CHALLAH BACK PARTNERS

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In honor of Women's History Month, with every featured Rise & Thrive challah purchase from CBG, a portion of proceeds will contribute directly to the crucial efforts to prevent gender-based violence, end gun violence, and promote the safety, health, and empowerment of women and girls worldwide.

Challah Back Girls™ is teaming up with Celebration Company in Houston, TX for Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month!

Celebration Company provides life skills and meaningful employment to individuals with disabilities who, with joy and purpose, provide services and create products that celebrate the good of life.

With every order, you are supporting the inclusive, collaborative, and crucial work of the Celebration Company to empower adults with disabilities to create high-quality products and art that celebrate the joy of life!

Order here while supplies lasts.

West Side Campaign Against Hunger is on a mission to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all New Yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive services. Food insecurity is pervasive in NYC, affecting people in every borough.

Happening between Juneteenth and July 4th – two dates that highlight the gap between our nation’s promises and practices – Civic Season is about welcoming the future inheritors of the United States to learn about our nation’s history so they can use it to shape the future.

Civic Season is hosted by Made By Us, a coalition of the nation’s leading history museums and civic organizations with a mission to better engage Gen Z with American history. 

Inspired by ancient Jewish wisdom, OneTable is a national non-profit that empowers folks (21-39ish) to find, share, and enjoy Shabbat dinners, making the most of their Friday nights. 

Led by OneTable's core values of joy, welcoming, and elevation, the organization envisions a whole generation of young people slowing down, getting together, unplugging from the week, creating intention in their lives, and building meaningful communities.

Over the past 25 years, research has shown what parents have known for a long time: Sharing a fun family meal is good for the spirit, brain and health of all family members. Recent studies link regular family meals with the kinds of behaviors that parents want for their children: higher grade-point averages, resilience and self-esteem. Additionally, family meals are linked to lower rates of substance abuse, teen pregnancy, eating disorders and depression. We also believe in the power of family dinners to nourish ethical thinking.

With every challah package, you'll also receive an exclusive pack of Recipe for Conversation cards curated by our partners at the Family Dinner Project.

JQY (Jewish Queer Youth) is a nonprofit organization that supports and empowers LGBTQ Jewish youth with a special focus on teens and young adults from Orthodox, Chassidic, and Sephardi/Mizrahi communities. JQY fights to ensure the emotional and physical health and safety of this population. Our goal is for all these individuals to know: You are a valued member of the Jewish community and you are not alone.

During the month of June, Challah Back Girls™ adds a featured rainbow challah to the menu to honor Pride month, human rights, inclusivity, and belonging.

In honor of Black History Month, Challah Back Girls™ (CBG) and The Conscious Kid (TCK) are partnering for their fourth annual Black History & Black Liberation Month collaboration!

TCK supports anti-racist education and inclusive classroom communities by addressing the lack of diverse and equitable representation of people of color and marginalized groups in curriculum and children's media. While we are committed to learning and unlearning all year, February is specifically a time to inform, listen, and strengthen our allyship.

It’s crucial that celebrating Black history become a part of our education early on in our development and TCK is committed to taking action to disrupt racism in young children. By connecting people to the Jewish ritual of challah—a traditionally braided bread—we are dedicated to fundraising for and amplifying TCK's important efforts in leading racial equity work through education.

With every challah order placed in February, you are helping to further the impact of The Conscious Kid's mission and celebrate Black voices all month (and beyond)!

Reproductive freedom is a Jewish value, and we’re going celebrate it!

For too long, the American narrative about religion and abortion has ignored Jewish voices — and it’s past time for that to end. Join NCJW’s Jewish movement to make it clear that Jews support reproductive freedom.

Repro Shabbat occurs on Feb, 17-18 in 2023, and NCJW curated resources that can center your at-home experience. Check them out below and bring Repro Shabbat to your dinner table with discussion of the week’s Torah portion (Parshat Mishpatim), delicious recipes, and a guide to pieces of art representing reproductive freedom.

ADL is the leading anti-hate organization in the world. We all play a significant role in repairing this world, healing one another, and acknowledging one another.

CBG is donating $1 to ADL for every challah sold over 11 days to honor the 11 lives tragically taken at the expense of antisemitism and bigotry at Tree of Life Synagogue in October 2018.

