BENEFICIARIES

Over the past 24 years, Kung Pao has raised 10’s of 1000’s of dollars and awareness for different organizations. 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. See below for this year’s and past Kung Pao beneficiaries.

This year’s beneficiaries:

Each year, we name 2 organizations to receive partial proceeds from Kung Pao Kosher Comedy and always make our donation AFTER the shows are over, but since the need with the Northern California fires and Puerto Rico’s hurricane are DIRE, we have decided to make these donations NOW.

Jewish Family & Children’s Services (JFCS) Sonoma County North Bay Fire Relief

At the suggestion of a friend in Sonoma who has been evacuated, we just named Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) Sonoma County North Bay Fire Relief as one of the 2 beneficiaries and made our donation on October 11th . JFCS is providing emergency financial, housing, and food assistance, toiletries…and setting up to help community members for the long term.

If you have friends or family who need help, JFCS is available to them. JFCS is providing short-term food, shelter, and counseling, and long-term recovery support to the community in Sonoma County. Contact JFCS for help at 707-303-1500 or email sonoma@jfcs.org

The JFCS staff of case managers and clinicians has been trained in emergency response and is ready to deliver services quickly and efficiently.

If you’d like to make an additional donation, you can donate directly:
www.jfcs.org/north-bay-fire-relief

Jewish Community Center (JCC) Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria Relief Fund

It pained us to sit back and watch the lack of US aid to Puerto Rico and Trump literally turning his back on, ridiculing, and blaming Puerto Rico for the hurricane. So, we decided to make a statement and a donation and support the JCC of Puerto Rico in its Hurricane Maria Relief efforts.

Puerto Rico’s Jewish community of 1,500, living mostly in San Juan, has largely been spared the worst of the damage, says Diego Mendelbaum, community director at the San Juan Jewish Community Center, which shares space with a Conservative synagogue. Its members have turned to helping their more vulnerable neighbors by distributing clothing, food, and water and training local social work students to provide post-trauma care. They are bringing relief to communities throughout the municipalities of Loiza and Ceiba.
Their partners of Project Hope are providing health services.

If you’d like to make an additional donation, you can donate directly:
www.jccpr.org

Updates

Past beneficiaries:

2016

•Shalom Bayit

•Seniors at Home

2015

•Institute on Aging’s Friendship Line
•Legal Assistance to the Elderly

2014

•Jewish Family & Children’s Services (JFCS) Food Programs
•San Francisco Suicide Prevention (SFSP)

2013

•San Francisco and Marin Food Banks’ “Healthy Children Pantries” 
•The Jewish Home San Francisco’s Esther Weintraub Comedy Clinic
(Click here to download an article about the Comedy Clinic from The Jewish Home’s
magazine.) JewishHome-Mag-ComedyClinic-article

2012

• The Brown Twins/JFCS’ Emergency Assistance Fund
• Bay Area Women & Children’s Services Drop-in Services and Food Pantry

2011

• The Jewish Family and Children’s Services’ L’Chaim Adult Day Health Care Center
• Muttville Senior Dog Rescue

2010

• JFCS’ Food Pantry
• The Jewish Home San Francisco’s “Esther Weintraub Comedy Clinic

2009

• The National MS Society, Northern CA chapter
• JFCS’s East Bay Refugee & Immigrant Programs

2008

• Jewish Family & Children’s Services “Food Pantry”
• The 100 Friends Project

2007

• The Jewish Free Clinic
• Jewish Family and Children’s Services “Chicken Soupers”

2006

• The Jewish Home’s “Esther Weintraub Comedy Clinic”
• The Reutlinger Community for Jewish Living’s “Komedy Club and Library”

2005

• The Jewish Home’s “Esther Weintraub Comedy Clinic”
• Clowns Without Borders

2004

• The Bay Area Jewish Coalition for Literacy
• Laughing Stock

2003

• Familial Dysautonomia Hope Foundation
• The LGBT Family Assistance Project at Jewish Family and Children’s Services

2002

• Jewish Home Comedy Clinic
• Gay-Straight Alliance Network

2001

• International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission
• Bay Area Jewish Healing Center

2000

• SFJCC’s Montefiore Senior Center
• Lesbian & Gay Senior Services Collaborative

1999

• Breast Cancer Action
• The Holocaust Center of Northern California’s Tolerance Education Program

1998

• Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases (WORLD) – A social and information network for women with HIV/AIDS
• Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal – Promoting freedom for Jews in the former Soviet Union & reuniting families in the Bay Area

1997

• Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic –A clinic for low income women with cancer
• Shalom Bayit– Jewish Women’s Task Force on Domestic Violence

1996

• International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
• Jewish Family & Children’s Services AIDS Project

1995

• SF Jewish Film Festival – Program of Jewish humor short films
• Family Link– a hospitality house for visiting families of people with AIDS

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

• Women’s Cancer Resource Center
• GESHER: Bridge to Understanding– a joint project of Congregation Sha’ar Zahav & Community United Against Violence

1993

• The late Tamar Kaufman – A Northern California Jewish Bulletin writer battling cancer