Thanks for supporting me on the Hazon’s NY Ride. With your help, I raised $4,877 and was named Hazon’s Person of the Year.

I appreciate everyone’s support for this great cause over the past three years. This year, I raised $4,877 to support environmental initiatives including Community Supported Agriculture for locally-grown food around the United States as model of sustainable food production, making New York City streets safer for people as a model for safe streets everywhere, and bringing together Jews and Arabs to study environmental issues in Israel which fosters joint projects as a step toward peace.

As you may know, I am very active in Hazon. I believe in its mission of using local projects as a platform for creating greater change in the world. The NY Bike Ride is their main fundraising event I have been on the Steering Committee to help plan the ride for the past two years.

2009 Ride Steering Committee at the closing ceremony.

This year, I started Team Brooklyn, which recruited 25 members, the largest team at the ride. We raised $28,000 for Hazon and had 4 team events throughout the year to foster community among the participants.

I also produced a fundraising guide that was instrumental in helping the collective 152 riders raise $222,197, with a per-rider average that exceeded last year. In an economy when all fundraising is down, what was quite an accomplishment, and I was acknowledged as Hazon’s Person of the Year.

Hazon now has the unprecedented opportunity of being selected to represent the Jewish population of the United States at the Alliance for Religions and Conservation conference in Windsor Palace on November 2 in which the world’s religions will convene to give voice to the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. Hazon is launching a petition to support efforts to halt global warming and I will be involved in creating a video to galvanize the Jews of the United States to sign the petition. So watch for more information on that in October.

With Sarah Litvin and Dana Raviv, members of Team Brooklyn.

Thanks again for your support of me on the ride and in supporting the environment and models for change.

To see a list of all my supporters for the past three years, click here. If your name or year is not on the list, please let me know and I will update it.

If you have not yet donated to the NY Ride this year and would like to support me, you still can by clicking on this link.

Thanks again for your support and please let me know how I can help you in your efforts to create a better world.

Howard Levy
Red Rooster Group

With Jenny Eisenberg, Ride Co-Chair and Michael Reingold.

Hazon has had to cut staff and reduce programs due to reduced funding this year, and I am dedicated to doing my part to see that it can continue its good work.

Find out more and support the effort for a better world:http://blog.redroostergroup.com/2009/07/23/hazon-ride/

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I also started Hazon Team Brooklyn to create team spirit and help other Ride participants meet each other and fundraise. 15 people joined us for the NY Philharmonic Concert in  Prospect Park – one of many events that we have to foster Jewish community in Brooklyn.

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Sponsor me in Hazon’s fundraising bike ride by contributing to a great cause.

Hazon is creating a new dialogue about food sustainability and is creating awareness about where our food comes from, and creating and supporting farming and cooperative food initiatives to connect people with local farmers.

As you may know, I have supported this cause for several years. I am on the Steering Committee for the second year, I started Team Brooklyn, and have donated much time and money to Hazon’s cause of creating a more sustainable world. This year, I have personally matched $1,861 in donations.

Please support me in my goal of raising $10,000 to support Hazon’s important work by making a donation.

Find out more and make your donation here.

Sponsor Me!

Help me reach my goal of raising $10,000. Please sponsor me on Hazon’s marvelous 4-day event, 2-day Ride that takes place over the Labor Day weekend.  You will be supporting a great cause, and getting a tax deduction.

Find out more and make your donation here.

If you prefer, you can write a check made out to Hazon, and mail it to my office at:

Howard Adam Levy
Red Rooster Group
36 East 23rd Street, Suite 301
New York, NY 10010
212-673-9353
howard@redroostergroup.com

Join Me!

And of course, if you would like to join me on the ride (or as crew), that would be fantastic too. The free training rides held on Sundays during the riding season are open to all cyclists.

Learn more about the ride.

Check out the free training rides.

