JFS_Annual Report_2017

PROGRAMS
AND SERVICES
Chaplaincy for Shabbat
Services
Volunteers remain critical to JFS’
success and the Agency would not be able to provide help to as
many people in our community without their gift of time and
talent. Each year over 1,000 program and special event volunteers,
donate the equivalent of nearly 40,000 hours of service to JFS.
Our volunteers mentor children and teens, lead Shabbat services
at assisted living facilities and nursing homes, provide rides for
seniors in need of transportation, deliver freshly prepared meals
through our Meals on Wheels program, and reduce the isolation
of homebound seniors through daily telephone calls, friendly
visits and care packages.
BELFORD FAMILY
VOLUNTEER DEPARTMENT
Community Mentoring
Program for Children
Friendly Visitors for
Seniors
Jacobson Family Food
Pantry
Kibbitz and Ride –
Senior Driving Program
Meals on Wheels
Drivers
Shirley & Barton
Weisman Delray
Community Center
Telephone Reassurance
for Seniors
HIGHLIGHTS
MADELINE
Over 1000 volunteers donated more than 40,000 hours of
service hours of service saving JFS $964,000 in labor.*
Our Telephone Reassurance and Friendly Visitor Programs
serviced over 55 homebound senior clients.
Parachaplains led Shabbat services at
16 locations in the community.
20 adults volunteered as mentors to young children through
our Community Mentoring Program.
12
*According to Independent Sector, a leadership network for non-profits, who independently
calculate the value of a volunteer hour of work.
Madeline Syde likes doing for others, and collecting gifts is a big
part of what she is known for at JFS. Madeline can take a scrap of
blue foil paper, wrap it around a fun tchotchke, tie it up with some
ribbon, and, create happiness. “Everyone likes to get something
pretty,” says Madeline, 84, who helps run the Monday morning
Feldman Family Diamond Club meetings at the Weisman Delray
Community Center. If you attend these events, you will be greeted
by her at the front door, reminding you to enjoy a challah roll and
stay around for the talk on current events. But Madeline’s real claim
to fame might be the three parties she helps organize - Purim, Senior
Prom and Hanukkah - and the trouble she goes through to collect
and wrap all of the gifts. Cards, certificates, re-gifted treasures. She’s
already started storing the wrapped presents in her closet for next
Hanukkah. Madeline, who lives in Boca Raton, started volunteering
with us after her husband, Harvey, died in 2009. Giving-back is part
of her DNA. “I had two wonderful parents who taught me what
tzedakah meant,” she says. “I learned a long time ago that if you’re
going to do something, you need to put your heart into it.”
JFS WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE:
The United Way of Palm Beach
County and the Children’s Services
Council of Palm Beach County
for their support of our Community
Mentoring Program.