Needs From: United Way of Northeast Florida

Food Donation Drive for the Max Block Food Pantry at Jewish Family & Community Services.

JFCS strengthens the entire First Coast community by providing high-quality, responsive, timely wraparound services to enhance the lives of children, adults, seniors and families coping with challenges that arise throughout the life cycle. Through the onsite emergency food pantry (our Max Block Food Pantry), JFCS actively leads the fight against hunger.

The pantry is a LIFELINE for over 8,000 people each year facing a crisis, helping to nourish and stabilize them so that they can satisfy their most basic human need of nutrition. Children cannot focus in the classroom when they are hungry and worried where their next meal will come from. Families cannot focus on higher level issues such as goal setting, nurturing parenting, safety and self-sufficiency when they are battling extreme hunger and malnutrition. Seniors cannot maintain their health when forced to choose between prescriptions or food. By helping individuals and families satisfy their most basic human need, the pantry is a core service that we "wrap" around at-risk families, often supplementing other services that we are providing in the home or in the school. It helps stabilize families so they are better prepared when a crisis hits. 

It is so important to keep the Max Block Food Pantry stocked with non-perishable food (canned meat, soup, stew, fruit, veggies, cereal, peanut butter, jelly, rice, pasta, etc) for these reasons. It is especially important during the summer months. One of the most telling statistics is that one in five school age children have their only meals while in school. School gets out in early June usually and many of them do not have food at home to eat, so they go hungry. A stocked pantry allows JFCS to partner with various summer camps and other non-profit agencies to ensure these children receive the food and nutrition they need to get though the summer.

This is an ongoing need throughout the year. Help us help over 60,000 people in 2018. 

Jewish Family & Community Services needs your gently used children's clothing to stock the Fanny Landwirth Clothes Closet. 

The Fanny Landwirth Clothes Closet was designed to clothe foster children who have been abruptly removed their homes due to abuse, drug use or neglect. When the children are taken, they are unable to bring anything with them. The clothes closet allows JFCS case managers to take clothing for these children, who range in age from newborn to 14. Diapers and toothbrushes/toothpaste are also appreciated.

This project is ongoing and there is a need to keep the Fanny Landwirth Clothes Closet stocked. Socks and underwear must be new.

The Fanny Landwirth Clothes Closet is designed to be utilized by the JFCS case managers for incoming foster children, ages 1 – 9, who have been removed from their homes and put into foster care. Many of them are not able to bring anything with them from their homes and families. The closet will also be available for Max Block Food Pantry clients coming into our agency for assistance. It will provide much-needed clothing for at-risk children in the greater Jacksonville area.

To volunteer at the Fanny Landwirth Clothes Closet, contact Donna O’Steen at 904-394-5714. Hours are Tuesday and Thursday from 1-3 at 6261 Dupont Station Court E., Jacksonville, FL 32217. 

We need your help! The Jewish Family & Community Services Max Block Food Pantry needs your help! Every Tuesday and Thursday from 1-3 p.m. we are open to the public. We supply Jacksonville residents with much-needed food help. At various times a year, we receive large deliveries to stock the shelves as well. Contact Suzanne Zimmerman at szimmerman@jfcsjax.org to volunteer today. This need is ongoing.

JFCS strengthens the entire First Coast community by providing high-quality, responsive, timely wraparound services to enhance the lives of children, adults, seniors and families coping with challenges that arise throughout the life cycle. Through the onsite emergency food pantry (our Max Block Food Pantry), JFCS actively leads the fight against hunger.

The pantry is a LIFELINE for over 8,000 people each year facing a crisis, helping to nourish and stabilize them so that they can satisfy their most basic human need of nutrition. Children cannot focus in the classroom when they are hungry and worried where their next meal will come from. Families cannot focus on higher level issues such as goal setting, nurturing parenting, safety and self-sufficiency when they are battling extreme hunger and malnutrition. Seniors cannot maintain their health when forced to choose between prescriptions or food. By helping individuals and families satisfy their most basic human need, the pantry is a core service that we "wrap" around at-risk families, often supplementing other services that we are providing in the home or in the school. It helps stabilize families so they are better prepared when a crisis hits. 

It is so important to keep the Max Block Food Pantry stocked with non-perishable food (canned meat, soup, stew, fruit, veggies, cereal, peanut butter, jelly, rice, pasta, etc) for these reasons. It is especially important during the summer months. One of the most telling statistics is that one in five school age children have their only meals while in school. School gets out in early June usually and many of them do not have food at home to eat, so they go hungry. A stocked pantry allows JFCS to partner with various summer camps and other non-profit agencies to ensure these children receive the food and nutrition they need to get though the summer.

This is an ongoing need throughout the year. Help us help over 60,000 people in 2018. 

