What a Dollar a Day Can Actually Do
On its own, a dollar buys almost nothing. Given daily, alongside thousands of other people's daily dollars, it becomes something else entirely: a fund that shows up for a different Jewish community every single morning of the year.
That's the whole idea behind DollarDaily — charity sized to a habit anyone can keep, pooled into grants that genuinely change a community's week.
The math of a dollar a day
Your side of it: about $30 a month — a coffee-budget line item. The community's side of it: every giver's dollar lands on the same day's recipient, so a single Chabad house receives the entire day's pool at once. Small for each giver, real for each recipient — that asymmetry is the engine.
A year of daily giving, mapped
Follow the recipient calendar through a year and your dollar visits hundreds of communities across dozens of countries — university campuses, tiny mountain towns, post-Soviet cities rebuilding Jewish life. The impact map plots every stop your dollar has made.
Frequently asked questions
How is a dollar a day charged?
As a simple recurring pledge — roughly $30 each month by card or PayPal. You can pause or cancel anytime from your account.
Where does the money go each day?
To that day's featured Jewish community, named publicly on the recipient calendar and chosen from real fund requests submitted by Chabad shluchim.
Do I get a receipt?
Every charge is receipted automatically, with a year-end summary for tax time.
Can my kids join with their own dollar?
Absolutely — a dollar a day is exactly the size of habit chinuch is made of. Many families pledge one dollar per family member.
Ready to give a dollar a day?
Join thousands of daily givers reaching a different Jewish community every single day of the year.