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 SV 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 SV 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.
Small Plates Event Ad Book
We will be compiling a Program Book for the Small Plates Event on May 6, 2012, and would be delighted to have your ad in the book. Honor a friend. Promote your business. Wish JFS SV well. You can help "Build Noah's Ark" to honor a friend or family member, or to wish JFS SV well. You can advertise your business or offer a testimonial with a Program Book Ad. We hope to include you in our Program Book.
How caring people can help
- Federal employees and military personnel can support JFS SV through The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). Go to the CFC Norcal website and enter the code 17668.
- Donate gift cards of $25 - $100: gas, Target, supermarkets (Safeway, Trader Joe’s, Lucky) .
- Participate in our newest outreach effort: Big-Hearted Birthdays. This is an easy way to help the increasing number of Jewish families needing food assistance. What better eay to celebrate your own birthday than by asking friends to skip gifts and make a donation of a gift card to a local supermarket or gas station? Learn more about Big-Hearted Birthdays and how you can help.
- Please support our Passover Freedom Drive, in celebration of this holiday of freedom from hunger and want, acknowledging that this freedom inspires us to acts of loving kindness to others in need.
- 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. Get ready for our Passover Food Drive, which begins March 12, 2012. [More information.]
- Help Ensure That Needy Families Get Fresh Produce Weekly
JFS is partnering with the JCC to help feed our community. The Addison Penzak JCC is now accepting contributions towards purchasing two shares in TEVA, the CSA (community supported agriculture program), that will be distributed to families served by JFS. These families include Holocaust survivors, refugees, émigrés, and seniors who may not be able to purchase fresh food on their own. You can sponsor a share for a family in need. If you are interested in contributing the purchase of these shares, please contact Jenessa Schwartz at 408.357.7411 or jenessa@svjcc.org. - 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 $38 for our Shabbat meal program
- Post your full and part-time job openings with Helen (call 408.357.7456)
- 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!
- Donate gifts for families and adults in need through the Embrace-a-Family program, which begins November 1, 2010.
Designated Funds
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. - Harvey Belsky Fund
Wherever the need is greatest. - Burt Epstein Community Service Fund
Supports JFS SV collaborations with local groups to provide community service and other acts of tikkun olam. - Ursula Gusdorf Memorial Scholarship Award
Grants educational scholarships so that recent local refugees can pursue their education. - Addie and Ray Kopp Memorial Fund
Benefits programs for seniors and émigrés.
Shabbat Dinner Program
Starting December 2, 2011 Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley will be collaborating with Jerusalem Grill and Bar to provide Glatt kosher (and delicious!) Shabbat meals for needy members of our community.
JFS is now accepting donations ($38 will feed a family of 4; or provide 2 sets of meals for a senior couple) for this program. Caring café diners have become involved, too, sponsoring meals for families, as well as for seniors who appreciate a kosher, cooked meal. JFS SV volunteers deliver the meals when a family isn’t able to pick them up from the café.
JFS SV is now seeking meal sponsors: your $38 donation provides four meals. (The price includes a small fee for JFS SV to operate the program.) See flyer for more info.
Interested donors can send contributions marked “Shabbat Dinner Program” to JFS SV at the address below, or drop them off the JFS SV office on the second floor of the Levy Family Campus.