JFS Volunteers Pack 275 Backpacks during the 14th Annual Build-A-Backpack Events!

Pictured above: Former Board President Allison Kates (top left), former Board member Peggy Barry with her husband Ed (center left), and CEO Lino Covarrubias (bottom right). Photos courtesy of Axie Breen. For the 14th consecutive year, JFS of Metrowest has provided...

Celebrating Mitzvah Projects: Mikey and Amelia Make a Difference

For their Bar and Bat Mitzvah projects, Mikey Darish and Amelia Halloran chose to support the work of JFS in meaningful and heartfelt ways. Mikey organized a food drive, rallying his classmates, family, and friends to donate non-perishable items to the JFS Joe and...

JFS Profiled as a Partner of the Equity In Education Action Project at the Community Leadership Reception

  Since 2003, JFS has partnered with the Framingham Public Schools to address academic inequities and provide additional support to young students most in need. In 2021, thanks to funding from the Community Foundation for MetroWest and MathWorks, the Equity In...

ICYMI – Celebrating and Recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024

Top left: Miguel Wandering Turtle Walks with No Fear, Lino Covarrubias, CEO JFS, Jesse Edwards, City of Framingham Chief DEI Officer, and Andre StrongBearHeart Gaines, Jr., Cultural Steward for the Nipmuc Nation; Bottom left and center: Andre StrongBearHeart Gaines,...