Endowments & Named Funds
A named or endowed fund is one of the most meaningful ways to invest in the future of Jewish Family & Career Services. These legacy gifts create a permanent connection to the work you care about most—ensuring that youth, older adults, families, and newcomers in Louisville continue receiving compassionate, trauma-informed, wraparound support for generations. Endowed funds begin at $20,000 through a signed pledge, and program naming opportunities start at $10,000, allowing your values and legacy to live on through life-changing community care.
Direct Your Gift to a Fund or Annual Campaign
Select a fund below to support a specific area of lasting impact, creating a meaningful legacy by investing in the people and causes that matter most to you within the JFCS mission. Establishing or giving to a named fund is a powerful way to honor your values and passions, ensuring your generosity provides stability, care, and opportunity for individuals and families in our community today, and for generations to come.
If you prefer to make an annual gift rather than contribute to an endowment fund, you can support Jewish Family & Career Services through our Annual Campaign here. Your donation fuels essential operating expenses for the current year, allowing JFCS to respond quickly to urgent needs and deliver compassionate, wraparound services to individuals and families across our community. Annual gifts provide immediate impact, helping us keep the lights on, programs running, and critical support available for every neighbor who turns to JFCS in a moment of uncertainty.
Established Endowments and Named Funds at Jewish Family & Career Services
Al Erlen Fund for Board Leadership
Strengthens JFCS governance by cultivating courageous, strategic, community-centered board leadership. This fund supports leadership development, training, and succession planning to ensure JFCS is guided by skilled, values-driven decision-makers who champion long-term stability, ethical leadership, and meaningful community impact.
Give to the Al Erlen Fund for Board Leadership
Arthur Kasdan Memorial Fund
Sustains critical mental health services for individuals and families affected by substance misuse. Supports counseling, crisis intervention, recovery-connected case management, therapy scholarships, and community education to ensure people navigating addiction-related challenges receive compassionate, confidential, evidence-based care.
Give to the Arthur Kasdan Memorial Fund
Bob Tiell & Dave Dobson Innovation Fund
Honors and accelerates staff-led program innovation by awarding resources to groundbreaking ideas that strengthen service delivery, improve client outcomes, and expand community impact. This fund fuels new solutions rooted in empathy, data, and human-centered design, encouraging creativity that moves JFCS forward with responsiveness and excellence.
Give to the Bob Tiell & Dave Dobson Innovation Fund
Bonnie L. Bizer Emergency Services Fund for Jewish Individuals and Families
Ensures immediate, short-term financial relief for Jewish individuals and families in crisis. Supports emergency rent and utility assistance, transportation solutions, grocery and pharmacy support, and rapid stabilization services so households facing unexpected hardship can stay safe, supported, and connected to community care.
Give to the Bonnie L. Bizer Emergency Services Fund for Jewish Individuals and Families
Carole & Larry Goldberg Family Mitzvah Fund
Builds a legacy of intergenerational giving by supporting family volunteerism, service learning, and community impact experiences. Funds programming that empowers children, teens, parents, and grandparents to contribute together, strengthening values of responsibility, compassion, cultural connection, and lifelong service.
Give to the Goldberg Family Mitzvah Fund
Doris L. & Theodore B. Meyers Shabbos Friends
Established by Sara Yamin and Carole Snyder. Ensures Jewish seniors in assisted living and nursing facilities receive monthly Shabbat meals, ritual connection, and social engagement. This fund preserves dignity, tradition, spiritual nourishment, and belonging for older adults who may no longer be able to observe the Sabbath independently.
Give to the Doris L. & Theodore B. Meyers Shabbos Friends Fund
Frank & Barbara Weisberg Family Fund for Jewish Oral History
Preserves Jewish voices across decades by sustaining ongoing oral history collection, digital archiving, intergenerational storytelling, and exhibit preservation. This fund ensures community history is not only recorded, but accessible, honored, and protected for future learning and cultural continuity.
