Heart & Chutzpah 5783: "What We Water Grows"

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This year’s Heart & Chutzpah was on Sunday April 30th and was a HUGE SUCCESS! Thank you to all who came in person and on Zoom and to all who weren't able to attend and donated, and bid on auction items. We are deeply grateful for your support

Heart & Chutzpah 5783's theme is “What We Water Grows”. We envision this intention as a collective recommitment to dreaming and building the world that we want to be a part of, create for each other and give forward. Like gardeners, we invest attention, intention and resources to cultivate our desired outcomes.

​It was a joyful, upbeat, hopeful, celebratory blast and we are so grateful to all of our community members, volunteers, speakers, guests, sponsors, staff, donors, and planning team members. As our board co-presidents Rainer and Lauren shared on Sunday, Kadima is "a coalition of people who come here for different things, a community, a congregation, a cultural, artistic, and political organization, that must be co-created with the full participation of each of our various parts … How powerful to be reminded that we are interdependent, doing none of this alone." Thank you all.

​We raised $42,833 so far through ticket sales, individual donations, raffle tickets, auction bids, and sponsorships. Our goal is $55,000 - can you help us raise the last $12,167? Here’s how you can help right now:
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1. Continue to bid on auction items and donate using our event platform on Givebutter, whether you attended Heart & Chutzpah or not. The auction will close on Sunday, May 7th at 6pm. (Directions on how to register to bid & donate via GiveButter below). We encourage you to share the auction with friends and family!
Bid on Auction Items & Donate!

2. Donate in honor of Heart & Chutzpah using Kadima’s regular donation page and selecting “Heart & Chutzpah/Annual Fundraiser” in the drop down menu, whether you attended and want to give more or did not attend and want to donate in honor of this fabulous community celebration.

3. Connect with your employer about a matching gift! Kadima is on Benevity for employee matching purposes – please connect with your place of employment and see how to set this up for your giving and be in touch if there is another platform where we could register to make this accessible to you and your employer.
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4. Participate in Kadima’s Friends & Family Campaign to help us fundraise your loved ones so that they may support you and your Jewish community. More on this in days to come.

5. Fundraise them yourself! You just may be the best person to talk to your people about supporting Kadima. Maybe they have visited before - from out of town or down the street - and you want to give them the honor of being asked to support you and your Jewish community. It takes all of us, and friends love supporting friends. Give them the honor!

The abundance of overflowing gratitude for your continued support in all of its varied and vital forms is a blessing.

Supporting one another in this way enables us to pay Kadima staff a dignified wage and provide benefits, run our incredible school, put on youth, adult, and all-ages programming, and live into our values as we do it all while dreaming up what's next. Thank you for helping us build the world to come now and watering, fertilizing, and shining on the communal garden that is Kadima – so that it may flourish and continue to nourish us!

With love,
Heart & Chutzpah Team 💧🌱🌺✨

GiveButter Registration Instructions:
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1. Click on this link to access Kadima’s auction.

2. Click the “Register to Bid” button.

3. You’ll then be prompted to enter your contact information, create a password, and then click "sign up." You will see a screen that says "Verify your email" and will be prompted to enter the code that Givebutter will email to you. The email Givebutter will have a button that says "Verify your email" which you can click instead of entering the code.

4. Once you’ve verified your email you’ll be prompted to enter your payment information.

5. Next, you’ll have the option of choosing to cover your credit card processing costs. This will help us direct more money to our programming. Thank you!

6. Once you’ve done that, you’ll be able to look at all of the amazing auction items and START MAKING YOUR BIDS because our AUCTION IS OFFICIALLY LIVE!

7. You’ll be able to get live updates on the items you’re bidding on directly on your mobile phone.

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NOTE: Using GiveButter will enable Kadima Staff to track this event most easily. If using GiveButter is not possible for you, general donations to the event can be made through Kadima’s online donations form using the dropdown menu and selecting “Heart & Chutzpah/Annual Fundraiser” and selecting your donation amount. Auction items are not available through the general donation form - only through GiveButter for this event. If you need assistance signing up for, or using GiveButter, please reach out to [email protected].

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