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Community Leader Spotlight: Ashlee Rountree, Housing First Co-Manager at RCF...
Ashlee Rountree, Housing First Co-Manager at Richmond Community Foundation Connects (RCF Connects), is a driving force in addressing homelessness in our community. With a background in social work and...
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Community Partner Highlight: Fit to be Hired
At JFCS East Bay, we value community partnerships that empower individuals facing barriers to stability and opportunity. This month, we’re proud to spotlight Fit to be Hired, an organization dedicated...
View ArticleProgram Highlight: Building Stability and Hope: Addressing the Refugee...
The housing crisis in the East Bay presents urgent challenges for the most vulnerable in our community, including refugees who arrive with little more than hope for a safer future. At JFCS East Bay, we...
View ArticleClient Success: Rahimi Family Rebuilds Lives Amid Housing Crisis
When the Rahimi family arrived in Concord, CA, in April 2024, they hoped to rebuild their lives with stability and dignity. Through the Afghan Community Support (ACS) program, they’ve made great...
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12/4 Donate & Doughnuts!
Are you interested in learning more about our in-kind donation program or becoming a storage volunteer? We’d love to meet you at our upcoming info session and furniture donation drop-off! We are...
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12/5 Standing Up for Our Community
Standing Up for Our Community A look at changing US immigration and refugee policies, implications for our community, and what you can do. Thursday, December 5, 2024 5:00 – 6:00 PM PST (Zoom) Are...
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New Year 2025 – One Small Light
In my East Bay hometown of Berkeley, neighborhoods set out luminarias each Christmas Eve. These paper bags, anchored with sand and aglow with tealight candles, shine brightly for a few hours year after...
View ArticleOur Impact 2024
Making an Impact: Serving Our Community in Numbers At JFCS East Bay, we believe in action, compassion, and creating meaningful change. This year, our team, partners, and community have worked together...
View ArticleClient Success: Shayna’s Journey of Resilience and Renewal
In January 2024, Shayna (not her real name) found herself facing an overwhelming challenge: a cancer diagnosis that left her in shock and fear for the future. As an older Jewish adult in Contra Costa...
View ArticleStaff Spotlight: Fouzia Azizi, Program Director, Refugee Resettlement Services
As we embrace the theme of new beginnings and setting resolutions for the year ahead, Fouzia Azizi’s journey exemplifies the power of fresh starts. With over seven years of service at JFCS East Bay,...
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JFCS East Bay | San Francisco Chronicle
Read the published article here He helped the U.S. bomb the Taliban. Now Trump’s refugee ban has stranded him in Afghanistan Thousands have had their refugee flights cancelled and applications halted...
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JFCS East Bay | Fox2 KTVU
Read the published article here Afghan refugee in Concord worries about Trump’s order to freeze resettlement funds By Ann Rubin and Lisa Fernandez Updated January 29, 2025 1:40pm PST Concord KTVU FOX...
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JFCS Easy Bay | JWeekly
Read the published article here Local Jewish groups aiding refugees reel as borders shut and their funding is threatened By Sue Fishkoff | January 29, 2025 Susan Frazer, CEO of Jewish Family...
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JFCS East Bay | East Bay Times
Read the published article here ‘We will not abandon them’: Bay Area nonprofits scramble to support refugees after federal stop-work order Despite losing federal funding, local groups continue to...
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JFCS East Bay | JWeekly 2
Read the published article here “Bashir,” an Afghan man in his 40s who fled Afghanistan in 2018, reunited with his family in April 2022 at Chabad of Fremont. (Bonnie Kellogg) Jewish aid groups...
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