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Providing for Frail Elderly
I would really like to set up an endowed named fund at JFCS that will live beyond my lifetime, but I don’t have the resources to make the gift right now. What can I do?
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Other JFCS supporters have provided for creation of an endowed named fund through a bequest. In your will or living trust, you can specify the amount of the bequest and its designation to support the JFCS program dearest to your heart. Don’t forget to name the fund in the way that is most meaningful to you. If you let us know of your bequest intention, we will be pleased to include you as a member of the JFCS Heritage Circle. n
Carob Tree Society Matching Gift Extended Through December 31, 2011 Through December 31, your commitment of $10,000 or more to a new or existing endowed named fund will earn you an upfront matching gift of $3,600. This special Carob Tree Society matching gift ends with the conclusion of JFCS’ 160th Anniversary Celebration. For more information about the Carob Tree Society, please contact Barbara Farber at 415-449-3858 (or BarbaraF@ jfcs.org).
JOSEPH AND NORMA SATTEN ENDOWMENT FUND
cited far and wide—perhaps most famously in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. Norma, who died last year at 87, was among the few women to earn a master’s degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1940s. She went on to establish the first city planning department in Topeka, Kansas, and later became Kansas’s first director of health planning. Later, in San Francisco, she was in the forefront of AIDS care, helping to found the first residential hospice for people with AIDS and cancer and serving as director of support services for San Francisco Home Health and Hospice. As professionally accomplished as they were, both Joe and Norma were also known as great philanthropists. Joe and Norma held volunteer leadership roles in many nonprofit organizations over the years. Among their primary interests was JFCS, where Norma served on the board of directors and many committees. Along with others, Norma helped establish Rhoda Goldman Plaza (RGP), the assisted living community on Post Street in San Francisco where she served on its board of directors and Joe now resides.
Creating a Lasting Legacy
JFCS provided the perfect outlet through which Joe and Norma could demonstrate the values they hold dear, says longtime friend Dr. Judy Wallerstein, the noted psychologist and author. Those values—caring for seniors, the Jewish community, and the community as a whole—were given full expression at JFCS. Norma also appreciated the agency, suggests Judy, because she “had a remarkable sense of reality and was eminently practical.” The Sattens liked JFCS’ pragmatic, effective approaches that have allowed countless community members to get help when they most need it. “Norma had the guts and the selfesteem to be guided by the principle that you can do no end of good as long as you don’t care who gets the credit,” says Judy. “When tragedy struck, she was the first one there, and long after others tired of their efforts, she stayed to help.” After Norma’s death, Joe refocused their named fund on services for the frail and elderly to further honor Norma’s memory and the legacy of her work. n Joseph and Norma (z’l) Satten
PRESIDENT Nancy Goldberg
OF SAN FRANCISCO, THE PENINSULA, MARIN AND SONOMA COUNTIES
VICE PRESIDENTS Paul Crane Dorfman Michael J. Kaplan Susan Kolb TREASURER Mark S. Menell SECRETARY Claire M. Solot
DIRECTORS Joseph Alouf Ian H. Altman Suzy Colvin Tammy Crown Don Friend Lynn Ganz Marsha W. Jacobs, MFT Michael Janis Ronald N. Kahn Scott C. Kay Sharon L. Litsky Alexander S. Lushtak Jan Maisel, MD Galina Miloslavsky Karen Pell Lela Sarnat, PhD Zoe Schwartz James Shapiro Candice Stark Ronna Stone Stephen Swire Ingrid D. Tauber, PhD Luba Troyanovsky Douglas A. Winthrop
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dr. Anita Friedman
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The JFCS Carob Tree Society’s Named Continuity Funds
FOR ITS NAMESAKES, THE JOSEPH AND NORMA SATTEN ENDOWMENT FUND PROVIDES FOR “A NEGLECTED GROUP IN NEED OF ATTENTION”—THE FRAIL AND ELDERLY AMONG US. For JFCS, their fund reflects the generosity and selflessness the Sattens demonstrated throughout their lives. As executive director Anita Friedman notes: “The Sattens were highly successful in their professional lives, and worked quietly behind the scenes as well.” Dr. Joseph Satten, now 90, was a preeminent Menninger Clinic-trained forensic psychiatrist who contributed to society’s understanding of the criminal mind during his career. His work is Continued on back cover