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CHARITABLE GIVING:

Community Service

Touro takes great pride in the work it does to benefit the community, near and far.  In recent years, Touro has provided generous support to:

Jewish Charities

  • Jewish Collaborative Services to provide food, heating and housing assistance
  • Area synagogues receive reimbursements for High Holiday security services
  • Camp JORI, Rhode Island’s only Jewish children’s overnight summer camp
  • URI Hillel to support Shabbat dinners for students
  • Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center
  • March of the Living for youth to visit Auschwitz and Israel to learn about the Holocaust
  • Defibrillators donated to area synagogues, as well as to police/fire departments and senior agencies

Non-Denominational Causes

  • Miriam Hospital Center for Innovative Cancer Research
  • Meals donated to front-line workers at area hospitals during the pandemic
  • Ronald McDonald House
  • Rhode Island Community Food Bank
  • Crossroads Rhode Island to assist the homeless
  • Adoption Rhode Island
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island

Global Initiatives

  • Significant contributions to assist Israel following attacks of Oct. 7, 2023
  • Assistance to Ukrainian refugees
  • Aid to Pittsburgh community after synagogue shootings
  • Disaster relief after Super Storm Sandy and Indian Ocean Tsunami