’s Chanukah Gift Wishes program provides families with an opportunity to do a mitzvah during the December holiday season by purchasing Chanukah gifts for ARK clients. Last year, dozens of ARK parents were able to provide gifts for their own children as if they purchased them themselves, and many adults received a Chanukah gift for the first time in many years.

For more information or to sign up, please contact Bonnie Azose or Diane Krugel at (773) 973-1000 by Friday, October 30.

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Luggage for Freedom, a project of the National Council of Jewish Women Chicago North Shore Section, provides gently used luggage packed with essentials and backpacks filled with books and stuffed animals to women and children leaving local domestic violence shelters.

Luggage for Freedom will hold their next Pack & Delivery Day on Sunday, October 25 at the West Ridge Center (636 Ridge Rd. in Highland Park.) Volunteers are needed to pack suitcases and backpacks between 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. deliver donations beginning at noon to local domestic violence shelters. All ages welcome.

To volunteer, please contact luggageforfreedom@ncjwcns.org or (847) 853-8889.

Nurture is a non-profit organization that helps families improve nutrition and health through cooking classes, nutrition education, and philanthropy. The agency collaborates with food pantries and other agencies that assist resource-limited families. Nurture’s mission is to encourage healthy, home-cooked meals in place of unhealthy fast food. The program, which involves children as well as their adult caregivers, hopes to address the alarming increase in levels of childhood obesity.

Volunteers are needed to assist in many different areas including:

• Lead and assist with classes (recipe testing, food prep, teaching adult program, teaching kids program, act as a historian)
• Public Relations
• Community Outreach
• Nutrition/Registered dieticians
• Spanish-speaking volunteers
• Fundraising
• Physical fitness
• Administrative tasks (making phone calls, sending emails, posting flyers, etc.)

Anyone who has an interest in nutrition and wants to get involved is welcome! For more information, please email Kathryn Guylay at Kathryn@guylay.com.