Now More Than Ever
Now More Than Ever: Why Your Support Matters in 2025
As 2025 comes to a close, we find ourselves in a moment that asks something important of all of us: to recognize the growing needs of our neighbors and decide how we as a community are going to respond.
Over the past year, JFCS has seen that growing need every day – not as headlines or statistics – but in the faces of people trying their best to build stability, dignity, and purpose in these uncertain times.
JFCS is founded for moments just like this. Our wraparound model of care ensures we meet people where they are and help them reach a place of long-term stability. Families coming for food support are also receiving counseling. Seniors requesting transportation are receiving help stabilizing their home-care assistance, allowing them to stay safe and independent longer. We’ve seen more of these stories over this past year, and it paints a larger picture of more of our neighbors hurting, stretched thin, and running out of options.
What makes this year especially urgent is the widening gap between need and available support. Federal resources that families have relied on for years are now facing significant cuts and interruptions, just as more people are seeking help. At JFCS, we’re seeing this strain across nearly all of our service pillars. The Community responded to the immediate crisis at the Food Pantry when SNAP benefits were halted. But the need for all of our programs has increased and we are asking for your continued support.
Our Annual Campaign matters, now more than ever, because your generosity directly touches the lives of people who are facing some of their toughest moments. Your support doesn’t just fund a single program or address one crisis. It sustains the entire network of services that families, seniors, new Americans, and young people rely on when they have nowhere else to turn. It keeps JFCS steady in uncertain times and gives us the flexibility to respond immediately when our community needs us most, just as we did this year with the launch of our Immigrant & Refugee Services pillar, and again last month when federal SNAP benefits were at risk.
As we approach the final weeks of our Annual Campaign, we invite you to consider the Louisville we can build together. Will ours be a city where people fall through the cracks, or one where compassion is real, where help is accessible, and where neighbors stand together to create stability and hope?
Since 1908, JFCS has walked alongside this community through economic hardship, pandemics, and moments of great change. And in every era, people like you have stepped forward with generosity, courage, and a belief in what is possible when we care for one another.
We are asking for that spirit again today. to help ensure that every neighbor, at every stage of life, has the chance to live with dignity and purpose.
Hope grows when we invest in each other, and in these uncertain times, our friends, our neighbors, and our community deserves hope.
Gifts to the JFCS Annual Campaign can be made easily and securely online by clicking here; scanning QR code below; by mail; or by phone by contacting Courtney Evans at (502) 322-1928.