Currently we have eighty-eight survivors of the Holocaust living in the Jacksonville area at or below the poverty level.

With food delivery that does not violate cultural values, we can provide food bi-monthly to these survivors. These care packages benefit survivors from all across the Duval and St. Johns area.

We will need admins, packers, inspectors, and drivers. The drivers will be having client interactions with first generation Holocaust survivors. Every volunteer must have a valid driver's license, and will be background checked by JFCS. Once a week every volunteer will meet and discuss the plan for routes, and on every other week, the drivers will deliver the food.

There are many in need in Florida, and we need your help to make their hard lives a little more manageable.

Help plan for the future of JFCS's giving and campaigns by participating on one of the committees of the Board of Directors. Help plan the Capital Campaign, develop partnerships with other Foundations, and what the Board needs to give to help the community.

All candidates will be screened at a later date.

Do you want to help review the programs that JFCS is putting out in addition to manage existing programs? Then the Programs and Services Committee is for you. Help develop partnerships with other agencies and review options for where to put funding.

All applicants will be screened at a later date.

Do you want to help your local nonprofit, JFCS, manage their ability to provide for the community? Then the Marketing Committee is right for you. Marketing allows JFCS to get access to more funds, which in turn, provides more high-quality service to those in need.

All applicants will be interviewed at a later date. 

Do you enjoy managing others and getting to have an overview of a program? Then being a part of JFCS's Executive Committee is right for you! Help make a difference in your community by managing what needs to be done.

All applicants will be screened at a later date.

Collect supplies for school age children in grades Kindergarten-12. Help give back to the community and those in desperate need. This is not a volunteer opportunity, rather, a drive for donations.

Sign up to be on JFCS's Event Planning Committee and be part of the biggest event of the season! Be a part of something great for the Florida community! 

All volunteers will be placed into sub-Committees at a later date.

Help provide someone in need a happy holiday! Whether you choose to sponsor a child or senior in need or a volunteer who wishes to help directly interact and get gifts for those in need, all are welcomed.

This is both a drive and a volunteer opportunity.

JFCS needs help with filing documents and contributing to fast solutions that help the entirety of Florida. Be a help to the community and join today!

You can help give so that the needy can enjoy a happy Thanksgiving in Florida. JFCS provides through its Thanksgiving baskets care packages to those that would otherwise not be able to celebrate the holiday.

Foster children do not have much in this world, but are thankful for all that they get. Help give to JFCS so that foster children can provide gifts to their mothers and so that they can show their appreciation.

Food Donation Drive for the Max Block Food Pantry at Jewish Family & Community Services.

JFCS strengthens the entire First Coast community by providing high-quality, responsive, timely wraparound services to enhance the lives of children, adults, seniors and families coping with challenges that arise throughout the life cycle. Through the onsite emergency food pantry (our Max Block Food Pantry), JFCS actively leads the fight against hunger.

The pantry is a LIFELINE for over 8,000 people each year facing a crisis, helping to nourish and stabilize them so that they can satisfy their most basic human need of nutrition. Children cannot focus in the classroom when they are hungry and worried where their next meal will come from. Families cannot focus on higher level issues such as goal setting, nurturing parenting, safety and self-sufficiency when they are battling extreme hunger and malnutrition. Seniors cannot maintain their health when forced to choose between prescriptions or food. By helping individuals and families satisfy their most basic human need, the pantry is a core service that we "wrap" around at-risk families, often supplementing other services that we are providing in the home or in the school. It helps stabilize families so they are better prepared when a crisis hits. 

It is so important to keep the Max Block Food Pantry stocked with non-perishable food (canned meat, soup, stew, fruit, veggies, cereal, peanut butter, jelly, rice, pasta, etc) for these reasons. It is especially important during the summer months. One of the most telling statistics is that one in five school age children have their only meals while in school. School gets out in early June usually and many of them do not have food at home to eat, so they go hungry. A stocked pantry allows JFCS to partner with various summer camps and other non-profit agencies to ensure these children receive the food and nutrition they need to get though the summer.

This is an ongoing need throughout the year. Help us help over 60,000 people in 2018. 

Jewish Family & Community Services collects school supplies for school age foster and adoptive children in grades Kindergarten-9th grade on a yearly basis. This drive is one of the most important drives we do. With a goal of 100 backpacks, every donation makes a difference and helps a child whose life is anything but normal to feel a sense of normalcy. It takes away their anxiety of going to school and not having the supplies they need to complete the assignments they are given.

This is a collection drive. Keep in mind, not all grades are the same - the middle and high school students have the biggest need in our area for supplies.

Items needed include:

If you have any interest in helping with this drive, it begins in May. Items can be delivered to the JFCS 8540 Baycenter location, Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Contact Donna O'Steen for more details at 904-394-5714/dosteen@jfcsjax.org.