A global leader in combating antisemitism, countering extremism and battling bigotry wherever and whenever it happens, ADL works to protect democracy and ensure a just and inclusive society for all.

The Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA) is a Black women-led cross-sectoral alliance that centers Black mamas and birthing people to advocate, drive research, build power, and shift culture for Black maternal health, rights, and justice.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster.  People arriving at the U.S. border have the right to request asylum without being criminalized, turned back, or separated from their children. We are committed to educating ourselves and our Challah Back Squad on the value of IRC’s work every day this month (and beyond). It's absolutely crucial that we do what we can to help keep families together, support vulnerable people worldwide, and provide refugees with a safe space to find their voice in the US. We hope you will join this month to support IRC and enjoy your favorite flavored challah!

Saving Mothers was founded because no woman should die giving life. Each year, more than 300,000 women and girls die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth. That’s one mother dying every two minutes. 75% of these deaths could have been prevented with low-cost interventions. For the past decade, our team of medical experts, local health care workers, and allied professionals have been implementing low-cost, high impact interventions around the globe to reduce birth-related complications, and prevent unnecessary maternal deaths. We are fundraising for Saving Mothers all month! This incredible organization works tirelessly to eradicate preventable maternal deaths and birth-related complications in low-resource settings locally as well as globally. Join us in spreading the love of the meaningful work Saving Mothers does.

Be'chol Lashon (Hebrew for "in every language”) does the important work to strengthen Jewish identity by raising awareness about the ethnic, racial and cultural diversity of varying Jewish identities and experiences. Be’chol Lashon brings the historic Jewish commitment to civil rights and racial justice forward into the 21st century.

Given that this month marks the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, we are fundraising for this organization to highlight and celebrate Jewish culture and diversity. With YOUR help (and appetite for round, sweet bread), our challah profits will support Be'chol Lashon in providing diversity training, research, experiential opportunities, and more to individuals, families, and organizations.

As we and many other students prepare for what this school year might look and feel like, we are excited to donate to the nation’s only organization focused on supporting the mental health and emotional well-being of young people of color, The Steve Fund.

This important organization works with a range of populations such as colleges, researchers, mental health experts, and families to promote programs and strategies that build an understanding and assistance for the mental and emotional health of the nation’s young people of color. 

This week, we're donating all our profits to Southerners on New Ground (SONG), an Atlanta-based, Black-founded non-profit focusing on cultivating community and strength for LGBTQ individuals of varying identities in the south. Highlighting issues that impact a cross-section of minoritized communities, SONG provides political and social resources to promote transformation in criminal justice, immigrant rights, poverty, racism and many more issues. They work to create advocates, changemakers and loving community through training, policy advocacy, and social justice work.

This week, we're thrilled to be donating all of our profit to The Color of Autism as they remain committed to educating and assisting African American families with Autistic children. Many misdiagnosed and undiagnosed African American children in at-risk communities end up in the criminal justice system each year. Our support for The Color of Autism can provide much-needed services to those who need it the most.

This week, we are donating to the Innocence Project! This organization advocates for reforms that help prevent and address wrongful conviction.

We first came across Innocence Project while watching America's Got Talent. Contestant Archie Williams' story moved us (and millions) and brought to light the critical and transformative justice work that Innocence Project does to undo the harms of wrongful incarceration, especially towards black and brown communities.

This week we’re giving back to B3 Foundation: A Zach Banner Foundation! Founder, Zach Banner was the first NFL player to speak out against the rampant anti-Semitism we are witnessing. We are supporting Zach two-fold: giving back to his mission that through grassroots planning, B3 creates and empowers student leaders in underprivileged communities through local school partnerships, and by reminding our communities that we must use our voices for change in our nation.

This week we’re giving back to Campaign Zero! This organization supports the analysis of policing practices across the country by limiting police interventions, improving community interactions, and ensuring accountability.

This organization holds special significance as one of our Challah Back Girls used to work here! Through our challah sales, we were able to ensure housing solutions & supportive services to ensure individuals and families at risk of, or experiencing, homelessness have what they need to thrive. 

Through our challah sales, our contribution to The Loveland Foundation helped make sure this  organization could continue providing therapy support to Black women and girls nationally. 

Through our challah sales, we helped The Okra Project sponsor Black Trans chefs to go into the homes of Black Trans people and cook healthy & home-cooked meals!