JFS has a long history of responding to changing needs in the community. We’re collecting non-perishable food and unopened toiletries which will be given directly to JFS clients who are facing food insecurity.
Items can be dropped in our designated bin at 184 Washington Ave. Extension in Albany. You can also donate to JFS and designate it to emergency financial assistance.
As a member of the Network for Jewish Human Service Agencies (NJHSA), we share their recent Action Alert to contact congressional members to help families in our region impacted by the lapse in SNAP benefits.
Amidst the ongoing U.S. government shutdown, the US Department of Agriculture has instructed state governments that nutrition benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will lapse on November 1. More than 40 million Americans in communities across the country will lose critical access to food, with many of our Network member agencies’ clients impacted.
This is an unprecedented consequence of the ongoing shutdown, as Administrations in past government shutdowns have instructed USDA to activate contingency funds or reallocated other reserve funds to ensure families and children don’t miss their benefit payments.
The Network is proud to partner with MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, and many other coalition and community partners, in urging you to contact your Members of Congress to pressure USDA to immediately deploy contingency funding, release guidance to states, and find additional dollars to help families facing hunger.
Click here to contact your members of Congress.