Thanks to my supporters over the past 3 years

• Ed Abel – 08, 09
• David Alpert – 08
• Marissa Anteby – 07, 08, 09
• Natalia Arango – 08, 09
• Greg Barber – 07, 08
• David Behrman – 07
• Itzhak Beery – 08
• Brian Benito – 07
• Andrew Bloch – 08, 09
• Amy Bodnick, 360 Coaching for Kids – 09
• Martin Breslin – 07, 08, 09
• Rebecca Brian – 07, 08
• Ellen Bunin – 08
• Christopher Burke – 08
• Peter Chislett – 07
• Michael Connelley – 07
• Elizabeth Costas – 08
• Richard Dale, Sigma – 09
• Steve Damiano – 09
• Courtney Darling – 07, 09
• Michael Davidson, Board Coach – 07, 08, 09
• Jacques Doueck, Doueck Dental – 08
• Robert Eatroff, Sun Mergers & Acquisitions – 08
• Jenny Eisenberg – 09
• Linda Eber – 07, 08
• Lisa Fawcett – 07, 08
• Beth Forman – 07, 08
• Vicky Foulke – 07
• Jason Gardner – 07, 08
• Gila Gevirtz – 07
• Howard Glassroth – 07
• Robert Goldstein – 08
• Eric Graig – 08
• Becky Gray – 08
• Sue Caruso Green, Resource Development Network – 07
• Lorri Greif, Breakthrough Philanthropy – 09
• Lynn Greenberg – 08
• Carrie Hamilton, Kismet – 08
• Ed Hamway – 08
• Amanda Hirsch – 08
• Tomoki Ito – 07
• Lisa Itzkowitz, JCC of Mid Westchester – 07
• Les Judd – 09
• Deborah Kane – 07
• Jezra Kaye, Communicate with Power and Ease – 08
• Dan Kestin – 09
• Sharon Kleinberg, Symmetry – 07, 08, 09
• Staci Kochmann, Nancy Koltes at Home – 08
• Marcia Kublanow – 08
• Susan Leicher, Thompson & Columbus, Inc. – 09
• Peter Levinson, LevinsonBlock LLC – 08
• Marc Levitt, MSLK – 08
• Allan Levy – 07, 09
• Elliot Levy – 07, 08, 09
• Ike Levy – 08
• Jon Levy – 07, 08
• Linda & Buddy Levy – 08
• Rachel Levy – 07
• Roy Levy – 08
• Francine Lynch – 08
• Cathline Marshall – 08, 09
• Jessica Marshall, Temple Beth Or – 08
• Jeffrey Marston, Resource Centers for Management – 09
• Jill Mendelson – 07, 08, 09
• Abraham Marcus – 09
• Cathline Marshall – 08, 09
• Jeffrey Marston, Resource Centers for Management – 09
• Greg Miller – 07, 08
• Jennifer Mokos – 07, 08
• Patrick Moroney – 07, 08
• E.B.Moss – 08, 09
• Jacqueline Ottman – 07
• Laurence Pagnoni, LAPA – 08
• Mistina, Picciano, Market It Write – 08
• Julia Reich – 07, 08, 09
• Michael Ribicic – 07
• Deborah Riegel, My Jewish Coach.com – 08
• Linda Rodriguez – 08, 09
• Nicole Rose, ODM, Inc. – 08
• David Rosenfeld – 08, 09
• Andrew Sedlock – 07, 08, 09
• Alan Siege – 09
• Cathy Sharp – 09
• Jeffrey Shearman – 07, 08, 09
• Sofia Shemtob – 07, 08, 09
• Steve Shinder – 07
• Alan Siege – 09
• Cynthia Spence – 08, 09
• James Spisak – 07, 08
• Geri Stengel – 07, 08
• Elliot Joel Stern – 08
• Lisa Syron – 07, 08, 09
• Judith Weinstock – 08
• Janice Won – 08
• Linda Wintner – 09
• Greg Zuniss – 07

The Cause

Hazon is the largest Jewish environmental organization in North America and has sparked a movement within the Jewish community to promote environmentalism. It addresses sustainable food production through a Jewish lens and has energized the discussion on the very nature of religions’ role in saving the environment. Since 2000, Hazon participants in their NY and DC Bike Rides have raised over $1.5 million for this cause.

Hazon changes the world by raising environmental awareness and creating concrete opportunities to make our lives and our communities more sustainable.

For example, Hazon started the first Jewish Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project in North America, in which individuals purchase an entire season of produce from an organic family farm. This supports local farming and gives people access to fresh, organic food from a farmer they know. This supports the local economy, creates markets for organic produce and reduces harmful emissions from long-distance transportation of food. Since 2004, Hazon has launched 19 CSAs across the country. As a result of your donations from the NY and DC Rides, Hazon will launch 13 new Tuv Ha’Aretz sites in 2009 to help transform how this country grows its food.

The money raised from this Ride will also be used to educate people about sustainable farming and food production, and teach children about caring for the environment – connecting a new generation to the earth. Hazon also supports the unique Aravah Institute in Israel, where Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians study the ultimate cross-border issue: environmental science. Unsurprisingly, conflict resolution is an integral part of this work.

Hazon changes lives by encouraging people to start cycling. As you may know, two years ago Hazon got me on my bike for the first time since childhood. Through their training rides, I got in shape and rode my first Century ride (100 miles in a day). Along the way, I’ve met a fantastic community of warm, committed, wonderful people who enhance my life to no end… and has turned me into an advocate for cycling and transportation alternatives. And I am not alone. Hazon has been turning hundreds of people into cyclists since their first ride in 2001.

I invite you to find out more by contacting me or visiting Hazon’s website at www.hazon.org.

Support Hazon by sponsoring me on the Bike Ride.

My Role

This year, I am back on the Executive Committee, serving as Design Director for the ride, as well as starting Team Brooklyn to galvanize eco-conscious riders in the borough. In addition, I produced a 28-page Ride Guide that explains Hazon and the ride to participants and contains a fundraising guide and training tips. I will also be producing a Fundraising Clinic to help other riders learn how to raise more money. I’m doing my part. Won’t you support me in my fundraising goal? Thanks.

I’ve been very active in Hazon:

• Cyclist Participant, 2007, 2008, 2009 Rides
• Executive Committee, 2008 and 2009 Rides
• Design Director, 2009 Ride
• Founder and Captain, Team Brooklyn, 2009
• Grant Allocations Committee, 2008
• Top Ten Fundraiser, 2008, 2009