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Change the World With Us.

Somewhere near one of our doors tonight, a family is deciding between rent and dinner. A home stands one repair away from being livable. A person is one kind conversation away from finding their footing.

Your gift is that dinner. That repair. That conversation. This is why giving to this work matters — not someday, but now.

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Why It Matters

What Your Gift Becomes

We keep our work simple and close to the ground: meals for the hungry, homes restored for those without one, and supplies and guidance for people finding their way back. Every gift goes straight into that work.

Funds

The most flexible gift there is — it becomes nourishing meals through our Feed the Hungry program, materials for a home under restoration, or exactly what a family needs the week they need it.

Goods & Food

Food for meal preparation, clothing, and everyday supplies go directly to people we serve. What sits unused in your pantry or closet can carry someone through a hard month.

Building Materials

We restore derelict properties into safe, dignified, genuinely affordable homes. Lumber, fixtures, paint, appliances — materials become walls, and walls become somebody’s home.

Your Professional Skill

Contractors, architects, engineers, tradespeople, and every skilled hand — our housing work runs on donated expertise. A day of your craft can change a family’s year.

Chesed Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity (EIN 37-2183063) — contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. We’ll gladly provide a receipt for your records.
“The world is built on kindness.”
Psalm 89 — Olam Chesed Yibaneh
The Good It Does

Giving Changes Two Lives — Theirs, and Yours

For the person you’ll never meet

A warm meal says you are not forgotten. A restored home says you belong somewhere. Supplies and guidance say someone believes you can stand again. These aren’t luxuries — they are the ground a person rebuilds a life on, and your gift lays that ground.

For you

Jewish tradition has taught for thousands of years that giving is not losing — it is building. A tenth of what we earn, the tradition says, was never ours to keep; it belongs to those in need. The giver walks away richer in the ways that outlast money. If that idea moves you, read about the power of ten percent.

For the world we share

No one can fix everything. But everyone can fix something — one meal, one roof, one person at a time. That is how the world actually changes: not all at once, but door by door, kindness by kindness, until whole neighborhoods stand on ground that generosity built. That is the world we are building from our doors in Los Angeles, North Bay Village, Las Vegas, and Camino — and wherever the need finds us.

Together

Alone, a gift is a good deed.
Together, our gifts are a foundation — and on a foundation, you can build a world.

We never ask for payment details online — tell us you’d like to give and a real person from our team calls you back to arrange everything, your way.