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Donath fundraises separately. 
To ensure that all goes to 
charity, a slight surcharge 
is added to pay credit card 
processing fees. People 
can sign up for a monthly 
donation of $31.20 or an 
annual donation of $376.

MAKING A 
DIFFERENCE DAILY
Each day, donors receive an 
email telling them where 
their money went that day 
with a brief description of 
the nonprofit receiving the 
funds. “We find that many 
people use Daily Giving as 
a ‘charity navigator’ because 
they know the organization 
was well-vetted. This means 
the nonprofits we choose are 
also gaining exposure and 
additional donations,” Donath 
said.
Donath has heard from 
families who give a dollar 
for each family member and 

say it’s an unbelievable way 
to teach their children about 
how important it is to give 
tzedakah and expose their 
children to giving at an early 
age. 
Some donors have signed 
up for someone who has 
died to uplift their neshama. 
Others have started giving as 
a gift for a bar/bat mitzvah 

or graduation. Some have 
given in the name of someone 
who’s sick in the hospital or 
even unconscious so they can 
continue doing mitzvot. 
Donath recalls one email he 
received from a donor named 
Dalia, who signed up for Daily 
Giving on behalf or her father, 
who is in a rehabilitation 
hospital with limited use of 
his body. 
“Charity is very important 
to him and before he got sick, 
he used to collect a lot of 
money for different charities. 
I video call him, but as he 
cannot speak, I do all the 
talking,” she wrote. “I am 
always looking for something 
to say that will interest and 
stimulate him. Daily Giving 
has given me something to 
talk about with him as well 
as hopefully make him feel 
that even though there are so 
many things he cannot do, he 
can still give charity.”

Lema’an Achai, an Israeli 
ani-poverty nonprofit, uses 
Daily Giving’s donation to 
further the work of Smart 
Chesed, which gives a hand 
up to those in crisis. “Daily 
Giving’s program allows us 
to be a part of a wonderful 
initiative of ‘compounded 
tzedakah,’ where many 
people constantly giving 
(even) small amounts adds 
up to significant sums. As 
the Rambam recommends: 
many acts of giving have more 
impact than giving a one-time 
one large gift,” they wrote.
Donath adds that it’s an 
easy way to ensure you fulfill 
the daily mitzvah of tzedakah. 
He said his ultimate goal is to 
donate $100,000 a day. “I’m 
confident we can get there,” he 
said. 

You can sign up to give $1 a day at 

https://dailygiving.org.

Dr. Jonathan 
Donath