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The Marian Huret Fund to Help Young Women Start Their Careers offers direct grants to women 17 and older who apply to Jewish Family and Children’s Services for financial assistance for career counseling, job hunting expenses, resume design and printing costs, and short-term career-related training courses. The Huret family—Bob, Judy, and Deborah Huret; Carol and Charles Sumner; and Jennifer Huret Dulski and Leonard Dulski—chose to honor their mother and grandmother, Marian Huret, by establishing a named continuity fund in her memory. Marian Huret was born on June 24, 1912 in New York City, and grew up on the Lower East… Read More

Thanks to the Kalinowski Family Fund, women and children whose lives have been touched by domestic violence receive direct, practical, and compassionate assistance from JFCS. In October 1998, then-JFCS Board member Linda Kalinowski, an attorney, and her husband, Tom, a chemical engineer, established their named continuity fund to assist victims of domestic violence. As an active volunteer with JFCS’ Dream House, a transitional housing and support-services program for women and their children who have escaped abusive situations, Linda became highly sensitized to this issue after opening the newspaper one morning and reading that her one-time college roommate’s sister had been… Read More

The Weinreb Family Fund, established by Marion Weinreb in 1996 in honor of her parents and other relatives, past and present, offers essential services to immigrants from the former Soviet Union to help them create new lives in the Bay Area for themselves and their families. It is the first of multiple funds created by Marion, who said that her parents “came to the U.S. with nothing, yet were very generous.” Marion Weinreb’s father, who had practiced dentistry in Poland, operated a grocery store in New Jersey and never hesitated to carry customers in need on credit. Her mother saved… Read More

J Weekly by Patricia Corrigan Yolanda Anyon, determined to be an agent for change, wanted to be a social worker. Ben Botts hoped to become a public service lawyer, so he could help people in practical ways. Both had educational dreams that carried steep tuition prices, and both turned to a loan and grant program offered through the S.F.-based Jewish Family and Children’s Services. Read More from J Weekly… Read More

Annual distributions from the Joseph Teichman Memorial Fund, established in December 1996 by Marion Weinreb to memorialize her uncle, ensure that children, families, and seniors who turn to JFCS when faced with personal crisis receive the direct and practical assistance they require to overcome adversity and re-establish self-sufficiency. Joseph Teichman was a Polish refugee who constantly helped others. His niece, Marion Weinreb, remembers him as a “mensch” who was always kind and considerate and set a positive example through his everyday actions, such as volunteering as a crossing guard at the local school. Shared from the Heart I like the… Read More

Jewish Telegraphic Agency by Penny Schwartz In August, in the heat of the summer, a Boston-area mother of three began to worry about how she would pay for Chanukah gifts. Across the country in San Francisco, a 33-year-old Russian-born mother of six said that thinking about this Chanukah made her cry. Both women—Lauren of Boston and Lilya of San Francisco (they asked that their last names not be used)—are struggling in a down economy to provide for their families. Still, they are hopeful that with support of Jewish organizations, they will find meaningful ways to celebrate the eight-day Festival of… Read More