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2015 Report to the Community 2015 Report to the Community Contents President’s Letter / 1 CEO’s Letter / 2 Thank You / 3 Our Impact / 4 Family Tree Legacy Circle / 6 Annual Donors / 8 In-Kind Donors / 21 Volunteers / 23 Operating Budget / 27 Our Family of Services & Programs / 28 Capitol Hill Campus 1601 16th Avenue Seattle, WA 98122-4000 Eastside Office Refugee & Immigrant Service Center 15821 NE 8th Street, Ste. 210 Bellevue, WA 98008-3957 South King County Office jfs.seattle Refugee & Immigrant Service Center @JFSSeattle 1209 Central Avenue S, Ste. 134 Kent, WA 98032-7439 Jewish Family Service – Seattle (206) 461-3240 jfsseattle.org blog.jfsseattle.org 2015 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY I 1 2014-2015 Board of Directors Gail Mautner PRESIDENT Michele Rosen Letter from the PRESIDENT-ELECT Delia Jampel FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Board President Richard Gumpert TREASURER The past year at JFS has been a dynamic period, Laurie Minsk balancing the continuity of our history with healthy SECRETARY doses of change. We are continuing our 123-year Emily Alhadeff tradition of providing quality services to vulnerable IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT individuals and families to help them achieve well- Stephanie Axelrod being, health and stability. Our outstanding team of Karyn Barer professionals delivers on the promise of our mission Etan Basseri with compassion and respect. They ensure that Michael Bernstein people who are marginalized and diminished will be Eric Candell treated with dignity when they come to our doors. Carolee Danz Susan Eastern As our effort to meet the growing needs in our JoAnn Forman community continues, our staff and Board of Rochelle Goffe Directors have also been dedicated to planning for Dawn Gold the future. Guided by CEO Will Berkovitz’s vision, Gerry Goldman JFS is increasingly using meaningful data to identify, replicate Carol Gown and focus on the interventions that make the biggest differences Scott Jacobson in people’s lives. Margot Kravette Our Board is tasked with guaranteeing that JFS is not only here Avi Lipman Ed Malakoff for today but also well-positioned to be here for those who will Joan Morse need its services tomorrow. Measuring our successes as well Marty Nelson as understanding our gaps, and then learning from both, is the Jon Rosen most reliable way we can steward the agency and ensure that our Julia Schechter community’s generous investment is doing the most good for the Carol Sidell most people. Noah Tratt This lively dynamic of consistency and innovation is entirely Alisa Weise appropriate for our Jewish Family Service of the Puget Sound Executive Team region! Our community is vibrant and compelling precisely because Rabbi Will Berkovitz it is a mix of natives and newcomers. Our JFS, like our community, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER is simultaneously rooted in tradition and reaching towards the Claudia Berman future, making our agency and our community the beneficiary of CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER the best that our shared past, present and future can offer. Lisa Schultz Golden CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER Galit S. Ezekiel SENIOR DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION & OUTREACH Michelle Matheson DIRECTOR OF FINANCE Don Armstrong DIRECTOR OF AGING IN PLACE Gail Mautner Griff Lambert STRATEGY & EVALUATION COORDINATOR 2 I JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE Letter from the Chief Executive Officer I’m astonished daily by the scope of who we serve and the scale of need we encounter. As you read this report, I hope you will take pride in what our community is accomplishing as we collectively turn our values into action. There are thousands of vulnerable people who rely on the life-changing help Jewish Family Service provides. And there are thousands of supporters and partners who make it possible for JFS to give individuals and families the tools they need to measurably improve their lives. Every one of us plays a role in strengthening the community we call home. There is no one “face” of who JFS serves. Each individual has a story. And in recognizing that, our staff honors the dignity of every unique person who turns to us. There are, however, some commonalities in the challenges our clients confront. Housing and financial stability are key concerns for nearly everyone we serve — the working poor, domestic violence survivors, refugees, people with chronic mental illness and fixed-income seniors. When people are vulnerable, their physical and mental health is often compromised. And the issues our folks struggle with can leave them isolated and lacking the social connections that are integral to well-being. We have inherited a shared history and shared values. The tradition reminds us that we were once strangers, and so we continue to welcome the stranger. It reminds us that we have “I hope you will an obligation to our family, and so we continue to be the only take pride in what place that provides social services to meet the particular needs