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Exciting news! JCorps is opening in Russia and Ukraine!!!

We have just launched the Facebook groups (Kiev (Ukraine), Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) and will be launching on the Russian Facebook.

Within four hours of us posting a volunteer event, JCorps’ all-day project painting a community center through Habitat for Humanity “sold out” (volunteering events are always free).
JCorps events always sell-out, and we’ll soon be adding multiple events per-Sunday, as well as week night events.
Congratulations to the folks who got into next Sunday’s event, and for [...]

Last month JCorps helped serve over 900 meals to the hungry in three hours at a downtown soup kitchen in NYC.
The Soup Kitchen is one of JCorps’ most-popular events, and it occurs monthly.
JCorps also helps feed thousands at soup kitchens and food pantries in Washington D.C., Israel and Canada.

JCorps is the proud recipient of 2010 grants from Natan and The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. Their grants will enable JCorps to take-on its first paid staff person (see previous post), and to grow JCorps to even more cities and countries.
It should be said that the support The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Natan have been giving [...]

Steve Jobs said, “A players hire A players. B players hire C players who hire D players.”
JCorps is looking for an A+ player to be our Chief Operating Officer.  JCorps operates like a business and the COO will be in charge of Operations and expansion of JCorps.  You’ll be based in NYC, and run JCorps [...]

JCorps founder is invited to the White House Hanukkah Party + the Obama joke he told TO Obama.

What does a volunteer pack on their trip to help Jews in Ethiopia? Why, a JCorps tshirt!

An example given by bestselling author Seth Godin inspires JCorps’ successful “WeCanBeHeroes” recruiting event.

JCorps’s founder, Ari Teman, was selected as the Jewish Federations of North America’s “Jewish Community Hero of the Year” in a contest with over 600,000 votes and 400 nominees.

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