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With the 2025 Giving Tuesday Campaign coming to a close, we reflect on the impact that we can create when we come together as a community, caring for each other all the way from baby to bubbe. For Giving Tuesday, DeSalvo promised to match every donation for the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation, matching all the way up to $25,000. This was a promise that delivered and then we were gifted once more. Nearing towards the final days of the Giving Tuesday Campaign, DeSalvo Construction made the generous decision to match an additional $25,000. For the campaign, they raised $178,331.69, not including the $50,000 match. Including the match, it was a grand total of $288,331.69! 

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Sweetie, named in honor of the Thomases Family Endowment of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation, was officially placed as a Crisis Care K-9 with Naples Comprehensive Health Hospital. 

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Coleman Health Services is receiving a $2,000 grant from the Thomases Family Endowment of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation. The funding will help the nonprofit serve clients at the Belmont Avenue location in Youngstown who are uninsured or underinsured to receive needed mental health services. Coleman serves nearly 7,000 people annually in the more»

The Youngstown Area Jewish Federation opened the doors to its new Schwebel Family Foundation Wing at Heritage Manor Rehabilitation & Retirement Community for donors who helped make the new wing possible at an event March 14. The new wing is named in memory of Paul Schwebel. “This is an exciting day and time for Senior Living by the YoungstownArea more»

Service dog Irwin has completed his service animal training and was paired with a veteran, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Colin Cummings. Irwin is named after the founder of the Thomases Family Endowment of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation, Irwin Thomases. Since 2012, the Thomases Family Endowment of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation has donated more»

Youngstown Area Jewish Federation received grants for its telehealth program at Heritage Manor Rehabilitation & Retirement Community and Levy Gardens Assisted Living. This teleheath project has been generously supported by the Legacy Heritage Fund (a national fund), the Thomases Family Endowment of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation, and the more»

The Thomases Family Endowment of the Youngtown Area Jewish Federation granted $2,500 to the Fairhaven Bulldog Backpack Program and $1,480 to Fairhaven’s Grocery Card Program. The Backpack program, in an effort to combat childhood hunger, provides meals on weekends and extended breaks during the school year for those students (typical and non-typical) more»

2020 continues to be a tumultuous year. Though Joe Biden is the president-elect, which party controls the Senate will not be clear until the Georgia runoff elections on Jan. 5. With narrower majorities in both houses, much of what the next administration hopes to accomplish may have to wait until after the elections in 2022. Several additional factors can more»