our community of Jewish individuals and families. Because we are JFS, we is accomplishing serve the Jewish community – and because we are Jewish, we serve the greater community. This “double portion” is our as we collectively blessing, our challenge, our privilege and our work. turn our values into action.” Rabbi Will Berkovitz 2015 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY I 3 Annual Campaign Community of Caring Totals $3,868,299 Luncheon The work of JFS is made possible by the April 30, 2015 extraordinary commitment of our generous Co-Chairs: Barbara Sulman and Carin Jacobson community. Between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015, you donated $3,868,299 to help vulnerable people achieve people well-being, health and stability. Patrons in sponsorships $100,000 + Visionaries in donations $25,000 – $99,999 36% Leaders Community-Wide $10,000 – $24,999 17% Food Drive & Food Sort September 25 – October 5, 2014 Ambassadors $5,000 – $9,999 12 % Friends Thanks to the dedicated individuals, families, congregations, school groups and community $1,000 – $4,999 17% organizations that donated 30,000 pounds of Community food and toiletries during the fall drive. $1 – $999 10 % This illustrates the percentage 330 volunteers and staff unloaded, by giving level to the 2015 sorted, boxed and stacked donations annual campaign. at the annual Food Sort. 4 I JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE Last year, our JFS f a m i l y PEOPLE with counseling & addiction services adults with disabilities live independently VOLUNTEERS live their values 2015 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY I 5 REFUGEES ESTABLISH NEW LIVES NEIGHBORS work toward individuals economic stability & families learn skills for healthy relationships MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN ACCESS SUFFICIENT SURVIVORS HEALTHY FOOD MOVE BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OLDER ADULTS remain safely in their own homes 6 I JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE How will you be Named Funds Carolee Danz Gwenn & Dean Polik Donna Benaroya Charitable Fund Patricia Dubrow Lelach Rave & Will Berkovitz Benezra Emergency Assistance Fund Susan L. Eastern Laurie Rosen Ritt & Steve Ritt Jessie Danz Fund Barry & JoAnn Forman Michele & Stan Rosen Fannie Feinberg Senior Services Fund Penny Freedman Betsy & Jason Schneier Nathan & Fannie Feinberg SAJD Fund Helene Fuhrman-Gold & Jeffrey A. Gold David Schwartz Zelda & Herman Feinberg Fund Jonathan Gallant Paula Selis & Jonathan Fine Stanley D. Golub Charitable Fund Natalie & Irvin (z”l) Gendler Cantor David & Michael Serkin-Poole Berthe & Stanley Habib Fund Rochelle & Ben Goffe Shelly C. Shapiro & Glenn J. Amster Al & Rhea Ritt Charitable Fund Bernard E. Goldberg Barbara & Richard Shikiar Shapiro Family Fund Lisa Schultz Golden & Aron Golden Delila & Robert Simon Helen B. & John Sherman Adele & Stanley (z”l) Golub Judy Soferman & Marc Rosenshein Emergency Fund Ellina Marx Golub (z”l) & Orville Golub Ellen Sollod Samuel & Althea Stroum Fund Suzanne & Barry Goren Irene & Sheldon Steinberg Anna Zafran Senior Services Fund Linda Gould Trudy & Douglas Steinhauer Carol & Allen Gown Helen R. Stusser Committed Gifts Peri & Gary Greenberg Isabel & Herb Stusser Anonymous (7) Evelyn & Richard Gumpert Laura Stusser-McNeil & KC McNeil Aaron & Emily Alhadeff Berthe & Stanley Habib David & Karen (z”l) Tarica Jeanie Alhadeff & Harry Caraco Carol & Andrew Harris Alberta & Ken Weinberg Stephanie & Kalman Axelrod Michele & David Hasson Elaine & Michael Weinstein Karyn & Joe Barer Jenny Hayo & Avi Lipman Alisa & David Weise Paula Begoun Janet Heineck Elaine & Douglas Weisfield Becky & Jack (z”l) Benaroya Edith & Werner H. (z”l) Horn Sandra Westman Donna Benaroya Gerry & Gene Huppin Diane Zipperman & Carl Bloom Joyce & Raymond Benezra Lauren Jassny Kathy & Steve Berman Jodie Jones & Leland Rockoff Kelli & John Bernhard Laura & Irv Karl The Family Tree Legacy Circle Leslie Ray Bernstein & Laura-Lee Fineman Karp Michael Bernstein Rebecca Kowals & Max Rose recognizes supporters who RADM Herb M. Bridge Margot Kravette have made a monetary gift to Valerie & Michel Brotman Suzi & Eric LeVine the JFS Endowment in their Jeannie Butler Dianne & Steve Loeb lifetime, have informed us of Sally & Wally Campbell Lisa & Robert A. Low their intent to leave a bequest Sandra & Sterling Clarren Heike & Edward Malakoff to JFS or those of blessed Celia Cohen Hal & Inge Marcus Jennifer Cohen & Michael Spiro Gail Mautner & Mario Shaunette memory who have already left Rachelle & Barney Cohen Judy & Nissim Neuman such a gift. Debra Regina Crespin Sandra & Phillip Nudelman Barbara & Ted Daniels John E. Phillips & Barbara A. Wilson 2015 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY I 7 Estates (z”l) Frances Herman Jack C. Paul Seema D. Aldous Jack D. & Myrna Israel Sidney Pinch Irving L. August Selma Jacobi Zelda I. Platt Jack & Eleanor Berg Philip Kaplan Mary Louise Reiter Shirley Bridge Eileen Kauffman Sam & Gladys Rubinstein Madeline & Irwin Caplan Bess W. Kremen Rose Schlifka Lillian Clein Jay Krom Gertrude B. 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