The Extend Our Happiness Fund assists people with food, weight, and body-image issues and/or eating disorders. Joan Barnes and Steve Strauss z”l married in 1996. The caring couple established this fund in honor of their union and the happiness it brought them. A longtime JFCS friend and a former member of our Board of Directors, Joan had recovered from a life-limiting and -threatening eating disorder. Their Named Endowment Fund was dedicated to helping others struggling with these same issues. Within a year of their wedding, Steve began to experience strokes, which became increasingly serious over the course of a few… Read More

Annual distributions from the Mae Mandl Scholarship Fund help to ensure that young people traveling or studying in Israel have the opportunity to explore the country, its people, and their Jewish identity in greater depth, as Mae was able to on her own visits. The Mae Mandl Scholarship Fund was established by Mae Mandl z”l, a former JFCS employee, in loving memory of her husband, Max, and of her parents and two younger sisters, who didn’t survive Hitler’s regime. Soon after immigrating to the United States in 1941, Mae was hired by the Jewish Family Service Agency (now JFCS). She… Read More

Max and Jacob’s Toy and Food Fund helps to bring joy and a sense of being welcomed into a caring community to Russian emigre families new to the Bay Area. Max and Jacob’s Toy and Food Fund is a joint effort of Marin-based Marion Weinreb, the child of Holocaust survivors and a consultant for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, and her two sons. Marion, a firm believer in “giving back,” does this in a variety of ways, including through her named continuity funds at JFCS. As one might guess from its name, Max and Jacob’s Toy and Food Fund… Read More

The Auntie Irene Hannah Rubens Girls Can Be Anything Fund provides assistance—both financial and practical—to enable women, especially single mothers and women in transition, to fulfill their ambitions and establish careers. Emphasis is given to women who pursue nontraditional careers, providing opportunities that might otherwise be unavailable to them. Barbara Meislin created her Named Endowment Fund in December 1993 to honor the memory of her beloved aunt. Irene Rubens inspired her niece to follow her dreams and to help other women do the same. Barbara fondly remembers Irene, born in 1903, as a well-before-her-time feminist who had her own checking… Read More

The Segal Family Memorial Fund provides comprehensive and compassionate services for those who survived the Holocaust, offering direct financial and emotional support to victims now living in the Bay Area. Former JFCS Board member Marion Weinreb, the child of Holocaust survivors, is a firm believer in “giving back.” She does this in a variety of ways, including through her multiple-named continuity funds at JFCS. Marion set up her third fund in spring 1997 in honor of her mother, Dina Segal Jacoud, and in loving memory of Dina’s family, none of whom Marion ever met. Dina Segal’s parents, brothers and sisters,… Read More

The Huret-Dulski-Op den Kamp Family Fund to Help Older Adults Maintain Independent Living provides targeted assistance so that seniors can remain in the homes they love for as long as possible without jeopardizing their health. Judy and Bob Huret, Jennifer Huret Dulski and Leonard Dulski, and Deborah and Frans Op den Kamp created this Named Endowment Fund in honor of their parents and grandparents, Ellen and Aaron Spector and Marian and Harry Huret. The family noted that Ellen and Aaron and Marian and Harry enjoyed very rich experiences in their own homes as they aged. Healthier and in better spirits… Read More