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The Charlotte Jewish News - May 2011 - Page 14 “Changing Lives Together,” Jewish Family Services 2011 Friends Campaign For more than 31 years, Jewish Family Serviees has provided the eommunity with high quality pro fessional serviees proaetively responding to the needs of our eommunity. JFS remains a steady, reliable souree of eompassion, professional expertise, and hope. Jewish Family Serviees empowers all ages in all stages of life. JFS is here for you from the moment you are bom. JFS is here for your entire fam ily. JFS Parenting Plaee offers work shops and eduea- tional programs and the JFS Therapy Program offers ther apy, assessments, and soeial skills groups for ehildren and parents. JFS is here for singles, empty nesters, and eare- givers. We offer edueational programs, therapy, resourees and support Swimmer Insurance Agency We’ve been protecting the Charlotte Jewish community EOR OVER 57 YEARS. We offer aU lines of insurance including Commercial, Homeowners, Auto and Life. Call us today to learn about our personalized insurance programs to meet your needs. Harry Swimmer • David Swimmer Craig Katzman • Brian Meltsner 725 Providence Road, Charlotte, NC 28207 I 704.333.6694 | swimmerinsurance.com groups. JFS is here for our seniors. JFS offers enriehment and out- reaeh to seniors in the eommunity who live in faeilities or are home- bound. We provide food, eounsel- ing, ease management, support, and friendly visits. Your gift to JFS will help us reaeh your friends, your parents, your ehildren ... and everyone in the eommunity. Your donation to the JFS 2011 Friends Campaign will allow our ageney to serve the growing needs in the Charlotte Jewish eommuni ty and to empower many people with the tools and resourees to sueeeed. Right now...you ean make an investment in your eommunity. Every dollar makes a differenee. Your donation will provide the means to: * Connect a homebound senior with a friendly visitor and hot kosher meals. * Provide therapy for a child with anxiety. * Assist a family coping with grief and loss. * Provide workshops, support groups and educational resources for parents, caregivers, and sen iors. We need your support to eontin- ue these vital serviees. Funds raised through the Friends Campaign allow us to be the resouree eenter aeeessible to the entire eommunity; all ages, all ineomes, and all stages of life. Last year’s eampaign raised $270,000. With the inereased demands for soeial serviees, JFS has set the 2011 fundraising goal at $280,000. You may make a seeure dona tion online at www.jfsehar- lotte.org or you ean mail your JFS 2011 Friends Campaign donation direetly to Jewish Family Serviees at 5007 Providenee Road, Suite 105, Charlotte, NC 28226. JFS is proud to announee that Jill Lipson will be the Chairperson of the 2011 Annual Friends Campaign. Jill works full time eoordinating health edueation programming at Charlotte Community Health Clinie, a non profit health elinie for the unin sured. She has extensive experi- enee in publie health and soeial serviees. Jill has always had a pas sion for helping others and worked most reeently on JFS’ Projeet Noah Task Foree where she direet- ed her foeus on programming needs, and partieularly, the Career Coaehing series. In addition, Jill sits on the board of JFS and is eo- ehair of Temple Beth EFs Soeial Justiee and Aetion Committee and 2011 Mitzvah Day eoordinator. Jill and her husband Mare have lived in Charlotte for five years, and they have one ehild, Speneer, who is seven. Jill says “JFS is an organization that does so mueh good for so many people. It’s an honor to ehair the Friends Campaign this year. It’s the least I ean do to seeure JFS’ ability to maintain and grow its serviees in the years to eome.” ^ Jewish Family SERVICES Levine-Sklut Judaic Library and Resource Center Our recent Mother-Daughter Book Club to discuss Judy Blume’s “Otherwise Known As Sheila The Great” was a huge success. Our next Book Club, geared towards 3rd and 4th grade girls and their mothers will be held on Sunday, May 15 from 3:30-4:30 PM in the Library. It’s not too late to celebrate Mothers Day. The book that we will be dis cussing is “All of a Kind Family. ” Please RSVP to Talli Dippold at 704- 944-6780 or tdippold@shalomcharlotte.org. Ihe Vilhge at Southpark 4310 SHA RON ROA D TWo doors down front Crate & Barret SUJTE T*09 CHARLOTTE,NC 2»2l\ www.david^td,com 704‘364-6543
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