The Jewish Board of Family and Children Services (JBFCS)
is celebrating its Annual Spring Benefit, Made in
New York, honoring the work and support of JBFCS
Board of Trustees Chairman, John A Herrmann, JBFCS
Vice President David F. Everett and renowned
philanthropist, media and business mogul, Russell
Simmons, Co-Founder of Def Jam and the Foundation
for Ethnic Understanding. The special event will be
held at New York City's Guastavino's and feature a
cocktail reception and seated dinner with proceeds
benefiting JBFCS 175 community-based programs,
residential facilities, and day-treatment centers
that annually serve over 65,000 New Yorkers-in-need
of all faiths, races and cultures.
JBFCS has been a trailblazer in treating social
problems for more than a century. Today, JBFCS is
one of the nation's largest and most respected
nonprofit mental health and social service agencies?
every night, over 1,000 individuals call a JBFCS
residence home. The work of JBFCS is built upon a
network of over 2,200 professionals, including
social workers, licensed psychologists, and
psychiatrists, as well as a cadre of clinical
support personnel in continuing day treatment and
residential treatment centers, and a corps of over
2,200 dedicated volunteers.
JBFCS provides a comprehensive network of mental
health and social services to promote well-being,
resilience and self-sufficiency for individuals and
families in need in the New York metropolitan area.
As leaders in the field of human services, JBFCS
mission is clear, 175 social service programs. 1
mission. To get help to those who need it. For
further information, please visit
www.jbfcs.org.
WHEN:
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Cocktails, 6:30PM
Dinner, 7:30PM
WHERE:
Guastavino's
409 East 59th
Street (at First Avenue)
New York City