Sponsor a

Pesach Meal

Help Kindness Initiative ensure that as many Jewish families as possible have all of the essentials they need to make a Seder dinner this Passover. We have more than 350 members in need this Passover, including 5 families sleeping in their cars. Your donation can make a tangible impact.

Donate Passover Essentials

We are collecting new, unopened Kosher for Passover items throughout March to stock our shelves and support families across San Diego. 

Do a mitzvah and drop items off at kindnessG’MACH. 

For hours and drop-off details, click here:

kindnessG’MACH will be closed April 1st and 2nd in observance of Passover.

Items We Need

  • Matzah
  • Chocolate Matzah
  • Matzah (GF)
  • Matzah Ball Mix
  • Macaroons
  • Chicken Soup Mix
  • Grape Juice
  • Gefilte Fish

Sponsor A Passover Meal

Your gift provides a Passover meal to a Jewish couple or family in need this holiday.

Holiday Closure

kindnessG’MACH will be closed April 1–2 in observance of Passover.

Please plan visits and donations accordingly.

Care for our own this Pesach

When we recognize need and respond with generosity, we strengthen our entire community.

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Personal Dignity at Kindness Initiative

At Kindness Initiative, personal dignity means recognizing and reinforcing the inherent worth, individuality, and potential of every person we serve. Poverty, crisis, homelessness, or dependence on others can gradually erode confidence, independence, and a person’s belief in their own ability to move forward. We therefore seek not merely to provide assistance, but to restore a sense of agency, self-respect, hope, and control. Members and Clients are treated as individuals with strengths, preferences, choices, and aspirations not as problems to be solved or recipients of charity. Through respectful relationships, personalized support, meaningful choice, and opportunities to participate in their own path forward, we strive to ensure that every interaction communicates: you matter, your voice matters, you are capable, and your circumstances do not define your worth. Ultimately, dignity is restored when a person begins to see themselves not through the lens of what they lack or what has happened to them, but with renewed confidence in who they are and what they can become.

At Kindness Initiative, restoring personal dignity is not only an important outcome in itself; it is also an essential step toward rebuilding the confidence, agency, and sense of possibility that enable Members to actively participate in the tasks and decisions necessary to achieve their individually defined and aspirational goals.

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Kindness Initiative Member Etiquette Policy Statement

Just as we expect our staff, volunteers, and service provider organizations to abide by basic civil interpersonal behavior consistent with Jewish values, we expect our Members to:

  • Be courteous, polite, and respectful to all service provider staff and volunteers.
  • Assist yourself wherever possible in attaining emergency and self-sufficiency plans.
  • Offer warm and sincere greeting; be prompt in responding to calls, e-mails, or correspondence; and be on time for all appointments.
  • Try not to become frustrated with disappointing performance of service providers. You have an opportunity to reflect your concerns in the website post-event survey.
  • Always exhibit the highest levels of personal hygiene.
  • Take responsibility for your own safety.
  • Don't talk about others in a negative or hurtful way (Lashon Hara).
  • Be kind to others. You are a Member of the Kindness Initiative.

Not adhering to any of the above repeatedly may result in termination of membership privileges.

Other Jewish Values KINDNESS INITIATIVE Encourages Include:

  • Taking responsibility to participate actively in the local Jewish community, both as an expression of good citizenship and as a model for others.
  • Continuing to expand your Jewish understanding and knowledge.
  • Always acting ethically.
  • Supporting the unique relationship between Israel and the Jewish Diaspora.
  • Being an exemplary ambassador for yourself, your family, and the Jewish people through your actions.