NPJTF Team Fundraising 2017-2018

The JTF is a jewish foundation dedicated to helping solve world issues and current problems in our society locally, globally, and in israel. We are the NPJTF, one of three boards located around the peninsula bay area that make up JTF. Our board is a group of 24 jewish teens, mainly new, who work together to donate grants to organizations around the world that are working towards justice, better climate control, and other important issues we decide on. I feel a strong moral obligation to assist this problem in any way I can, and participating in the NPJTF is just one way I can help our environment and our current social justice dilemmas. The world is in a current state where there is a gob of racism, sexism, homophobia, and overall discrimination and I am passionate about both solving, and educating the global population about these issues and their effect on the social environment of local towns, cities, and the countries of the world.

Currently, we are affected by many important ecenomical, social, and environmental issues that need to be solved by giving grants to organizations, jewish, and non jewish working globaly, localy, and in Israel to tackle important social evironment, and global envrionment issues in our cities and habitats. Please consider helping now, for problems like these are pressing issues that must be helped:

1. Hurricane Harvey caused $180 billion in damage. That’s more than any other natural disaster in U.S history affecting 13 million people from Texas through Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky.

2. On September 1, 2017, one-third of Houston was underwater with two feet of rain falling in the first 24 hours, forcing 39,000 people out of their homes and into shelters.

3. As of September 5, 2017, Hurricane Harvey damaged 203,000 homes, of which 12,700 were destroyed. There were 738,000 people who registered for assistance with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The agency has paid $378 million to them. 

4. Diversion of 96 per cent of the Jordan River’s fresh water and the discharge of large quantities of untreated sewage is irreversibly damaging the Jordan River Valley.

5. Over the last 50 years, Jordan’s River’s annual flow has dropped from more than 1.3 billion cubic meters per year to less than 30 million cubic meters due to drought and diverting water. 

6. 2.2 billion tons of waste are dumped into the ocean every year 

7. In Sonoma County the recent wildfires destroyed 6,600 structures, including 5,130 homes, including 1,500 homes and more than 600 businesses and secondary buildings, including sheds and barns, in the Rincon Valley, Mark West and Larkfield-Wikiup area. according to Cal Fire

8. The Tubbs fire began Oct. 8 2017 and grew to over 36,000 acres in 36 hours burning dried forests along its path.

9. Twenty million people across Africa and the Middle East are now at risk of illness and death due to a famine that is centered in Somalia, Nigeria, Yemen and South Sudan cause by Civil wars, underdeveloped infrastructure and drought. 

10. Uganda’s 2,000 Jews (Abayudaya) have long maintained a modest existence. Thus relying on their own crops to survive, have been hit hard by the drought, leaving most of the community without food for long periods of time. 

Please help me and the entire NPJTF board, by donating to this page. Your humble contributions will go towards organizations that are working hard to fix current, global environmental issues!!

Thanks so much!! Every penny makes a difference!!