The following is a short list of suggestions for you to initiate in your own community on that special weekend.  Please feel free to initiate other Chessed ideas that are not listed here.  As we are trying to make this as user friendly and tangible as possible, we have attached some links to educational material as well as chesed organizations that you can utilize: 

• Ensure that your Rabbi will dedicate his drasha, sermon, and shiurim to Chesed, and to spreading awareness of the importance of helping others. Torah Sources are available in English (English 2) and Hebrew.
• Arrange for your camp or youth program to run informal educational programming and tochniyot on Chesed.  Programming ideas are available in English (English 2, English 3) and Hebrew.
• Invite people who are new to the community over for meals
• Check that your community has g'machim set up to meet all needs. Check Olam Hachesed's full list of ideas & gmachim, and for help in setting one up in your community (also available in Hebrew).
  
• Arrange trips to visit the sick in hospitals, and home-bound elderly
• Donate Bone Marrow or Organize a bone marrow drive in your community. In America & Canada contact Eddie Feinberg at Gift of Life, 1-800-9MARROW, www.giftoflife.org   In Israel contact Ezer Mitziyon at www.ezer-mizion.org.il.  For all other countries visit www.bmdw.org for the name and contact info of your local bone marrow registry.
• Donate Blood at your local hospital or blood bank, or organize a blood drive in your community
• Make Arts & Crafts Packages with children for chayalim (soldiers) or for children in hospitals. 
• Organize a toy drive and donate to Zichron Menachem in Israel at tel: 02-643-3001, email: info@zichron.org,  www.zichronmenachem.org, and to Chai Lifeline in the US at bbaida@chailifeline.org, www.chailifeline.org.  (Other ideas include: toys, books, cd's, dvd's, computer and video games, software, sweets, cakes for birthdays, hair donations, drivers to take children to and from hospital, etc.)
• Run a food can drive or help collect leftover food from simchas or events; or to volunteer on Friday June 2nd to pick-up and deliver food packages: In Israel contact Table to Table, Joseph Gitler at joseph@tabletotable.org.il, 052-876-3516, www.tabletotable.org.il.  In the US contact City Harvest at www.cityharvest.org to get involved.
• Arrange to repair or paint rundown areas of the elderly community, or offer to go shopping for home-bound elderly
• Help clean up and preserve the sanctity of a local cemetery
• To get involved in chessed projects in Toronto in hospitals or in long term care facilities, please contact Laila Friedman 416-638-7800 ext 287, lfriedman@jfandcs.com, or Rabbi Weiss at 416-638-7800 ext 217, rweiss@jfandcs.com
• Donate Tzedaka to worthy causes. Some organizations that have helped us personally can be found on Chani's website - www.chanaliora.com.
• Seek new ways to be involved in chesed - visit www.chesed.info
• For more ideas and ways to get involved in chesed, contact Daniel Rothner, 212-813-2950, daniel@areyvut.org, www.areyvut.org .  Check out a more comprehensive list of Chesed ideas (prepared by Areyvut).
• Join the Israel Premiere of SPIDERMAN II - Charity Performance for Hadassah Hospital's Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Unit: "Linda's Activity Centre", Sunday July 4th at 7pm at Rav Chen Cinema, Talpiot, Jerusalem. Call Caroline Ofstein 02-999 6128 or Deborah Kaufmann 054 566 5001 for tickets (in advance), donations & more details.
• Shalva-the center for mentally and physically challenged children in Israel. For all those who wish to do chesed and help these children and their families, please visit the website at www.shalva.org.
• To get involved in Ramat Bet Shemesh, Israel, in local chesed and tzedaka, contact David Morris at 02-999-1553, info@lemaanachai.org www.lemaanachai.org.
• Chesed opportunities in Ramat Bet Shemesh include: Food Rescue call Marla Braun at 02-999-7956. To offer rides for down syndrome babies to therapy in Tzora call Rochel Leah Dubovik at 02-999-5925. To offer rides for sick children to and from hospitals, call Leah Resnick at 02-999-6328, or call Krishevsky at 02-991-0047. To help make heavy half hour food deliveries Thursday evenings to needy families call Shraga Rosenberg at 02-9996479.

Please make a decision to make a difference.  Please continue your unwavering commitment to davening and doing Chesed that you showed for Chani's refuah.  The success of this Shabbat Chesed is contingent on you individually stepping up and saying I am not going to wait for someone else to make the difference. What better way to memorialize Chani, than continuing in the way she taught us to look out for others.  

Call your local Rabbi.  Urge them to speak about Chesed on the Shabbat of July 3, and to promote Chesed programs.

Forward this e-mail to your friends, shuls, camps, etc. Call any contacts in organizations, newspapers, radio shows, weekly prarasha publications, e-mail lists, and ask them to publicize the Worldwide Shabbat Chesed.  To help you facilitate the advertising, you can forward on the Press Release/Article (Hebrew version available) ready to be included in your local newspaper or organization e-mail list.

Post a Shabbat Chesed flier (Hebrew verison available) to be filled in and posted in your community.

Important: As part of the special Shabbat Chesed program, please let us know what your community/camp/shul will be taking on for the Shabbat Chesed, and your contact info for people to join your local program by filling out the form below.  Please also let us know if you have ensured that your Rabbi will be speaking about Chesed.  We will post the various communities and projects undertaken worldwide, on Chani's website www.chanaliora.com

Name:	Location (City, State/Country):
Email:	Phone:
What chesed will you perform?
Tell us (and others) what community events you have planned for Worldwide: Shabbat Chesed. [This will also allow other people to get involved and help out with your chesed program.]

For some communities worldwide we have arranged local representatives who can help you with ideas, and implementation of your ideas, or can just tell you how you can get involved. If you are interested in being a representative for your area please let us know.

To share inspiring stories of Chesed that have been done in the world, please e-mail us at shabbat-chesed@mamash.com.  These will be posted to www.chanaliora.com

To send us names, pictures, and stories of other sick children around the world who are in need of our tefillot, please e-mail us at shabbat-chesed@mamash.com.  These will be posted to www.chanaliora.com for people around the world to continue davening for them.