Pay It Forward

Pay it forward and help support Melbourne’s most dynamic charities

Each month, dozens of young teen and their parents participate in our unique volunteering experiences with our partner charities.

Through your generous contribution, you’ll be supporting these charities and help our mission to grow gratitude, empathy and giving in young teens and their families through experiential giving in the bar and bat mitzvah year.

Charity Item Donations

If you are a business or individual that would like to donate new items such as stationery, food, toiletries, art supplies, toys, packaging supplies and clothing, please get in touch.

All these items are all of great benefit to our program and go directly to the people that need it most, via our charity partners.

Call: 0410 551 546

Email: helen@twelvethirteen.org

Our Charity Partners

C Care combats isolation and poverty in the Jewish community by reaching out to people who are not supported, who feel that they do not belong, and who are somehow ‘left behind’. They run community cook offs, meal deliveries, and other activities to connect members of our community.

Emmy Monash is an award winning Jewish aged care provider delivering independent living, residential aged care and respite services. Emmy Monash’s caring and compassionate team, made up of handpicked nurses and carers, are both attentive and knowledgeable and available to support their residents 24/7.

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Helping Hoops run free, weekly basketball programs for over 1,000 disadvantaged & disabled children in Melbourne. Children that attend their clinics live on inner-city, high-rise public housing estates. Through their weekly sessions, HH builds self-esteem, aids social cohesion, instils discipline, develops goal setting and leadership skills, and promotes a healthy, active lifestyle.

FoodFilled is a not-for-profit devoted to combating food wastage and hunger. They work with charities supporting youth in crisis, asylum seekers, the homeless, people escaping abusive environments and residing in rehabilitation centres, as well as the elderly and vulnerable.

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Impact for Women is a completely volunteer charity committed to making a difference to Victorian women and children fleeing extreme violence at home. Through their activities, Impact provides badly needed essentials ‘bags of love’ together with knowledge that someone cares about them & there are people who want to help them.

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Koala Kids is a volunteer driven organisation that provides small things that make a difference to the lives of children and young people (from birth to 25 years) undergoing cancer treatment and their families and staff who care for them in hospital.

The mission of Make A Wish is to grant the wishes of children and young people with life-threatening medical conditions to give them hope and joy. No two wishes are alike, but every wish transforms the lives of those involved, from the children themselves to their family, friends, the wish team and the wider community.

As long as children with rheumatic and congenital heart disease around the world continue to suffer without access to care, Save A Child’s Heart will treat children, train medical professionals and raise the level of paediatric heart care worldwide, from their heart in Israel.

Share the Dignity is a women’s charity in Australia, that works to make a real, on-the-ground difference in the lives of those experiencing homelessness, fleeing domestic violence, or doing it tough. We distribute period products to women, girls, and anyone who menstruates who needs support. When someone is doing it tough, the last thing on their mind should be dealing with their period.

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Smile on seniors ensures members of the Jewish community, in non Jewish aged care facilities, maintain a positive, emotional and spiritual connection to their Jewish identity through a unique blend of intergenerational programs and pastoral care activities. This intergenerational program fosters a wonderful connection and creates an environment that provides perspective, entertainment, respect and understanding.

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Youth Projects provides health, outreach, community and employment, education and training services to individuals experiencing disadvantage, unemployment, homelessness and alcohol and other drug issues. The impact they seek enables each person to lead longer lives, have improved health, meaningful employment and a greater sense of belonging, safety and security through a holistic model of care.

One Ball is a non-profit organisation providing children (aged 5-17 yrs) soccer and well-being training. One Ball builds confident, healthy and resilient young people through sport, by providing opportunities for children and young people, especially those from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds to play soccer in a safe and inclusive environment.