Feb 19, 2024 | Children's Clothing Closet, Community Partners, Featured, Immigrant and Resettlement, Jewish Community, JFS of Metrowest, Resettlement, We are JFS!
CJP recently hosted a collaborative event with JFS, Repair the World, and JALSA. 110 young professionals were in attendance. The event was set up as a round robin where JFS, JALSA and Repair the World had a table and an activity. Repair the World hosted trivia of...
Jan 5, 2024 | Children's Clothing Closet, Featured, Jewish Community, JFS of Metrowest, We are JFS!
This week JFS received a very generous donation from a local teen named Elianna. Elianna decided to do a mitzvah project with JFS in honor of becoming a Bat Mitzvah. She asked friends, family, and peers to donate personal care items for teen girls around her age. She...
Dec 19, 2023 | Children's Clothing Closet, Community Partners, Featured, Immigrant and Resettlement, JFS of Metrowest, Resettlement, We are JFS!
As part of the JFS/ Rashi Learning and Leadership Council, JFS welcomed 41 Rashi students to the JFS Resource Room at Framingham Public Schools. After a presentation by Lucia Panichella, Senior Director of Programs and Partnerships students learned how the JFS...
Oct 30, 2023 | Children's Clothing Closet, Community Partners, Featured, Immigrant and Resettlement, JFS of Metrowest, Resettlement, We are JFS!
JFS of Metrowest has been providing emergency support to the Haitian families that have recently arrived to the Metrowest area including young children and babies. As these families are entering their first winter in Massachusetts, they are in need of winter supplies....
Oct 3, 2023 | Business, Children's Clothing Closet, Community Partners, Featured, Immigrant and Resettlement, JFS of Metrowest, Resettlement, We are JFS!
Last week JFS Board Member and Blue Cross Blue Shield Senior Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs, Elana Margolis, along with 18 BCBS employees spent the day with JFS staff helping to pack bags at the JFS Resource Room at Framingham Public Schools. The...
Aug 10, 2023 | Business, Children's Clothing Closet, Community Partners, Featured, JFS of Metrowest, We are JFS!
JFS of Metrowest has partnered with the Explorers program through Framingham Public Schools to have Pop-Up events. The pop-up events occur during the Explorers registration nights at Harmony Grove Elementary School. JFS brought clothes from the Framingham Public...
