Past Events › Social Action

AC young professionals, please join us for a meaningful evening of volunteering at WSCAH, an organization that has been providing New Yorkers with access to healthy food for 45 years. In the last year alone, WSCAH delivered meals to over 110,000 people across all five boroughs. Activities at the event will include packing healthy food, writing heartfelt cards to WSCAH customers, and getting to know other AC young professionals! Register here Contact Abigail Goldberg-Zelizer if you have any questions.

AC is thrilled to partner with Broadway Community to re-open our overnight shelter, after over 5 years, to our unhoused neighbors. Each evening starting December 1, we will offer hospitality, compassion, and dignity to seven guests experiencing homelessness. Volunteers are the heart of this effort! To prepare, we are hosting a “Shelter Volunteer Orientation.” This celebratory “training” is a way to thank everyone in advance for their involvement, AND is an interactive forum for volunteers, and potential volunteers, to learn…

We are collecting new and gently worn coats and jackets in labeled boxes in the AC lobby through Sunday, November 23 at 4pm. We accept coats for adults and children. We will distribute the coats in Hirsch Hall the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Sign up by Wednesday, November 19 if you would like to volunteer to sort coats, set up, or help distribute. All ages welcome!

Join us for Repro Shabbat to learn about the Red Tent Fund, a national Jewish nonprofit that provides funding to abortion seekers across the country. As we honor the Jewish value of reproductive freedom, come discuss how the Red Tent Fund works, the particular resonance of reproductive rights in the wake of Oct. 7, the broader abortion landscape in a post-Dobbs world, and how you can get involved. RSVPs encouraged, walk-ins welcome Meredith Nicholson is the Client Services Coordinator at the Red Tent…