Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
2008 Beneficiaries
In keeping with the Jewish tradition of tzedakah (charity, in Hebrew - tied in with a sense of duty and social responsibility), each year Kung Pao donates partial proceeds to organizations and causes we believe in. This year's recipients are...
Jewish Family & Children’s Services’ “Food Pantry” was established in 2001 at its San Francisco site. Since then, all four regions that JFCS serves (San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma and Palo Alto) have established pantries at each of their sites. More people than ever are asking for help from JFCS because of the slowing economy and increases in food and fuel prices. Their clients include: working people and families, seniors living on fixed incomes, adults with disabilities or illnesses, and individuals and families in temporary crisis. Every effort is made to ensure that the Food Pantry items are of high-quality nutrition. These items are in particularly high demand: canned tuna, soups, beans, tomato products, and fruits; peanut butter; whole grain pasta, high protein bars, toiletries (soap, toothpaste, diapers, toilet paper); laundry detergent; Safeway cards... www.jfcs.org/foodpantry
The 100 Friends Project was founded in 1989 by San Franciscan, Marc Gold. Every year his grassroots development project receives contributions from people in the West, and he takes the money to Third World Countries and looks for the neediest people he can find. He then puts the money to work in the most compassionate, appropriate, culturally compatible, constructive, and practical manner possible. He puts the funds directly into the hands of the needy individual or family, or a small trusted grassroots organization helping them. The first time Marc traveled to India, he met a local woman who was suffering from an ear infection but was unable to afford medical treatment and was suffering. He took her to see a doctor and for $1 he was able to purchase an antibiotic that cured her infection. For an additional $30, he was able to buy a hearing aid that saved her hearing. He was amazed that so little money could go such a long way, but people were dying for lack of it. When he returned home, he sent letters to 100 of his friends and told them about his experience. He decided to return the following year with funds to carry out similar work and asked them to make a contribution towards this trip. Thus, 100 Friends was born and has since carried out 19 humanitarian missions in over 50 countries including India, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Thailand, Kenya, China, Nepal, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Vietnam, Nepal, Indonesia, Israel, Mozambique, Turkey, and Mexico. www.100friends.org

Past beneficiaries have included…
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1995 - Los Angeles show
- L.
A. Jewish AIDS Services
- Aunt Bee's Laundry Service - offering
free laundry and house-cleaning services
to people with HIV/AIDS.
1994
1993
- The late Tamar Kaufman – A
Northern California Jewish Bulletin
writer battling cancer
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