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Volume 14, Issue 2
 Thank You Mount Zion Temple Religious School
Thank you to students at the Mount Zion Temple Religious School in St. Paul, Minn. for their
very generous donation to support our ongoing work of providing mental health education
and advocacy services. According to Stephanie Fink, the school’s director of education,
MACMH was one of six organizations to receive funding from the school’s “tamchui”
(Hebrew for community chest). The money, generated by donations made by the students
throughout the year, is distributed according to the wishes of the student body. Over the
course of the year, the 7th-grade students research possible organizations that would be fitting recipients for a donation from the tamchui. In the late winter–early spring, the 7th-graders present their findings to the student body, and each student then votes for the organization they most want to support. Each organization then is allocated funds based on the percentage of votes they received. Fink says that the recipients are sometimes local, but not always—instead the organizations are chosen based on the work they do to address basic human needs. We are gratified that so many of the Mount Zion Temple students chose to support our work. We thank them for their generosity and commend them for their efforts to, in their words, “bring wholeness to the world.”
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165 Western Avenue North
Saint Paul, MN 55102
Phone: 651-644-7333
1-800-528-4511
Fax: 651-644-7391
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