Give to the Frank & Barbara Weisberg Family Fund for Jewish Oral History
Joshua Finke Fund for Young Adult Resilience and Stability
Supports youth and young adults ages 14–25 who are impacted by family substance misuse. We connect them to coordinated, trauma-informed, and future-focused support, including counseling, mentoring, and resource navigation, so they can build stability, strengthen resilience, and move toward thriving, healthy futures.
Give to the Joshua Finke Fund for Young Adult Resilience and Stability
Judy Freundlich Tiell Family Strengthening Fund
Strengthens caregiver capacity by sustaining parenting education, family navigation support, youth behavioral health referrals, community workshops, case conferencing, and resilience-building partnerships. This fund ensures caregivers have long-term support systems rooted in dignity, confidence, skill-building, and community care.
Give to the Judy Freundlich Tiell Family Strengthening Fund
Lillian O. Seligman Contemporary Thought Forum
Sustains JFCS’s annual speaker and ideas series that expands community thinking through civic dialogue, Jewish thought, cultural exchange, and public discourse. This fund ensures Louisville continues accessing world-class speakers and thoughtful conversations that strengthen empathy, understanding, and community cohesion.
Give to the Lillian O. Seligman Contemporary Thought Forum
Mauri Malka Fund for Independent Aging
Sustains holistic older-adult care, including case management, transportation coordination, therapy access, home care subsidies, social engagement, health referrals, and aging-in-place planning. This fund ensures older adults continue aging with dignity, autonomy, coordinated care, and a strong safety net rooted in Jewish values of compassion and community.
Give to the Mauri Malka Fund for Independent Aging
Marilyn & Alan Bornstein Fund for Family Therapy
Ensures families can afford counseling by sustaining therapy scholarships, crisis-connected intake support, mental health referrals, and holistic family stabilization. This fund allows more parents and children to access confidential, trauma-informed care that strengthens family well-being.
Give to the Marilyn & Alan Bornstein Fund for Family Therapy
Marjorie & Melvin Nadler Senior Homecare Fund
Established by Debbie Nadler Friedman and Alan Friedman. Sustains affordable homecare for Jewish seniors by subsidizing personal care, transportation to appointments, wellness checks, case manager reassessment, and aging-in-place support. This fund ensures older adults in Louisville can remain safe, supported, and independent at home.
Give to the Nadler Senior Homecare Fund
Marjorie & Robert Kohn Pledge 13 Fund
Inspires the next generation of givers by sustaining youth volunteer coordination, service certificates, mitzvah milestones, community partnerships, and leadership development for teens completing 13+ hours of service. This fund ensures JFCS continues cultivating lifelong values of giving and responsibility in young leaders.
Give to the Marjorie & Robert Kohn Pledge 13 Fund
JFCS Second Century Endowment Fund
Established in 2008 to celebrate one century of community-led work, the Second Century Endowment Fund safeguards the future of Jewish Family & Career Services (JFCS) by sustaining the core operations and building expenses that make our work possible. Through an annual 3.5% pull-down, this endowment helps ensure our facilities remain safe, accessible, and strong, supporting maintenance, utilities, security, and infrastructure needs. This fund provides long-term stability so JFCS can continue delivering services, convening the community, and responding in moments of need for generations to come.
Give to the JFCS Second Century Endowment Fund
Sonny & Janet Meyer Family Food Pantry Fund
Sustains emergency food access and nutrition support to families in need. Family crisis stabilization and culturally-responsive pantry services are also available in the Sonny & Janet Meyer Food Pantry. This fund ensures the safety net stays strong for households facing uncertainty and hunger.
Give to the Sonny & Janet Meyer Family Food Pantry Fund
Create Your Own Legacy at JFCS
Interested in establishing a named or endowed fund or exploring a program naming opportunity? We’d be honored to help you connect your story and values to the future of JFCS. Contact our Advancement team at courtney@jfcslouisville.org.