News & Impact

Annual distributions from the Lillian and Al Graf Memorial Endowment Fund help sustain the goals and mission of JFCS’ Dream House, which offers safe housing, counseling, and practical and emotional support for women and children who have escaped domestic abuse. 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, Al.  Born in San Francisco in 1914, Lillian Graf spent her entire life in the Bay Area. When her father died when she was… Read More

The Aaron Spector Take Me Out to the Ballgame Fund, established by Judy and Bob Huret in memory of Judy’s father, who died in 2005, provides financial assistance to senior sports fans in the Bay Area so that they have the opportunity to attend local games. By paying for tickets, transportation, refreshments, and other costs associated with attending local sporting events, this fund will allow low-income seniors to indulge in their love of sports. Aaron Spector was a lifelong sports fan who loved going to see the Giants and 49ers play after he moved to San Francisco. Born December 19,… 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 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