Prevention education is approached in three ways. An AIDS Hotline is open three nights a week. Volunteers from the Jewish community who speak Hebrew, Yiddish or English, and who have been through 38 hours of training, staff the phone, providing absolutely confidential support, information and referrals. Stickers with information about the Foundation and its phone number are posted on public phone booths and in restaurants of the Jewish community.

A Speakers Bureau provides qualified speakers who can talk about various aspects of HIV/AIDS. For example, they will co-sponsor parties for Jewish college students where very carefully worded information about HIV transmission is passed out. The third strategy involves publication of newspaper articles and getting influential people in the community to begin discussing this subject.

In the area of care, the Foundation runs a buddy network of people who provide emotional support for PHAs, either by phone or in person. The buddies also do chores, such as shopping for food or cleaning someone's house. They hope to start a kosher food programme for homebound PHAs while a network of Orthodox, Conservative and Reform rabbis are available to counsel PHAs and their families.

The common Jewish custom of bikur cholim ("visiting the sick") has formed the basis for a hospital programme. Tzvi Aryeh volunteers visit Jewish patients with AIDS in hospitals, sometimes bringing them a food package. They also give out coffee and cake on the AIDS floor of two hospitals, making no distinctions regarding the religion of recipients.

It is a Jewish custom to give charity on a daily basis, so most stores and restaurants servicing the Jewish community have coin contribution boxes - called tzedaka boxes - from different charities at a prominent place near their cash registers. Tzvi Aryeh have created their own box with a red ribbon, a star of David and a phrase from the Talmud in Hebrew and in English  "Whoever saves one life, it is considered as if they have saved an entire world". The money collected helps support the Foundation's activities but, more importantly, the red ribbon and word "AIDS" become part of what people see when they leave their homes. Getting people to agree to have it in their stores has been difficult, but the Foundation has had success when they get one of a store's or restaurant's regular customers to ask them to place the Tzvi Aryeh tzedaka.