Your Support Makes a Difference
Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley relies on the generosity of individuals, local businesses and the broader community to support our mission to “help members of our community successfully meet the challenges of daily life by providing quality human services.” Your contribution is the lifeline that allows us to touch so many lives.
JFS welcomes contributions by check or credit card, stock donations, gifts through planned giving, and vehicle donations. Your contribution is tax deductible, and we will provide you with proper acknowledgement of your donation.
JFS also depends on the dedication of hundreds of volunteers each year. Opportunities abound for adults, teens, children, families, and community groups. For detailed information on volunteer opportunities, visit our Volunteer page.
Shabbat Dinner Program
JFS Begins Shabbat Dinner Program With Café Blue Star
Michael and Kim Weiler, who are at the helm of Café Blue Star at the Levy Family Campus,will be collaborating with JFS to provide delicious Shabbat dinners to families in need.
Caring café diners have become involved, too, sponsoring meals for families, as well as for seniors who appreciate a kosher, cooked meal. JFS volunteers deliver the meals when a family isn’t able to pick them up from the café.
JFS is now seeking meal sponsors: your $32 donation provides four meals. (The price includes a small fee for JFS to operate the program.).
Interested donors can send contributions marked “Shabbat Dinner Program” to JFS, or drop them off at the Café or upstairs in the JFS office.
See Donation Flyer.
If you would like to volunteer for the program, please contact
Michele Myron
, Volunteer Coordinator
408.357.7453
How Caring People can Help
• Donate gift cards of $25 -
$100: gas, Target, supermarkets
(Safeway, Trader Joe’s,
Lucky)
• Donate to JFS’ Project
N.O.A.H. so that we can
determine each client’s needs
and purchase necessities like
bus passes, taxi service and
emergency food
• Volunteer as a Friendly
Visitor, Chaplain Aide,
ESL conversation partner,
or deliverer of Shabbat or
holiday food packages. (Call
Michele at 408.357.7453)
• Donate new toys for
Hanukkah and year round
• Make donations in multiples
of $32 for our new
Shabbat meal program
• Post your full and parttime
job openings with
Helen (call 408.357.7456)
Donate Now!
Online:
You can make a secure donation directly to Jewish Family Services through our online PayPal Service. Click here:
After you have made your donation via PayPal, you may also specify how you want your donation to be
allocated by completing the online form at www.donate_details.html.
This will send a confirming email to the office so your preferences can be honored.
By Mail:
To make a donation by check or credit card, please use the JFS Donation Form. Print and fill out the form, and mail it along with your check or credit card information to our offices at:
Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley
14855 Oka Road, Suite 202
Los Gatos, CA 95032
If you wish, you may designate your gift to benefit a specific fund:
- Jewish Family Services Fund
Supports services to our local community.
- Project N.O.A.H. (No One Abandoned Here) Fund
Provides emergency services for the most needy members of our community.
- Ursula Gusdorf Memorial Scholarship Award
Grants educational scholarships so that recent local refugees can pursue their education.
- Burt Epstein Community Service Fund
Supports JFS collaborations with local groups to provide community service and other acts of tikkun olam.
- Addie and Ray Kopp Memorial Fund
Benefit programs for seniors and émigrés.
If your contribution qualifies for a corporate matching gift from your employer, you can obtain a Matching Gift Form from your company's Personnel Office and forward it to Jewish Family Services. This option makes your gift give even more!
Stock Donations
Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley will graciously accept donation of stocks. Please contact Tami Levi at (408) 357-7454 or email her at tamil@jfssv.org.
Planned Giving
In addition to annual cash contributions, you may wish to contribute to JFS through deferred or planned gifts. These are gifts that can be made over time or as a bequest. Planned gifts include annuities, stocks and bonds, real estate, or life insurance policies that name JFS as a beneficiary.
For more information about planned gifts to JFS, contact Mindy Berkowitz at (408) 357-7455, or email her at mindyb@jfssv.org.
Vehicle Donations
Have a clunker you want to get rid of? Donate a car, boat, motorcycle, truck or other vehicle to Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley. Your no longer needed car can help provide essential services for needy members of our community. Vehicles in operating or non-operating condition may be donated for a charitable contribution. For more information...
Other Gifts
TVs, Computers, Furniture, etc., Needed
JFS needs computers to give our resettlement clients as part of our "Connections to Work" program. Please consider making a tax deductible donation of your old desktop or laptop computer, or monitor, Windows 2000 or better.
Are you getting a new T.V. and need to free yourself from your old one?
Do you have an old T.V. sitting unused and collecting dust?
JFS is looking for late model (after 1994) TV’s to donate to our resettlement clients.
Our emigres also need furnishings for their new residences. If you have furniture and other household resources in good condition, please contact us before you donate so we can determine the best use of your gift.
Thanks for your thoughtfulness and generosity.
Caroline Golpashin
408-357-7449 or 408-556-0600
carolineg@jfssv.org
IRA Tax Deductions
A Tax-Free Gift to Help the Neediest in Our Community
As part of the recent bailout package passed by Congress, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 states that if you are 70½ or older, you can make charitable distributions from your IRA in any amount up to $100,000 tax-free during 2008 and 2009. (Couples can each give up to $100,000 tax free).
To enjoy the full benefit, you must complete this year’s transfer prior to December 31, 2008. If you have questions about planning a gift from your IRA or any other kind of gift at this time, please contact your financial advisor or JFS Executive Director, Mindy Berkowitz, at 408.357.7455.
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