News & Impact

The Herb Shore Successful Aging Fund, established by Lee Morgan to honor the memory of her teacher and mentor, helps to educate our community about concepts and techniques to ensure a beneficial aging process by consciously making healthful and empowering choices. Lee Morgan, a gerontologist, lecturer, and exercise specialist who developed the F.A.S.T. – 50 (Fitness and Strength Training for Older Adults 50-85+) Certification Program and a series of Successful Aging Symposiums, celebrated her adult bat mitzvah by applying the gifts she received to establish a Named Endowment Fund memorializing the life and work of her esteemed teacher, Dr. Herb… Read More

Annual distributions from the Lillian and Al Graf Memorial Endowment Fund help sustain the goals and mission of JFCS’ Dream Program, which offers wraparound support to women and children who have escaped domestic abuse recover and learn new skills to move toward self-sufficiency.. The Lillian Graf Memorial Endowment Fund was created by Carolyn and Arlan Kertz in loving memory of Carolyn’s mother, Lillian, and renamed the Lillian and Al Graf Memorial Endowment Fund in 2007 to include her father, Alexander “Al.” Born in San Francisco in 1914, Lillian spent her entire life in the Bay Area. After her father… Read More

The Aaron Spector Take Me Out to the Ballgame Fund, was established by Judy and Bob Huret in memory of Judy’s father, a lifelong sports fan. Born in December 1918, in Philadelphia, Aaron Spector served on the front line in World II, earning a combat medal and a Bronze Star. A dentist who valued honesty, hard work, education, and family, Aaron filled his non-work hours by playing golf and rooting enthusiastically for the Phillies and Eagles. He had a smile for everyone; his cheerful, positive attitude sustained those around him. After moving to San Francisco, he loved watching the Giants… Read More

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 preparation, and short-term career-related training courses. The Huret family—Judy and Bob Huret, Deborah Huret Op den Kamp, Carol and Charles Sumner, and Jennifer Huret Dulski and Leonard Dulski—chose to honor their mother and grandmother, Marian Huret, by establishing a Named Endowment Fund in her memory in 2004. Marian Huret was born on June 24, 1912 in New York City, and grew up on… 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 Endowment Fund to assist victims of domestic violence. At the time, JFCS’ Dream Program for survivors of domestic violence operated a transitional housing residence, called Dream House, that offered comfort and safety to women and their children who had escaped abusive situations. Linda was an active and caring volunteer at Dream House. Linda became highly… 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