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.

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. Get ready for our Passover drive in March.
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 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!

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
Pprovides 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 SV collaborations with local groups to provide community service and other acts of tikkun olam.
Addie and Ray Kopp Memorial Fund
Benefits programs for seniors and émigrés.

Shabbat Dinner Program

Café Blue Star at the Levy Family Campus is collaborating with JFS SV 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 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 $32 donation provides four meals. (The price includes a small fee for JFS SV 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 SV office.

If you would like to volunteer for the program, please contact

Michele Myron
Volunteer Coordinator
michelem@jfssv.org
408.357.7453