"A SEASON IS SET FOR EVERYTHING, A TIME FOR EVERY EXPERIENCE UNDER HEAVEN, A TIME TO BE BORN AND A TIME TO DIE, A TIME TO TEAR DOWN AND A TIME TO BUILD UP..."
Dayenu is building a vibrant Jewish climate movement that is taking action and making a difference every day.
Recently, we launched a campaign that aimed to build on groundbreaking progress made at the federal level. After Dayenu mobilized to help win passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, it was time to dig in to make sure the $370 billion in climate funds were invested in communities that need them most.
In October 2023, Dayenu launched A Time To Build: Climate, Jobs & Justice for All, a campaign which rallied our communities to urge state and federal policymakers to take advantage of these historic climate investments. We spent the next eight months organizing, advocating, singing, celebrating, and reaching out to policymakers.
Hundreds of Dayenu activists and leaders stepped up and took action, ensuring we made progress on all of our goals. We pushed Congress to protect climate legislation, called on elected officials to ensure climate investments reach every community, and made our vision of a just, livable future so compelling that Americans demand more.
Below the slide show are the numbers to show what we accomplished together!
A TIME TO BUILD IN NUMBERS
- More than 150 communities in states across the country hosted postcarding pop-ups at holiday events around Sukkot, Hanukkah, Purim, and Passover.
- 5,000 postcards to state policymakers, urging them to apply for, use, and equitably distribute federal climate funds., plus hundreds more emails to governors with the same message.
- Seven in-person postcard deliveries — some in the form of mishloach manot for Purim — to policymakers’ offices.
- Hundreds of emails to Members of Congress, calling on them to protect climate funding.
- A dozen media pieces (and counting!) — op eds, letters to the editor, reports on actions — published across the country.
- A dozen college campuses hosted campaign events.
- Four Dayenu Circle-led public candle lighting ceremonies, attended by seven elected officials.