“Summertime and the livin’ is easy” is the first verse of Gershwin’s famous song from Porgy and Bess. For the residents of the Homeless Coalition’s resource location, The Lewis Center, life is no easier during...
Heads Smart Teams Up With Boca Raton Bicycle Club On May 14 and 16, Heads Smart, in conjunction with the Boca Raton Bicycle Club (BRBC), presented 45 students of the Milagro Center in Delray with...
KIDS COMMUNITY CLOSET VOLUNTEERS ARE STILL BUSY Although school in Palm Beach County is out for the summer, Kids Community Closets’ volunteers are still busy. In the weeks before school ended, all our volunteers visited...
Four years ago, Laurie Alexander, a Board Member of NCJW Palm Beach, initiated a fruitful partnership with Deborah Morgan, CEO of Palm Beach Harvest, an organization dedicated to feeding approximately 64,000 food-insecure individuals multiple times...
For the second time in the past few months, our member, Marsha Rickles, Chair of our Heads Smart bicycle safety program, appeared on our local TV network to promote bicycle safety and proper helmet fitting. In 1988,...
NCJW’s Dignity Bags Project brings personal care items to The Lord’s Place for their outreach workers to bring to “unhoused women.” Soon, we will be providing personal care items to “unhoused men” thanks to a...
The Kids Community Closet at Heritage Elementary School was opened in May of 2018. Heritage is a Title 1 school that is located on Melaleuca Lane in Greenacres and services nearly 800 students in grades K through...
SOUP FOR THE SOUL IS ALIVE AND WELL! Once again, we received a generous check from the Herbert Bearman Foundation. We could not do without the support of Sheldon and Arlene Bearman. Thank you, Sheldon...
NCJW is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who turn progressive ideals into action.
Inspired by Jewish values, NCJW strives for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families and by safeguarding individual rights and freedoms.
